Re: Yet Another New systemd Feature

On 12/05/2024 21:48, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 12 May 2024 19:21:33 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

Fox news? no one believes them EITHER

 Your ex-Dictator Trump used to be quite fond of them. Are they PNG now?

*My* ex dictator? What on earth makes you think I am from the USA?
US politics from this distance is a Tom and Jerry show.
The sober sincere Oh so plausible Barratt O'Barmy, appealing to the people who think they know, and are adult, responsible and in touch *because they read the Washington Post*, and the raffish irresponsible Big Fart, who appeals to people who know what they know because it is part of their daily lives, and don't give a rats arse for what they don't know, because they have discovered a fundamental truth about human nature:
Bullshit Baffles *Brains*.
But simple people are immune. They know they are not geniuses, and they assume everyone with brains is pulling the wool over their eyes.
They loved Big Fart, because he gaslit the gaslighters. Who assumed that he was in fact serious, concerned and responsible,
Over here we have a different problem, as the two political parties of major note have been described correctly as two cheeks of the same arse. By a populist using the Muslim vote to get elected.  But at least it splits the party into more factions.
Politics is the war of the bullshitters, to see whose bullshit has more traction.
Generally by focussing on the utterly irrelevant and letting really serious issues go unnoticed, to be dealt with by the bureaucracy. Trouble is the bureaucracies are now riddled with incompetent Art Students™ as well.
So no one is addressing the real problems at all.
Or are doing it in a naive and counter productive way.
Hit overpopulation by promoting alternative sexuality with a straight face.
Hit the energy crisis by promoting 'climate change' and 'renewable energy' because it sounds cool to idiots, but doesnt' work.
The real problem is that the youth of today have not been educated, but indoctrinated into believing in Big Bureaucracy, so they have become de facto communists without realising it.
Unfortunately Big Bureaucracy is a lumbering brute of a system and is incapable of either responding to change quickly, or doing more than protect itself.
And people realise this. Hence the rise of so called 'populism,' which is no more and no less a realisation that the Big Bureaucrats have fucked things up royally and the suspicion that even a Great Fart couldn't do a worse job. Plus a lingering resentment at being called 'deplorable' by some rich bitch cunt of a person who has never had to deal with real life.
*shrug*. May the worst man win. UK and USA have never seen a worse set of candidates or a worse level of bureaucratic incompetence. My suspicions is that Big Bureacracy has given up in even attempting to protect the nation and is only intent on protecting itself.
It's lose lose whichever way you look.
Que sera sera....
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"What kind of person is not interested in those things?"
"Jeremy Corbyn?"