By itself no, but employment absolutely is compatible with infiltration. In fact, it doesn’t even have to be a foreign-state actor, or even a witting party (e.g. clicking on stuff in spam mail). See: insider threat, and data exfiltration.

society would at least partially collapse.

I don’t know who is saying these things, but I find that highly unlikely. At worst, this would require the arrest of a good chunk of aristocracy, the wealthy, politically well-connected… basically people on top. There’s always people willing to take their place, good, bad, and ugly. So it’s not like everyone would be stuck without functioning government or social services, at any point here.

Considering where the world is right now, I’m okay with rolling those dice.

I’ve seen this. You’ll get a video recommendation that is technically on two channels at once, and you may be subscribed to only one of them. This may be particularly annoying if you’ve deliberately not subscribed to the other guy featured in the video.

Not only that, but the US Military runs on state-of-the-art logistics. This means that military equipment can, and often is, incredibly high maintenance because you’re never far from a base that always has everything you need to keep it operational. In this environment, there’s no need to make anything super robust and reliable, so… they don’t.

How state-of-the-art are we talking? Well, let me introduce you to forward-deployed Burger King.

Every time.

I have left this as an exercise for the reader.

Fixed:

I’m no fan of this man, but is this the actual moment? If so, I don’t think we should be posting snuff content.

I try to look at it from the standpoint of critical mass. We’re well past the observation that a bunch of people are working overtime battling dissonance, juggling an ever-growing schedule of contradictory information. It’s frustrating that the dam doesn’t break sooner, but eventually, it will break. If not for this shred of news, then for the next one, or the one after that. Eventually.

I’m with you on “slam” and any other pseudo-violent verb to make an otherwise milquetoast headline more attention-grabbing.

What really gets me is when it is applied to the mildest of vocal objections by some politician. Like, it’s not even clever wordplay, just dissent. None of this is worthy of the same vocabulary one would use to describe a WWE match, but here we are.

Sometimes, the news is kind of dull, and that’s okay.

I’m on this bandwagon, more or less. 12 months ago I was certainly fearing some kind of gestapo, only in the form of the proud boys and other terrorist groups that were breaking bread with trump the first time around. What I couldn’t puzzle together was how those assholes would mange to mimic legit police and military, in order to have the optics to operate freely.

What I didn’t expect was the whitehouse weaponizing the lowest-empathy-with-guns facet of the executive branch, all the while mimicking terrorist thugs in order to operate with maximum friction instead.

taking the best parts from other nations.

To be fair, it’s what we do best. There’s simply nothing more American.

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Many of the passages are longer than 600 yards (550 meters) and tall enough for an adult to walk through without bending.

Checks out.

I cannot overstate the impact the mid-nineties had on GPAs across the board.

This picture doesn’t even show the full depth and breadth of the PC market at the time. Arcades had some strong offerings at this time, too.

It helps to live in a place where most people do work like this. It’s more culturally acceptable to simply not ask in the first place.

I’d go as far as to say that it’s so ingrained in some folks, that it’s a dead giveaway what they’re up to based on whether or not they ask you what you do for a living.

Was this before actual hard disk drives became popular?

Real answer: yes, but also no. Depends on context.

Professionally, proper hard-disks go back before 8" floppies, let alone the 5.25" and their stiffer 3.5" counterparts. But those drives were comically oversized appliances (like rack-mount and even mini-fridge sized) compared to the stuff we have now.

For home-gamers, PCS have shipped with all three floppy formats shown above, at different times. Hard Drives start showing up for IBM PCs after they miniaturize to fit in the 5.25" drive bay form-factor. But all that’s just before the invention of the 3.5" floppy, and well ahead of it’s popularity as something that comes standard.

I was thinking the same thing. It should have at least morphed into an SD card by now.

But we do have a QA department. I’ll leave it to the reader to decide if that’s humane or not.

Fack.

I want off Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride already.

Honestly, a Japanese-style capsule hotel and net cafe would probably do very well in a university environment.

Granted, that’s still charging people for homelessness, which doesn’t help any of the underlying problems. It’s just slightly less dystopian since it’s cheap.