China and Russia have been engaged in active cyber-warfare with the west for years now. And their troll farms have successfully weaponised our nations' simpletons.

I did notice that one of the bills that is actually making it through the broken US government system at the moment includes a plan to relocate more semiconductor manufacturing back to the US. Taiwan's semiconductor industry is the most advanced in the world and makes all the chips China's not allowed.

After years of following expert advice and dodging the Covid, it finally caught up to my daughter. I almost thought we'd sneak out of this thing unscathed.

Fortunately a lot of vaccine and a little luck has made her case no worse than the sniffles, but we've had to disrupt everything for quarantine.

I was just reading about IBM's leaked internal memos about the need to drive out their "non-millenial" staff. Anybody over 40 is a "dinobaby" apparently, who needs to "go extinct".

"They really don’t understand social or engagement. Not digital natives. A real threat for us.”

And I just can't help but parse that as "these people just don't have the right kind of shit for brains to understand the stupid desires of the contemporary fuckwit". And it's probably quite true.

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 1:36 pm I was just reading about IBM's leaked internal memos about the need to drive out their "non-millenial" staff. Anybody over 40 is a "dinobaby" apparently, who needs to "go extinct".

"They really don’t understand social or engagement. Not digital natives. A real threat for us.”

And I just can't help but parse that as "these people just don't have the right kind of shit for brains to understand the stupid desires of the contemporary fuckwit". And it's probably quite true.

I hadn't heard about this and decided to take a closer look.

I know of folks who likely think this way in the company in which I work, and I don't have much respect for them, but even they aren't stupid enough to put that kind of stuff in writing. I hope whoever wrote that stuff at IBM gets exposed, fired, and blacklisted.

It doesn't mention who wrote the emails in the NYT but it seems to be a whole lot of ongoing correspondence all through senior management.

"You will see that while Accenture is 72% millennial we are at 42% with a wide range and many units falling well below that average."

Most of the time time, the world sucks. But I just bought an LED trouble light that is tiny, bright as the goddamned sun, has a flip-out hook and a magnet, and it cost $1.98. That's pretty awesome. That is a lie, I actually bought three of them. One for my car, one for my brother's car, and one for the house.

Depeche Mode's "Pipeline" is a white male incel anthem.

Looks like Putin just started a war, but no one can say what kind it will be. Scary.

losthighway wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:31 am Looks like Putin just started a war, but no one can say what kind it will be. Scary.

Agree.

It's been on my mind way too much lately.

I guess it's not out of the realm of possibility that Putin constrains actions to just that part of Ukraine; a region that has been unstable for a while and in ways I probably can't fully comprehend. There's plenty of potential for it to be much more significant, however. As alluded to in previous posts, stuff like this has started global wars in the past.

2022: possibly see a glimmer of light at the end of the COVID tunnel, only for that light to be WW III. Fuck.

Watching the news, just about sick to my stomach, probably not going to sleep tonight.