ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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Grok didn't kill itself.

Fun fact: Hitler's actual plan when he invaded Poland was to reproduce the trench war stalemate of WWI on the Western front. He knew that in that war, about 2.5 million German soldiers had been able to stymie more than 4 million French and British troops while the remainder of the German army pillaged Russian territories. This is why during the Winter of '39/'40 he devoted almost half of German productive capacity to making artillery shells that mostly ended up not being used until the later invasion of the USSR. His biggest success of the war was the blitzkrieg of France, and it was absolute blind luck (mixed with French ineptitude and lack of preparation) that it ended up going the way it did.

When my last company went to an open office plan, everybody (even the CEO) had to be out in the open because the whole company moved into one big room (with a little cordoned-off area for meetings). Granted, this was because we were on the edge of folding and we moved into the one big room to save on rent. But it did produce a nice "we're all in this together" vibe because it sucked ass for everyone.

My entire career could have been an email.

One thing I don't understand about my childhood is that neither I nor anybody around me knew that Freddie Mercury, George Michael and Boy George were gay. Hell, we didn't even think Boy George was a man.

We didn't even know Elton John was gay. But we did think Rod Stewart was gay.

My parents watch PBS Newshour and are very anti-Israel because of what they're doing to Palestine. One night, PBS ran a piece about how Israel's PR was labeling any criticism of Israel's action as "anti-semitism" and my folks were naturally incensed by this. The very next night, PBS ran a piece about the statistically increasing occurrence of anti-semitism in the world - without any discussion of just the possibility that much of that increase is due to criticisms of Israel being labeled as anti-semitism. My parents, of course, were then incensed about all the anti-semitism.

I used to work for a cable company whose name rhymes with "bombast". Our iOS app was barely rated above one star, with many reviews along the lines of "I gave this app one star because you can't give an app zero stars". Bombast regularly sent out company-wide emails requesting employees to download the app and give it five stars. I don't know exactly how many employees they had but it obviously wasn't enough to make a dent in the awfulness.

They had also just won the Consumerist "worst company in the world" contest (while being the runner-up the two years prior), and they sent out emails telling employees to download that spreadsheet and vote for any other company. Thank god for BP and Deepwater Horizon!

I enjoy using "you can't solve problems with your mouth".

I just realized Ike was our last (openly) bald President.

make people love even the filthiest of things

This is why Karl Rove's nickname was "turd blossom".

Don't forget the bridge-residing trolls, splitter!

At this point, even if we just get the same shit from a different asshole (which we would), I'd be happy to see conservatives turn on trump. It would just be so satisfying.

Fun fact: that event (Hitler's 1934 purge of Ernst Roehm and the brownshirts) got the name "Night of the Long Knives" because Hitler used the expression (which dates to the middle ages) in a subsequent speech to describe what he alleged Roehm had been planning against Hitler and the Nazi leadership. Unexpectedly, journalists and historians used the expression to label Hitler's actions.

an election that at this point doesn’t matter either way

It distracts from the one before it and the one after it.

Writing bug-free code?

Everybody have fun tonight ...

Lol "landed". We are fucking desperate for drivers. So desperate that one of our drivers totaled two cars in one day last year and didn't even get suspended.

One thing I actually liked about my last company was that our team-building events involved great food, copious amounts of alcohol, and edibles. True, I had to bring the edibles myself, but nobody complained.

Don't leave Fetterman out of your list. He castigated his fellow Democrats for daring to call Trump a convicted felon, saying we're supposed to be the party of "forgiveness and redemption".

Republicans have been targeting the fifth grade level for decades now. Trump's innovation was targeting the third grade level.