wizardbeard

Lie to the toddlers about the rules so I always win

You should have a look at some of the official PowerShell scripts they've made to assist with managing, installing, and decommissioning Exchange Servers.

One had the word group misspelled consistently the entire way through it. Another had a wonderful comment noting that an internal function (to manage something with AD permissions or deep internals of the Exchange Server) that looked misspelled was in fact spelled correctly, because the command had a typo in the real name of it.

Breaking it down into a binary kid vs not-kid thing is dumb, but as you grow up there are definitely times where you're old enough for some things and not for others.

I'll tell you now, if you can't wrap your mind around adults/parents not always wording things in ways that have logical consistency, you'll have your mind blown when you realize how much of adult-hood is just flying by the seat of your pants while only sometimes having the benefit of previous experience to draw from.

Groups like the ones pushing data centers can and do literally hire people to figure out how to get in the politicians' good graces, convince the politicians it is not only a good idea but the best idea, stoke the politicians' ego(s) such that they think they know best/better than the people they supposedly represent, and then literally train the politicians on how they can do an end run around their constituents to get things passed by the letter of the law but clearly not the intent of the law.

I know Louis Rossman can be a controversial figure due to how he communicates things, but he's been doing a good job exposing how Flock surveillance cameras are getting passed/governmentally funded in shady ways in numerous jurisdictions where they have negative public support. It would be silly to expect that the tactics they are using are also not in use by the much larger forces with deeper pockets behind all these data center pushes.

I absolutely have less than zero respect for politicians, but I seriously cannot imagine living a life almost entirely surrounded by people deeply trained to manipulate my emotions, sense of self, and self validation towards corporate ends. Beyond all the obvious life experience/world view differences due to wealth and socioeconomic strata, that's fucking terrifying.

Fun fact: Numbers is also part of the Torah! Christians don't have a monopoly on this crazy. Good old Abrahamic religions.

Literal millions of us (myself included) voted "correctly" for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we're still getting fucked.

Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.

I enjoyed them, but it's been a while. I remember really enjoying the final book. They got better as the author got older, but even the first was decent.

I don't know what you mean about a movie. There was never a movie. Nobody ever made something so terribly executed it still haunts me. Niclelodeon would never ruin a beloved young adult novel so hard that no one has attempted to adapt it since. No sir.

Man I am such a sucker for overkill. This is one of my dream builds. Gotta build my skills up first though.

Shame that it seems like people don't realize you're using a real issue someone opened on github as a copypasta.

Pure word association for warp core, the image in my mind is TNG's Enterprise-D

Same as it ever was

If your student loan is federally backed, they have "income based repayment plans" which can go as low as full deferment, $0 a month. Interest still builds, but it's better than starving.