Posts by Ordinary Donkey 325 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2019
If you reset the plotter, it sometimes fixed the problem but took a couple of minutes to run through the whole process. People would try in the meantime and declare it not fixed. Forcing them to wait long enough to lever up the floor panel and press the redundant box meant they waited long enough between attempts to reset the plotter.
Cancel Culture is when the people in charge of social networks force people out, either for saying something they or their backers don't like, or for drawing in bad publicity.
IRC being decentralised makes it easy to make your own alternative, then all you need to do is get people to actually want to go there.
Here's hoping it lasts longer than Parler.
If I were working in IT for West Midlands Trains and I was pissed off that management hadn't given us a bonus, but I didn't want to stick my neck out, what else might I do?
I mean I could do something like this. I might hope that other people would have a strop on my behalf and the press would have a field day. As we can see people couldn't really blame me for a successful security check. Not and have it stick.
The only missing step would be to persuade someone else in IT to actually send the emails. To be bofh level there should be no verifiable trail.
I hate to break the news to you, but clothes made with silver-infused thread to produce a faraday effect are already widely available.
It comes from the radial engine and probably the windmill before that.
In truth 'main' is probably going to win out in the end just for saving two characters. So how about we settle the differences and call it the top branch?
Some would say that the real market manipulation is the government bailing out Wall Street every time it fucks up and proves itself unfit for purpose.
Just summarising the views of the people doing this to hurt wall street there. Remember, American workers didn't get a furlough during covid but Wall Street got trillions. People are angry.
What would such an icon look like? My feeling would be probably the steamroller from his last request.
As for the Tories, they're already weaponising fake news. partial list here.
I haven't been able to see any clear definition of what this regulation considers to be a 'tech giant'. Is there such a definition?
The cynic in me expects them to define it so vaguely that they can silence small companies by declaring them to be tech giants and fining them a thousand times their revenue.
It seems like it includes spreading doubt about vaccines, if Matt Hancock's troll farm is anything to go by.
I think you're touching on the actual issue here.
The problem isn't people who doubt experts, it's the ones who trust them too much and don't get that sometimes they mislead you.
In March there was a global shortage of masks. So a variety of people took it upon themselves to lie to the plebs, probably spontaneously. Now there is no shortage but some of the plebs still believe what those people said when there was.
Having no faith in experts whatsoever, I masked up in March.
I have actually tripped a circuit breaker by plugging something into a socket at an awkward angle. Contact was rapidly made and broken 2-3 times and the trip switch went. That was the first time I figured switches had a purpose.
Ruined a few people's mornings until the caretaker arrived to open the breaker box.
Is Simon-land the new name of the office now he's fortified it and reverted to savagery?
What will the first explorers to breach the threshold in eeeeaargh! *Splat* the first explorers found a greased floor and slid into a vacant elevator shaft. Will the next be any <WAAA WAAA> Is that a halon alarm? What can it...
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