It’s Hashtags time! Take a book title and add one word to change the meaning, and tag it with #AddAWordRuinABook. Could be on the show!
— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) January 28, 2020
The Old Man and the Sea Monkeys
The Taco Bell Jar
The Heart Is a Lonely MILF Hunter
Finnegans Wakeboard
War and Peace Out
me on a team meeting at work: "you cannot explain to a 45 year old bureaucrat that two mouse clicks are enough extra friction to cause an entire team to stop doing a specific job duty forever, even though it's the truth"
— Gravis (edited) (@gravislizard) January 28, 2020
MBA thinking. Many users can’t find their Start menu in Windows after using the same OS series for two decades. They absolutely are not going to to do two extra clicks. Many of them, it’ll take two months of training to explain how to do those two extra clicks.
If you think I am exaggerating, that just means you have never been on help desk.
I wanted affordable insulin so I could live, but a Bernie Bro called me a "neoliberal" so I've decided to die a horrible death instead. https://t.co/x50SqwPXXY
— DrLearnALot🌹 (@DrLearnALot) January 27, 2020
Yeah, the “BernieBro” phenomenon is “someone I dislike disagreed with me.” To most liberals, that is a death threat. Having had a gun in my face, I know what a death threat feels like. It fucking isn’t slightly negative words on Twitter.
I love having good backups. Crucial license file got nuked today and I was able to restore it from backup in less than five minutes. Drop some ransomware on me and I won’t even notice it. Company will be back up in an hour.
Love all the shows that are like "you were in the military, you must know the importance of following orders"
It's like, dude, what the military taught me was how to GET AROUND orders that didn't make sense
— Angry Staff Officer (@pptsapper) January 28, 2020
I was in a paratrooper unit, so what the military taught me was that orders are for people and units who need that sort of thing to complete their mission. We didn’t really have orders as most civilians think of them; we had missions and capabilities. It’s hard to give orders to units whose whole job is to be dropped behind enemy lines with minimal support and equipment, who have to improvise to do anything, and who are often separated from any command structure.
What IT people think:
“I need to control program updates and approve them because I’m uniquely intelligent and totally have the time to validate other people’s software.”What that looks like after 3 years: pic.twitter.com/RJjLHFhplq
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) January 28, 2020
Ok, this is all painfully true. Why do you have to tell such hurtful verities? IT people run around fixing problems other IT people caused. Though to be fair, that is true of accounting, the legal profession, politicians…humanity.
Joe Rogan’s Bernie Sanders endorsement revealed something important about the American left.
I am not a deontologist at all, which is I think why I break so hard from modern liberalism. And I think liberals are actually only deontological in leaning when it doesn’t benefit them, but are fine with a deontology violation when it does – such as nearly all pseudo-libs think it’s just peachy for Hillary Clinton to cozy up to the vile Henry Kissinger.
Here’s how that disagreement plays into the Rogan controversy. Shortly after the Rogan controversy broke out, Sanders fans started pulling out references to Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state and arguable war criminal whose counsel Hillary Clinton welcomed in 2016.
By contrast, Joe Rogan endorsing Sanders is nothing at all. Kissinger is one of the biggest war criminals in history. Rogan has a podcast where he occasionally says something that mildly questions absurd trans ideology. The differences are…vast. Rogan isn’t to my taste and is pretty misogynist. But he is nothing like the vast evil that is Kissinger.
We told them that Clinton was a bad candidate and would lose and they ignored us. We are telling them Biden is a bad candidate and will lose and again they are ignoring us. Next they will blame us because nobody would get off the couch to vote for Biden in the general. https://t.co/YOnyBWv4GC
— Susan of Texas (@SusanofTexas) January 27, 2020
There are no circumstances in which I will vote for Joe Biden. Fuck what John Scalzi, the wannabe-Republican, says. His opinions are as tepid as his books.
Nominating Biden will be an enormous mistake. He will never win the general. Never. And that might be the whole point.