The biggest liar I know is still in jail for raping children

I will happily spot you “Don’t hire child rapists” as a rule of thumb. I think “fudging your resume is a slippery slope to sexually assaulting a minor” is a stretch of logic.

My industry and group are weird when it comes to credentials. We don’t have a strict, you need this degree situation.

I know employers who use “college degree” as a proxy for “capable of following instructions” and won’t hire anyone without a bachelors.

I know employers who are much more fast and loose, bringing in anyone with “potential” as they broadly define it.

Idk exactly what the right answer is. But “powers through a MOOC in a few weeks to get a certificate that says I can competently execute a job” doesn’t strike me as a moral failing.

If a hire is open about their credentials I would not care.

Typically, any job that gets filled at my company has to have a competitive candidate to consider. I’ve seen them fudge this a few times (bringing in someone they know isn’t qualified just to balance against), but it’s a hiring standard that you have to consider at least two (preferably three or four) candidates for any position.

If you show up and you don’t have the credentials for the position, you’re simply not getting the job.

I’ve witnessed what happens when people are ok with liars.

Sure. The Enron offices are spitting distance from where I work.

But I also see a lot of people fudging resumes to get feet in the door. And I don’t see people who were honest, but got screened out by a filter. So I’m the victim of selection bias, in many regards.

On the other hand, I would fire someone instantly if they had cheated their degree like this.

Ideally, I wouldn’t hire them. But if they were already on the payroll, I’m much more interested in their work output than their transcript.

This is just the industrialization of “Fake It Until You Make It”.

If an employer asks for a copy of your transcript, what are you going to give them?

That’s half the joke, though. The employers are using automated tools to sift for staff. Why would prospective staff not use automated tools to bump themselves up in the queue for a job?

Or maybe you’ll falsify a transcript, but if you were going to do that then why did you pay $4,000 for your college diploma anyway?

Because then it’s not a “false” transcript. It’s real and true, fully accredited and identical to a transcript issued by a four year school.

Of course it’s partly the student’s fault

This is a structural failure. It isn’t the fault of any single (non-billionaire) individual. As we pull more and more humans out of the bureaucratic chain and dump more and more automation onto lowest-bidder third parties, we accumulate technical debt. That technical debt exposes vulnerabilities in our bureaucratic systems. And then people naturally move in to exploit those vulnerabilities when they can’t get what they need out of a normally functional bureaucracy.

I’ll consult a historian.

A race to the bottom, for sure. I’d give it to Paxton, but only because he holds statewide office and has more leverage

In Soviet Murika, Texas Ban You!

Chip Roy is currently the front-runner for Texas AG. The future is fucking bleak

Oh ho ho. You thought they were just racist against Muslims?

Well, buckle up, buckaroos.

This would also be a funny interpretation.

No no no. What you heard was “They’re sleeping together” and that’s only because they both have narcolepsy.

This is pretty cool.

Now, is there any way they can hand the day-to-day operations off to Julian Assange?

You can just get another re-keyable lock for any added later locks or replacement lock sets.

All things that are a pain in the ass.

Did you notice your electronic locks all have keys for when they fail?

No, because I don’t have them. I have a fake rock with a key in it and generally don’t bother locking my front door anyway. But I’m lazy and cheap, not terribly interested in changing out all my locks myself or paying someone else to do it for a marginal quality of life improvement.

Still, if you have a need for locked gates, a set of combination locks all set to the same combination or keyed locks with all setup for a single key once again minimizes the need for a bunch of bulky keys.

Sure. And if you’re setting up a security perimeter from first principles, that’s fine. But then you add an interior gate or you need to replace a lock that’s rusted through or yadda yadda life happens, and you can lose the single key design.

Case in point, my front door lock did foul a few years ago. My wife changed out the front door but didn’t bother to sync it with the back door. She didn’t want to bother with an electronic lock because she thought they were too expensive. So now we’ve got a front door that doesn’t match the side door or the garage door. And we only have two keys to the new lock, one of which has been lost almost immediately.

A digital system that I can just sync from my phone would be far more appealing than juggling keys. Or staring at a key dish and trying to remember which ones actually link to which doors.

If you go online and criticize Democrats in any capacity, you are a secret fifth columnist MAGA saboteur.

You still need an interface. Bunch of ways to do it.

You help Trump come to power

More than likely no, you didn’t. The election was on rails when Biden decided to drag his moldy ass into a race he couldn’t win, rather than stepping aside after a single term and opening up the primary. Trump came to power because Merrick Garland refused to prosecute him for his many crimes and Silicon Valley swept in to money bomb him.

Individual voters had no say in any of that. The EC guaranteed they had only the most marginal say in which way their state went. And even the on-the-ground campaigns were dwarfed by the degree of corporate, industrial, and overseas manipulation of public opinion.

To say any given voter is “responsible” for Trump is like blaming any given butterfly for the next hurricane.

I just don’t understand the desire to control everything in your house with an app.

Shrinking the size of my wallet and getting rid of all my keys has an instant appeal. I’d much rather just carry around a single phone-sized multipass than a janitor’s worth of hardware for accessing a dozen different gates and appliances.

I work in IT and I’ve got most of those things.

But it is largely due to the inconvenience of installation relative to just coasting on existing home infrastructure. I also don’t bother with roof solar and home battery backups, a household wide firewall, or anything connected to a raspberry pi. Just implemented Jellyfin over Christmas and my wife regularly throws up her hands at it, preferring Amazon Prime or HBO Max at every opportunity.

For the most part, the cost of an individualized IT component isn’t worth the pain of support. If I was looking for an apartment or a condo, I would absolutely be interested in their building wide IT setup. But the whole point of IT is to deliver at scale. Homelabing can be a fun hobby but it’s a shit-pay second job.