Adam Curtis’s Hypernormalisation. It is a documentary and does a painful job of examining reality. I was vaguely unsettled before seeing it and after seeing it I have a specific vocabulary and lens through which I perceive current events. I feel helpless to this day. Free on YouTube:
I remembered you want non documentaries, so I will add Basketball Diaries. DiCaprio film about a talented young basketball player ruining his life through drug addiction.
It is not just the people dying who suffer. I had shoulder surgery, and need physical therapy. I have used up the thirty visits my insurance covers. I still have chronic pain and range of motion limitations. I do the exercises at home, but the therapists would do manipulations and supervise progress when I was able to go. I probably won’t ever fully recover.
Idiots in charge still oppose socialized medicine. I’d like them all to bleed out from an untreatable hemorrhoid infection.
My pacifist grandfather served in the US army medical Corp in both WW2 and Korea. He saw some of the worst aspects of both of those conflicts, particularly Korea. I don’t think anyone would think that he was helping the Nazis by treating the wounded.
Then you realize that you have duplicated the failure in a post fix version.
Regurgitated from a statistical amalgamation of our old Stack Overflow posts…
Dead Internet is a thing for a reason. :(
It is ridiculous. I am interviewing for embedded systems development where we frequently write to specific bits in a register. I am sure these kids have had to learn something, but I can’t figure out a polite way to ask them to give me some examples of what.
I wish it was a joke. Maybe they were deliberately getting the answer wrong to waste our time, but the body language was not consistent with someone fucking with me.
My company probably doesn’t get the best candidates (defense contractor that pays somewhat less than market rate), but yeah.
Two nibbles is an acceptable answer.
We have been interviewing for entry level positions and the new grads know less than ever before. I don’t really care what they know, I am looking for evidence that they can think, but I usually ease them into thinking scenarios by asking easy foundational questions like how many bits in a byte. You would think I was asking for them to explain the Shrodinger wave equations… One candidate was waivering between 13 and 17…
Helium is my current choice.
On top of all of the obvious stupidity with the statue, it is a terrible rendition. Not fat enough. No comb over. The face is not orange. The diaper is missing.
My Gen Alpha kid refuses to learn when I offer to teach him. I am not going to force him to become technologically literate. (I’m Gen X and write software professionally). Maybe it’s my fault because my teaching style is incompatible with his learning style? He won’t accept my offers to send him to classes either.
The big concern is probably a decline in number of wage slaves. Children of teenage single moms are probably the best demographic for enslavement.
Next they will be decrying the decline in crime because it will harm the prison industrial complex. “We need more cops to arrest more people to keep us safe (from underpopulated prisons).”
And when you reverse destination and source when using the dd command, you learn an important lesson, “the disk destroyer” nickname is legit.
H.264 came out in 2003. Shouldn’t the patents associated with it have expired by now? 23 years is more than 20 years from the filing date or else the codec’s release itself is prior art. The 17 years from issuance rule ended in 1995. I don’t think they can have any Lemelson style submarine patents that are still valid.
Cat got your tongue?
Ooowww
Try to address any medical issues as best as possible now.