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  • Yeah, its all an incenstuous club of a class of C Suite people that know all the people on the boards of the regulatory committees, the astroturfed ‘consumer rights’ groups, the industry advocate groups, etc.

    They like to play musical chairs, hop around from seat to seat on different boards.

    But uh yeah, corruption is the name of the game with regulatory capture, so, any kind of proposal to have an actually transparent, legit, accountable bidding process will of course be decried by basically everyone connected to it.

    Remember when software companies used to like, train people, bring them up to speed, kinda like an apprenticeship, develop them as an asset, and then have a stable team?

    Yeah, that… worked better.

    But then managent essentially was insulted by the existence of people who knew more about how their own companies actually worked than they did, so they turned them all into contractors, and chaos has reigned ever since!


  • Therapyspeak is a weaponized toolkit for typically BPD/sociopaths/narcissists to manipulate the situation into them always being right, and the only person whose thoughts and feelings and intentions matter.

    It is extremely unforunate that this is the case… but it is the case.

    Here’s a maybe relatable shit test:

    Are you having conversations with a person that resemble diatribes/debates from SexPestiny or Thor/PirateSoftware?

    They conceed a point, and then immediately minimize it, flip to another rheotrical/emotional attack angle where they are the victim or you are the perpetrator, never actually allowing anything approaching a consensus as to the actual facts of the matter, all stated together?

    Yep, that’s a sociopathic narcissist that put a bunch of skill points into therapyspeak/debate rhetoric.

    They’re grandiose, and slippery; they’ll do anything to avoid someone else being able to nail down the actual factual foundations of their argument or perspective.

    They do this because they must maintain narrative control/framing, everything is a battle of image and reputation, not the actual things that those originate from… thats both their strategy and just part of how their brains work.

    They’re essentially incapable of realizing or fully processing that they’ve made a substantial error, and they’re also basically just not capable of separating ‘how they felt about something’ from ‘something’; at best this is enormously difficult for them, as they have very poor ability to regulate their emotions.





  • Yeah so it turns out that basically the entire field of cyber security is 95% a complete joke.

    As evidenced by everything gets hacked all the fucking time and massive data breaches are so commonplace they’re usually barely newsworthy.

    There of course are a small number of people who can actually oversee/implement reasonably secure code development, but, well, that costs money and takes time, but it does not cost anywhere near as much money or time to just confidently lie to people and pretend you know what you’re doing.

    Governments tend to just defer to “industry experts”, which basically means ‘big dumb idiot corporation that verifies their robustness via a human centipede of paid consultants’.







  • Before us millenials had our own take at inventing initialisms and proto emojis…

    Beepers. Pagers.

    A fair number of different kinds of ‘codes’ became at least somewhat widely used as shorthand for more semantically complex things, and they had even smaller character limits.

    https://www.wikihow.com/Pager-Codes

    Now I was like 5 when pagers were all the rage, so I have no personal experience with these, but this was arguably the gen x version of millenials who spent too much time on computers as children coming up with ‘gtfo’ and ‘lmao’ and ‘rofl’ and such.




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    20 hours ago

    I genuienly appreciate the explanation, that makes sense.

    2 reasons unc here sees them similarly:

    A ) I barely ever use emojis

    Many millennials grew up using

    *-*

    =D

    :<

    0.0

    >=[

    … style constructions to represent emotions / facial expressions in text.

    I’m used to those, I’m not used to emojis.

    B ) I’m just actually slowly losing visual acuity.

    I’m getting oooollldddd.

    I’ve got an astigmatism now, and I tend to only wear my glasses when I absolutely need to.

    So I have to squint or put on my glasses to make out variations in emojis, sometimes.




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    22 hours ago

    I genuinely do not know, but I keep running into that, where they just use the crying emoji and they tell me it means they’re laughing so hard they cried (not literally of course but w/e)… even though there actually is a laughing-crying emoji.

    I’m going to yell at clouds tiktok, its probably cloud’s tiktok’s fault, somehow.

    EDIT:

    like, I tell a joke, they respond with a crying emoji, I am confused and apologetic because I think I hurt their feelings and they are just sad crying… nope.

    Nope they actually liked the joke.

    This has happened to me a number of times in the last 6-9 months, with different people.