Hmmm, j is not working better try k some… And multiple esc

Hey, Don, why are they regularly testing you for dementia? They didn’t need to test those other guys.

Try to address any medical issues as best as possible now.

Adam Curtis’s Hypernormalisation. It is a documentary and does a painful job of examining reality. I was vaguely unsettled before seeing it and after seeing it I have a specific vocabulary and lens through which I perceive current events. I feel helpless to this day. Free on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM

I remembered you want non documentaries, so I will add Basketball Diaries. DiCaprio film about a talented young basketball player ruining his life through drug addiction.

My pacifist grandfather served in the US army medical Corp in both WW2 and Korea. He saw some of the worst aspects of both of those conflicts, particularly Korea. I don’t think anyone would think that he was helping the Nazis by treating the wounded.

Dead Internet is a thing for a reason. :(

It is ridiculous. I am interviewing for embedded systems development where we frequently write to specific bits in a register. I am sure these kids have had to learn something, but I can’t figure out a polite way to ask them to give me some examples of what.

I wish it was a joke. Maybe they were deliberately getting the answer wrong to waste our time, but the body language was not consistent with someone fucking with me.

My company probably doesn’t get the best candidates (defense contractor that pays somewhat less than market rate), but yeah.

Two nibbles is an acceptable answer.

Right?

We have been interviewing for entry level positions and the new grads know less than ever before. I don’t really care what they know, I am looking for evidence that they can think, but I usually ease them into thinking scenarios by asking easy foundational questions like how many bits in a byte. You would think I was asking for them to explain the Shrodinger wave equations… One candidate was waivering between 13 and 17…

Helium is my current choice.

Trump has already had the dry run for turning it into a global pandemic. Anyone think JFK Jr. Is the right person to be in charge of the response plan? Anyone?

On top of all of the obvious stupidity with the statue, it is a terrible rendition. Not fat enough. No comb over. The face is not orange. The diaper is missing.

Sun-Don-ning is a thing.

They have to hold it because their toilet runs on Windows and broke.

Bag is probably full of shit that he is about to set on fire so you stomp it to put the fire out. Except that sort of plan requires more executive function than he possesses.

The big concern is probably a decline in number of wage slaves. Children of teenage single moms are probably the best demographic for enslavement.

Next they will be decrying the decline in crime because it will harm the prison industrial complex. “We need more cops to arrest more people to keep us safe (from underpopulated prisons).”

And when you reverse destination and source when using the dd command, you learn an important lesson, “the disk destroyer” nickname is legit.