He ded.

As a consultant, my superpower is having read all the READMEs that come out for the software I specialize in, and re-reading them each time a customer calls and complains about a specific bug on an old version of the software.

Wasn’t it reported that he was ‘killed’ previously, but resurfaced days later? And really, would you be stupid enough to get on a plane to Russia and declare it on a form, or would you swap places with someone on another jet?

I mean, knowing who he is and who he pissed off, I wouldn’t want to be in the same 1km wide grid square as this guy.

Who knows, with inflation the way it is, maybe it’ll be $200M for a Big Mac by the time he retires. ;)

Dude doesn’t sound like the kind of guy who has $200 million. Or could ever earn it in a lifetime.

Go back and read the first sentence again.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, full stop.

There’s nothing saying that this isn’t something of our own creation.

The Roswell incident exposed the existence of Mylar – something human-made, classified, but other-worldly in appearance and texture to anyone who might have seen it at that time… Now something mundane enough to be used as potato chip bags.

The cool kids have left the building and moved on to building the next thing.

But they were restoring all my posts and comments for weeks after I deleted them.

I work in IT. Most systems have laughable security. Passwords are often saved in plain text in scripts or config files. I went to a site to help out a very large provincial governmental organization move some data out of one system and into another. They sat me down with a loaner laptop and the guy logged me into his user account on the server. When I asked for escalated privileges, he told me he’d go get someone who knew the service account passwords.

After a few minutes, I started poking around on my own… And had administrative access within an hour. I could read the database (raw data), access documents, start and stop the software, plus, figured out how to get into the upstream system that fed data to this server… I was working on figuring out the software’s admin password when the guy came back. I’m sure that given some more time, I could have rooted the box because the OS hadn’t been updated in years.

I call this attitude “outrage porn”… There are people that are addicted to it and ready to believe anything that makes them angry. It’s even more sad than the ‘hot milfs in your area’ ads.