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I work for a massive multinational, and we are absolutely fucked right now. Literally thousands of people that basically just can’t work because email and Teams aren’t reliably doing anything.

Time once again to trot out Roy Cohn’s monologue from Angels in America:

Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels: “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian.” You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me?

why does she keep trying to be their friend?

Money. Look at what happened in the Montana Senate race this year: a mysterious SuperPAC poured infinite money into getting Alani Bankhead through the primary over several other, more popular candidates. The Democratic leadership then encouraged her to drop out because they figured that while deep-red Montana would never elect a Democrat, they could get Seth Bodnar in as an independent who would caucus with the Dems. So dark money got Bankhead through the primary, immediately vanished, and split the vote so that the Republican won with only 48% of the vote.

Being able to dump infinite money into a primary means that, if you don’t play ball, the neolibs will keep you from office by any means necessary.

That’s why you can only get a sunburn if your eyes are open, right?

The looking is not what kills you there.

Ditched out of work early to go home and watch Degrassi reruns FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

I really need to get into grifting. It seems very profitable.

Are you kidding? For Fox and Friends, the powerful message will be how effective the Dems rigged the election, and why none of them should be allowed to be sworn into congress. There are no teachable moments for the wilfully ignorant.

And this isn’t even a crazy new idea. I remember houses being built with geothermal climate control back in the '90s.

I hope this is a learning experience and they beef-up their systems

I hope this is a learning experience and they realize that commercial refrigerators don’t need to have internet access.