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Tony

@tony_bridges_el

5 years

I want to do 5 things so I'm doing none of them: an autobiography.

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@yarden_shafir This was years and years ago, but when I applied to McDonald's I said I wanted to work there because McDonald's is a stable company that has continued to expand even in downturns. The franchise owner liked that answer so much they walked me around to other managers to repeat it

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@seldo Has anyone heard from Nebraska lately? Maybe they're gone.

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@doctorow Well Norton users are already accustomed to it consuming all their resources.

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@SwiftOnSecurity Based on other after actions I've read, I think you're missing the possibility that the old IT guy had a Word doc on his desktop titled "My plans for driving that bitch crazy-final-finalv2.docx"

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@victoriabwrites Certainty. That my car will start. That my toilet will flush. That I can refill my meds. That my card will be accepted. That no one will come and take it all away.

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@cpan_pevans It would also be possible to make a USB C device that doesn't work until you've flipped it around a couple times. For nostalgia's sake.

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@mbloomstein @__apf__ The sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the sign.

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4 years

@IanColdwater @OkButStill I think they call that a nontraditional gender presentation

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@yarden_shafir Yeah the show pony routine was not what I was hoping for, but I did get the job. Of course she also told me I had the job from the minute I walked in because they'd never had a candidate wear a suit to an interview

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3 years

@PJAxemurderer That wording. If you only had sex, before you were 18 you're apparently a virgin? Is it like a juvie record that gets sealed?

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@calichanell @nhuntwalker "This woman couldn't be with her kids because she was too busy providing for them, so we're going to make up for it by keeping her from her kids and also not letting her provide for them"

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3 years

@LackingSaint Man, Mitch used to be so funny. He still is, but he used to be too.

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@LouRovegno @page_eco Because the simulation follows the path of the ISS, which rotates in the same period as its orbit to keep imaging equipment and antennae pointed at the earth.

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@tony_bridges_el

2 years

@Lanee_11_15_96 @moisturizeds "Be good to people" done next problem

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@tony_bridges_el

9 months

@OKWildlifeDept A beanie? I always saw it as a hunting cap. One of these guys

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@tony_bridges_el

3 years

@CCat2001 @KateBennett_DC I'm going to need details on whose bloody limb and what they were doing when the First Good Boy moved to protect his family.

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@tony_bridges_el

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@baddestmamajama I worked with a guy in his 90s. Thick, thick Bronx accent. The only thing he loved talking about more than women was himself and he spent all day talking about his retirement and his time in the navy in WWII. What'd he do in between? "Imports and exports. Fuggedaboutit."

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@tony_bridges_el

2 years

@MaxLatoche @yunatalks Multiple kinds. Men that see this are more likely to be in peer groups that talk about this kind of thing. Men that don't notice are less likely to respond. Men are unlikely to remember incidences where they were in an all-male meeting and didn't notice.

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3 years

@RainyRat @SwiftOnSecurity 90% of becoming a legend is keeping a straight face.

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@kittynouveau "The Malfoys were right" - this guy apparently.

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@d_feldman That's just an introvert. Introverts can even prefer to be outgoing. The distinction is that being outgoing is exhausting for introverts, and energizing for extroverts.

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3 years

@doloresXmachina @vanjchan "I'm too important to go through the normal channels, but not important enough to have any other channels."

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@arcillahumeda @PonchoRebound @EricKleefeld You ever been to a low-class cookout and a high-class soiree with hors d'oeuvres? I rest my case.

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@tony_bridges_el

4 years

@TheScarletOne1 @CAPYBARA_MAN "They fit the description." All fowl look alike to cops.

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@tony_bridges_el

2 years

@thesarahkelly @Madam_LaLa @Hydedriver @meechie2_ Also, this may be state dependent, but if you have to be accessible and able to come in when called you're on-call and you have to get paid for that time. Not necessarily your full normal wage, but it's paid time

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@cassidoo I love that the cheese company is protecting the identity of their client

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@tony_bridges_el

2 years

@celeste_horgan I say this with love as someone with ADHD and has often been in leadership/senior positions: It's because the interesting problems we can latch onto are the ones that get noticed by management while the vital day-to-day monotony that we're bad at is often ignored.

