EffortlessGrace

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It’s George C. Scott playing General Turgidson.

So, appeasement spiced with a paper tiger’s threat? This “proposal” is insulting.

Of course, you do. Accountability would be unthinkable.

You said there hadn’t been any protests in 50 years, Debbie Downer.

This one happened.

A little internet sleuthing will show lots more in your 5 decades of supposedly nothing.

The irony of you making that claim while one of the largest protests in history happened today…

We learn about the past to understand the present.

Americans have had a long tradition of organizing and resisting. The 40-hour workweek was bought with worker’s blood. The apathy of the American body politic is a relatively new attribute, historically. My opinion is that it metastasized in 1971.

~I was taught all of this in American public high school and public university. Howard Zinn was required reading.~

Gregor Mendel

And what we have foremost in common is that enemy: the <redacted>. He’s an enemy to all of us. I know some you all think that some of them aren’t enemies.

Time will tell.

Disclaimer: the following is just my opinion and not to be taken as gospel. This is not financial advice.

The hope for them is that one day, after proving their ability to suffer a boot upon their neck, they will have proved themselves worthy to put their boot on someone’s neck.

How does one perpetuate slavery?

Turn some of the slaves into masters.

U.S. Oil Industry is largely reluctant to re-invest in Venezuela.

Lots of companies are eager to spend in Venezuela — except the ones Trump most needs

“The most enthusiastic are among the least prepared and least sophisticated,” said one industry official familiar with the responses the White House is receiving.

Is everyone in commercial software development finally saying, “Fuck it, we’ll run the shit ourselves”?

I’m an infrastructure and devops noob here; take my words with a grain of salt.

I need GPU clusters with ECC VRAM for research and found it’s cheaper to just have my own high-ish performance compute in my own office I paid for once than pay AWS/Azure/GCS/etc forever or at least everytime I want to train a custom DNN model. Sometimes I use Linode but it’s for monitoring. But I can run shit at will and I have data sovereignty.

Has the paradigm shifted back to developing and serving things in-house now that big tech vendor-lock/tie-ins have so many dark patterns that scalability isn’t cost-effective with them? Or is it just my own pipe dream?