I worked at a dot com and although I was fairly young at the time I was promoted quickly to management (we had several thousand employees at the time).

When it all came falling down and we were all looking at jobs at the sametime I was being asked by proespective employers "was John Smith really General Manager of customer service"?

The vast majority were customer service monkeys padding the fuck out of their resumes.

That said hate the game not the player. I always nodded and said yes.

Fuck em if they can't do their own verification work.

When I was growing up in Sydney, heavily involved in drugs, anarchy and living on the streets in squats it was common knowledge there were protected paedophile groups that operated out kids homes.

Worse when those kids ran away and ended up on the street they'd end up street walking, being preyed upon by predators of all sorts.

Most were using because of the horrific trauma they had been subjected to.

I remember being warned about avoiding certain places if a particular predator was our a about cruising. They loved to target young men.

In 2013 we had a royal commission into institutional response to child abuse and it became very clear that children had been raped on an industrial scale.

People like Pell and Clancy (who I was peripherally related to) were not just actively involved but also running protection for dozens and dozens of serial rapists.

With politicians and law enforcement also working to protect these people.

Pell denied numerous victims, even after the priests were found to be rapists and sentenced, compensation and forced countless people to kill themselves.

There is no fate worse then I can imagine for Pell and his ilk. They are a stain on this earth and as bad as the fascists and nazis.

Arresting 1000 a month for computer images, but not one former prince who fuckedraped a flesh and blood child.

Words matter

Yeah you gotta stay for the last 10 mins

Fuck he brings it home.

The chuds have done it, they pissed off the Mr Rogers of science-tech tubers.

This PCB was designed to be an arrowhead by the looks of it.

Which if you fire it into the exposed port on the drone that is hunting you, you'll be a able to hack it to your side.

So I get to endlessly catalogue stuff and be around creatures who don't judge me and, best of all, I don't have to deal with any humans.

Sign me up baby

I think you've forgotten how xenophobic these assholes are.

They're gonna be stopping every second person at the scanners pulling their guns and hurling them off to some concentration camp

Yeah the thing about the closed loop systems is that they pump a shit ton of chems to kill anything in the water. However no matter what shit grows in the loop. So they end up flushing the loop and dumping the water and chems into the sewer, before repeating the process.

So no, closes loop DCs aren't great.

And i literally work in one. Just the other week the DC manager told me they had a leak. A stupid amount of water was lost.

But because water is so cheap for commercial metro users it was more a oops then a wake up. Bare min repairs and bam, back up and running.

The point is these "closed" systems aren't perfect and shit happens. Especially as they age out.

This was my mother when she passed. She left me so many many boxes of cables and equipment. Sooooooooo many power supplies.

After a 2 ton truck worth of gear later I realised that I couldn't do the same to my son. It would be criminal to leave him my garage worth of gear on top of his grandma's.

I'm proud to say I'm down to two boxes (20 litre containers) worth of active day to day stuff (jugs cables, hdmi, usb, gpus and about 80TB of storage, probably more) .

And 1/3 of a garage filled with tapes and digital tapes (one day I'll go through them. Ideally upload them to YouTube so people can see her work (she worked in film and television)

In three weeks time the dude will like fake his death and he'll be like:

Hey if he is willing to give em weapons, supplies and gear then they should take it all and then sit on their hands.

“I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us.”

And

We are the single worst technology to use to abuse civil liberties, which is by the way the reason why we could never get the NSA or the FBI to actually buy our product,” Karp said.

Alex Karp, ladies and gentlemen, the world's most batshit insane lying scumbag of CEOs, of the single worst company on earth showing us over and over that anyone can be a CEO, especially the sociopaths who have no problem creating technology to expressly to oppress billions of people

He isn't wrong

Cars exhaust contains nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapour, oxygen, argon, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, unburnt hydrocarbons, methane, ammonia, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, lead, platinum, palladium, rhodium, nickel, copper, zinc and chromium. These drift around, settling on roads. Albeit in trace amounts.

These are in turn washed into storm waterways and creeks where the heavy metals end up in the sediment.

Car tires and plastics used in roads (cats eyes for example) are also causing major microplastic pollution, again because it again washes into waterways and accumulates.

In 2004 it was confirmed that creatures at the bottom of the food chain ie bivalves, polychaete worms, sea cucumbers, amphipods, isopods, lugworms, oligochaetes, chironomid larvae and deposit feeders etc are eating that shit up.

Which, when consumed by predators, bio accumulates in their flesh which we in turn eat.

Incidentally asianometry just released a video on this incredibly fucked up and depressing topic.

https://youtu.be/Th1tBdDl5CY

Is this a new meme format? I've seen several of these in the last couple of days all with them inferring all sorts of craziness by "Faith" from the rationale professor.

Fuck Twitter. No one should be reading it anyhow.

I bet most of the pension changes are probably for NYPD members.

The NYPD pension provides retirement benefits based on years of service, salary history, and plan type, with average full-career retiree pensions exceeding $100,000 annually

Holy fuck

They get a over $100k USD pension, wtf.

It's so silly. Even if you don't understand the science of climate change (which isn't that fucking hard to understand) you can definitely understand this;

• Solar PV + Battery: 2.0–2.7 USD/W (2.4 $/kW)
• Solar PV standalone: ~1.33–2.74 USD/W
• Wind (onshore): ~1.46–5.9 USD/W
• Hydro: ~3.0–5.9 USD/W
• Coal: ~3.1–5.5 USD/W
• Natural Gas (combined cycle): ~1.06–1.2 USD/W
• Oil/peakers (simple turbines): ~0.8–2.6 USD/W
• Nuclear: ~6.7–8.0 USD/W

Even with batteries solar has the greatest fricken ROI in this list at the cheapest cost.

Fossil fuels are finite. After you pay back your solar panel capex your opex is barely anything and for the next 20-30 you have free fucking energy.

Jeebus, even if you don't give a shit about the environment picking anything but renewables is like the dumbest decision you can use your money on.

What's really in the box are the 12 year old girls Schroedinger used to rape

think that they will be flattered by it. i’m not surprised

In my experience all the gay guys I knew loved getting handsy with me.

They thought they could make go gay presumably with their "incredible" technique.

Didn't work.....but jeebus the amount of having to fend them off. Not to mention the never ending commentary about how I'd be better off gay.

But I don't consign every gay man to this behaviour in the same way I don't consign hetros who rape women as if somehow all men are rapists.

I don't want anyone to "eat my ass", I never have, and I never will. Some things you just know you won't like.

That's what I said about boofing morphine.