We used to have vehicles that didn’t need over the air updates for over a century. If they had a problem then a technician could simply perform an onsite diagnostic. Why the hell are we keeping them in a network like they’re computers or no longer supported IoT dongles?

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When an organization targets a metric, that same metric will then fail it eventually. It even happened to the Soviets when plant managers had to over report production or else face the wrath of the administration. I often wonder why management can’t just realize some things are better left untouched lest they break something.

Fuck off with Mariah Carey! At least until after Thanksgiving.

Manzo Rodríguez, who some nicknamed “the Mexican Bukele” in reference to the tough security policies of El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, took office as mayor of Uruapan after winning that year’s midterm elections with an independent movement.

It’s hard not to have mixed feelings about this particular political assassination. There are hundreds more that seem way more tragic than this one.

This part of The Book of Mormon musical basically says it all about their racism and flip flopping of rules:

And I believe that in 1978 God changed his mind about black people!!

CHORUS Black People!!

I am and it’s like that constantly. I’ll never see the bonus panels on SMBC comics because of it.

Why couldn’t you compare them? They’re both fruit.

Spanish, English, and some Japanese here. I feel it’s easier to pick up underlying patterns in vocabulary between languages which in turn lets me understand the written form of other related languages (Portuguese and Italian due to Spanish, some Chinese too). I don’t really consider monolingual to be all that different though I figure it can limit their ability to travel the world unhindered somewhat. I notice a very slight change in my personality depending on the language I’m speaking, like I get a little less patient when talking in Spanish and speak a little faster too.

Any of Mimimi’s games with the added bonus of no EULAs or DRM.

Remember when “making of” documentaries were a free bonus part of DVDs, along with bloopers and directors commentaries? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

When the Roman empire fell, it didn’t happen overnight. It took years of slow decay for it to really become apparent. One of the biggest signs was when bridges fell and no one came to have them restored. Much of the US’ infrastructure is slowly rusting away before our eyes but the lack of ATC’s is a much faster indicator of how little the empire cares for its core.

… Nothing, they’re just declaring it illegal. Enforcement is only for the poor in the US now, the mask has just gone completely off.

I tried so hard to convince some of my fellow Mexicans the repercussions of voting for Trump, I even passed them a copy of the Project 2025 playbook. They still voted for him and are dumbfounded that ICE is dragging them away. Fuck 'em is all I can say.

Can’t the rest of the world just start boycotting trade with the US already? BRICS is a fine start but it needs to speed up and stop giving them any more support if they’re turning from the world’s police to its bully.

Pay me and I’ll gladly offer a verbal beatdown.

Those lesions and hair loss were usually caused by syphilis which was considered wildly scandalous at the time.

Ah yes, Malcolm in the Middle is behind this all along.

I thought it would be like a hand in glove kind of thing.

Yes this. Most math instructors teach like we’re math majors and are in it for the dirty abstract and “obvious” details that they forget most of us will never use it when working on machines or even some basic programming. Their insistence on teaching in their often inefficient way acts as a filter for so many otherwise promising engineers.