Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus
–Alex Blechman
Except in this case it’s a political party instead of a tech company.
That era of Internet history was wild. Between weird sex stuff like that and tentacle soup, weird body stuff like goatse and tubgirl, and straight up death like two guys one hammer. It seemed like every third person on the internet was trying to trick you into watching one of those.
Report, block, and move on folks. If the mods want this place to harbor racists then they’ll do nothing. But you did your job.
I hate to be that guy but I’m too tired to make dinner tonight. I’m just going to order something.
“I’m a faithful follower of Brother John Birch and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church, and I ain’t even got a garage, you can call and ask my wife.”
–Charlie Daniels
The line was spoken by a green toothed hillbilly in a song he wrote. He was making fun of these types and painted them as drunk hicks.
For reference, 15 years later he had a song (the second part to this song, funny enough) that did its best to make fun of half the queer community.
Yep. A lot of these tech companies that have run in the red for years are now being called on to produce a profit and pay the big backers.
Why shouldn’t they be allowed cell phones, at least as a privilege? They shouldn’t be allowed to harass anyone, but they’re people. JPay and other predatory companies put an undue burden on families just trying to talk to their loved ones (who, let’s face it, may not be guilty) in the pen. There are even worse companies that pretend to be places where you can send money or put money on a phone card for a loved one but once you get to the fine print it’s just a scam. That dries up if you just allow folks the opportunity to talk to their family during their downtime.
But fuck them, I guess. People are in jail to be punished and if they don’t have the maximum amount of punishment 24x7 along with their families then we’re not really getting our money’s worth.
Or maybe he’s talking on a butt phone.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
You can’t really cook a person’s rib primal the same way you’d do beef. People meat is not marbled like beef so you’d want to cook it low and slow with a lot of moisture.
So while you could have a people prime rib sandwich, it’s not going to have a great texture.
I can’t argue with that because honestly I was jealous of the folks running it. But they are buying new equipment today and I’m not.
Same. I have a lot of legacy recording equipment that I won’t replace until it stops working and it’s all mini USB.
I’m just glad I got what I did instead of FireWire.
I sing karaoke fairly often. I sing the nonsense lyrics and no one seems to notice, especially if I sing 90s rock.
Until the CIO gets the “telephone game” version of what’s going on.
That’s not the one I was talking about, but it doesn’t surprise me.
I’m less concerned about that and more concerned about supervillains building lairs.
Some of us always look like shit.
I just assume it’s a convoluted way to present Loss.
Same thing is happening a lot of places. One large american company that I’m not going to mention is doing several rounds of layoffs along with a return to office initiative.
Goddammit, you brilliant bastard.
My last job is currently controlling kubernetes with Ansible (configuration management and orchestration) in a hybrid cloud model. The new engineering director likes yaml so they put yaml on his yaml.