“What if we abandon siding with one authoritarian and side with a different authoritarian” is not the good argument you seem to think it is.

Murica, land of the free, was founded by people who owned slaves. While speaking about the evils of slavery.

So the madness was always there.

Even more of a reason then… but it’s not true, so it’s moot.

Gotcha.

I could totally believe Microsoft did some kind of stupid deal with LinkedIn.

It was news to me. But then I haven’t used Windows more than trivially in years.

Gives me even less of a reason now.

Gen-X here. We had to figure out acoustic modems and we didn’t have internet, we had local BBSes.

We also had to figure out the C-64.

LOAD “$”,8,1
LIST
LOAD “WHATEVER”,8
RUN

You don’t already?

Do you even want that IT job?

You’re fooling yourself. They were living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working class dinosaurs…

Just because T-Rex has those little arms didn’t mean it wasn’t good at typing!

I really wish I could get this across to the FuckCars people in countries other than the U.S.

I just moved from Terre Haute, Indiana in the U.S. to Blackburn in England. The fact that virtually everything you need is within a half-hour walk, most of it much less, cannot be overstated. It’s just not like that in the U.S. Terre Haute has something like 40% the population of Blackburn and driving from one end of town to another, and the shops are spread out all over town, takes 45 minutes.

Telstar.

That’s horrible! I’m so sorry to hear that! I feel bad enough for the elderly women I see going up the stairs, but at least they can get to their flat!

Unfortunately, I am subletting through VRBO (kind of like AirBnB) so this is not my fight, but I am pretty upset on behalf of the building’s residents.

Racist countries (like Britain can very much be unfortunately) also don’t give a shit what a building full of immigrants want.

“Second year in a row when fasting during HOLY MONTH that we will be climbing this mountain! This is slow poisoning!”

Blackburn is 30% Muslim and, just based on what I have seen of the people in this building, a lot more than 30% of them are Muslim. I don’t normally give a shit about religion in general, but these people feel like it’s their duty to fast and this really is something that could be done to help them. Especially since I see parents carrying prams up the stairs.

I have and am, thank you. Not just in my area. I spent the weekend contacting every recruiter in the UK I could find that would help me. It’s taken a while to do something that active because I’ve been getting settled and dealing with basic stuff, bureaucracy, etc. But I did get a couple of calls later in the day yesterday from recruiters, so that’s a positive.

That is a possibility I hadn’t considered.

That would be me. Thank you.

I probably shouldn’t be doing as lowball an offer as possible, but I’m getting pretty anxious about getting a job because time is trickling away, as is money.