Steppin’

Something I always try to impress on junior team members is to not skip steps in troubleshooting. Even when you “know” it couldn’t be something, check it any-damn-way. Especially since if you’re troubleshooting correctly the first few things you try should be the simplest, most obvious and the quickest. To wit:

1) Is it plugged in?

2) Is it powered on/started?

3) Is there a DNS entry?

About half the time when my juniors can’t solve something, I come behind them and try the easy initial things it definitely “couldn’t” be and fix the issue.

Most people just do not have minds suited for troubleshooting I guess.

WWT

Have you ever truly thought you were living the wrong life.

I felt that way when I was growing up in rural North Florida with everyone — including much of my own family — telling me how worthless, weak and terrible I was.

I thought, there must have been some mistake. And there was. I was born in the wrong place, among ignorant losers who hated anything intellectual and anyone with more than half a brain. Luckily, I had a big ego and am more stubborn than a herd of rhinoceroses.

So I escaped, made my own life, and prospered. But those were rough years. I’m frankly glad nearly all of those people are dead now.

Attent

The primary unfairness in dating — and one thing incels are completely right about — is that mediocre women get 100x as much attention and interest as even above average men. To receive the attention that a totally average woman gets, you need to be a top 0.1% man.

And that’s actually a pretty huge and psychologically-damaging inequity. It doesn’t make how incels deal with it likely to work or morally correct, but they are not wrong at all with their diagnosis.

Enemies

Huge self-own that made China and Russia stronger while weakening both Canada and the US. Fucking moronic.

Our enemies are now in control of the country. And I don’t mean conservatives. I mean (obviously) China and Russia.

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