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[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

written on Google docs lol

(Didn't read yet, just my kneejeek reaction)

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Don't bother, could just be the "always has been" astronaut meme.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

How clueless do you have to be to write that shit?

And how naive do you need to be, not see the writing on the wall in 2017?

He has to be a fucking idiot.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You think that stupidity explains the actions of a director of a department at Google? Someone with multiple degrees and decades of senior experience? I mean, yeah, in the way that every one of us is stupid, but it sounds like you're making that universal kind of stupidity his personal moral failing. I think there are better explanations.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Imagine the sensitivity of whatever device he used to detect the vestiges of a moral compass in 2017. That thing could detect a pocket watch on the moon from inside a blast furnace.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not forced... I'm willingly leaving because I do not consent to being raped