Surely they can’t all be this dumb.

After a few decades following American politics you’ll realize that yes, yes they can all be that dumb.

Just have a general conversation with your most conservative neighbors about basically anything and you’ll quickly learn that there’s nothing they don’t have an opinion on and their level of ignorance is… Impressive.

Like, dude, you’re 60+ years old and you think hurricanes are a conspiracy‽ The point where they lost their mind was long ago.

Sooner or later you can’t help but wonder if they ever had sanity or they just faked it long enough to have a career/survive until retirement.

I just shake the water off like a dog.

Kissing? Try watching True Blood with the fam 👍

“It’s a horror show”

Rich people believe that no matter how rough the world gets they will be fine as long as they remain rich. History has shown repeatedly that this is a false assumption, demonstrating that the rich in America really are just as dumb as poor conservatives who get suckered into voting against their own interests every election.

Also many of the absurdly wealthy are sociopaths and narcissists (because our economic system allows people like that to succeed by stepping on everyone else). To them, all that matters is how they look among their “in group.” So if they think they’ll look better by being a few billion richer they do whatever it takes to get there… No matter the long term consequences. Either to them or anyone else.

It’s already like that except the funding part. There’s free online learning for basically anything available to everyone in the world, 24/7. And people do take advantage of it.

You can learn whatever TF you want from reliable, trusted sources it’s just that all you get from it is the knowledge. You don’t normally get a degree or a certificate or anything like that. Because those things are for traditional institutions (and how they make money).

If you really want to learn something, go learn it. What’s stopping you?

It’s already like that except the funding part. There’s free online learning for basically anything available to everyone in the world, 24/7. And people do take advantage of it.

You can learn whatever TF you want from reliable, trusted sources it’s just that all you get from it is the knowledge. You don’t normally get a degree or a certificate or anything like that. Because those things are for traditional institutions (and how they make money).

If you really want to learn something, go learn it. What’s stopping you?

As someone who’s caught a leaker in the past (well, someone that was exfiltrating company secrets to a competitor) catching leakers is actually pretty easy if you have any modicum of control over the tools they use and the places they work. Barring that, no. Just no. It’s not going to happen.

If a leaker is gullible and stupid some trickery is possible but I wouldn’t get my hopes up, Warner Music. Seems like a job that’s doomed to fail from the start. I wouldn’t even bother unless they know it’s just a job on paper and are actually just looking to give someone’s kid a legit-sounding job to pad their resume 🤷

Not only that but if I were in charge of hiring I’d be extremely skeptical of any and all applicants. Anyone smart enough to do the job will know it’s impossible and will just become a master of stalling and picking low hanging fruit (aka useless) and everyone else is just a fraud.

Yeah I thought getting all touchy feely with creepy glowing orbs went out of fashion a while ago…

Why would he be embarrassed? He obviously killed it with that cosplay!

In fact, his costume and makeup were so good that even his own daughter (with “good eyes”) couldn’t tell it was him.

It’s conservative tears.

Interestingly, the latter ends up with better stability and security!

It’ll be 911,000? As long as it’s stored with 32 bits that should be fine 🤷

This is seriously puplifting News!

Men shouldn’t be allowed near children that aren’t their own. It’s rarely stated but regularly assumed.

This vastly underestimates the laziness of English speakers. No: It’ll be shortened to…

Donferget

The tower on the left is home to the Tea Wizard who uses parts of the lower floors for the nation’s biscuit reserves. The one on the right is host to a princess that’s been waiting for rescue by a prince for a very long time now.

You’re thinking that every Android device is reasonably new. This is not the case.

There’s devices running Android from >12 years ago that can’t get apps any other way than F-Droid because Google Play Services no longer work.

it’s still less work than making all new buildings

This isn’t true. Well, it’s not true about 60% of the time. Here’s why:

• Office buildings–especially old ones–were often built with toxic building materials like asbestos (e.g. pipes, not insulation). If you’re renovating an office space these things aren’t much of a problem because as long as you leave them alone they’re not going to hurt anyone and most office renovations don’t require removing such things (and office space regulations are much more lax than residential for things like that). Converting an office to a residential space though requires removing toxic stuff like that which is very expensive. In these situations it’s almost always cheaper to demolish and rebuild.
• Office building floor heights are not the same as residential. It sounds simple, “so people living there will get extra tall ceilings… Who cares?” It’s not so simple! Even basic high-rise building codes require things like minimum air exchange and the ability to seal off areas to prevent gasses/smoke from fires freely moving throughout the building. In an office you usually have acoustic tiles and then like 2-10ft (sometimes up to 20ft!) of empty space above them. That’s not a big deal for an office that keeps the entire building/floor heated/cooled with several industrial air handlers but not so efficient (or safe!) if you have to subdivide that same space into several apartments.
• Running new plumbing to dozens of new locations on every floor is expensive because it requires cutting out large spaces for the pipes. Why is that expensive? Because safely cutting huge ass holes though floors and walls made of concrete and steel requires expensive building engineers and specialized tools that you don’t normally use in enclosed spaces that could contain a lot of toxic stuff. For example, using a jackhammer on a street or even underground in a tunnel only requires so much precision. Doing it at edge of a high-rise floor, 20 stories up is an entirely different matter.

There’s actually dozens of other more technical problems with such conversions. Nothing insurmountable, of course! Just expensive. Even just hiring a pair of lawyers–one versed in commercial real estate laws and one versed in residential laws–is going to be expensive.

“So… What you’re saying is that you instituted a blanket policy across the board without feedback and without an exception process.”

I remember when the web didn’t have JavaScript.

Honestly, though it was much worse back then. I prefer the variety and features of modern browsing over (mostly) plain text.

What I wish we could do away with on the web is videos. Let’s go back to just images and text, thanks. Animations are fine though 👍