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@leespringfield1903 @EdBoatConnoisseur @meowski @Griffith "Made in America" means a mexican conpany bought it from a chinese company, swapped all the "made in china" stickers with "made in USA" stickers, trucks them from TJ to LA, locksneed sits on it for 2 months doing """""final assembly""""" and then takes it to DDSD.

I managed a real NIIN that this happened to while I was on active duty

@poastoak @leespringfield1903 @EdBoatConnoisseur @meowski @Griffith Why does "made in USA" matter if non Whites are making it?

@UnityOstara @leespringfield1903 @EdBoatConnoisseur @meowski @Griffith Chinks will put spy devices and backdoors into everything. NAVSEA was always pretty serious about sourcing circuit card components but let a lot of other shit slide.

Apparently there's a Touhou 2D Minecraft clone called Ultimate Sunflower Creation

@coolboymew Cashier has just been replaced by the Self-checkout clerk for "saddest job in existence"

How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites?
Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temperature I used last time. So I searched on DuckDuckGo. Every website that I could find was machine-generated with different temps listed. One site had three separate methods listed that were essentially differently worded versions of the same thing. With different temperatures.

So I pulled my copy of Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook off the shelf and looked it up there.

I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past.

even worse

@William_The_Dragonborn @Moonstone_wind
The curse of Johnny once again strikes these faggots.

Government workers are living proof why sloth is a sin

Let's fucking go.

Thinking a lot about change management processes, and how inherent in most of them is the conceit that the change is the risk, as opposed to the status quo. If the objective is protecting system stability, the preservation of status quo may not in fact be the wisest course of action.

Of course that's why there is such a thing as an emergency change, but in any given organization's process, is the barrier to access that option unreasonably high? Can the protection of current state end up getting in the way of patching/reconfiguring systems in light of an incipient threat?

Put another way, sometimes you need Entmoot, sometimes you need to throw some damn rocks.

@mja
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@BroDrillard @Terry this goes for any and every political system, in politics the reward is far too high for blackmailing not to be an issue