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Husband, Father, IT Pro, service.

I ask a lot of questions to try to understand how people think.

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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

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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 😄

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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.

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Office culture nuances...
I enjoy them.

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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.

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What do you guys use for STIG audit?

Manual STIG viewer or SCAP?

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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?

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

But just for a day...

/S 🙄

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Here's a clue:

If the paper isn't terrible, it was AI...

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Wow, classic.

Merica

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Nice. Then what's the Spanish equivalent?

I have only visited Rota. Neat place.

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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

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@LinkOpensChest_wav @Pandantic
How is the general population?

In the midwest, we are called the Bible belt. We are also accused of being the biggest bigots, with terms like neo Christianity or religio-fascists. I like to think/pretend that law makers are a little more extreme or loud than the general population, but they still pander to a base that elects them, so that negates my idea to some extent. Maybe the process of legislating looses nuance and empathy because it's difficult to do that in law? I'm not sure. Maybe I have an unrealistically rosy view of the region. I'm not in a group that would feel oppression or hatred for who I am unless I go to places with people who do, then I get labeled or target by those because I look like their oppressors (which is ironic, but understandable).

Indiana had the religious freedom act, which was a huge black eye. I could write a huge rant on cake lady. The short version is my refusal to accept her ideas as Christian/religion based, not mine anyway. IMO, Jesus never treated anyone like shit other than the Pharisees, whom he constantly schooled for 'missing the point'. I think she was just a plain old fashion bigot, and I wish she would have just said "I don't like gay people". I wouldn't have to agree, but at least she'd be honest and take the proper heat for it.

Unfortunately, I know there's plenty of criticism for the Midwest, conservative region that probably has some roots in religion, but I'm not sure if it's just because of religion or the negative manipulation of it. Example: Islam is inherently bad and violent, or it was corrupted to manipulate people to violence and hate?

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Edit: I forgot to say this, but this is only responding to the contents of your post. Your link takes me to the kbin login page.

crap, I'll fix it, hold on. It was supposed to be someone speaking of their oppression.
Edit, I think I got the link right. It opened in a different browser for me this time.

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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.

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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?

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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...

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invalidating

Understood, Wasnt intended or criticism.

More maga I guess, and the recent proposed legislation in the cited articles the person referencing them used to justify their opinion/feeling that Republicans wanted them dead/gone.

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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.

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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...

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Thanks for the insight.

It's a shame we still can all just get along. That saying is lame, but it's ultimately the goal.

One of my ideas, that isn't terribly realistic or shouldn't have to be resorted to, is to locate our selves in regions that are more welcoming.

There was a person at my work who was lesbian, which I suspected, but they weren't open. One day at a social event, they brought their wife and brother (for support) and made public. I was stupid and didn't put all that together until then.

They moved to Washington State and both have great jobs now. I felt like part of that move was related to moving to a region known to support their life style more welcomingly, at least compared to Indiana.

You shouldn't have to do that, but if I could stack enough chips to afford doing that and needed to, I would.

I said above that you shouldn't have to do that ever. No one should be treated like shit by whole groups of people, political, religious or other wise.

I like the idea of states competing for talent and opportunity. Washington also tried decriminalization of all drugs. Lots of people nay sayed. I thought it was great. They tried an experiment instead of just listening to a bunch of wind bags. That didn't work as it was implemented, but we all got real world data, and identified other failures of legislation that went beyond just drugs (treatment, transportation issues, logistics, funding,.etc). I might be all talk though, I would not want to conduct that here.

Weed is the same way. All the states doing it are eventually going to have eliminated all excuses for now allowing it. Some states still might never. That's ok. People can shuffle around based on what's important to them.

You shouldn't ever have to be subjected to mistreatment just for who you are though, anywhere in America.

I hate both our parties, most of all politicians, and a large majority of our policies in their current form. There's no one for me to vote for, and no national pride in what they do or represent.

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Thanks,. I'll check into those two

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Good info, thanks.

I am familiar with ACAS, which is why I am testing the products.

Fully capturing all the capabilities of scanning, auditing configuration seems like you could put countless hours into the implementation.

I imagine the ROI is high based on what I've seen.

Would you agree?

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Thanks

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

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I haven't often heard Hogsett and the FOP be on the same side of an argument.

What are people's views on judges having the (usually) sole power in certain circumstances like sentences?

Should they all be elected or appointed, or a mix?

I often have contempt for judges because they have so much power in their special room.

Was this a miscarriage of justice?

I haven't looked at sentencing for similar crimes, but wonder if this was typical for the situation. I know I wouldn't be happy if my wife was killed. No sentence would probably due.

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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

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I think it's because people (some) are all talk. We bitch about corporate greed and stuff like this, but when it comes down to it, when you need a new electronic device and one's half the cost, which one do people buy?

The one with ads and that's made by slave wage third world workers, or the one that's twice as expensive?

As a whole, we tend to be garbage and materialistic...

I won't be buying Roku either.

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Agreed.

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That's some spicy 🔥 chicken!

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Every piece of shit greedy corporation can't hide from their lies when they say things are too expensive to implement correctly or pay people appropriately when they are simultaneously posting profits measured in billions...

Not really casual but I i don't know where to put this. I lost a school kid last week...

It's very sad, but with the holiday weekend I've been able to keep it in the back of my mind instead of the front. Now that Mom is sharing info on services, i can't imagine actually going there and seeing and what to say... and it's getting to me, a lot. Today is a celebration day in my house and i don't want to bring my family...

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Not likely to be helpful, but your feeling is normal and understandable. Didn't wait too long to talk to someone.

Mass shooting outside Indianapolis mall [Circle Center] leaves 7 injured, all children and teens, police say ( www.cbsnews.com )

Police said they initially responded after patrol officers in the downtown area heard several shots being fired nearby. They found six minors, among a larger group of kids, suffering from injuries consistent with gunshot wounds. An emergency medical services crew transported all of them to a hospital for treatment. One of the...

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WTF

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Yeah we get it, American, lots of shootings, yeah already know.

This was my downtown and a mall.

I have guns. I have exceptional training. I don't shoot people at malls.

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I can't figure out the rate hikes on property values right now.

Also, what do you I think the correlation is between rent and violence? I could see theft and costs of living, but not random shootings.

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Vote with your feet. Have to leave the platform if you want to stick it to them.

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Fair enough.

Maybe everyone agrees it sucks and all change?

Turn it into a group 'stick it to the man' effort?

I don't have friends,.no problem for me 😋

Also,.I'm old and just text my friends!

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I like the recent estimates of his appearance. This artist renders him even less good looking than probably most imagined when they think of someone from that region of the world, which makes me believe it's closer to appropriate.

Jesus wasn't a rock star. In Christianity and the new testament, God didn't portray himself in any way other than meager and a bit of a communist. That's the beauty of part of the story.

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/2665391a-6c25-48b8-b0f9-b7dda60e484e.jpeg

Edit, I think Jesus would have been easy to put on the no fly list, or walk by without a second thought, which is a challenge to our ways of thinking.

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I don't mean to downplay the environment, but I think we'll have a long list of worries...
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OMG, a video:

https://youtu.be/aZDAxcLU-oQ?si=AzFScngwEn9RBr8o

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