Yep.

When I was in high school, I was upset that I didn't know enough.

When I was in my 30s, I worked hard to fully understand everything.

Now I'm in my 40s and I just assume I'm stupid. I got nothing to prove. If I'm convincing a group that's paying me to explain some tech architecture, sure. But a group of bros who want me to weigh in on why the sky is green, bruh IDGAF sure the sky is green.

I was thinking about this for a while.

I'm very short and direct with people. I've gotten more polite, but like if someone starts to ramble, I politely redirect them back to the focus and to stick to time. It's great at work! Every non-essential thing eats into my work hours.

But I noticed I was doing it with friends too. and I realized how selfish I was becoming to them. Like, I'd cut them off to bring up something I was interested in. And they'd politely listen.

Over the year, I've gotten better at recognizing that fair exchange of time with friends. They can talk about babies, or life. And I can talk about which Pokemon is acceptable to eat.

Weak Kamala, answering questions directly rather than just play music for 40 minutes.

I went to see HR a month ago and they had a post-it of their password for their password manager. We use passkeys too.

And this was after security training.

That was my take too.

Security training was something you know, and something you have.

You know your password, and you have a device that can receive another way to authorize. So you can lose one and not be compromised.

Passkeys just skip that "something you have". So you lose your password manager, and they have both?

Tinfoil hat conspiracy coming up -- the large quantity of layoffs meant security has been tossed aside.

1. Employed engineers not having the bandwidth, resources, time to bake in better security. Literally having to do more with less.

2. Fired engineers may had tribal knowledge on how something worked. Now only God knows.

3. Unemployed engineers are bored engineers. Not saying they did the deed, but maybe they discovered it.

I remember when America believed Donald Trump was playing 4D chess. But then we all watched in horror as he was playing Chutes and Ladder.

My favorite comic on the subject

As firefighters, first responders and public servants, we take a higher oath. We are held to a higher standard of integrity,” said Roger Montgomery Jr., a first responder who worked for Noel from 2005 to 2011. Montgomery said firefighters and paramedics lacked proper equipment under Noel’s command, and that emergency personnel were tasked with driving Noel’s personal “limousines,” sometimes leaving just one firefighter on duty — and “putting citizens’ lives in jeopardy.”

He said, too, that non-emergency transfers were often prioritized over 911 calls because those runs netted “more money” from Medicare and Medicaid.

The disgraced former sheriff additionally admitted to tasking county employees with jobs related to his personal collection of classic cars. At least 40 vehicles were confiscated by law enforcement, including a bevy of classics, such as two 1970 Plymouth Superbirds, a 1959 Corvette, and 1966 and 1968 Chargers, according to search warrant returns.

Via raw story

3 assassination attempts. In what 3 months? And they're all from Republicans.

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