but the old man at the dog park who only watches fox news isnt inherently evil

I’m sorry but no.

You have the die-hard racist MAGAs with the flags and the red cap. Those can fuck right off obviously.

But you also have all the ordinary folks who are NOT die-hard MAGA, but who decided that it was okay to vote for a convicted felon who tried to overthrow the government. And guess what: in a sense, they’re even worse.

Voting for Trump is crossing a line. If you voted for Trump, I really don’t want anything to do with you because you have proved to me that your sense of morality and your respect for the institutions of this country are compromised.

I do yes - VPN. I won’t next month though.

if you disavow every company contributing to the republican party/trump you might as well sell all your belongs, and learn to live off grid. no internet access, no power, no retail.

As much as possible, I will take my business to companies that aren’t openly terrible.

we just dont live in a black and white world

Tell that to the orange utan. He sure is about to turn the word from RGB to 1-pixel color space.

Do you really think I want to split people into people I can talk to vs. people I want to avoid at all costs? Trump is doing that. He’s forcing shitty choices on everybody. I’d rather have constructive and peaceful interaction with my fellow man. But can you honestly shake hands with a magard and not feel sick to your stomach? I can’t.

Let’s not get carried away. The scope of the comment is pretty narrow if you read it closely

The only thing I want to hear from you is that you actively disavow Trump, or if you feel this is going to hurt your business, at least say nothing at all. Anything other than that marks you as a shameless suck-up, and I want nothing to do with you or your business.

Ergo, I want nothing to do with Proton. It’s time suck-ups pay the price and see their bottom lines drop because of their dubious choices.

Oh well. Another scratch on my list of companies I’ll never patronize.

It’s cash that corporations and wealthy donors could just as easily have funneled into social projects. Remember that next time you read how much their community matters in their next press release, or some obscenely rich fucks struts around and boasts about their latest philanthropic pet projects to evade taxes.

Just sayin, if you were wondering where that taste of sick in your mouth comes from.

Any hint of any of those things or the complete and obvious incompetence of a TV talking head to run the largest military the world has ever seen would have been disqualifying in the past - let alone ALL of them in one guy.

Trump and his cronies aren’t the problem. I’m utterly convinced the real problem is that Americans are simply not right in the head. In no normal society would any of this ever be happening.

Yeah I do that too. It’s still a PITA though.

Isn’t it the same as tuning?

Although it’s unclear what tuning is because it depends on who says it:

• It does mean doing modifications to a vehicle for actual performance improvements
• It’s used extensively by ricers to describe themselves and their hobby and they think it’s a positive term
• It’s used extensively by people who dislike ricing and most definitely as a derogatory term

Yet for all its faults, I believe that’s the closest word to ricing you’ll find that is universally understood, neutral and isn’t rendered hopelessly bland and meaningless by the process of political correctness newspeak.

I can definitely see how it’d be annoying because your team is comprised of experts.

Yeah but… Define expert.

My grandchildren know more than what those KnowBe4 slides teach. The cleaning ladies who come twice a week are probably more astute when they receive phishing emails. The only people I can think of who might benefit are employees who are very close to retirement, who don’t normally work with computers and who are very uncomfortable with technology, and that raises the question: if they made it so far without computers, why would you teach them about computers now?

I’m not against online training. I can see the potential. But the training sessions we’ve had to suffer through for the past 3 years wouldn’t be out of place in a mental institution for children. They are seriously, seriously dumb.

I have to believe there are levels of expertise that KnowBe4 can provide, because all their material can’t be that dumb, and that somehow we’ve only been exposed to the bottom of the barrel. But then I totally fail to see why our management would have chosen those courses over something more useful for us specifically.

Lead the way…

Perish the thought!

I’m convinced members of congress consistently outperform the market because of their superior intelligence. After all, we elected them, so by definition they’re the best of us. Right?

sounds like you are not the actual target audience.

