The variant I heard as a young man was "Whiskey before beer never fear, beer before whiskey mighty risky"

I've been doing this a lot over the past year and I am now faced with the stark truth that in my former social circle, I'm the only one that has/had a problem with all of this. That's been very hard to come to grips with.

#MAGALogic

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My wife introduced me to 10,000 Maniacs when we were dating. The Unplugged CD was always on heavy rotation in our first apartment and yes, it was a simpler and happier time.

First rat off the ship maybe?

I guess my question as a non poli-sci kid, is how is this not a distinction without a difference as a practical matter? The end result of both is dictatorship, so what difference does it make to the population being oppressed?

I think it's also worth noting that history is written by the winners and right now, Democratic leadership has gone full Surrender Cobra.

Those of us in the blue center most assuredly did NOT!

Yeah, it's never good when a switch comes back up and gets into a slap-fight with its failover over which one is primary. I spend most of my days babysitting a couple of vCenter stacks though. That's a whole different circle of hell.

Rebooting solves a multitude of sins but there's always that ONE server that makes everyone pray to whatever God they hold dear as it comes back up and it's usually Exchange.

The IT Crowd is actually pretty close to the truth when it comes to supporting Enterprise IT.

Like Gen-X is ever going to retire

And in a week, it'll be forgotten and the outrage-industrial complex will have moved on to the next click generator.

A good place to start is EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense site at ssd.eff.org Unfortunately, this is not an easy or quick process and it requires constant monitoring.