https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Black reports that every Nazi concentration camp maintained its own Hollerith-Abteilung (Hollerith Department), assigned with keeping tabs on inmates through use of IBM’s punchcard technology.[2]: 351  In his book, Black charges that “without IBM’s machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler’s camps could have never managed the numbers they did.”[2]: 352

Snapper saved my ass so hard last night! I’ve tried all the other major distros and TW is where I stayed.

IBM sold “inmate” counting machines to Nazi Germany. Like, sent techs there to the camps to size up the requirements and everything. It should NOT come as a surprise that they’re back on X - they’ve never had an issue with Fascism (or any other ism) as long as they had money to spend on overpriced iron.

In Canada. If I get canned my severance is 1.5 years salary. (Based on length of emplyment.) It’s even better in Europe. It’s what happens when a country doesn’t flipflop between two right wing parties and actually has a party focused on the working class.

Omg, that’s hilarious!

Exactly. Always wondered what he was thinking the second time, lol!

Worked at IBM. Co-worker was in the datacenter, saw a bluescreened machine, and rebooted it. Much chaos ensued. Machine was part of a stability testing project, team running it was OTW to the DC to look at the machine, and were very confused when they arrived that it was running. “Helpful guy” was chastised, given a warning about touching machines that weren’t his responsibility.

Two weeks later. Same guy. Same machine. Same bluescreen. Guess what he did? He rebooted it. Again.

Walked to the door that day.

Yup. Morons who didn’t vote for Harris “because genocide” now get to watch Trump cut Bibi a blank cheque. Genocide will accelerate. Good job, morons.

If you didn’t vote Harris because of genocide then you’re a fucking moron. Trump is just going to cut Bibi a blank cheque to pave Palestine with bodies and then move on to Iran. Good job choosing the greater of two evils!

But go ahead and pat yourself on the back for staying home.

Sounds like gramma and grampa voted Trump, so maybe next time they’ll make better choices. It’s too late, of course, but that’s the bed they made.

Do we need AI for this? It’s already super easy to tell fake news from real.

Is it on BBC/CBC/Routers/AP? It’s probably real.

Is it on Forbes/Facebook/Xitter? It’s probably garbage.

Doctorow is a gem. Great article, thanks for posting. I basically agreed with everything he said.

I ate your bees!

They don’t care if we want it. They want the info it’ll give them. This isn’t for us, it’s for them.

Yup, that’s what we do as well. 30tb of music, TV, and movies. All available to me and my friends wherever we are.

Though true, doesn’t answer the asked question in any way. You still get to choose between shitty and fucking horrific AND shitty. So why abstain?

Great reviews, thanks! Never heard of this pack but now I’m about to go buy it!

Gimme gimme gimme!!!

Well that’s disheartening. Can’t believe that many people prefer a racist con man to a competent woman.

Thanks, but no thanks. :)