And why is that? Perhaps because productivity rises while salaries stagnated? Because the 1% bleed the rest dry? Because all laws and tax codes are written for the wealthy?

No, it’s because of immigrants (somehow)! /s

Hell, even photos from his home are censored… His speed dial list would have been interesting, more then the rest of the photos.

The Evil Ampire gets bought by an evil empire. Huh.

Can’t tax the Billionaires, they would run away

Can’t implement healthcare for all, it would cost too much

Can’t allow people to unionize, it would hurt business

Can’t regulate banks, the free market knows best

Can’t fix tax loopholes, the rich will just find new ones

…

I could go on. For the every common sense solution there is a lie from the right, why it would not work. Always the same disproven lies, repeated like a mantra.

In workers rights and beyond.

One ginger, two ginger… Lot of redheads around today

Gaming PC and a dice bag

Quite easily explained: older generations accumulated wealth as they got older, so the central message of the right “I got mine, fuck you” (paraphrased) resonated more with them.

Newer generations only accumulate debt.

He didn’t use an IDE, but I don’t remember what he tried. He also wasn’t a fan of googling stuff. Use the man pages and nothing else.

Here is my story:

There were console outputs after nearly every line. I asked about them: “Oh, I couldn’t get the debugger to work, so I print everything to the console”

This was everywhere. The whole program was like this. On a standard Linux machine. It wasn’t even remote debugging or something. Just a local C++ program.

The filenames where written in 8+3. Again, on a modern Linux machine. His answer? “You never know where we’ll port this software to”

Onto computers that were outdated decades ago? To embedded systems? Of course he had no answer for this except “just in case…”

I could tell you more, that software was the stuff for nightmares.

Ctrl+C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-P. Another hard workday done.

Is it okay to discuss this publicly? As funny as it I’d, I really don’t want Russia to get informed.

Ah yes! One step closer to servitors. Praise the Omnissiah!

I didn’t mean a specific state, I just wanted to imply that terrorists backed by a state - with the money and connections that encompasses - would have the means to do this.

I currently don’t see any state that would wish to cripple the internet. That would hurt indiscriminately.

Perhaps in the future, before a planned attack, to sow chaos. So China or Russia perhaps.

Perhaps North Korea, but I don’t think they have the power or knowledge to do something like that and China would get mad.

In case someone misinterpreted the meme: these are all single points of failure that can take down large parts of the internet.

If a rouge state manages to take down any of these for a more then trivial amount of time, we would suffer enormous amount of financial damage

It’s not that expensive if you use them as slave labor and ignore their human rights… Well, still expensive for the tax payers, but who cares for those peasants? /s

How the fuck is there no fallback in case of an outage?

Perhaps Superman has cheat days? You know, to stay sane?

Police Chief: “So we release these people and you hunt them for sports?”

Superman: “Pretty much, yeah. It’s my cheat day!”

Police Chief: “But with your super speed and x-ray vision they really have no chance!”

Superman: “Do the animals have a chance when you hunt them? It’s just for fun!”

Police Chief: “But why Republican politicians?”

Superman: “Even on my cheat day, I still like to do good.”

The reward for efficient work is more work.

And of course the expectations that you always work that fast.

Oh, and complaints if you don’t work that fast, even if the new task is something completely different and takes more time.

Of course a hand drawn image by someone who can draw well is better - the artist practiced for years and took hours to draw this. On the other hand whoever took second place used a few minutes and had no training to produce something that was probably quite nice, too.

It’s this ‘everybody can produce art in seconds’ that is both good and bad. On the one hand I like how I can get a image of whatever I want for pennies, on the other hand I can understand how artist fear devaluation of their art.

Passion, wanting more money, actually liking the job you do, being recognized for your work, helping people

The main one probably is still “wanting more money”. UBI doesn’t stop you from working and earning money: it just doesn’t force you to do it.