My mid life birthday gift was an electric zero turn mower. Already had all electric yard tools. Will buy Tesla or best option in couple years. Never going to a gas station again!

So indeed, fuck gas

Office culture nuances… I enjoy them.

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I worked for a company where the previous IT dorks named the servers after startrek ships. It’s cute at home. Had to rename everything and readdress the whole organization.

It’s pretty plain to see IBM afraid of loosing vendor lock-in, but running a software solution designed for an open or distributed platform shouldn’t be that big of a threat, right?

All their selling points for z series are the insane hardware performance, redundancy, and tuning.

Isn’t it unlikely you’re going to get that on some virtual or abstracted mainframe platform?

If I was one of the businesses that’s been paying the fortune keeping IBM mainframe alive, I’d stay on it. They measure profits in the billions and saving some money going away from IBM and risking loosing countless dollars per minute seems like a risk…

Oh wait, I forgot, all American Corps are currently (since the 80s-ish), worthless greedy fucks solely focused on short term profit and stock price regardless of long term consequences. Maybe they should save some money on one of the things that’s helps make them billions…I bet that golden goose tastes amazing 😄

How far do you guys go?

'All of it’s or until it’s inconvenient?

What’s the pain tolerance for when everyone says it makes the job too hard?

Ever compared CIS controls to STIG ACAP?

I’ve only ever used SCAP for a few reasons z but one being it’s free.

What do you guys use for STIG audit?

Manual STIG viewer or SCAP?

Personally, I am also convinced there’s unlikely to be a flip of Indiana from red to blue (unless something changes), so I have to consider which red I want, or dislike the least.

I haven’t researched the new likely front runner yet. I’ve only seen comments here, which likely won’t favor him, but I might not either after I consider his record and stances, IDK.

Rock and a hard place?

Why is nothing about this shit ever taught in school. They basically say there’s a Congress and constitution, and that’s it.

And now, we make sure not to leave our they all owned slaves, but nothing useful as a society member IMO.

I don’t know anything about this stuff

We are just a little behind trying to elect our new dictator…

But just for a day…

/S 🙄

Nice. Then what’s the Spanish equivalent?

I have only visited Rota. Neat place.

Wow, classic.

Merica

Here’s a clue:

If the paper isn’t terrible, it was AI…

😋

I enjoyed the weird feeling when all the traffic was very scarce, and even though stores and shops were open, everything seemed to stop for 30 minutes as everyone stood outside.

It was like capitalism took a 20 minute break, and I wish we could do that more often. Not a ton, just a little

Are all Republicans the ‘same’ I your opinion?

I often want to think that people can be conservative and like some Republican ideas, but without the stereotypical bigotry stuff.

Personally now, I think that’s less and less possible, but part of why I’m asking.

I feel like I’m running into less barely Republican people, and more very Republican people. I guess by that, I mean people whom are more accepting or believing that their policies are right (being very opposed to immigration, accepting LGBTQ, pro corporate, etc).

I like the Midwest, and dislike the East Coast look and feel. I haven’t been on the West Coast enough to form a meaningful opinion.

I also don’t qualify for discrimination targeting. Most of the corruption I’m surrounded by seems to relate more to socioeconomics and greedy politicians than people who care about someone’s color/etc, but again, maybe naive…

one of the marginalized groups

You’re a double or triple then…:)

the people who elect these bigots know exactly what they stand for, and they support it. South Dakota has a really problematic history But anyone who supports Republicans here knows exactly what they’re getting

Do you think that is a majority, or just a powerful/extreme small group?

I don’t know anything about SD, so I’ll have to google what you’re talking about.

I can’t legitimize their worldview by having anything to do with them beyond what my work requires

I can relate to this in a small way. I’m probably way more conservative then most average/stereotype lemmy users, but I find that the view points of people I work with are far more extreme/right than mine. I’m maybe barely right, or right in some things, and left in others? Who cares. I just cannot for the life of me see how they can only view things/people from one side. When they rant about left/D things, I point out the same things about right/R things, it’s like they lose their minds. It’s all fake news and brainwashing, but they don’t see the hypocrisy in anyway. I have no idea how.

I am still hoping the whole region isn’t as bad as I’m led to believe. That’s the reason some of your view points are helpful.

I tend to agree with the nice and kind part of Midwest, with exception that it seems like we’re becoming more hard-line against things people call woke or alternate life styles.

I’m using a universal ‘we’ since, and I think you’re right - there’s a difference between urban city thinking and rural community thinking.

I have a whole theory about the city thinking and rural thinking having to due with ownership or property, but that’s a whole other thing…

Agreed.

Makes sense. Thanks. I have heard of R7. Had not heard of Qualys.

So it’s your belief or feeling that the major motivator and shift in politics related to religion and acceptance was over a pivotal issue of abortion? In this SDs case, the abortion issue opened the door for trading values from one party to the devotion to another?

Would you say that shift was in spite of not everyone being fully committed to the rest of the GOP/R’s values? You suggested they overlook all the things they don’t generally agree with, or as much with, just to support the abortion ban?

These people don’t think people like Noem and Trump go far enough. It’s actually important to understand that even the “nice church people” types believe this. They support much more extreme policies than what we’re seeing.

Holy shit, what do they want, a culling?

There’s some mega churches around me, but they are very modern, kid glove, and do the whole ‘come as you are’. That’s not the same thing as accepting people in the letter community, they still think those people are living wrong, but they are generally more compassionate about it.

Edit, I think some of those churches would love to have letter community people attend, but that’s because they’d hope to love on them enough to have them change their life. I honestly believe they’d be doing it out of genuine concern or ‘love’, regardless of whether that’s misguided or not. How misguided and crazy that sounds to people usually depends on how they feel about these people’s lives and if you accept them for who they are or not.

Example, I think most of the common mega church people around here would follow the Bible’s parable about the adulteress and ‘let the person without sin cast the first stone’ approach. God in that example shows he cares about her more than the bad thing she did first, then calls out people for a lack of compassion and thinking what they were doing wrong was more OK than her, but lastly said ‘go and sin no more’ which was basically ‘try to stop doing this’. My post isnt about religion, I’m just using this as an example to illustrate that I think there’s varying degrees of people/religion/bigotry and I am not sure if regions are all the same.

What you’re describing sounds far more extreme to me than people around me in Indiana, but again, I might be missing things.