If it rivals the Carrington event though, it will likely have catastrophic effects. Pretty sure a bunch of infrastructure nationally could not withstand such an event. Unprotected electronics basically get fried.

No no. I want them to know it was me.

Line go up?

Designers were probably thinking “well this is stupid but it’s what I’m paid to do and I didn’t decide to have a fucking bed be always online”. The execs that made the decision are probably thinking "why didn’t the designers think of this problem and prevent it? We should fire some. "

Likely, whatever benefits the little guy. Most people don’t have a problem with copyright laws in a vacuum. It’s the abuse of those by large corporate entities that are the issue.

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“We’re all domestic terrorists”

What say you to this example of a Scotsman that is infected with marketing?

He’s gotta be more Courics than Bono.

What you just described was a horribly inefficient use of resources. You gained insight through idle banter. While everyone is in office that’s what middle managers would tend to handle. All this time they thought they were herding cats, turns out the cats just wanted to be home. Now people don’t know who to go to because the “yes” person isn’t in a cubicle you can just waltz over to. Middle management needs a massive paradigm shift if they want to stay relevant in a WFH situation. And that seems increasingly likely to be the direction businesses will go once they cut staff with these asinine RTO policies.

A constant refrain I’ve found myself using with a Facebook “friend” is “you lack the ability to even understand why you are wrong”. Like I’m convinced he actually thinks anecdotal stories carry as much weight as troves of data proving him wrong.

I think if trump dies before declaring an heir to the throne close enough to election time the power vacuum could reach critical mass. Just his death will certainly create a vacuum. The election will spur the sycophants into a frenzy to take his place. But separately it might not be catastrophic. Together in imagining all the ugliness that trump brought to politics but without his Teflon sheen to avoid and ignore all consequences.

^for me, not for thee^ is missing from the name.

Is this different from typical boundary testing? All major militaries will do this to gage response time of other countries.

This is probably an area that could massively benefit from AI, but won’t because the oligarchs won’t let it. AI would be great for auditing things like taxes and other filings. But that enigma is where a lot of oligarchs flourish. With a properly implemented AI audit, someone like trump never rises because his fraud would have been detected much sooner and could have been at least slowed if not fully halted. Oligarchs will understand this and make sure it doesn’t negatively impact them.

Why don’t we just make one unifying standard? That can’t possibly go wrong right?

I’d agree, but libs aren’t constantly thumping their chest that their choice is the infallible god-king of wealth and economics and can do no wrong. Also I feel if this happened under a dem president the news would cover it and would include deeper information about why. That being said, I’d predict that when the next dem president is voted in and this needs to be addressed, we’ll get much more information about why it matters.

And this is something the MAGAts lack the fundamental capacity to begin to understand. Right wing propaganda doesn’t even need to address this and spin it to a positive for trump because it would simply confuse their peons.

And how does anyone vote for something that’s 99-1 unless you happen to be the first? Some things you should make a principled stand sure, but that’s not this.

I gotta ask, what’s the situation with the senate? It would seem like a colossal lack of communication if the house bans it but the senate doesn’t. Or if the senate already banned it, why the house didn’t then? Shouldn’t they be relatively on the same page?