I don’t think so. No one higher up quite understood the severity, even after the ransom event. I kind of established the impression that not-for-profit c-suites are full of the leftovers. If they were any good, they’d be elsewhere earning much more.

Last organisation I worked for—not for profit, health—had around 17,500 employees. One of the cybersecurity managers had every employees details and devices on a Google Sheet private account that anyone could see if they had the share URL.

Home addresses, phone numbers, MAC addresses, IMEIs, columns of PII…

I started getting all sorts of unsolicited contact and 2-step authentication alerts “randomly” after two months there and 8 months later rEvil successfully ransomwared for $3.4M.

So when I found this sheet and no one took it seriously, I declared an internal data breach, submitted it to the fed—as you legally must in this country—and shit hit the fan for that department.

You got the rawdog, mate! Congo rats.

That’s three paragraphs of “I took this serious.”

What of any of that has to do with anything that’s been said by anyone? What the fuck are you smoking? Are you hallucinating words and trying to communicate back?

I just think they’re obsessed. Everything’s gotta be about Trump.

Probably hides a photo of him under their pillow for those moments no one’s looking.

When a cheap shot is so bad it doesn’t even have a connection.

“Some facts about Obama.”

“You must like Trump!”

I struggle to understand what modern insurance companies actually exist for, apart from money people donating money to them for nothing in return.

Europe needs to step up their game.

They are. They know where this is headed. Whoever comes after Trump will need to play catch up and kiss a lot of ass. Europe is starting to take the steps forward without the US by their side as it’s becoming clear it could be an option.

That does not bode well for the US’s long-term future; neither having a seat at the table nor for their economy.

We might be starting to see them reset back to pre-WW economic boom. Europe was just fine without them before and if they no longer want to offer the thing that boosted their economy back then, then nations will move on and economics will adjust over a couple decades.

Everything the US offers is available elsewhere and with alternative paths. Their military and intelligence has always been their bargaining chip—well, it was England’s intelligence, but they gave it all over to the US and trained them as payment for assisting on the Western Front of WW2. Along with some territories…

Point is, in very simple terms. Imagine the world without the US; now imagine the US without the world.

I think a lot of modern day Americans don’t understand how dependent on globalisation they are. To start losing stability there could be like watching a breeze hit a house of cards.

The US saying, “I’m sorry I turned my back. Please forgive me.” is a lot more likely than all of Europe and some more nations saying, “We need you. Please don’t go.”

And if there’s one thing Europe has gotten good at over a history extending far beyond US history, it’s working as a powerful single organism. Their only notable conflicts—in context—are when they’re responding to or revolting against one to two tyrants that got too cocky, like a cancer trying to destroy the rest. They’re used to checking tall poppey syndrome, whether it red, purple, or in this case, orange.

Europe won’t let Ukraine fall and the US will be in the history books as the powerful entity that ran away. They haven’t won a war since helping out in Europe over half a century ago anyway.

You are so indoctrinated it’s pointless. Even hypotheticals are for realises at this level. Enjoy your society. You’ve made it what it is.

“Nah, eight words in, I think I’ve got enough here to unload my insecurities without it seeming at all irrelevant to the full comment. In fact, I’m so confident I have the full context, I’ll include a full-stop there in the quote. The words immediately after were probably useless. There! Now, time to finish it off with a ‘If you think…’ retort that will definitely be on point and worth everyone’s time.”

Wishing on a star?

Why not?!

spits into wine spittoon

Because I didn’t do this 90 min online wine-tasting course developed by a renowned French vitic-… viticultur-… viticulturalogoligst to drink…whatever this is!

spits into spittoon

I bet you don’t even know the difference between a reelsling and a saving blonk! When has art ever been ascertained with wine?

spits in spittoon (but it was always only ever an empty Nesquik can)

My current shower is like this, especially in winter.

Water as cold as a nebula

tweaks hot faucet a millimetre clockwise

SATAN’S PISS!!!

“You don’t have to admit you were wrong”

🤣

What an opener to appeal for unity, Jesus fucking Christ.

The American Left and Right are indistinguishable people apart from political views.

Imagine what y’all could achieve if the circlerks were united as one big fucking circlejerk. That’s what Putin is blocking because GAWD DAMN was it effective in the last century.

But if unity can’t be started until someone admits something they don’t believe… Cool. Enjoy the dying years of your country, furled by stubbornness above all else.

I reiterate; The American Left and Right are indistinguishable people. Shouldn’t that mean something for common ground sake? Shake fucking hands ffs

There are small phones. There’s more small phones than big phones. And I have big thumbs so stop whinging about the minority.

Edit: Omg I just lost to clickbait. FUCK.

This happened to me as a very young kid (6 maybe?) in the early 90s. All my school friends got sick from the party. Apart from the itching and sore throat, I remember just playing with Lego for a few days instead of going to school and it was great.

One of the dads (neighbour) got it and had to stay at the hospital for a few days.

I think this a lot.

But, quite ironically, I think it’ll be what kills us all so it never really went away.

Yeah, I switched to bicycle for a guaranteed 30-35 min commute each day. Just flew passed traffic and the bikeways were heavily used the closer you got to the city and all the networks merge into major arteries. So fast, so healthy, got time back in my day too.

Some days I’d sit in my car for 90 mins, just to travel 13 km. Gd I was dumb… The fuel, the lost time, the wear on the car, just losing every way by choice lol

More power to them. And you did what you’re meant to do on the internet, “I don’t like that” leave and move on. Thinking about it and justifying yourself is a bit weird.