My head-canon here is that time in the Star Wars universe is measured by something smaller than human (earthling) scale. Like if Coruscant has a 90-day year, or some short-lived species had an outsized influence on measuring time and/or standardized the galaxy’s calendar. Or maybe humans are one of the most long-lived species around. So, one or two human generations works out to be “a long time ago.”
because we spent all of the wired rollout grants/funding on bullshit.
Oh, it’s worse than that. The grant money was the wrong party color, so it had to be disposed of rather than lead to a positive outcome.
Of course the real problem is when someone in the change swaps out from a benevolent manager to dick :)
Had this happen with a VP seat. The resignations that followed made the office look like ground-zero for an extinction-level event.
Most companies are politically fiefdoms of a sort. This is by design. You’re completely dependent on the benevolence of the management chain above you. This also explains why decadent or malicious management is nearly impossible to overcome without resorting to involving lawyers.
There’s a few that come close. This situation is about as bad as the more milquetoast vault outcomes: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_known_Vaults
Ya’ll gonna let your selves get outdone by Iceland?
I’ve seen, firsthand, how Icelanders group up and solve problems together as a unit. They have a cultural tradition of outdoing other cultures, because of this.
It’s a legacy we inherited from the cold war. Half the time, Fox News is speaking to Boomers and older gen-X, all of whom grew up and/or lived under the shadow of thermonuclear war and the looming threat of “Communism” (USSR). Nevermind that’s all passe, the propaganda still echoes in their ears and can be recalled in an instant by uttering that one trigger word.
To be fair, Sweden’s prison system is more progressive than the non-imprisoned experience in some countries.
I agree with the sentiment, but were prisoners able to vote, prisons would get gerrymandered to hell and back. That said, they should still be able to.
Didn’t Pablo Escobar have this problem too?
Glad you enjoyed it.
Relevant: When your house is haunted but the rent is cheap.
Not only is this a solid horror send-up of a sort, but it also speaks to everyone that has ever rented/bought a crappy house and developed a skill-set around making that work.
Further failure domain segmentaion.
If we add unstable governments or government interference to that list of possible disasters, it starts to make a little sense.
Maybe? Probably? For all I know, a solar-sail effect might help it stay in orbit.
Those only solve for gravity, or not having to pay for fuel to keep things in orbit. Other heavenly bodies are further away, so latency becomes a big problem, followed by exponentially more power to transmit (radio) in order to maintain the same bandwidth. That and cooling: the possible candidates range from as bad as orbit to worse and much worse, all with increasing latency and power needs to boot.
Overall, even the in-orbit version is a bad idea.
What’s sad is that Stanley did a remarkable job of putting a vacuum flask in the literal hands of millions of Americans. It shouldn’t be hard at all for everyone to figure out why this is the case, but here we are.
That or they read Neuromancer and came away with all the wrong lessons in their head.
What’s crazy is that I read “economic individualism” and immediately think of solar power, composting toilets, salvaged building materials, minimal new construction - basically all the eco-hippie-shit they rail against.
No need for a full pizza. I drink that. Pickled jalapeno, and the brine it comes in, is an amazing when added to pineapple juice.
The article mentions that the datacenter is run by a 3rd party. I’m not arguing to absolve Meta here, but I think this is a classic case of diffusion of responsibility. The more contractors and subcontractors that get involved in stuff like this, the more these kinds of problems crop up.