[-] ploot 2 points 4 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 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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 3 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] ploot 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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 1 points 11 hours ago

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 4 points 11 hours 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 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Charlie Kirk, a key Trump ally who joined Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., on a trip to Greenland this week, argued on his podcast Wednesday that it was imperative for the U.S. to control Greenland ... “It is the resurrection of masculine American energy. It is the return of Manifest Destiny,” said Kirk (Source)

These fucking people. It's really men like this, with their idiotic ideas of masculinity, who make the world as miserable as it is.

[-] ploot 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Apart from the whole being part of the USA thing. That's insane. I just hope Canada's right wing are not so craven as to want to sell out their country, but I don't trust them.

[-] ploot 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours 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 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] ploot 2 points 1 day ago

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

[-] ploot 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The clue is in the term "Human Resources". I can't believe people just accept the existence of this phrase.

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