brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 36 points 3 months ago (5 children)

They've put all their eggs in the Trump basket, with no clear line of succession. Once he is humiliated again this year, the fever will break for some, and the rest will splinter into infighting. This was their last clear path, which is why they are forcing through everything they are able while they can.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 17 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Beating them at their own dishonest game has worked much better than trying to fact check them, and getting completely outpaced, ever did.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 19 points 3 months ago

Give it time. Soon enough he'll hire a reputation management company, shave his beard, show up for Dancing on the Stars, then SNL will put him in a sketch as Waluigi.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the burned monkey testacles

[–] brianary@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

I love living in Washington. But I i fear the backlash as Inslee finishes his last term. He's been a great, green governor, but absolutely vilified for it by the right.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And yes, taking less profits to distinguish your product as a prestige brand is fairly common.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even load-balancing multiple servers in a homogenous network, where patches are only deployed in phases is better (and a best practice) than what, to outside observers, appears to have been everything going down due to a mass update everywhere, all at once.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Two big assumptions here.

First, multiple business systems are already being supported, and the OS only incidentally. Assuming double or triple IT costs is very unlikely, but feel free to post evidence to the contrary.

Second, a tight coupling between costs and prices. Anyone that's been paying attention to gouging and shrinkflation of the past few years of record profits, or the doomsaying virtually anywhere the minimum wage has increased and businesses haven't been annihilated, would know this is nonsense.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Air rifles are a pretty different type of gun.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

At the height of the pandemic, I was admitted to a hospital after a worse one had sent me home. I was delirious with pain, and was allowed no visitors. Once I got pain meds, I was confused from them. I couldn't eat or drink anything, including water. It took them a week to determine that I needed my gallbladder out (some shortage with their nuclear medicine unit), and by then I was apparently also septic. Due to a mixup with my pain meds, it took an extra day to get into surgery. I missed giving the elegy for my father in law, and the whole episode is just a fuzzy kaleidoscope of pain. This was one year after fighting for days to get a kidney stone removed surgically, only to wake up in recovery with another one that no one would believe me about for another week, then having a stent for a month.

I can fully understand jumping out a window in desperation.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 31 points 4 months ago

Like sending a few choice SCOTUS judges to gitmo

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This will be the basis of a wildly disproportionate, violent response aimed at anyone they want.

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