The people who now “cannot imagine” Russia attempting to take the Baltic states and Poland were the same ones who also “could not imagine” in early 2022 that Russia was serious about invading Ukraine.

Now imagine that.

We still don’t understand how one human apparently got bird flu from a cow.

And you might not want to know the answer to that question.

A friend to me earlier in the week: “Half the time I have no idea what you’re talking about, or if you’re serious or doing some sort of bit.”

And that was when I wasn’t semi-delirious with fever! (Hint: my whole life is a bit of a bit.)

When you’re forced to use a smartphone for a while and then switch back to a PC, you can see why so many are so eager to take PCs away from us: they are 1,000x more capable than a smartphone and allow you to think larger thoughts, not just click and drool. Steve Jobs was correct in that computers could be “bicycles of the mind.”

But ain’t nobody want that anymore.

Admin assuming IT have a crystal ball.

As the top-voted comment perfectly summarizes:

User’s email doesn’t work. User sends an email to log a ticket regarding their email problem. User waits, angrily, because no one responds.

When you first start out on help desk, you believe users must have some sort of thought process or logic, some way they navigate their days and their lives beyond just raw first-order sensations and childish wishes. Then after about six months of pain and witnessing the absolute nadir of humanity, you realize that, no, in fact they do not. You come to understand that this is typical user thought process and behavior, with rare exception:

In independent studies, it has been 28 years since a user has even been discovered to have a brain. Scientists are still searching, but not much hope remains.

When I am galactic overlord, I will endeavor to keep the genocides to a bare minimum.