Here you go, but don’t shoot the messenger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS00xWnqwvI

When I’m at some corpo writing corpo crap, I don’t really care because I already got paid.

Marx was a very adroit writer, and not above dry sarcasm.

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You might be wrong. In fact this might be parody https://reductress.com/post/how-to-save-money-by-eliminating-all-sources-of-joy-from-your-life/

🔫 Jack Skellington and the Castle Doctrine.

It’s hard to know how much their BYD relationship factored in to their scuttling of their self-driving/electric car project. They could have chosen to keep the “electric car” part and ditch the “self-driving” part, instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Sometimes union take actions that are less severe than outright striking:

• Slowdown
• Work-to-rule

Never overestimate the intelligence of the wealthy: it’s like leaving money on the table.

They were doing so well until Xi Xinpoohbear took over.

Are you sad that—only coincidentally during Xi’s term—you found out that “reform and opening up” was never intended to be nor was ever going to be the neocolonialization of China like you hoped? Things are largely going according to China’s long-term plan, that was laid out long before Xi.

• United Nations: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• The Economist: At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
• Reuters: China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

Outside of the C-suite, that’s not really how severance works.

I hope this is just a rich people grift, because then who cares.

Yeah, I work in this industry, in the US. I’m familiar with the specific attacks you mentioned. I’ve been paid to lose sleep over these things. I’ve worked extra hours dealing with DDOS attacks and suspected intrusions and zero-day fire drills. I know.

But this isn’t unique to the US. It’s basically the same everywhere. And the US isn’t uniquely “behind.” Everyone’s behind. If the US is unique at all, it’s that we happen to own & run more internet services than anyone else.

Careful, that’s how I caught pinko.

they hate us for our democratic centralism

We are pathetically behind in the cyber warfare sphere, though.

Not relative to other countries.

we are being obliterated by chinese/russian/anyone else troll farms

We are not; we are told we are. It’s propaganda coming from our own security state, pointed at us. Why? To manufacture our consent to censorship. They are telling us that other countries are doing to us what they are doing to other countries, and have been since even before the internet existed.

Listen to this complete inversion of reality from Biden: How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries, and everybody knew it?

• IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor’s Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
• Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

definitely

Definitely, given the overwhelming mountain of evidence you’re sitting on 👍 Meanwhile, the US isn’t the largest intelligence/security state in the world by leaps and bounds. It’s just a little-bitty backward country whose military-industrial complex invented the internet.

That was pretty much my intuition. Thanks.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how effective are the funky dyslexia typefaces?