“How do you pronounce FARAGE”?
“FAR-RIGHT”

The answer to this question can be obtained by watching someone with a MAGA cap walking a dog.

I used to run an escalation support team - i.e. the guys customers got to talk to when L1 couldn’t solve their issues in a contractually-timely fashion.

If a customer was angry and abusive, and demanded to “talk to the boss”, they were escalated alright - but not to my team: the L1 guys would put their ticket back in the queue and their problem was solved mere minutes before the 6-hour deadline, even if the problem was trivial.

Here’s a photo of the anonymous person who strongly suggested Weiss pull the story:

Here’s the depressing thought of the day: for every byte of Unix v4 archive that’s been lovingly rescued from data storage rot for months, there’s a million more containing important bits of human knowledge that disappear every second.

She’s right: she lives with a dumbass.

I’ve never understood this “old people are vulnerable” thing (not to mention that 69 ain’t that old): even if the scam is really good, at some point the mark is asked to make a large amount of money flow out of their bank account: anybody with the good sense the good lord gave to donkeys would have alarm bells ringing loudly between their ears. Everybody I’ve met in my life reacts like that.

I might understand if the scanner impersonates a close family member really well - although if one of my children started asking me large sums of money, I would get suspicious because… well, they just don’t. But Elon Musk? That guy ain’t a victim, he’s a moron.

I don’t think it’s MAGA rot: she’s just dumb as a sack of bricks - and proudly and loudly dumb as only dumb Americans can be.

I used to drink a lot of beer every day and slept normally.

Then I quit drinking because it started to be incompatible with my aging body, but I still drink 2 or 3 strong Belgian beers on Saturday and Sunday: now I sleep normally on weekdays, and I fall into a dreamless slumber on weekends.

My conclusion is that, at least for a man my age, alcohol gives me more hours of lesser quality sleep. Make of that what you will.

And just when you thought she had come to her senses, she proves she’s ever the crazy bitch.

Unlike American citizens, Kilauea doesn’t like being put under surveillance.

A noun I normally connect to cassette recorder or record something.

And here, I’m gonna break your mind: a cassette player isn’t a person playing the cassette. How sick is that eh? 🙂

The recorder is like the guitar: just because generations of talentless kids inflicted them on their parents doesn’t mean they’re bad instruments incapable of producing good music. It’s just that most people have also heard good guitar and know what it can sound like, while very few have heard good recorder.

…and debugging so much harder.

As a 40-year Unix / Linux veteran, I will state the only thing there is to say about Windows drive letters: they’re fucking stupid.

…until you look at the power consumption.

It looks like all airlines and pilots are afraid of the threat posed by the rogue country on the American continent - and I’m not talking about the one on the map.

In totally unrelated news, Turkey is a Russian simp.

(And no, I won’t quit calling Turkey Turkey cold-Türkiye, anymore than I will call Munich München outside of Germany, because that’s what Turkey’s exonym is. Fuck you Turkey.)

As most memes are.

5 isn’t a valid function name, is obviously the right answer.

Meanwhile, the American Bolsonaro is building himself a 90,000 square foot ballroom on We The People’s property…