The corporate world absolutely idolizes the grift. Being able to “produce value” (=make more money while actually not producing anything more) is the only game left. Shareholders look at something like EA that releases the same old Madden year after year while making money hand over fist, and they fucking salivate.
Yeah but it only counts if you aren’t white, obvs
Trump will lower grocery prices the same day he ends the war in Gaza.
And if you believe that, I’ve got a hat to sell you (*made in China).
You could tell me that the Tik Tok “GigaChad” filter had been applied to that thumbnail, and I’d believe it.
Yeah, in general I am not hearing nearly enough about the high numbers of MAGA people in the police and the military. I’m not sure most folks have considered the gravity of that tendency.
I have seen arguments like “well let’s see Trump try X or Y; I’m sure the military would step in”. But like, what? If the military steps in it certainly won’t be to stop Trump. Quite the opposite.
Grover Cleveland’s corpse could run, though
You know, it is kind of interesting (and I know this wasn’t the point of your comment). Most of them were not by generals, but assassination attempts on Hitler numbered more than 40, and the first one was the year before he took national office.
The first by a known perpetrator was from Bavarian politician Ludwig Aßner, who sent Hitler a poisoned letter in 1933.
We’re at about 1933. Hitler is about to consolidate power, surround himself with only the most loyal, and purge the military of anyone outside of the ideology.
The propaganda machine will need to expand rapidly to support that effort.
Nokia of now is not the Nokia of yesteryear. Their new phones are just cheap Android smartphones.
Any anti-corporation action has about 60 more days to complete. The US is about to be more of an unregulated runaway capitalism machine than it has ever been.
Lots of stretches of the imagination all over the place about why Harris lost.
The DNC will of course do whatever it needs to make sure the mirror is not placed in front of it.
I don’t think any of that matters. Trump will say what he wants, and everyone’s principles and voting records will go out the window. They will fall in line.
The literal VP-elect under Trump is on record as a “never Trump guy”. Same principles applied. Trump spoke and everyone grovelled.
Not a joke. There is a ton of this kind of tactic everywhere now. Say a crazy thing, suggest it is a joke. Repeat it. By the time you “say the quiet part out loud”, it’s been normalized.
It’s the same reason why “I’m just asking questions” is a great propaganda tactic. It allows you to normalize whatever wacko shit you want to.
Just wait until they hear about the host of the Apprentice
It’s an awful mix of half-assed approaches to things. Awkward syntax on everything and very poor at recognizing what types of data it is handling.
Open a CSV in a fresh Excel install. It will almost certainly mistake something for a date if the CSV is sufficiently large (unless the user is exceedingly explicit at changing settings for that particular CSV). It will reformat that data as a date, and as an added bonus, since Autosave is on by default, it’ll save that reformatted data back into your CSV. Yes, settings can be changed to avoid these things. But why isn’t it just designed better so as to avoid it altogether?
If that was just a natural side effect of spreadsheet apps, I could understand it. But LibreOffice Calc is a million times better at recognizing what types of data it is handling, so it seems to just be Excel’s shittiness.
The fact that it also hasn’t really changed beyond aesthetics since 2004 is just… wild.
Excel?! Have to respectfully disagree on that one.
Ah yes, you’re right.
I guess a better qualifier might be: closed-source Microsoft products tend overwhelmingly to suck.
I’d argue he is aware of this, though, which is probably why he is looking towards purging various groups of ideological mismatches.