There are seven tales
And seven wonders
A kingdom alone
And a sound of thunder
Nothing destroyed is wholly gone
And nothing broken
Can’t be split further asunder
There’s a dreaming in the hills
An echo long ringing
And through the valley it spills
Like a drowned choir’s singing
Each time on stopping in this sunlit place
I feel the darkness bleeding in from space
Do You Miss Headphone Jacks on Phones?
Every fucking day. Worst change ever. I sometimes don’t call people I otherwise want to call because I cannot make wireless bullshit work correctly or at all and I can’t find my adapter to have real headphones work.
What a stupid terrible unnecessary generally harmful clownish change.
The 1600s Were a Watershed for Swear Words.
Iceberg A-68: The story of how a mega-berg transformed the ocean.
Inside a Firewall Vendor’s 5-Year War With the Chinese Hackers Hijacking Its Devices.
As Fascism Looms, the Free Press Must Stand and Report in the Breach. Ha, that’s not gonna happen.
Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, LA Times show what life under a dictator is really like.
Science Fictions links for October 2024.
US Space Force warns of “mind-boggling” build-up of Chinese capabilities.
Company made me do free labor, mad when I didn’t let them keep it.
Israel Inflicted Severe Damage on Iran’s Missile Program and Air Defenses.
A polycule sounds like the worst thing ever.
Leave me out of all that.
TGI Fridays files for bankruptcy.
Darn. They might have to sell all their microwaves.
(In reality it looks like another PE casualty, though their food was genuinely terrible microwaved crap.)
This is all true:
When I started in IT, the average sysadmin supported 5-7 systems. Back then I only had about 15-20 passwords. Now I (and my team) support 200+ systems/software/services and I have more than a thousand passwords just for work alone.
The complexity increase is enormous. A lot of people have left the field because they just could not hack it as the minimum cognitive ability required has gone way, way up.
The degrowthers are nearly as dangerous as China and Russia. That is FUCKING INSANE.
That was a different world; I remember it well. I think this comment nails it:
Many of the things we did then as a matter of course would get you ostracized and/or arrested now. Too much prudery and clownery these days; smartphones and social media were a huge mistake.
Thinking back, I can’t believe how loud some of my computers were. And that I tolerated that.
If you have a fully-paid-off house that you do not view as an investment, house prices are irrelevant to you. As long as this house still works for living in, I do not give a single fuck about how much it is worth or its Zestimate.
Just so much noise.
I miss working with my old intern who was good at everything and learned just as quickly as I do.
Where do you find people like that? She was one in a million I guess. But she had like a 160+ IQ so there’s that.
It’s super fun when things you’ve done in the past rather easily are described by other people as “impossible.”
Love that for myself.
Remember, all these countries had their unique cultures and traditions before Islam! pic.twitter.com/dpf7W23U2S
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) October 31, 2024
It’s funny watching absolute dumbasses tie themselves into rhetorical knots arguing that Arab Islamic colonialism was not in fact Arab Islamic colonialism. Fucking idiots.
So it does look like the North Korean forces have joined the Russian unorganized meat waves.
Russia: North Korean soldier who survived the assault he was sent on by the Russian fascists against Ukrainians in Kursk region.
Lone survivor out of 40 North Koreans.
Open video for English subtitles. https://t.co/qRVCO4Mhep pic.twitter.com/FhGBTcdMxm— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) October 31, 2024
We need to stop this. Now.
Well, some of us know what’s coming. But certainly most are clownishly, cluelessly unaware. But they’ll learn. Too late, but indeed they will.