ploot

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[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

The 13th Amendment to the US constitution makes slavery illegal except for prisoners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

Or painfully doesn't care about the costs to other people.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

They're quite good at hoodwinking and swindling gullible and ignorant people.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 19 hours ago

Yes, there's no way I would want to work for the unprofessional and petty Dr. Alok Kashyap of Yatiken Software if I happened to search his name and find this post of his all over the internet.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Well, my boss pays us very badly but regularly reminds us that we are all just one big happy family. These people seem to be everywhere and they have no self-awareness and no imagination about how to live life. And their entire ego is invested in their work, so they're very touchy.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 19 hours ago

All while criticizing others for being so venal they want to be able to buy food.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Teams vs Teams for Work or School vs New Teams. .NET Framework vs .NET Standard vs .NET Core vs what they just call .NET now. Office vs Office 365 vs Microsoft 365. Microsoft is never not confusing.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's WSL now in Windows 11 - a built-in, pretty performant instance of Linux. The recent versions run a proper Linux kernel I believe (the older ones were more of a compatibility layer over Windows APIs). I'm not sure what the limitations of WSL are. But there is already some kind of Linux in Windows. I use it for the odd utility and to avoid having to learn PowerShell.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

You forgot the endless pages of trick questions you have to periodically step through to get into Windows. One wrong move and you owe Microsoft money every month.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

“I’ve talked to so many governors and congresspeople and senators and never once did they say Canada is the problem,” Ford told CNN. He emphasized that a bilateral deal between Canada and the U.S. would be a better solution than imposing tariffs on Canadian goods.

I'm no fan of Doug Ford, but he's right here. I guess Trump's plan is to drive Canada into the ground economically through tariffs then invade or otherwise annex Canada when it's too poor and desperate to resist. But why? It would be more profitable to both the USA and Canada simply not to do any of this. There are only two explanations I can think of:

  1. Belligerence is the only thing Trump understands, even when it works to his own disadvantage, because actual diplomacy is too complicated for him and soft power contains the word "soft", and/or
  2. Trump isn't working for the interests of the USA, but rather for those who want to see NATO and other Western alliances destroyed.
[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I don't think Canadians would have a problem with taking on Minnesota.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

They just keep voting for him, or not voting against him. Get it together Ontario!

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