Neither is our entire company then. We’re a small outfit producing high-tech optoelectronic products, and even the least qualified worker in the assembly line works with computers in clean rooms all day long and has a 2-year degree. There is literally nobody in our company who’s the target audience for KnowBe4’s particular brand of training for the mentally feeble: the company buys KnowBe4 training solely for compliance.

it also generates a list of idiots who work for you when they consistently fail. also worth it.

I didn’t consider the use of KnowBe4 from that angle 🙂 Interesting.

Oh well what a surprise… KnowBe4 confirms that the bullshit corporate “training” KnowBe4 sells is effective. Color me surprised…

If you don’t know KnowBe4, here’s a perspective from yours truly who works in a company that inflicts it on its employees:

Basically, once every few weeks, you’re supposed to hit KnowBe4’s website and follow a “training” module. It can be anything from data security, how not to get phished, workplace security…

So you go to that website and you’re forced to watch videos after videos of really dumb, really obvious shit on the subject at hands, created by marketdroids who really cranked up the corporate-speak volume to 11. It’s maddeningly stupid and you really want to skip through it because it’s so damn obvious and infuriating, but you can’t! If you do, you fail the module. But you can fast-forward it and put it in the background at least.

Then it pops a multiple choice question about the really obvious video you just (didn’t) watch. Again, with really stupid obvious answers. You’re supposed to select the right answers to show you’ve learned whatever the video talked about. If the video was in the background because you were doing actual, useful stuff instead of wasting your time watching this tripe, remember to answer the questionnaire in time or you fail the module.

Do this a few times, and after 10 to 15 minutes, voila! You have now been trained.

Of course, since you don’t have time for this nonsense and there’s real work to do, you can put off doing it. But after a few months, you’re 10, 12, 15 “trainings” behind and HR starts breathing down your neck. So at some point you relent and spend half a day clearing the backlog of unskippable KnowBe4 training sessions designed for 5 year-olds with a learning disability.

It’s a complete time-waster. It’s long. It teaches you almost nothing of value. It immerses you in a terrible world of bland corporate imagery, fake inclusivity and maddening AI-generated voice-over. It wastes countless man-hours across the entire company that could have been used productively.

But my employer isn’t one for BS. So I got curious at some point and asked my boss why we use KnowBe4, and he finally gave me the key to that particular company’s scam.

He told me: “Well, it’s not really of any value, but it’s the only online training package that’s quick enough and cheap enough to satisfy legal and insurance requirements. So for example, if the insurance company lowers rates if the staff is fire-hazard-aware or threatens to withhold payouts in case of a fire if they were not, we buy a training package from KnowBe4 on the risks of fire and have everybody go through it. It’s cheaper to waste everybody time for a while than risk trouble with the insurance company and it’s cheaper than bringing in actual professional to do an actual training session.”

That’s it. That’s KnowBe4’s entire business model: fake training for compliance.

My advice is this: if you work in a company that doesn’t use KnowBe4, go have a drink to celebrate because you’re one of the lucky ones.

I’m throwing this on the printer tomorrow.

Open-source design, apparently highly functional, actually help folks who need it. What’s not to love!

I’m not sure but apparently some folks find it acceptable.

And I’ve been saying for 23 years that a country that allows that to happen cannot be called a democracy anymore.

The fact that nobody - and I mean literally NO-FUCKING-BODY - even thinks about those men, their ruined lives and that of their families, and that there hasn’t been a demonstration every day about it for the past 23 years in the United States also says a lot about Americans too. And what it says is: as long as my belly is full, that’s all that matters.

You know what would be funny? If Facebook started enforcing a suit-and-tie dress code and fired anyone who showed up with a shitty hawaiian outfit and a gangsta gold chain on the spot.

tunnel collapse

And then what?

Immigrants
DEI
Woke city officials
Trump was right
…

Didn’t the LA fires teach you something?

It’s nice that it’s written black on white by a man of the law. But let me be the first to say:

NO SHIT SHERLOCK!

(Yeah okay, I’m probably not the first…)