I don’t know why everyone doesn’t do what I did.

1. Your setup is fucking insane, and I mean that in a good way. As someone who ran a small team focused on security and who entertained more than one “I totally sploited our OS/let me show you how we suck today so we can fix it” conversations with dizzyingly smart zealots, this setup has excellent layering and coverage. Well fucking done.

2. Cost. The same people who say “I’m on a pension so they can’t steal much from me” without realizing their retirement savings and credit rating are the golden fucking goose, also won’t see the benefits to such a cost in capital and setup labour. They won’t do it, and they’ll see us as nutcases until the leopards have eaten their face.

It ‘worked’ for Mr Putin.

There is learning here.

As companies, we put faith in an external entity with goals not identical to our own: a lot of faith, and a lot of control.

That company had the power to destroy our businesses, cripple travel and medicine and our courts, and delay daily work that could include some timely and critical tasks.

This is not crowdstrike’s fault; for the bad code yes, but for the indirect effects of that no. We knew - please tell me we had the brains god gave a gnat and we knew - that putting so much control in the hands of outsiders not concerned or aware of our detailed needs and priorities, was a negligent and foolish thing to do.

The lesson is to do our jobs: we need to ensure we have the ability to make the decisions to which were entrusted, and the power that authority gives us that our decisions when accepted are not threatened by a negligent mistake so boneheaded it’s all but the whim of a simpleton. We cannot choose to manage our part of our organization effectively, no matter how (un)important that organization or part is, and then share control with a force that we’ve seen can run roughshod over it.

It’s exactly like the leopards eating our face, except people didn’t see they were leopards. No one blames the leopards, as they’re just confirming to their nature, eventually.

And no one should blame this company for a small mistake, just because we let the jaws get so close to our faces that we became complacent.

Yes. English is evolved by whatever’s popular, ergo whatever the cool kids are doing. They’re actually going to make ‘fetch’ happen because there’s no one driving this crazy short bus; just a bunch of cheerleaders on the roof and influencers tasting the back windows.

This is Webster, named after the guy who butchered English for fun and fame? It’s like dunning-kruger became a linguistic architect.

It’s not only okay not to pluralize with an apostrophe, ever, but as a bonus it makes what you wrote into English.

principled republicans of yore

Is that before all the GoP and DNC switched sides over slavery?

For the millionth time: every time they’ve done it before, they lost in a landslide. NOT stepping aside is the marginally better play.

I love how you skip the part where Congress blocked everything the SCotUS didn’t. That’s so efficient.

Generalizations are neat. Sorry you hate Bernie Sanders.