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Cake day: January 9th, 2024

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  • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.comtocats@lemmy.worldNo issues here
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    6 days ago

    I agree with the “don’t be shitty to animals” sentiment, but I’m honestly a little surprised no one else has bothered to consider how shitty that cat might be. If it was always shitting in your yard, picking fights your cat or dog, using your bird feeder as a cat feeder, and tearing up your flower beds, then a cup of water is a pretty benign deterrent that still has a chance of being effective.





  • When President Trump issed an Executive Order targeting Chris Krebs—a respected cybersecurity leader and the first director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency—the cybersecurity industry should have responded with a unified voice of outrage and support

    The author isn’t wrong, but “cyber security” isn’t an independent bastion, it’s part of an industry that consumed itself in a canabalistic orgy over the last 25 years and what’s left now stands behind, and as, oligarchs.





  • Eh, let’s not get to impressed:

    Owning the libs became a lucrative strategy.

    Of course, the left made it easy for them. The left really did purge conservatives from universities and other cultural power centers. The left really did valorize a “meritocratic” caste system that privileged the children of the affluent and screwed the working class. The left really did pontificate to their unenlightened moral inferiors on everything from gender to the environment. The left really did create a stifling orthodoxy that stamped out dissent. If you tell half the country that their voices don’t matter, then the voiceless are going to flip over the table.

    But he almost stumbled onto class warfare:

    This political moment isn’t populists versus elitists; it is, as I’ve written before, like a civil war in a prep school where the sleazy rich kids are taking on the pretentious rich kids.






  • This product is called ‘paper bottle’ to make it easier to explain the role of paper labels wrapping outside of the bottle," a spokesperson for Innisfree said.

    “However we understand that the entire container can be seen as paper material because of the product name. We are deeply sorry for the confusion caused and will try to deliver more accurate information to you.”


  • Generally each step morphs slightly:

    1. my boss told me to!
    2. I told them to do it safely! (The thing that can’t be done safely)
    3. I told them to solve the problem! (The problem caused by corporate policy)
    4. I told them to meet the quarterly goals! (Goals that are only possible by breaking laws and or official policy)
    5. I set the competitive strategy! I have a fiduciary duty to shareholders! (I’m morally justified in only prioritizing profits)
    6. … profit