“Ackthsually despite the literal centuries of political thought behind anarchism I, a white middle-class PMC who’s just had their fifth mimosa of the day, took two seconds to think of a counter-argument that takes less than 280 characters. Checkmate.”

Puff puff pass will be made law in the Communist States of America

:fidel-salute: thanks in advance comrade

Nobody else has mentioned this yet, but seriously what’s the over-under on an obese geriatric still being alive in 2024? The stupidest (and therefore most likely) outcome is that Trump decides to run, the Dems nominate an absolute basketcase in response since they think they’ve got the Presidency sewn up (maybe Hillary gets to go again, it is her turn after all) and then Trump dies before the election, leading to an R win.

Serious post: the two reasons that middle management care more about labour costs vs server costs are as follows.

1. It’s much easier to justify tech expenses to upper management than it is to justify salary increases. This is because even if middle management is tech smart (unlikely but happens sometimes) their bosses definitely won’t be. All those people see are a spreadsheet with % increases compared to last year, where one figure is ‘that fellow down the hall who sits at a computer all day’ and the other figure is ‘money we pay Amazon so all our shit works’. Getting gouged by another business is familiar territory; big raises for employees isn’t.

2. Two years down the line, you’ve spaffed a load of money up the wall. If you’ve given everyone raises, you might have to cut shareholder profits. If you’re wasting all that money on AWS, you can always look to negotiate a reduction or switch services. (It doesn’t really work out that way in practice, but from a tech-illiterate perspective that seems like a more palatable option).

Patrick Stewart played Lenin for a BBC miniseries called ‘Fall of Eagles’

Uninspired, we’ve had wayyy better bits before. 3/10 do better next time, maybe throw in something about China or DPRK

Also post hog pls

“The United States is also a one-party state. It is just that, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.”

o7 braver than the troops and more useful by far

Omg I’m so excited to be posting something that’s gonna be read by someone who’s met Xi Jinping in real life aaaaaaah I can barely contain the nerves!