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@tony_bridges_el

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@AnaMardoll On the flip side, I once had a doctor refuse to give me a flu vaccine because I'm allergic to sulfa medications because "that's in all kinds of things [it is not] and I don't know what's in this [it was a flu vax popup clinic. All they did all day was flu vax]"

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@tony_bridges_el

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@SwiftOnSecurity The single most important driving skill I have is patience

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@tony_bridges_el

4 years

@IanColdwater @scallycaroline1 My mom had me when she was very young. She isn't famous or widely respected or a college graduate, but she is a great mom and got me through college. Everyone's success is different.

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@tony_bridges_el

2 years

@dylan_cebollita @WholesomeMeme It's the cheese chase. They roll a wheel of cheese down a steep hill and people chase after it. It is dangerous, people get hurt sometimes. There have been multiple efforts to ban it but it has a very dedicated following.

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@tony_bridges_el

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@hankgreen When I reread a novel, I have a constant "Oh I remember this" feeling but don't remember what happens next until I get there. I find it kind of annoying, usually

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@tony_bridges_el

3 years

@patio11 My API is that if you send a GET request to this endpoint, you will get a static pdf consisting of a scan of a paper report that contains data approximating what you want. Why yes, I do work in government.

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@tony_bridges_el

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@akgeesaman @maplecocaine @KevinMKruse Exactly what I was thinking. Home Depot has plenty of my money, but it's not where I would go to get a "magnificent piece" of any wood. It's where you go to get a "I'm almost done but I'm a little short and the real lumber place is only open like three hours a day" piece of wood.

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@tony_bridges_el

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@bradcollins128 @ADHDdesigner Either that or you just get comfortable with failing and blowing past deadlines until they no longer induce adequate anxiety. Or both.

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@tony_bridges_el

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@Foone Humans: *explains calendar* Aliens: All of your hours are the same length? How do you zlork?

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@tony_bridges_el

4 years

@iloveredrobot @NicoleConlan French nihilism: Nothing matters 🙁 Gritty nihilism: Nothing matters 👁👄👁🔥🤾‍♂️

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@hacks4pancakes God is... ransomware?

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@tony_bridges_el

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@pattonoswalt This is a very small part of that story and it's not enough but many states have programs where victims of stalking can get government services like registering to vote without providing an address. Here's WI's:

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@tony_bridges_el

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The internet: To get classic context menus back in Windows 11, create this registry key redirecting a dll identified by a GUID to null Me, a security professional: Sure, why not

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@tony_bridges_el

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@PolyMathMatt @neilhimself It has been pointed out that @johngreen signed so many of his books that technically the unsigned ones are more rare

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@Aychelby @notdylm At least missing the satire and hating it is better than missing the satire and loving it

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@tony_bridges_el

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@oldenoughtosay When I took up the floor in my bathroom the layers were, top to bottom, vinyl tile, vinyl sheet, plywood, pink shag carpet, vinyl sheet, linoleum, plywood, diagonal hardwood, joists

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@tony_bridges_el

2 years

Oh look, another prominent and influential woman who can't get @verified despite meeting all the requirements. I am shocked. This is my shocked face.

Dani Donovan 🎨 ADHD Comics

@danidonovan

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My Twitter verification request got denied for a third time and I literally do not understand. WHAT'S A GIRL GOTTA DO TO GET A BLUE CHECK AROUND HERE 😑 @verified

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@SwiftOnSecurity Migrate servers to Windows and desktop to Linux. Now everyone is equally upset, which is the optimum outcome of enterprise.

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@hankgreen If I were a youth, and a job opportunity like that arose, I'm not sure I'd be able to keep myself from making things up to troll the olds.

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@KaenKazui @neilhimself The UK uses just enough of the metric system to make fun of Americans, which is what really matters.

