The corporate world absolutely idolizes the grift. Being able to “produce value” (=make more money while actually not producing anything more) is the only game left. Shareholders look at something like EA that releases the same old Madden year after year while making money hand over fist, and they fucking salivate.

Yeah but it only counts if you aren’t white, obvs

You could tell me that the Tik Tok “GigaChad” filter had been applied to that thumbnail, and I’d believe it.

You know, it is kind of interesting (and I know this wasn’t the point of your comment). Most of them were not by generals, but assassination attempts on Hitler numbered more than 40, and the first one was the year before he took national office.

The first by a known perpetrator was from Bavarian politician Ludwig Aßner, who sent Hitler a poisoned letter in 1933.

We’re at about 1933. Hitler is about to consolidate power, surround himself with only the most loyal, and purge the military of anyone outside of the ideology.

The propaganda machine will need to expand rapidly to support that effort.

He is 78.

Regulation? In the US?

Not in this timeline.

Any anti-corporation action has about 60 more days to complete. The US is about to be more of an unregulated runaway capitalism machine than it has ever been.

Not a joke. There is a ton of this kind of tactic everywhere now. Say a crazy thing, suggest it is a joke. Repeat it. By the time you “say the quiet part out loud”, it’s been normalized.

It’s the same reason why “I’m just asking questions” is a great propaganda tactic. It allows you to normalize whatever wacko shit you want to.

Just wait until they hear about the host of the Apprentice

It’s an awful mix of half-assed approaches to things. Awkward syntax on everything and very poor at recognizing what types of data it is handling.

Open a CSV in a fresh Excel install. It will almost certainly mistake something for a date if the CSV is sufficiently large (unless the user is exceedingly explicit at changing settings for that particular CSV). It will reformat that data as a date, and as an added bonus, since Autosave is on by default, it’ll save that reformatted data back into your CSV. Yes, settings can be changed to avoid these things. But why isn’t it just designed better so as to avoid it altogether?

If that was just a natural side effect of spreadsheet apps, I could understand it. But LibreOffice Calc is a million times better at recognizing what types of data it is handling, so it seems to just be Excel’s shittiness.

The fact that it also hasn’t really changed beyond aesthetics since 2004 is just… wild.

Excel?! Have to respectfully disagree on that one.

Ah yes, you’re right.

I guess a better qualifier might be: closed-source Microsoft products tend overwhelmingly to suck.

For your sacrifices, I salute you

Is there a Microsoft product that isn’t?

To be fair, Teams is pretty bad even for MS. I’ve never seen something do so relatively little and still perform so poorly. When I switched jobs and got to use Slack it was like a great fog being lifted off of my being.

The diabetes will take care of this one.

No trackpads.

Out of consideration.

After Tuesday, I must conclude she is right.

I’ve never been so embarrassed about my country. The fear hasn’t even hit me yet.

The endgame of all these subscription services is always the same. They make you reliant, and then they jack prices and reduce service.

At this point, there are enough exemplars that anyone still buying in is just not paying attention.

You’re not wrong, but the DNC pushing relatively right-wing corpo candidates is just as much at fault as the media. When will the DNC actually listen to the base? Same thing happened when they disregarded votes for Bernie Sanders.