Disney โย and its new CEO โ face a major challenge from the coronavirus pandemic.
No. Disney and its new CEO face a minor inconveniece. Service workers (including the many thousands working for Disney) and all those losing their jobs, most with little to no savings, are the ones who face a major challenge.
Fuck this narrative. And I own Disney stock! But this is pure capitalist boot-licking.
I'd say a *tiny minority* – the rest will go back to usual. https://t.co/jx6RRlKyNl
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) March 21, 2020
I agree, as much as I wish it weren’t true. All the evidence shows this. History suggests it takes a complete cataclysm to reset society. Covid-19 and its aftermath is not that and won’t be that.
In a year, for most of society it’ll be like it never happened. Service workers will be struggling still, but then they’ve always been struggling — just it’ll be worse. People want to forget and go back to normal. And that’s mostly what they’ll do.
Whole lot of silence from the "flipping burgers & stocking shelves aren't real jobs" crowd these days.
— Kilderkin (@RileyGryc) March 20, 2020
Some of us already knew it, but it’s become apparent to some who didn’t realize it who really keeps society operational. Hint: it’s not white collar workers goofing off with spreadsheets. It’s the retail workers, the hotel maids, the baristas, the cleaners, the shelf stockers and the truck drivers who keep it all running. You can go a long time without some MBA and her PowerPoint slides. A very long time indeed. But three days without the grocery shelves being stocked, people start starving.
We won't be locked down for 18 mos. Don't know how long, but this level of shutdown can't & won't be maintained.
We're buying time for our healthcare system to expand & test treatments that will save lives.
STAY HOME. Buy the time our loved ones & healthcare workers need.
— Inez Stepman (@InezFeltscher) March 20, 2020
Agreed. After 2-3 months, the economy would be unsalvageable. It’d look a lot more like Somalia ca. 1995 here than anyone would like.
Twitter's algorithmic censors will now target tweets that contradict public health authorities so as to spread disinformation.
That means that well-credentialed lies like the one from @WHO claiming no human-to-human covid transmission cannot be rebutted going forward.
cc @jack pic.twitter.com/nM2V0JrOpz
— Matt Parlmer โ 🌐 🌷 🌇 (@mattparlmer) March 19, 2020
This was always the very predictable end state of the liberal cry for censoring everything. They were baited with the promise of not making transgender people feel bad and with the specter of fake Nazis, but of course all along the real agenda was to prevent dissent from “authority.” And “authority” here means the correct neoliberal-state narrative.
And I say “very predictable” because I fucking predicted it and how it would happen. It’s playing out about how I thought it would, which is nothing remarkable because it was in fact very easy to anticipate.
This gives you some idea how absurdly slow microservices are.
So, we are around ~30 developers who maintain ~5 micro-services which run on ~1000 EC2 instances that serve around 100k requests/minute1.
That’s around a thousand virtual machines to handle 1,666 requests per second. By contrast, at my previous employer we had single machines that could handle 10,000 requests per second, or 600,000 requests per minute. Sure, those were extremely beefy machines with 6TB of memory (yeah, you read that right), but there’s no way they cost even 1/10 as much as running 1,000 EC2 instances. And each machine handled roughly six times the number of requests with far less complexity.
The post itself is about “observability.” Observability is what’s required when you’ve built a system so complex that you can’t actually troubleshoot it. It’s a way of saying, “We don’t know what the fuck is going on or why something breaks, so we have to watch it with also-expensive and very slow tools and then guess or just change things nearly-randomly and see what happens.”
Microservices aren’t all bad. But the above is what you get when you turn developers loose on infrastructure. Since they don’t understand it or why/how it works, extreme weirdness like this occurs.
When this started, Western ‘experts’ were denouncing the Chinese lockdown, criticizing the WHO for not reprimanding China for violating the rights of its citizens, claiming that NO travel restrictions work (including those imposed inside China), claiming masks don’t work, etc.
โ scientism (@mr_scientism) March 19, 2020
That was indeed an amazing sight to see. Mass “expert” betrayal in a very obvious and blatant way. Of course there will be no consequences to the actual purveyors of this nonsense, even though they should never work in their chosen field again. They are likely to be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions yet will retain their jobs and worthless credentials and reputations.
Yeah, the centrist cry of “Everything is impossible” looks awfully vieillot now, does it not? Of course anyone with half a brain knew that their mantra of mediocrity was spurious from the start — but all too many people lacking that 50% of gray matter bought the con and then derided anyone who pointed out that it was in fact all flimflam.
Folks, think about the last two months. Rethink assumptions. Misinformation is not just the problem of "other" people who believe, say, in aromatherapy for COVID-19. There are many kinds of misinformation. We had massive amounts of top-down misinformation from "credible" sources.
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) March 19, 2020
Fortunately, I ignore “credible” sources too. I am my own source. I understand that this cannot work for most people but it does for me. The problem is that in our society, experts are not really experts in all too many (perhaps most) cases these days. A great deal of them are out to hoodwink, deceive and defraud you because there are no consequences of this and loads of benefits.
Here is my contrarian take: we know a lot more about this virus and the fall out in just one week. On March 7 I was in Aruba and not particularly concerned. My statements from that week are also in stark contrast to what Iโm saying now. Nobody could have envisioned this. https://t.co/5VRm5zH4DF
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 18, 2020
Fucking wrong. I observed what was happening in China and thus knew what was going to happen here. Like there, but worse. That’s why we had a bunch of supplies about when the first few cases were being reported here.
Not everyone is a damn fool.
The stock market may bottom long before the coronavirus epidemic peaks, analysts say.
Stock market is a leading indicator because it looks to the future. This is how it always has worked and still does today.
Lagging (or trailing) indicators are numbers like unemployment and CPI, for instance.
– at the risk of sounding like a nationalist, what are we going to do to re-onshore or nearshore manufacturing capability?
โ Emily G (@EmilyGorcenski) March 17, 2020
Oh no, not a nationalist! By the way, we’d be totally fucked (and are, actually) if we’d followed the prescriptions of the globalist open-borders types in regards to Covid-19. Just as we have been fucked by following their program already.
To go back to this, what puzzles me is that you don’t have to research very hard or far to determine exactly what powers the president can exercise. Not like it’s any secret.
We spent eight years with Democrats and the press lying to us about how Obama was hamstrung when of course in an emergency the president has vast powers. And if 2008-2009 wasn’t a fucking emergency, I don’t know what is.
If Obama had done what was right then there’d be no Trump now.
I need to watch No Country For Old Men again. Though thematically it has nothing to do with the present, its tone feels precisely like this moment.
I feel like, having lost all my close family, various friends and having been very close to death more than once that I, ironically, have it easier than many others right now.
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) March 19, 2020
Same. I like being isolated, am utterly unafraid of death, and am fine with whatever happens. I don’t desire unpleasant things but can handle what life throws my way because I’ve been through so much.
Bring it, world. I’m ready.