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@MedCrisis If you're not going to give a prognosis to a man who isn't your patient with a poorly understood disease that is not in your specialty based entirely on rumor and speculation, what is even the point of Twitter?

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3 years

@SwiftOnSecurity I can neither confirm nor deny accidentally expiring everyone's passwords on a particularly critical day.

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@MalwareTechBlog I am not against pulling a heist against a crypto datacenter. Just let me know if it's more Ocean's Eleven or Fight Club.

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@ancientblogger

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens

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Every time something Herodotus said is confirmed to be true:

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One thing I'm looking forward to in @KerbalSpaceP 2 is not having ten years of forums to dig through to determine which mods do what and how they interact

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@Foone This supposes aliens with more rational systems. I tend to assume any civilization we encounter will have just as much ridiculous stuff based on tradition and outdated beliefs as we do

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@nisslbodies @katiedimartin Anyone who is nitpicking your sign off is going to find something to be upset about no matter what you do.

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@SwiftOnSecurity It took me a long time to realize that when many people hear "everything else is a compromise" they hear an implicit "and therefore not worth doing." To me, it's a reminder that we need to be deliberate about what compromises we're making, and not hold out for perfection.

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@tony_bridges_el

2 years

@realBrookNash To my immediate supervisor or a direct peer? "Fuck that" Outside that group? "I'd like to exhaust other options first", "let's get committee input on that", "I'll add that to the backlog"

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@tony_bridges_el

3 years

A frozen meat company gives me hope for the future of our society, which in turn makes me despair for the present state of our society.

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@steak_umm

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ok it's time to talk about societal distrust in experts and institutions, the rise of misinformation, cultural polarization, and how to work toward some semblance of mutually agreed upon information before we splinter into irreconcilable realities (beefy thread incoming)

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@Pinboard Excuse me *shifts glasses* but you haven't lost them, they are preserved in the blockchain forever.

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@tony_bridges_el

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@OKWildlifeDept In high school I became so nocturnal over the summers that the night before the first day of school I just didn't sleep

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@UrsulaV I think that if everyone who has ever been tempted to rag on Waffle House took some time to sit with that feeling and understand the origins of their contempt that the world would be a better place

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@Foone @0xdade @munin The two government applications: The incredibly over-built distributed system with microservices connected by complex APIs that should have been a single script The arcane Access database maintained by 1 retirement-age employee that should have been a complex distributed system

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@tony_bridges_el

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@GailSimone It was banned in my school because it had dice and was therefore gambling. Even though we had a gaming club. We got around it by using the random functions on our graphing calculators. These days we'd use an app. For some reason that was okay.

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@tony_bridges_el

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@mcclure111 The kilogram of feathers is heavier, because you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds.

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@gaiacaecilia @oldenoughtosay We had to stop digging for awhile, too Even better: the vanity had been installed on top of all that

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@tony_bridges_el

3 years

Petition to send all brand reps through a philosophy program. Really looking forward to Taco Bell answering what is in their tacos with epistemology arguments.

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“one day you’re gonna run out of meat jokes” we ran out of meat jokes 3 years ago why do you think we post meta rants about philosophy 101 topics now

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@hankgreen Just tell us how much toilet paper I should be stockpiling

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@CaelanConrad Huge redundant locks on the door next to big glass windows, installing smart cameras but closing blinds bc concerned about privacy, testing emergency whistle to show it works and also that no one comes, this is a fractal of poor risk analysis

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@SwiftOnSecurity Did you know you can also just smash the pillars in your basement with a sledgehammer? No one will stop you!

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@deathbybadger I need game designers to realize that if my friends and I could just collaboratively tell a story based on vibes we would not need their rulebook

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@CSMFHT I saw a comment on another site the other day that said "Ea-Nasir's descendants went on to create EA Games" and it's just perfect

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@tony_bridges_el

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@AccidentalCISO The lightbulb wasn't in asset tracking so the CISO didn't know it was there. Help desk has known about it forever, so they close all tickets as "known issue" and grumble that no one is fixing it. Eventually a business person replaces it with a bulb from home that's too bright.

