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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • The tech reservists will serve for around 120 hours a year. Because of their private-sector status, each will carry the rank of lieutenant colonel.

    There will be other dispensations for the technology officers. They will have more flexibility than the average reservist to work remotely and asynchronously, and will be spared basic training.

    This pisses me off so much and I hope it makes the military livid too. Most people put their heart and soul into the work they do in basic training and officer training and even break into tears when they receive their new rank. These assholes are gonna take a fitness test and become officers?!?












  • I don’t hate advertisements on the whole but the sort of aggressive ways in which advertising is delivered. YT ads can be relevant to you based on data collected about you but it still really feels like an assault to interrupt or preempt a video with an ad that isn’t relevant to the video I’m about to watch.

    The “sponsored content” parts of some videos don’t feel nearly as intrusive or out of place. They’re also easier to ignore. That’s really been the big change to the Internet in my mind. Ads have gotten more obnoxious, obvious, and harder to ignore. In newspapers or magazines we generally got used to the ads and could, for the most part, filter them out. Imagine a magazine where the actual articles were sealed behind the flap of an advert. We’d lose our shit, and that’s how it feels with the Internet for the most part.