it is part of the brics, but the united states and isreal have been throwing their weight around in latin-american to reverse the soft power gains that china has made by rigging the electronic voting systems and the election in brazil is already 50/50.

that’s why brazil banned american “election officials” from entering their country a few days ago and the americans hit back w sanctions and obstructing the election campaign on facebook and other social media platforms.

their goal is to get bolsonaro’s son elected so that they can isolate mexico and totally reverse the leftwards shift that latin-america has been going towards for the last 20-ish years.

madelinte pendelton postulated that china’s foreign relations strategy is to avoid war at all costs with the global north since they saw how they strangled the soviet union into non-existence and it explains why they’re willing to accept all the pain and simply walk away from all of their investments in latin america despite having the power to push back like the united states does.

how can you tell it’s the 6th floor?

now it feels like they’re just showing off. lol

in case you didn’t already know: email has a STEEP learning curve and it’s because of how it can be captured from outside – not the technology itself.

the difference is in why they’re bombing and what they’re bombing – nato/ukraine are bombing the same way the us is bombing iran.

he’s cooperating with ice where he doesn’t have to

and he’s cracking down on netanyahu/bds protestors under the guise of combating antisemitism.

fraud does happen, but it’s greatly overshadowed by voter suppression and disenfranchisement.

then look at what they did

the trail of tears prove how little they actually look at what they did – they just shrug and go along w it.

i remember thinking that ev drivers were lucky because the range didn’t enable them to drive 20 hours non-stop averaging around 75 miles per hour like i had to to do at the time. lol

they’re going to switch to drones because of this.

There’s something to be said about generational memory and how it gets leveraged to keep this asshattery going.

I don’t know what it is, but the way the Epstein class beat around the bush about it in the files and the way it mimicks other document dumps like the freedom of information act as well the sudden push to block younger generations from accessing counter narratives that go viral on social media strongly suggest that the way things can be manipulated as it goes from one generation to the next is useful to them.

it would be great if it could be collected as condensation.

you don’t have to imagine it – they literally put it in writing :p

shitty country, but fantastic novel and mockumentary. :p

disney must have misrepresented how big cinderalla was i guess. lol

that building looks familar, but i can’t place it because the reflection mars the architectural details.

i think i’m lucky in that my competencies are as generic as you can get – python, bash, ansible, postgres on linux – and is so accessible that there are plenty of resources to be found online to minimize that 2 years.

but apparently, not as lucky as you since i never received such a document and the surprise layoffs never allowed me to create such a document for anyone else – i doubt that i even know how to make one since i’ve never seen one.

i learned (2 decades+ later) that i was the cheapest guy they could find several times and my experiences taught me the hard way that the only way you can make progress is if you live/breath/eat/shit it as hardcore as you can working 60+ hours weeks during the honeymoon period or you too will be walking out the door.

we recently hired new grads and they don’t exhibit this kind of asshattery like the new hires at the companies i worked for in the past did and i’m wondering if it representative of a labor aristocracy that’s starting to struggle since my old companies were both faang and old-silicon while this new company is a non-profit that serves my local community.

i envy you!

i’ve never gotten documentation that was helpful and – in retrospect and just now – i suspect that the line of predecessors rage quiting before my joining was the reason i got the job.