smeg

joined 10 months ago
[–] smeg 11 points 1 month ago
[–] smeg 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Sells company to a big evil corporation. Complains when corporation does evil things.

[–] smeg 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, soon your internet presence on every web site will have to be linked to your real identity, for the children or something

[–] smeg 60 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Trump is already drafting Poland's expulsion from NATO

[–] smeg 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just finished The Man in the Rubber Mask by Robert Llewelyn. Nothing I would recommend to non-fans of Red Dwarf, but it's pleasantly readable

Now I'm reading Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. It's amusing, has decent world building, but it reads like it was written by or for someone with ADHD - scenes are so short and jump around, it's kind of frustrating.

[–] smeg 37 points 2 months ago

As someone who has spent most of their life in the US South, evangelicalism has a dominionist pervasive quality that shuns cosmopolitan pluralism. More or less, as an ideology, it tries to take over all aspects of life, and does not respect a world where others are allowed to live their lives differently or free. Be wary, France.

[–] smeg 8 points 2 months ago

Find me a board whose access to corporate systems doesn't constitute a massive hole in good security practices.

[–] smeg 37 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The city is propped up largely by business conventions, at this point. Businesses don't mind swallowing stupidly high costs, especially for sales+marketing teams who always get blank checks, which artificially inflates the price of visiting for absolutely all other audiences. So, nobody else is going.

I've heard that musicians hate performing in Vegas now because so much of the audience are not real fans - but instead business travelers with comp tickets. Dead audiences who don't care.

Unfortunately, I had my first trip to Vegas last year for work. And again in June. And now again in September. Because I'm there for work with work engagements, I don't get to explore the more interesting things outside the city and strip. And having no interest in gambling, stupid-level drinking, loud noisy music, or flashy shit everywhere, I've come to really hate going there.

[–] smeg 5 points 2 months ago

More public facilities to use for grift.

[–] smeg 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is that in a real scientific measurement?

[–] smeg 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the top investors and other wealthy assholes shouldn't have backed Trump. I think some were duped by the few who were set to gain from this insanity. The economy deserves the consequences of the policies it chose.

[–] smeg 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's like when Karen starts shouting to the cashier that they're fired. Just ignore Karen and keep doing the job.

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