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Ruin said:
Some do but I've had a number of reeeeeee Trump people in my life lament they can no longer mindlessly consoooooooom with gas and rent so high.

No refunds bitches.
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Bread and circuses only works until it doesn't.

Thinking further ahead to wider economic damage, I really wonder how bad the whole "Turn all media into propaganda" card will fuck with them. Not only do people tend to cut back on extravagances like streaming services and movie theater visits during times of economic hardship, but they go harder into expecting that media to be pure escapism. People aren't going to be nearly as interested in media with "the message" when engaging with "the message" means trying to dive into the very stuff people want to avoid during downturns.

Maybe the widespread use of social media will have changed this behavior. It'll be fun to watch play out regardless.
 
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Collections Agent said:
This is unironically being shared in liberal/leftist groups on Facebook as fact, with no sources and literally just lying.

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I cannot wait for the Midterms so that we hear that Republicans/Russians stole all the swing state elections because a president as popular as Biden can't possibly lose that badly.

You know its going to happen.
 
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mandatorylurk said:
New York seemingly stopped trying to get in Trump's pants but Fulton County Georgia wants to have a go now to save democracy, it's just a rotating series of grand juries:

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How much money has been wasted on this bullshit? Trump isn't Bezos or Musk rich but at a 10 billion dollar net worth it would take over a hundred years to bankrupt him through lawsuits and that's assuming he literally never makes any more money.
 
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Echo_Ender said:
Unfortunately for them, the Iraq War happened and then-vice-president Biden couldn't prevent Beau from being shipped out to a combat zone. No one's sure if it was smoke from burn pits/oil well fires, some sort of chemical weapon, or what, but something he was exposed to over there eventually gave him brain cancer.
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He was nowhere near the front. He was, if I'm not mistaken, a Navy Judicial Officer.
 
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Woe-B-Gon (TM) said:
Maybe not her specifically, but it's the same suit. If it wasn't her in it, it was one of her coworkers (i.e. another press assistant).
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I love the idea that there's "a" bunny suit in a store cupboard in the White House now. Interns used to be sent to go get the overhead projector, or wheel in a television or whatever the fuck, now it's go get the bunny suit.

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I remember reading an SF story forever ago set in an empire that started to fall. The protagonist looks at a trivial piece of damaged infrastructure and laments that "When I was a boy, they fixed the little things like that."

(EDIT: I am sure @Open Window Maniac called it - it was a Foundation/Empire story. Good memory!)
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Tangential, but catching up on this thread after skimming twitter and just read a thread on there about the Magic Kingdom kind of sort of beginning to show the cracks of deferred maintenance and brain drain.


I wouldn’t put anything past the regime but, I think we are looking at widespread decline. I just returned from Disneyland and the degradation of their operational ability is staggering. Steam Engineers were openly discussing within earshot, the (serious) mechanical problems…

They were experiencing. Admitting they were winging it lap by lap. Lots of unexplained outages, staff that were clearly flummoxed,and didn’t know how to manage people/systems. Regardless of your view of the corporation, they formally provided a fairly seamless experience…

Most people don’t know how much logistical and technical know how goes into running a industrial scale food facility. It’s akin to a power plant. Cooling stacks to monitor, thousands of miles of pipes, extreme temperatures and pressures. Deferred maintenance or poor ops, blows it

Insult to injury, a local MAJOR food processor near me was slapped with millions in fines for “Covid violations” who do you think ultimately pays these fines (consumers)I know one relatively high up maintenance supervisor who quit and moved out of state. How many more are there?


And it goes on from there.
 
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The internet and wider tech space is at serious risk of this sort of brain drain. The old sage nerds are retiring, and the extreme outsources in middle and lower tier tech ranks has lead to a complete panic over how to replace these senior techs. Right now, the solution is poaching, but that only works for so long. This isn't about the sort of troon programmers who work at the tips of webdev stacks, this is about underlying fundamental network engineers, integrated systems techs, etc. Younger nerds got shunted off into webdev or game dev or other flashier fields. Now companies are starting to slowly wake up to outsourcing having lead to shit staff that were only held afloat by those very seniors they can't replace. Back when I was working for an ISP, they were just hitting the leading edge of this problem and were desperately trying to poach talent from across north america to make up for it.

As for the impact of this? There is an incredible amount of boring but critical infrastructure backend that is jokingly seen as being one poorly timed vacation away from collapse. Poorly timed vacations have directly caused outages to be worse than they might otherwise be. Banking networks are a prime candidate for this sort of failure space, as are a significant number of mid-level ISP's and resellers. Its not going to all blow up at once, but you're going to see major service outages in all digital sectors get worse and more frequent as time goes on, and nothing is really going to change it anytime soon - filling this knowledge gap will not be easy.
 
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Gehenna said:
I will defend it here. A lot of what the FBI realistically -does- is not flashy stuff with convictions. Its primary role and use is found in its ability to unify a ton of resources and tools under one banner which can then be shared with more local law enforcement. As well as handling jurisdictional issues in a clean manner.


The key takeaway is that the FBI will usually hand off prosecutions and actions to local law enforcement once they have done their bit. This minimizes conflicts.... and glory.
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FBI's primary roles are investigating violations of Federal statutes and protecting national security, with various focuses that change over time. (For example, the recent moral panic over pieces of string used to lower garage doors.) Like most Federal agencies, additional programs have sprung up around that mission; I mentioned a couple of them favorably in my post, and there are others of more dubious value. But with respect to the execution of their primary mission, being the investigative arm of the DOJ, I'm comfortable with my conclusions. Equally comfortable if you want to say they hand their investigations over to locals; those usually lead to bupkis, as well.

With respect to their national security mission, people have been talking about spinning that off from FBI for years, but it'll take another catastrophic failure on the FBI's part before that happens.
 
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The internet and wider tech space is at serious risk of this sort of brain drain. The old sage nerds are retiring, and the extreme outsources in middle and lower tier tech ranks has lead to a complete panic over how to replace these senior techs. Right now, the solution is poaching, but that only works for so long. This isn't about the sort of troon programmers who work at the tips of webdev stacks, this is about underlying fundamental network engineers, integrated systems techs, etc. Younger nerds got shunted off into webdev or game dev or other flashier fields. Now companies are starting to slowly wake up to outsourcing having lead to shit staff that were only held afloat by those very seniors they can't replace. Back when I was working for an ISP, they were just hitting the leading edge of this problem and were desperately trying to poach talent from across north america to make up for it.

As for the impact of this? There is an incredible amount of boring but critical infrastructure backend that is jokingly seen as being one poorly timed vacation away from collapse. Poorly timed vacations have directly caused outages to be worse than they might otherwise be. Banking networks are a prime candidate for this sort of failure space, as are a significant number of mid-level ISP's and resellers. Its not going to all blow up at once, but you're going to see major service outages in all digital sectors get worse and more frequent as time goes on, and nothing is really going to change it anytime soon - filling this knowledge gap will not be easy.
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It's fine. Everything will move to the cloud, you don't need anyone who knows anything about systems, or networking or even security in the cloud. The cloud has infinite storage and cpu capacity so you don't even need to worry about performance or understand how to improve it. Just add more hardware and it will all go faster.

Then hire the company I work for or ones like us who do systems or network consulting when you fuck it all up.
 
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