Humor is important.

Laughter doesn’t erase our better sensibilities about real topics. In fact, it’s the sweetener that makes that medicine go down. Otherwise, all we have is the horror of stark and bleak realities that have already pushed many of us to the edge of burnout. These people aren’t making light of our situation, or being insensitive about the plight of those effected, they’re being kind while reminding us of the core message: there are people in charge that believe in cruelty as a valid form of governance. Without humor, we’d all be looking away most of the time as it’s simply too much.

Also, your mind will work overtime to block things that hurt or shock you. But you’re far more likely to remember a good laugh. Jokes get the message out, and help make it stick.

I’d like to take a moment to appreciate the overall range, style, and quality of protest signs on display this past weekend. If you compare all this activity to all the republican¹ rallies in the last few years, the difference is stark. The left really does have all the creative² power.

1. Do not use his name.
2. “MAGA” is re-used from the regan era which in turn is kinda/sorta re-used from an older UK campaign: “Make Britian great again”. Jerks can’t even come up with a decent slogan on their own with half that much typographical impact.

How would you describe the level of trust you have for IT systems, and IT security in general?

Basically, I’m the guy from the meme that keeps a loaded gun next to his printer. I also keep my media backed up in a fire-safe, offsite.

Was recently ejected from a job along with a whole lot of other ship subsystems. Something about “downsizing operations in engineering”? Starfleet meatbags can never make up their minds.

Anyway, “has seen some shit” could easily sum up huge swaths of my CV.

Even he can’t believe it happened.

How… how do they not have a smooth on-ramp for what is basically a straight upgrade to the same service?!

That also sounds like the kind of prank that Cards Against Humanity would pull if they had access to as much cash. I love this so much.

It has been pretty depressing to me that the tech literate have been so easily lulled into accepting such things in the name of “cool toys” and “security” virtually everywhere in modern life besides the PC/laptop/server spaces.

From my exposure to supporting said folks with PC related problems, its easy to see the reality here. Phones provide a streamlined experience with zero frills. They don’t want super flexible computing devices, they want appliances. More to the point, the level of care and maintenance needed to have a top-shelf PC experience is time and effort most people would rather not expend. Doing this right was inconvenient to begin with, and left the field wide open for anything that would be easier.

This didn’t go down well.

IT consulting pro-tip: Customers would rather pay for your time and expertise, than be made to feel stupid that they didn’t think of something so simple themselves.