A couple of comments.
One
Is europe really an ally of the US or a vassal, I'm picking more vassal.
And two
Where is Europe going to find enough cheap energy to power its green industrial revolution. Its whole economic wealth was based on cheap Russian oil and gas.
Do they think America will sell them cheap gas at a price that allows them to compete with America?
In theory, I am currently employed by an organization with a strong technical background, a technical university. Sadly, it doesn't very often feel like that. (technical, I mean) Now for example I wanted to log into our administrative system to approve the absence of a few students. Here is the login window:
I had already entered username and password. In addition I need to check the checkbox you see in the background. The text "I'm not a robot" next to it is covered by the beautiful captcha that popped up in response to me checking that box.
I have tried during previous school meetings to explain that a captcha at a login with existing credentials is not actually meaningful, not increasing security, only time wasted for meaningless activities. Luckily I got in after checking the three chimneys. A while ago, when they introduced this system, I made a video once where I tried without success to log in for several minutes, because after I completed a captcha I got a second page with more images and after completing that I got a new captcha and so on and nobody worried about that at all.
As I said, it doesn't always feel very technical around here...
#rant #it #captcha #stupidity #university #Taiwan
Meanwhile…
Interesting piece from The Economist - not the Journal of Psychopathology, or cultism, but on-target, slight different perspective.
## What Donald Trump Understands **
He has a grim view of human nature, and he exploited it shrewdly—to a point
##### **Oxymoron defined
... Beyond reptilian self-preservation, how to get revenge, how to mobilize hate and evil
#TrumpVIrus #Psychopathology [“like nobody’s seen before”] #psychopathy #narcissism #stupidity #GQP
(and still ongoing... again)
#Election2022 #TrumpVirus #Colbert #Oz #Pennsylvania #elections #Fox #GQP #stupidity #MakeAmericaSaneAgain
#quote by #middleageriot
https://twitter.com/middleageriot/status/1567564600278765569
https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1567523876451614720
#texas #religiousrights #republican #stupidity
The donkey told the tiger, “The grass is blue.”
The tiger replied, “No, the grass is green .”
The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, so they approached the lion.
As they approached the lion on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn’t it true that the grass is blue?”
The lion replied: “If you believe it is true, the grass is blue.”
The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me, contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him.”
The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 3 days of silence.”
The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating ′′The grass is blue, the grass is blue…”
The tiger asked the lion, “Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?”
The lion replied, ′′You’ve known and seen the grass is green.”
The tiger asked, ′′So why do you punish me?”
The lion replied, “That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is degrading for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with an ass, and on top of that, you came and bothered me with that question just to validate something you already knew was true!”
Ring Nation wants to make the surveillance state fun
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/11/23302145/ring-nation-wanda-sykes-mgm-big-fish-entertainment
. The problem, he says, isn’t that we lack experts; in fact, we have lots of experts and some of them have likely saved your life before. The issue is that we don’t value expertise and are therefore really bad at recognizing it when we see it.
THIS! This is is not only limited to Americans!
Ah yes....of course....
https://apnews.com/article/business-health-oklahoma-city-20e3343b93688ac7c3e14a9a4c1c95f9
Don’t Know if I’d go that far in classifying it, but…
The Spectacular Collapse of Putin’s Disinformation Machinery
A few critical errors have brought down Russia’s complex and objectively brilliant war of influence in the West.
https://www.wired.com/story/putin-collapse-disinformation-machinery-ukraine/
seems right - "Hinds" County
https://www.wbrc.com/2022/03/09/assistant-principal-fired-after-reading-childrens-book-class/
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