Meanwhile, Kash Patel is perenially drunk and generally missing in action, having psychotic episodes.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/
You know, the head of the FBI, who was in charge of investigating this case, at least according to himself.
My new life motto, upon hitting roughly 30:
Suffer no fools.
Be humble, but show no mercy to a hypocrite.
I’ve been abused by enough narcissists that yeah, I’ve got some rough edges to me, but frankly, I’m fine with that; a whole lot of people just fucking suck, and its a reasonably effective autorepellant for people who are too full of themselves to take a joke or criticism.
A few years back, I may or may not have overtaken a ~202X Mustang who decided to cut off and brake check me, in a 2014 Prius C, and maintained that lead for 10 miles, till I lost sight of him and was at my exit, after switching to Highway Star.
Amusingly, this is a very laid back, slow tempo song, lol.
It’s happening.
Fetch is finally happening.
… In basically the worst and stupidest way possible.
Frog and Toad get Alpine Divorced
The 40s apparently had dad jokes grandfathered into their dad jokes.
… This is so stupid it hurts my brain.
I actually tried to find laws relating to… stowing? carrying? transporting? a gun, in a holster, on a harness, on a dog.
I could not find any.
I very much hope this is completely legally dubious, but given the patchwork insanity of US gun laws… there might concievably be some kind of very specific situation where this would ‘work’ in some kind of legal sense…
I feel like a lot of people on lemmy, a lot of reddit refugees… well basically they seem like 10 year younger versions of me, or something similar.
Thus… well fuck, psychoanalyzing myself a bit: I’m basically trying to be the dad or I guess just any kind of actual postitive mentor I wish I’d had, when I say things like this.
‘Its dangerous to go alone, read this!’
But yeah, laughter can help, and is a good part of any kind of discussion of the insane bullshit in this world… it doesn’t have to be just always jokes all the time, as s coping mechanism… it can be sanity-affirming for a blunt autist such as myself to just wholly explain the nonsense.
That being said: I’m not infallible. Ideally, don’t believe a thing I say, verify it.
We’ve unfortunately built a society, in the US at least, that literally rewards and promotes sociopathy with money.
These people lie and tell you we live in a meritocracy, which itself is gaslighting.
Sociopaths ‘overperform’ in most kinds of careers, because they’re so manipulative.
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.
True.
Same here.
It in fact can always be worse.
Sorta like how ~1/3 of Americans refer to any kind of soda / pop as ‘Coke’.
Yep, I remember a MSFT vet actually teaching me the term ~15 years ago, when I was working for thrm and … yep, just another thing Elon has fucking ruined by association/appropriation.
Elon quite literally does not grok Grok.
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’.
Bonus awkward points if they’re still wearing their Members Only jacket and still think that is very cool.
Well I would say ‘pocket rocket’… but that’s … at least as far I know, usually/often connotes a dog’s dick…
Uh…
Yep guess I’m outta cock slang.
May not be a smooth criminal, but I’m always thrilled to see 'em.