Suddenly everyone is back to work, and I am stuck babysitting a petulant employee. I write on MS Teams to update a SharePoint. “Okay, let me check.”
She’s now showing away for the past 15 mins and the fucking boxes she needs to fill in are still blank. At least my company isn’t union.
¡Enlaces!
For some reason, the corporate press wants you to believe migrant crossing is down, even lower than when the Orange Man was in office.
Brandon’s ambassador to Mexico leaves with an ominous warning.
Its like …Venezuela produces nothing we can’t replace on global markets, its not like they actually have nukes so they’re not really a threat. Quit pussy-footing around with “opposition” leaders and just let them die on their own.
I will need see more of her before I could speculate whether that toilet would’ve fetched a good price in Japan.
The Chilean President looks a bit chilly. What? Fine, here’s a helicopter joke.
I thought this was a bit weird. So I decided why not go totally weird with the music link?
Wood
Good to see you’re quite chipper today, KK!
I should axe if he’s single, though
Or at least willing to branch out?
Definitely.
Ugh, a lefty. Hate fuck at most.
If it helps he has been a huge disappointment to his base, as he hasn’t been able to drag the country over the brink.
No offense — but this sort of thing is why I permanently have my status on such things off to avoid such levels of micro-monitoring. As long as shit gets done, no one needs to worry about the last time I moved my mouse.
Hope your petulant employee is getting things done eventually. Though SharePoint is its own special circle of Hell (not as bad as f’ing Confluence and Jira, though….)
You will never see a green light on my Google chat!
I thought all the cool kids used mousejiggler.exe nowdays.
Tut and pshaw. USB fake mouse dongles which report movement are where the cool kids are at. But mechanical jigglers are the totes remotely undetectable way.
Set your mouse on a tablet or phone, set the alarm to go off every 3 mins or so with vibration….voila!
Do you plug that into your mousejacker?
Bring up a PowerPoint in presentation mode.
The nanny software in big corporate can figure them all out as it tracks more than mouse movement.
Not so fast. Even the external jigglers are apparently detectable. But if IT/Security is doing that, they’re already capturing screenshots and keyboard input/mouse clicks so you’re fucked.
But definitely don’t plug a dongle or jiggler into a company device.
I thought I was reading a Q thread.
But yeah, USB anything is strictly verboten now.
jiggler please!
Adapt & overcome.
I should have those balls.
The president’s trip was meant to reinforce Chile’s claim to sovereignty in part of Antarctica.
That’s better a way to reinforce a claim than Argentina invading the Falklands and South Georgia Islands.
First we take Greenland, then we take Antarctica.
And then it will all Faulk right into our hands!
Sounds like laying claim to all explored by Columbo….
Someone was doing all the wrong drugs in college…
Ominous to some… bloody obvious to others (that OMB will change the relationship we’ve had over the last 4 years). Spooooky!
I gotta say, I like the cut of the new guy’s jib.
Dude’s like a real-life Sam Trautman with an even better CV.
I was gonna make Dollywood cinnamon bread and I forgot the corn syrup. I don’t want to hit up the grocery the closer we get to this supposed storm.
I would have thought a Dollywood recipe would be more about the milk.
It may well actually be — but like crime statistics over the last decade, I don’t trust the numbers. Simply not encountering them can have “reported crossings” down, for example… lies, damned lies and statistical omissions….
I’m sure the numbers are down compared to recent years.
Less than when OMB was machine-gunning border crossers so the Rio Grande ran red? I doubt it.
And why run this Fake News up the flagpole now? It’s not going to help Biden get re-elected.
So they can claim the numbers are increasing after OMB is inaugurated?
“There’s a lot of fear because of some of the threats being made,” Ken Salazar said in his final news conference. But he added that in order to fix a “broken” immigration system, the U.S. will need to work hand-in-hand with the Mexican government.
Because that has worked so incredibly well up to this point.
Salazar was a useless idiot in college, and he does not appear to have changed much since then.
I suppose Lt. Gorman wasn’t available to deal with this alien problem. Sounds like his sort of planning.
In his departing remarks on Monday, Salazar touted what he called “historic cooperation” between the two countries on security, migration, economic development, and combating fentanyl production.