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@hankgreen Similarly if you look into the history of invention you won't find eureka moments, but slow incremental increases in capability followed by some guy putting his name on the capstone

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@gdinwiddie A theme I've been seeing a lot lately is that every hero represents a systemic failure that allowed things to get to where a hero was needed in the first place.

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@GossiTheDog The plus side is when they pay the ransom and get the decryption key, BitLocker is more likely to work than their crappy decryption tool.

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@nessfoxx @Foone Yeah, if it's a foone tweet, where are the other 45 of them?

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@IanColdwater People's RAM standards do not adequately support ADHD. I want all the tabs (some with video), and Visual Studio, one VM I'm working on, two I forgot to turn off, and probably a minimized video game I forgot is running

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@SwiftOnSecurity Can't see any red flags if your eyes are closed

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@MalwareJake @deviantollam Faster than I can open a hotel door with the key card.

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@yourlanegirl @johngreen It would be an amazing reveal if it turned out John's basement was underneath Hank's office this whole time

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@IanColdwater Are they now charging you for things you do in other people's clusters?

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@SarahJamieLewis That's nerd sniping, right there. Most people would have no idea what to do with it, others wouldn't touch it, but there's a handful of people that would say "that's so weird I gotta see what's on this" and those people are probably admins.

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@tulipsmg @SkyeSharkie @OctopusCaveman I mean, I'd kick out somebody that smelled like a corpse too

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@Foone @NanoRaptor My favorite part of this is the retainer for the latch on the near side, and the little key on the left side, meaning that it will only plug in one way and the USB-C connectors just make it harder to tell which way.

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@IanColdwater I think I figured out the deal with the helicopter. They heard "No justice, no peace" and misunderstood the assignment.

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@hankgreen More room for meat

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@LTE_Max @SwiftOnSecurity In practice, it's extremely common. Plead guilty and you could be back with your family in few months. Profess your innocence and you could spend years fighting it and risk that you'll still lose and get a harsher sentence.

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@Srirachachau Makes sense. They certainly weren't basing it on whether or not they were funny.

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@depthsofwiki You're not gonna get a complete response here, because the overlap of people that use the term mango for bell peppers and people that use Twitter is vanishingly small. Y'all underestimate how isolated many Midwestern communities are.

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@oldenoughtosay I have long since stopped trying to guess how old people are. No good ever comes of it

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@drninashapiro Based on my college experience I'd bet there's at least one new dorm that has an app=based high-efficiency laundry and at least one old dorm that has a coin-operated wringer and a basin with a washing board.

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@HackingDave Everyone's talking about the weight loss and muscle gain, but can we talk about how much more hair you have in the second pic? For a friend.

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@hankgreen My entire exposure to GWAR is weird juxtapositions like this

GWAR covers Kansas' "Carry On Wayward Son"

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@Foone It does, but they called for the first ticket to be opened by one who is without issues

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@InfosecGoon I'm a "but then I'd lose my stickers when I replace my laptop" infosec person.

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@sapitonmix I haven't wanted to bring it up because it seems petty and selfish, but it fits with the topic of this thread: Ukraine is huge in game development. A lot of fantastic indie devs, as well as branches of big global companies.

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@etymologic @pwnallthethings I bet their respective security teams also have scream bags. Anyone responsible for someone else's security should advise them not going into a war zone, and then plan for what they will do that person decides to go anyway

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@Alexandre_Zani @jmeickle @cybercrimemlm There's also just some really weird stuff that happens. Processors these days are so small that they worry about quantum effects. And sometimes radiation happens to hit just the right part of your computer to flip a critical bit.

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@DGlaucomflecken See, paying them could incentivize them to reach a particular conclusion, so instead we base their value in academia on their ability to get papers published, ultimately tying their employment and salary to repeatedly reaching particular conclusions.

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