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It's been far longer than that, Rosebud (movie reference to one I'm about to mention), you may want to search Joseph Pulitzer, Randolph Hearst and yellow journalism.

That's right and clean up the government/reinvent the system too.

Yar har fiddle de de

It's plausible, considering Russia helped the USA in certain Middle Eastern wars conflicts

They are. Mozilla provided a comprehensive report on several major car manufacturing corporations selling data to all kinds of brokers.

Sure. After certain companies decided to stop supporting a certain political party's most vitriolic candidates over persecution of the lgbtq community, began quarterly funding again. At least I think it was over LGBTQ hate morning.

A few years ago, Stephen Colbert did a segment on a pair of radioactive alligators at the SRS

Oh wow! You've been through so much! I applaud and admire your grit and durability. You go, friend!

People still use putty?

Yep. I'm in that situation now because my iPhone is about to be obsolete, so replacing the battery makes no sense.

Sure. Allow me to give you a little background about my area, from personal experience a hundred years ago in the industry: security by obscurity was the standard, a CTO had zero experience with anything computer related, beyond powering his on and pecking out emails, was not interested in learning about (let alone learning any) current or new technology, coding, or security related. The sysad couldn't code a lick, depended on an online scanner for malware removal (and it was a persistent problem), and did absolutely zero auditing, wondering why the better team members stayed long enough for a reference and ran screaming. This was the worst, but not by much, company I worked for in the industry in a very wealthy area. I'm sure things have changed over the years, but from friends in the industry, not by much. They still stay long enough for the reference of official experience, then end up moving companies, or the better ones go on to self-employme t, often contacting for the same companies, at 4x the hourly rate, because it's still cheaper than getting sued by by clients or the government.

The weird thing is, I'm about to try to re-enter the industry, personal and industry issues aside, at a later point in the year.

Oh wow! I'm so glad it wasn't at your expense. Did work retaliate for you having to be treated at their insurance expense? It's not uncommon where I live for people to be dissuaded by fear of unemployment. I wish I were being hyperbolic.

It's infuriating. We're treated as if we are naughty children, seeking excuses to play hooky from first grade,.

Thankful you could afford MRI! I know someone who was ordered four, and could not afford them, also could not afford a gastroenterologist appointment. Of course, this is charted as noncompliance, so...

Or they just work for the same bosses to give us the illusion of choice.

Get ready for clay tablets and possibly cuneiform record keeping. I saw this coming from a mile away before health records and billing were due to go live online, and everyone pooh-poohed my alarms. We can't go back to all paper, we're still squandering life-breathing trees. But a lot of this is simply board members and C-Suite not allocating enough dollars for proper hardware, software, and strongly knowledgeable minds to implement good security.

I can't even believe I'm about to say this, but oh well: it would be the more merciful option to the whole planet, including himself. Yes, himself, because behind every bully, narcissist, sociopath, megalomaniac, is a miserable, bigot, supremacist, is a very miserable, frightened little inner child that relives the hell they have built to insulated them from the hell they experienced, and project on the world as punishment for allowing that to happen. That is irrespective of privilege, which the inner child may not have the ability to recognize. Until we, as a world collective do the hard, dirty, bitter work to address conditions that breed despair, irrespective of class, race, gender, or privilege to address that, the cycle will repeat itself. I don't have all the answers, maybe not any. But it's going to take healing ourselves individually, as family units, as communities, nations, and finally, global citizens. We are humans and we will have setbacks and failures. But I think it's possible.

I hear you. I need to let this soak in.

Ahh, "hate the have, not the player!"

When there are no players, there is no game. Thanks for proving my point.

I point out we keep going right by compromising with the establishment party nominee and we need to vote third party but everyone in threads where I've done this act like I'm Satan and say "THIS IS THE ELECTION WHERE THE DEMOCRAT VOTE IS MOST IMPORTANT! IT'S NOT THE TIME! A THIRD PARTY CAN'T WIN!" for nearly thirty years (I was a meeting who backed Clinton. I'm reformed).

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Holy moly, this sounds hauntingly familiar.