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carbon monoxide

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He made her an offer she couldn't refuse

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ok but what if i

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okay. who ate all the pussy, guys. Not Cool.

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tetotetotetotetotetotetotetotetotetotetoteto!!!!!

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seeing a black and white cow is always so damn awesome it’s like Hey i know that guy.from my kindergarten abcs

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i've had this garfield panel saved forever and i even marked in my calendar today as "the monday that wouldn't die" so uh. happy(?) monday the 22nd aka the monday that wouldn't die

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I'm genuinely surprised by how many people are reacting to Biden dropping out like it's the final nail in the coffin of any hope for a Dem win in 2024.

Y'all! no!! this is the best possible turn of events!!! we are celebrating right now!!!!

Biden's chances of winning were slim to none, and everyone's been pushing the Dems to pick a different candidate to improve their chances. The fact that he was so insistent on running despite literally everyone else's wishes was terrifying.

Biden dropping out and endorsing the person who has the actual best chance of winning this thing (afaik anyway) is unquestionably the best possible thing he could have done. It's the best possible thing for improving the chances that Trump will be defeated in this race. And nobody thought it was even realistic to ask for it at this point, because the Dems in general are such conventional Rule Followers; Biden dropping out is practically a fucking miracle, and the vast majority of progressives are incredibly relieved by this news.

celebrate.

(and if you want more info on the "why", I went more in depth here, and added some great resources here.)

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idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.

some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.

so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.

before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'

so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.

this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.

it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.

it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.

another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.

and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.

but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.

crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.

a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.

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BIDEN HAS COVID

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fun for 5 minutes, funny for half an hour, depressing and foreboding as ever for the next forever

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genetically missing teeth and wisdom teeth SUCK

just imagine if it was semi-common to have too many bones or not have enough bones

WHY ARE THEY LIKE THIS

Teeth weak as fuck why can't you be like bones

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Happy 10 years in the ball pit

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me: fuuuuck… i really feel like this dish needs a little something extra …..

the flavorful garlic: