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sj_zero | @sj_zero@social.fbxl.net

Author of The Graysonian Ethic (Available on Amazon, pick up a dead tree copy today)

Admin of the FBXL Network including FBXL Search, FBXL Video, FBXL Social, FBXL Lotide, FBXL Translate, and FBXL Maps.

Advocate for freedom and tolerance even if you say things I do not like

Adversary of Fediblock

Accept that I'll probably say something you don't like and I'll give you the same benefit, and maybe we can find some truth about the world.

Ah... Is the Alliteration clever or stupid? Don't answer that, I sort of know the answer already...

French automaker Nissan, who brings shame to the entire nation for pretending to be Japanese

tbf though, when the promises you make are so huge, any one W would be enough for most people to build an entire career off of.

But you have to take Elon for what he is: It's a complicated mess of things, good and bad and all over the place. He's a capitalist, but he's only the world's richest man because he's a crony capitalist. He was a darling of the left for creating the useless EV industry, but he's a darling of the right for taking over Twitter and making some boomer tier tweets. He helped Trump get elected, but he's still a neoliberal who wants to import unlimited cheap labor. He lies a lot about his projects, but some of his projects have been knock it out of the park successes.

And you can just go "Oh, well those projects weren't from him", but I've seen how you can have a lot of technologies that never get off the ground despite being ready to go for decades, and it seems like a surprising number of techs do actually get to market under Elon, so while he might not be what people treat him like, he's obviously got the right stuff in his head to get things done when they're actually possible.

So friend or foe? He's more like an unpredictable 800 pound gorilla.

[Admin mode] I'm pretty much the only one still using it, but I'm working on replacing our search and Instant Message server hardware with a major upgrade, a 1st gen ryzen embedded. Moving those from fanless sign PCs to fanless thin client PCs (which I assume were stolen from a bank or something before being hawked on ebay, please let me dream)

Good timing, my IM system was in bad shape.

Hoping to repurpose the search hardware for some radio stuff.

You can sue external contractors, but you typically can't sue your own employees for not doing their job very well.

Eve online players: "I've trained my whole life for this!"

sepsis is the scariest fuckin thing out there by itself, forget about everything else going on. Hope things start to recover for you.

Are you retarded Americans bad enough dudes to pee in a bottle and not stop working?

Reading about Bhutan was interesting. A billion dollars in Bitcoin and gigawatts or hydroelectric generating capacity.

This actually happens a lot in big organizations, even in the private sector.

You end up with an incompetent project manager, and all of the subject matter experts are saying that they are incompetent, but management doesn't want to hear it. So the project keeps going and the subject matter experts save the day from the shitty project, and as soon as that project manager has been fired because the project is over and paid their full bonus for doing such a great job, suddenly all the problems that the subject matter experts warned about slap everyone in the face. It's not like you can fire the project manager again, it's not like you can rescind their bonus, you're just stuck with a shitty project.

I don't know, sometimes people who advocate for free software say things making me really wonder if they understand what free software actually is...

Sounds like quite the shocking experience

I'll see myself out...

No. I don't like Nate. I refuse to do him.

* clicks on message to see context

Wait, why would I want to see this context?

* Clicks back before the message loada

If you guys wanna invade anyway I won't stop you. I might this time next year things might be different but right now if you want to bomb Parliament go ahead.

Those are some shite wages, which is probably why he "can't find people to do these jobs"

A few times I was like "Maybe I should make a twitter account again? Naw, I like the fediverse" and lo and behold, turns out I was right.

I'll allow it.

There's a reason I ask people to buy a dead tree copy of my books despite me making twice as much on the e-book copy.

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