The UN? They still have that?
Day: September 24, 2021, 2:50 PM
The Terror
Brooktrout fax cards. Anyone who knows those words should be hired immediately they've seen some shit. https://t.co/wGeUgQR9cp pic.twitter.com/aox1gTVv9A
— SoS (@SwiftOnSecurity) September 24, 2021
Oh fuck yes. I started having flashbacks and went into PTSD mode the moment I read “Brooktrout.” Some of the worst IT experiences of my life there, dealing with their crap fax hardware for a company that had chosen not to buy support when some absolutely normal change broke everything.
I stayed up for basically 48 hours straight fixing it all. Never again. When I see “Brooktrout,” I paddle away downstream with great haste.
Never Awake
I honestly can’t tell whether or not this is a parody/hoax. https://t.co/bTQV3goXbl
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) September 24, 2021
I have the same reaction to a lot of lib woke stuff. Just cannot tell.
Non-Platonic
If you believe you are acting without philosophy, or acting apolitically, you are then in fact enacting someone else’s philosophy, and executing someone else’s politics.
Philosophy and politics are foundational to human affairs. They are the codification of of the intractability of the real. There is no act without abstraction; ergo, there is no human thing without philosophy and without politics, for these are the social strata of the construction of the human project.
Not Really
“Vaccinated people are just as likely to spread the coronavirus.”
This isn't true. But some people — even some very smart people — mistakenly believe this.
Dr. @Craig_A_Spencer explains here why, in this really good piece from @TheAtlantic.https://t.co/9D1dngt3oG
— Paul Sax (@PaulSaxMD) September 23, 2021
Most “smart” people aren’t actually very smart. They went to the right schools, etc., but don’t know a fucking thing and cannot credibly think outside of the few facts they’ve (mostly incorrectly or out of context) memorized. This is just generally true, unfortunately.