Notices by hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)

What struck me about the Atlantic editor being included in a Signal group chat about a bombing mission in Yemen isn’t the less-than-tight OPSEC, but rather the self-reinforcing propaganda even among top officials when Europe briefly catch a couple strays during the conversation. How is bombing rebels in Yemen “bailing Europe out”?

I keep naively thinking fascist grifters are above their own con, but not even.

@silverwizard I keep circling back to the increase in bullshit jobs in product and marketing mainly. Without new stuff to constantly put forward, their entire job is at stake.

Although I believe this can also happen with engineering teams that were oversized at the start of a project to put out the MVP as early as possible, and then you have engineers twiddling their thumbs and scrambling to find reasons to stay employed, although it would more probably would take the form of refactoring and rewrites.

Nothing to do with customer desires, everybody is just trying to keep their job.

@silverwizard I believe silverwizard, who lives in a cave & tries over 10,000 new things each day, is an outlier and should not be counted.

Something new could be a new food you've never tried any declination before, a new art medium that doesn't involve tools you're familiar with, a new activity you had never considered before or ignored/avoided...

When was the last time you tried something new? What was it and what age range are you?

I'm trying to confirm a really common hypothesis and also I'm curious.

@dcnorris @clacke In a country where not only your rent and your food but more importantly your healthcare depends on your continued employment and where unions are demonized and fought by corporations at every corner, a general strike is highly unlikely.

Also the last time a fascism rise gave way to progressive rules, it required the formation of the biggest military alliance of all time and ultimately cost tens of millions of lives, both military and civilian. I'm not holding my breath this time.