Reminds me of the celebrity jeopardy bit:

“Colours that end in ‘urple’.”

“What is ‘light urple?’”

Okay, that sweet subscription money.

what is Hasan’s political project for

To make a name for himself so some portion of the internet tunes into his streams and thus give him that sweet advertising money.

What even is the point of him being a part of the campaign?

Free publicity.

Lol.

Yes, losing half your workforce, mostly the best and brightest, is no impediment at all…

What a silly Billy.

Did you mean to respond to someone else? What words were put in your mouth?

And you might note the thousands who have resigned from the DOJ, leaving mostly incompetent goofs behind who cannot secure convictions. (Because, yup, they respected the DoJ’s independence. In other words, one of those guardrails working.)

Those same guardrails have repeatedly stopped trump this term.

Just because things didn’t happen as you wish they did does not mean they failed, full fucking stop.

Firing the AG for not prosecuting the cases you want prosecuted, IS nakedly political.

The DOJ’s independence is one of the strongest guardrails protecting American democracy and why so many decent people have resigned rather than submit.

Look at trials in Russia (about which there are some amazing albeit depressing documentaries) to see where a coopted justice department ends up.

As much as I personally would have liked it, I cannot support making the justice department nakedly partisan/political. It’s horrifying that trump has tried to do so and I’m relieved the guardrails are still (basically) holding.

It’s hard to be the good side. Like how the movie villain gets to throw babies for the hero to rescue (God, Hard Boiled is so good) but we don’t win by becoming the bad guys ourselves.

Heck, I’m tempted to drop that in conversations nowadays despite never having been in the same room as Elvira.

Well, doesn’t have a tv app (that I know of at least) but for what it’s worth, I’ve been using Qobuz which is a little French outfit. Great selection, a vehement anti ai slop attitude and I believe that per stream they pay out higher than most services.

I’ve been using Qobuz, it’s a French alternative (so, not supporting Google or other American companies!) I’ve really enjoyed the selection and some of their suggestions are fantastic. They also have really high quality options for streaming/download which I’m too tone deaf to fully appreciate.

I love it but also realize that too often, this is also my manager’s suggestion.

Someone lost count at two?

Three if they’re in their mode 60s and were affects by the Asian financial crisis?

Or, are they confusing national economic crises with global ones?

Man, age verification can’t come soon enough. I cannot imagine how much better the internet would be without these 12 year old edge lord/stupidity posts.

when it’s laced with multiple poisons designed to slowly murder everyone

Well that took an abrupt turn.

Well, at least I can stop buying condoms soon!

For dummies like me, is the +3.1% of the total or just the subtotal of Linux machines?

To put it less crazy, is that a more than doubling of Linux since last time or lower, but still respectable 3% growth of Linux machines?

One is amazing and a beautiful omen, other is cool.

Oh fully agree. I’m in a similar spot though I’m an okay-ish manager, I don’t like it and much prefer my actual job.

I’m not sure how common my experience is as I work in a large non profit and while union, my union group is pretty free wheeling (fewer protections but fewer restrictions.) Anyway, we’ve gotten around the problem by just adding words to or changing words in my title.

This has had the effect of allowing me to do my job, get raises as basically deserved and look like I’m advancing. Admittedly, my manager etc are very understanding and most of the senior leadership knows me, so take from that what you will.

I wouldn’t want the hardest worker to be the automatic promotion. We’ve all worked with someone who means well, works hard but is dumb as a brick. God help us if they get promoted.

Edit: Okay, I guess I’m the only one who has ever been managed by a hard working, well meaning idiot?

It’s free and using it means I don’t have to support American tech companies.