If the cooperation involves the U.S. encouraging the free flow of future
peasantsvoters and unlimited supplies of deadly drugs to kill off our (red-voting) rednecks, then I rate that statement as true.“Cooperation” is a remarkably ambiguous term. Cooperation on security and migration could mean “we’ll open our borders so they don’t shit up Mexico”. Cooperation on “combating fentanyl production” could mean “Look, these open borders are going to make your cartels a lot of money. We need a taste.”
Trump wants a mammoth omnibus bill. Maybe the Democrats will insist on splitting it up into highly specific individual bills.
I crack myself up.
I am all for the Mammoth omnibus bill. As long as it includes Dire Wolves and Cave Bears.
Aurochs or bust!
Have to watch out for the Rhinos rampaging, though.
Cave bears? If you are gonna go , go big. American Short Face or nuthin’.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Oa8DDyqlshk/VCGi19r5BUI/AAAAAAAABB8/dJ5yvb2x-f4/s1600/Short-faced%2BBear%2B3.png
*slightly inaccurate as the short faced bear was digitigrade. That makes it even more fun.
I guess he just figures “Look… I’ve got one shot… to legislate everything I ever wanted.”
So he’s going to take it instead of letting it just slip.
Big fire in LA right now (Pacific Palisades)
I should have expected that given today is a pretty gusty day. Looks like LA got worst gusts up to 80 from what I saw. Not much rain in December, so yeah… no surprise there.
200 acres already and peak winds are 12 hours away.
No bueno.
The good news is that the wind is pushing it toward the ocean. Sucks if your house is in the way though.
Been 30 minutes, and somewhat topical and all…
Sometimes his trolling is too much for me. This falls in the “stop fucking with people, Trump” for me for some reason….
He actually made a decent case. “Blah blah blah and it is a very dangerous place” at which I thought, yeah, it is. It would be nice to shut that down. Get rid of all of the dope, piracy and slave trade, make it our swimming pool. Of course, we would still have the coast guard to deal with but hey, one danger is better than hundreds.
As usual the guy says something that he isn’t supposed to say and after thinking about it people start thinking maybe that isn’t so crazy after all.
He did campaign on Make America Great Again. What makes you think we was only talking about the United States?
How many place names have been changed by the Biden admin?
I heard we’re getting Mt. McKinley back.
He should compromise on the “Gulf of Columbus”. Naming it after the guy who discovered it is pretty well established.
Also, it would get the lefties in quite a tither.
Today, in just deserts…
LOL
You can lie about your sex on a passport? Great googly-moogly.
CNN headline refers to Greenland as “world’s largest island”. Bigger than Australia?
Australia’s a continent, Greenland is part of North America technically as I recall. So they’re the best kind of correct — technically correct!
Halford Mackinder is sad.
That driver’s license guy should be in a straitjacket.
Is there anything tariffs can’t do?
Trump Threatens Denmark With Tariffs Over Greenland
Trade Puerto Rico for Greenland. Denmark gets some tropics, etc. Allow the Greenlander/Puerto Rican people a choice of which country they want to belong.
That should go in the Glibs newsletter.
Denmark had tropics and sold them to the USA.
Sure, Danish trade with the U.S. is such a critical aspect of their economy. How fucking stupid is EVERYONE?
Velux hardest hit.
Not Lego?
Lego will defend itself from its bases in California, New York and Florida.
This way to the Grand Egress
Meta employees took to their internal forum Tuesday, criticizing the company’s decision to end third-party fact-checking on its services two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Employees voiced their concern after Joel Kaplan, Meta’s new chief global affairs officer and former White House deputy chief of staff under former President George W. Bush, announced the content policy changes on Workplace, the in-house communications tool.
“We’re optimistic that these changes help us return to that fundamental commitment to free expression,” Kaplan wrote in the post, which was reviewed by CNBC.
The content policy announcement follows a string of decisions that appear targeted to appease the incoming administration. On Monday, Meta added new members to its board, including UFC CEO Dana White, a longtime friend of Trump, and the company confirmed in December that it was contributing $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
I’m sure there are dozens of social media companies clamoring to take these people on when they storm out en masse.
Sadly, some of those whiners have skills still in demand in other companies.
I hear Bluesky needs more censorship.
Bluesky is still alive?
I thought their users had dwindled to insignificance because they kept falling afoul of their own thought police policies.
