I hate to say it, but yeah… I know this smells of eugenetics, but getting stupid out of the gene-pool is not necessarily a bad thing…

Watch the first 5 minutes of the movie “Idiocracy” for a great example of why…

Because the air-force tends to be more of an indoors group… ;-) They don’t call it the “Air-Conditioned Force” for nothing. ;-)

The good thing about vaccine denial-ism is that it tends to kill people stupid enough to fall for vaccine denial-ism…

I’ve been watching the crowds (or lack therof) for the “Freedom 250” bullshit in DC and laughing my everloving ass off… What a fucking joke…

First off, it’s like 1,000 degrees out right now, NO ONE is going to spend all day at the national mall sweating their balls off for a lame ‘state fair’

(It’s my understanding that State Fairs are usually in the fall, because they were originally intended to celebrate the harvest (or the end of it to be specific)

I kind of understand patriotism…what I don’t understand is how, in the US, the people who are the “most patriotic” are the ones that usually hate everything about the government…

That makes me happy. :)

A while back I worked for a company that liked to pull the “lets lay people off right before earnings reports to make the stockholders happy” and then call them back after the shareholders meetings…

They found, after a few cycles of this, that when they did that, the top 30% of employees laid off would have already found other jobs by the time they were recalled… They also found that a few cycles of culling the top 30% means after a while your entire workforce is largely worthless, add to the fact that now you have to hire new people and train them…it ended up costing more money than it made them… (but they didn’t care, because the share value boost was all they wanted, so they could personally sell high after the bump and enrich themselves…

I work for a company now that values and celebrates employees with long tenures… They see it as a sign of health in the company (which it is) and celebrate the number of 10+ year veterans employed by them…

I got lucky finding this place. :)

And they wonder why nobody gives a fuck this year…

I have fireworks…but not setting them off on the fourth this year…saving them for the day the big-beautiful-obituary hits the newsstands…

Neighbors are gonna be PISSED.

“Trump Livid” is a phrase I want to hear more and more in coming months… Keep praying for the little blood-clot that could…

That’s true… She should just be able to file against the escrow and it’s done.

To keep the errors out and provide just the result.

Nope. I vote in every single election. There may not be someone I want to vote fore, but there is always someone I want to vote against.

Every. Single. Election.

Since 1988. I’ve never missed one.

OOhh ouch, that sucks ass… If I didn’t have Gigabit synchronous at the source there is no way I would even attempt replciation…I’d be carrying spare drives with me every time I go down to visit my grandson. ;-)

See what happens when everybody fucking votes?

Now watch, half of them won’t show up for the general.

I wonder why console companies are having such a hard time figuring out fucking write-protected USB drives?

it’s almost like they’re strategically stupid or something.

Nope, won’t happen. NYC resident love Mamdani too much…

Republicans are terrified at what he’s doing actually working…because it will provide a model for other cities around the country…

Oh I wouldn’t even entertain a contract position…

I had this while back…I was working for company doing DR/Replication scripting…I was about 2/3 way through the job and they decided that “they could finish the job themselves” and graciously released me from my contract…

They called me back about 2 weeks later, at which point I quoted them 400% of my original rate, payable in advance, to finish the work. ;-) They were fucking LIVID…

Of course, they didn’t re-book me, but the rumor mill told me that they brought it in about a year behind schedule and at about 2x the budget they had allocated…

Helpful hint - do documentation LAST. If they fire you before it’s done, they get SQUAT. I didn’t even have passwords written down for them.

I brought the two into the same room for the initial sync…then drove the T630 to the condo and hooked up, and it’s all incremental updates over the 1G VPN. :)

She’s going to outlive him…but the debt survives her, her estate can continue to collect.

I just use OpenVPN on Ubiquiti to get in front the outside myself, and “public” sites (like this one) come in through a cloudflare tunnel to a walled-off DMZ lan…

Reading about it, seems a bit like reinventing the wheel.