I say weird shit and half the time I actually believe it.

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  • bizarroland@fedia.ioto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRural politics rule
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    10 months ago

    Meh. There is always an attribute of selling out when it comes to popular music and that includes rebel country music from the sixties and seventies.

    I’m not holding it against them. I’m just saying that even if one of the four horsemen are your country music idols, that doesn’t mean that it’s okay to delude yourself into thinking that they were not mainstream products meant for mass consumption.

    If it were more profitable to take the same stance then as it is today, then that is the stance they would have taken or else you would have never heard of them.




  • I am IT staff and I’ve worked for government in the past.

    No matter how easy you make the swap over, no matter how much money it offers to save, there’s gonna be somebody who has sign off level executive authority who will refuse to change anything, because it means changing something, and they won’t like it.

    Making a company-wide transition from Microsoft to a free version that does exactly the same is not a simple change.

    If you make the change, you’re going to see a huge upswing in the number of support calls. You’re going to see a huge upswing in the number of complaints. You’re going to see downturns in efficiency and productivity as people make the changes, not to mention the fact that administering libreoffice from an organizational standpoint is a completely different beast from administering office.

    I’m not saying that it can’t be done, by any stretch of the imagination.

    I’m saying that the human element is the largest factor in whether or not it would be done, and unless you are already the city administrator or a big to-do inside of the fish pond you find yourself in, you likely do not have the human capital needed to make the transition, regardless of every other benefit.

    If you want to get this done, I would suggest preemptively installing libre office on every single computer in the entire organization and then slowly telling people to use it as the opportunity arises so that three to five years from now there will be enough people who have used it that the transition would not be a huge ordeal.

    Short of that you need to have an executive mandate from on high come in and say, we are not using Microsoft Office anymore, we will use LibreOffice, here are your training hours, go.



  • It’s more like conservation of karma. You get a thing you wanted at a price you weren’t prepared to pay.

    Trying to follow those guidelines, I would guess the list would be something more like:

    1: Nothing changes, the only difference is that if you would otherwise put on more body fat than you currently have, the excess fat gets turned to horrible uncontrollable diarrhea that hits with no warning, so now you have to be on a diet for the rest of your life or else you’ll shit yourself in public.

    2: Has to spend the rest of your life eating more than you burn as any weight you lose would be permanently lost, which will eventually kill you unless something else kills you first. This is computed by your original weight, so even if you would be fine with 800 calories, you must consume your current maintenance calories every day for the rest of your life. (See: Steven King’s Thinner)

    3: You are unable to purchase anything. Every transaction fails. If people do not feed you out of the kindness of their hearts, or failing that, you are unable to barter for goods and services, you will die of hunger and exposure to the elements.

    4: You get 5cm taller. People start telling you how much they liked you the way you were and that they feel lesser about you now that you’re taller. The new people you meet often comment on how hot/sexy/great/beautiful you would be if only you were a little bit shorter.

    5: You become super strong but your bones and tendons can’t keep up. Using your super strength is pussyfooting with permanent disability.

    6: No, yours is right. “you can not feel anything but happiness - no pain, anger, sadness, nothing but joy” Banger. Spot on. No Notes.

    7: Have many followers would be worse if it was just a cult of people who follow you everywhere you go. The only time you can be alone is in your own home, until they realize they can just break in.

    8: Forget your ex lover but they forget you too. You eternal sunshine of the spotless mind each other

    9: A lot of money but the people you love die. <- This was one of the original monkey’s paws, iirc.