it’s an election by the members, so if Democrats have a majority, they get their candidate

oh,well that is different. Go AOC!

i make the same claim any time there is an existential threat to civilization and someone runs for office and appeals to many people who’d otherwise vote for the existing candidate who is against the existential threat.

divide and conquer is a thing you know.

this is the way.

bonus: put it on your NAS in a file-sync folder.

yeah…

I think in reality it is more about the arrogance and the trump-adjacent world view. Also, a typical management line about AI being the critical tool to use without regard for its weaknesses.

you speak in logical thought, but in my experience the boss does not care about that. you are expected to do the job in the time allotted and any failure is your responsibility even (and especially) if they pulled you off of that to deal with “more important” priorities in the middle of your work. you will be dinged for failing to complete it by deadline.

this was eventually used to justify laying me off at my last job even though i usually pulled it off.

My short time on a term abroad many years ago in France did not expose me to that. You may well be right. However, the actions they took while doing that To me, it was equivalent to “get the cow”.

The Monty Python crew is a whole bunch of really really smart people so they may have had that Slang in mind and perhaps they did say that.

edit: unrelared comment , since you are French: i fell in love with Mylene Farmer while there, still love her work and am happy to see she is still doing amazing work today.

when i heard Alizee sing i had a hunch and found i was right that Mylene and her husband were on her team. i recognized the style.

Hold on, let me eat a shroom and reread that before I answer. o.0

I’m shocked nobody’s commented on the reference yet.

“Go away you silly k-nig-gtt. Fetchez la Vache!”

“run away! run away!”

For those too young to remember or haven’t been exposed to it, this is from Monty Python and the search for the Holy Grail.

This is a must watch for any political cynic.

Edit:. I’m sorry I didn’t see the duck comment that came an hour before me.

The problem is the robber barons are unaffected by the crashes. In fact, it just becomes another buying opportunity for them with all that free money lying around. They just keep getting richer. It’s the rest of us that suffer.

almost accurate. financial regulations put in place after the Great Depression kept relative stability for 50 years. as deregulation accelerted at the end if the 80s, swings resumed and we are niw in the boom/bust cycles that were so painful from 1870 to 1933.

Also not coincidentally the time of the robber barons

you sound like a Russian bot. not voting is the worst thing you can do… unless you are voting for Trump’s party.

let’s split the sane people’s votes so trump can win again. excellent plan!

I’m still wondering if he was assassinated for some mafioso shit.

yeah, one does not need to be gay to love the fuck out of Randy Rainbow. the man is a genius.

OP in pic by a guy who’d only refer to President Obama as “barak houssain” or just “houssain”.

tbh the main culprit is ease of use. Icspent time on mastodon looking for content, and finding it is challenging. plus the very nature of federation adds more complexity and non-tech people do not explore because they enjoy it like many tech-heads.

the centralized, spoonfed approach is just simpler. it takes a somewhat hardcore desire for privacy, security to drive one through the difficulty.

well, actually, that talented tech guy (Jobs). founded the company and was later forced out. he got back in when they came back and groveled as he was developing NeXTStep OS and hardware.

but point understood.

as an American, I approve this move. I’m not happy as we lose something, but our government is not sane and needs to be treated that way. i just hope fences can be mended after the fever breaks.