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Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•RFK Jr cut off dead raccoon's penis on family vacation 'to study later'English
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    9 days ago

    Don’t forget Al “I invented the Internet” Gore. What actually happened was: Al Gore as a young senator was shown ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. He then wrote the High Performance Computing Act of 1991 which led to the creation of the Internet as we know it today. During the 2000 presidential election cycle, he gave an interview in which he stated that he “took the initiative in creating the Internet” – a perfectly reasonable claim that went unremarked upon at the time. Months later, Bush advisor Karl Rove dug up the interview and orchestrated a smear campaign through which Gore was supposed to have claimed to have “invented the Internet” and the rest is history.

    Democrats do not sabotage their careers by yelling weirdly or being photographed with their tiny heads sticking out of tanks. They are assassinated (just politically, usually) by a savage and ruthless enemy.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routersEnglish
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    1 month ago

    My small (~100 employee) company that had nothing to with hardware got bought by a somewhat larger (~1500) mostly-Finnish company that was sort of a competitor with the much larger Cisco. Cisco bought that company and six months later laid off all of us except the C-suite types. I occasionally still talk to my manager who is still with Cisco and he says everyone he interacts with there is so far removed from any consideration of products or profits or that sort of thing that it never even comes up in casual conversation. I asked him what he actually does now and he said “I have no idea”.

    My favorite memory of that six months was the mandatory security training, which consisted of a series of badly-animated shorts featuring talking bears and a narrator who was clearly ready to kill himself over having to say “personally-identifiable information” over and over and over again.