the craziest part of the Blowback Cuba season for me was the transcripts from the Kennedy White House meetings during the crisis
Lots of "blah blah why would Khrushchev do this, I just don't understand what he's thinking, the madman" etc.
straight up "our rational self-defense posture, their bloodthirsty warmongering" with absolutely zero self-awareness
this thing is going to take the whole western economy down with it when it crashes
uncritical support for Gladys in her war to cleanse the seas of human interlopers
but no, not like that
the malfunction was letting the employee find out
The last time was a farce so what does that make this time
People just don't know how anything works. They buy phones and have no idea how they work, cars, computers, everything is a black box to most people.
This isn't entirely their fault; the makers of these products have deliberately made them harder and harder to tinker with and learn from over the years.
But even the people who are supposed to know how things work don't know how they work - my experience hiring people is that basically anyone who grew up with home wifi, cell phones, online gaming instead of LAN parties, etc. doesn't know anything about how networks or computers actually function, no matter what degrees or certifications they claim to have.
I've asked people applying for network engineer positions to explain how the Internet works, and they thought I was being philosophical. Like, woah, man, how does the Internet work? The conceptual map just isn't there, even if I try to gently lead them through it.
good job Kentucky, just making those groups cooler
just say neom is going to have a district in literal outer space, it's all just make believe anyway
Half of NATO now on Hamas' side, oh shit oh fuck
lol, what, that sure looked like they waited patiently for the other guy to take his shot