Just wait until the “sovereign fund” trump is starting puts up assets like “former national park”, “federal water rights”, “state and federal timber land”…it’s all just an asset to be plundered to him. A hotel company to flip.

National security priorities definitely in order.

For the same reason housing should be a speculative investment, and healthcare services available only to the highest bidder.

A General ignoramus

Oracle exists solely on inertia and big, dumb, uninformed customers. They were an early mover in the space for erp, and then they tried to develop everything else. I work in HR and filter out jobs where “PeopleSoft” is their product as it’s so monumentally unfit for human and operational use and eats up all technical, financial and employee resources to try to make it do simple, common things. Companies spend far more training, hiring consultants (because the product is unintuitive and limited in functionality) to operate the system and “customizations” that take years to build and a cadre of expensive folks to keep running is not the exception but the standard. If you see “Oracle” or “PeopleSoft” in the URL for a job application, run far, far away.

20 years ago only big companies had a need for the scale of an erp, and unfortunately many of them went with Oracle. SAP was the other dog and while similarly unintuitive at least worked well at what it did, bless the Germans. There are soooo many better, more flexible more intuitive, modern products that users can learn and use to choose from, only the truly hopeless are still using Oracle products for ERP and HRIS.

The most insidious part of Oracle is that because of how difficult it is to use, change, modify and learn, the people responsible for changing these systems experience Stockholm syndrome where they don’t want to change to a better system. All they know is failure, pain, lack of comprehension and lack of understanding of products and the thought of starting over in another system mortifies them, and so they become the barrier to telling Oracle to piss off.

I work in HR. No one cares.

Life hack and Consumerist used to be two of my favorite reads and forums. Then they were absorbed into the Borg and stopped putting out anything useful.

Great article, you should x-post to !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

Mexico’s full name is ”The United States of Mexico", I think they should rename their map’s version to Gulf of The United States just to add to the confusion and make the point these things, like all facts, are useless when people suffer no consequences from making them up.

File your class action lawsuit here for $18.50 to release us of a lifetime of liability. Thanks.

The last few years watching the hype train and thinking that Nigerian prince emails, lottery winners and everything else still makes it through their pathetic email filters and they want to launch rocket ships with their omnipotent AI? GTFO

Why have I not heard “Old Spice” before now? Much better than using that sack’s given names.

This is the opportunity the Fediverse was waiting for.

In the same way poker players misuse or misunderstand “pot equity” as a concept to justify chasing poor hands.