If they’re trying to copy the success of X, they should include massive staff cuts.
return to
Didn’t someone testify to Congress that there was no censorship?
I thought this was a bit weird.
Haha! Definitely my kind of weird.
The Chemical Bros. one was over the top acid trippy.
Something else weird but awesome.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OrlWWrSwaB8&pp=ygUUYmVlIGdlZXMgYWNkYyBtYXNodXA%3D
WP
In sum: Trump just left open using military force against a NATO ally
Don’t tell the writer about Greece and Turkey both being in NATO.
He also hasn’t ruled out using nukes on New York.
He’s got properties there.
Anybody know about CA?
You didn’t see KK’s post?
California? I thought Mellei was handling that, as it is En Fuego!!
One worker wrote they were “extremely concerned” about the decision, saying it appears Meta is “sending a bigger, stronger message to people that facts no longer matter, and conflating that with a victory for free speech.”
Another employee commented that “simply absolving ourselves from the duty to at least try to create a safe and respective platform is a really sad direction to take.” Other comments expressed concern about the impact the policy change could have on the discourse around topics such as immigration, gender identity and gender, which, according to one employee, could result in an “influx of racist and transphobic content.”
A separate employee said they were scared that “we’re entering into really dangerous territory by paving the way for the furthe
What about yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater?
“Comrade Napoleon wants everyone to be able to express their thoughts…
But sometimes, Comrades — you might express the wrong thoughts — and then, where would we be?”
What about yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater?
Not a problem with Meta – there are no human interactions between the users of the platform and the managers of it. You’d be yelling fire in an empty theater.
If someone asks you for a definition of the deep state, here’s one:
Capital gains tax proposals weren’t passed before prorogation but CRA to administer anyway
Dratted Deep State hiding the truth from your link!
Link:
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cra-to-continue-with-capital-tax-changes-despite-prorogation-finance-department
So… either that makes it clear that Parliament is a complete rubber stamp for whatever policy the Government chooses to do… or they’re bloody idiots and someone should introduce a measure that every member of the CRA has all their assets seized without actually pushing it through.
Makes me glad I’m not Canadian, that’s for sure.
Something is fucking rotten in Denmark. They’ve controlled a huge piece of North America for far too long. What have they done to develop it? Not even a damn Lego factory. Screw buying it. Have the Greenlanders hold a referendum if they want to be fully independent, stick with frigging Denmark, or join up with us. Enough of this hygge shit, we aren’t playing around here.
Alas poor Yorick.
Hygge please.
According to the intertubz, 2/3 of the Greenlandic peoples favor independence, even if that meant losing their block grant from Denmark. Said grant amounts to 2/3 of their annual budget. Of course, part of their problem is that they’ve decided to ban oil and coal extraction.
In the series “Thin Ice” the Greenlandic independence movement is a sub-plot, and Greenland becomes independent with covert American backing. This results in an American company being given off-shore oil exploration rights (that’s from imdb).
I was going to guess that Trump got the idea of taking Greenland from the series, but the timing doesn’t line up.
WTF I can’t even.
I get it in rich, easy countries but I don’t think life is so rich and easy there. Why would they deliberately cripple themselves like that.
Are we going to take France’s North American islands too?
I bet one can of Diet Coke that Donald has no idea about those.
Didnt the D’s do this the last time Trump was in? Demand that he do things the way they want? I dont think they will have as much luck gumming up the works this time. Hopefully he learned a thing or two last time.
This boils down to $22k for contact lenses. Which I get why she considers medically necessary.
https://archive.fo/PyQoU
So did BI go back to the individual and asked if she was notified her medical provider didn’t respond?
Also UH is a TPA here, I like how they slyly pass the buck and her employer wasn’t relying on UH for eligibility. While technically true it is BS.
“But I totally don’t support homicide, wink wink.”
Business Insider so trash. Love all the “related links”.
Tundra, after this mornings tunage, I think you might like this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlSKI04hpFM
The wife and I saw him a few times back in the day, always a good show.
Good stuff Zwak. He looks familiar.
Good eve everyone,
I hope all are well. I’ve been enjoying my time off over the holidays since my new gig has been kicking my ass. So I have been reading out of cycle with most posts.
I was wondering if Hayek has been posting or zooming? I don’t recall seeing her post over the past few weeks. I hope all is well.