Great, just what we need, an even louder Trump

IANAL (goes without saying, I guess)

If the city of Springfield can document damages resulting from Vance’s lies, then the city should definitely try to recoup their expenses. But from Vance personally, not the campaign org. The organization will be shut down by mid November and Springfield isn’t going to get a ruling before then. Besides, are we sure whether the campaign organization is even responsible for what unvetted shit a candidate spews?

Could this be a class action? I mean the city had OT to the police, but individuals had to miss work, kids missed school, and many other people were terrified. IDK but this smells like punitive damages.

Legal Eagle should do a take on this.

Oh I totally think you’re right in applying Hanlon’s razor here. The opposite would spell doom.

But sometimes you’ve got to wonder how incompetent can they be. And at those times “they’re not babbling buffoons, it’s a clever ruse” seems a plausible explanation. I mean Trump parading his mistress on the campaign trail, what the actual fuck?

Or, and I know it’s going to sound like a conspiracy theory, Trump picked JD because JD is so weird, and he knew that JD would tank. So when Trump drops JD it’ll give him a boost, like the one the democrats got when Biden dropped out. Trump has repeatedly kept lowering people’s expectations, to the point that if he somehow managed to put the round peg in the round hole, it would be a success. So imagine the boost Trump would get, for making the obvious decision to drop JD.

But that plan requires that Trump is able to play the long game, and stay quiet about it. Two things we know isn’t plausible.

Oh yes, yes YES! Maybe we could do a casting call for unknown voluptuous clean shaven chesterfield couches?

Does bring a different meaning to the backroom casting couch concept.

No, who are you calling a weird timeline? this timeline is extremely solid. It’s a very solid timeline. When we’re talking these kinds of numbers, then we tax countries when they ship stuff here, and they will not like it, but we can see how solid the timeline is…

I feel like I should have left out all punctuation in that paragraph.

Will the US respond? Yes! By reimbursing the ammunition used

Yeah, I’m thinking of a rewrite of “the greatest trick the Devil ever did was convince the world he didn’t exist”

Either it’s a demotivated Trump, or it’s a Trump who figures that if he’s going on the offensive now, then the Harris campaign will still have time for a comeback.

Friends don’t let friends get lazy, remind everyone to vote!

Two words: chainmail condom (or three words if you’re really English and hate compound nouns)

Listen to Baz Lurhman’s “everyone’s free to wear sunscreen”. And I mean listen to it. Every single line is true.

That’s with the mindset that I wouldn’t want to stay long at a job like that

Oh I concur, but elsewhere OP mentioned that the job pays a rather unskilled (OP mentioned having an A+) 20 year old 55k USD, and OP is getting certs as well. In that case I’d seriously be working on my STFU-skills, instead of meddling in something that my boss really wants me to stop meddling in. Maybe do a bit of CMA - but not to the extent of emailing my boss to get a paper trail.

When you’ve been in an organization for only three months, and it’s your first job in the industry, maybe just absorb what’s happening instead of trying to change stuff. Make up your own opinions, sure, but keep them to yourself. Maybe evaluate on how you perceived situations, and how they played out, and modify your views based on that.

What the heck, an exclamation mark links to communities. TIL

I’m an actual human, I swear!

I don’t know about that, let’s see what a selfidentified bot thinks.

!isbot dhork@lemmy.world

It’s your first IT job and you’ve been there for a few months? While your safety concerns definitely can be relevant my advice is this

You should

1. Don’t rock the boat as a new hire. Figure out what is going on first. Maybe there’s a reason to some of the madness you see.
2. Do NOT contact the owners. Doing so will likely be seen as disloyalty by your boss and possibly the owners as well. Only go through your immediate superior.
3. Don’t bring it up again with your boss. It’s not your responsibility.
4. Leverage the user. Let the user be the one to push for a system switch.

You could

1. Figure out if you can get the system on a separate VLAN and get it locked down in firewall rules.
2. Research the system. Why don’t your boss want it replaced? Does it run some ancient software? We’ve got some machinery that is running windows 7 at work. When I got hired, in the days if windows 8, the controller was running windows XP. The setting up of drivers and archaic proprietary software, involved in upgrading, is immense. When we switched to 7 this €60k equipment was down for days, and it was a week before it operated properly.

Some will, but some will also just not feel as engaged and stay home.

Real question is, how large a percentage of potential Trump voters will be demotivated enough to stay home, vs how many potential Biden voters are being turned off by his age and ball-less stance on the war crimes in Gaza.

I guess that the technology shouldn’t be deployed indiscriminately. But it could also mean a better hit ratio, since distance and speed is more accurately recorded with radar, than by naked eye.

We as in the people who don’t want to get fucked by Putin next. Check out the name, not an American.

The cheap kamikaze drones present a new strategy which we don’t have a viable long term counter for. As well do the swarms of drones. Relatively inexpensive autonomous defense systems, using inexpensive ammunition, seems like something we could use around important infrastructure elsewhere in Europe, as well as in Ukraine.

Agreed, but seeing as the Ukrainian defense forces are already doing this manually, why not optimize it?

In 2002 the late Robbin Williams did a stand up special on HBO. This is a quote from said special:

Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court banned the execution of retarded people. People in Texas are going, “Shit, where’s the fun in that?” Man, they were zapping retarded people every other week. It would be like, “OK, go sit on Santa’s lap, Timmy.” BZZT.

That was 22 years ago, and Texas is just catching up now? That smells an awful lot like eugenics TBH.

BTW the entire show is on youtube https://youtube.com/watch?v=HYSd6sjlufM (but use the link that I’m sure will be in a comment shortly)