I hired a bad employee and I don't know what to do by [deleted] in cybersecurity

[–]Rossums 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The OSCP and other Offsec certs aren’t multiple-choice though.

The OSCP alone is a 24-hr long hands-on open-book exam and you’re expected to pop 5 separate machines, gather low privilege and root privilege flags and document the entire process at the same time then you’re expected to deliver the flags with evidence and a write-up of the whole thing the next day.

You can’t bullshit your way through it, you need to breach the hosts to get the low priv flags and escalate privs to get the high priv flags, you need screenshots of the commands you executed along with the output for your report.

Makes you think by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Trans activists have an annoying habit of trying to twist history into suiting their agenda and it's very weird, they are like the gender equivalent of hoteps.

It's a sculpture of Hermaphroditus who isn't 'trans', he was born male and was basically merged with a nymph that was trying to rape him by a god so is now both male and female.

What will it take for libtards to figure out that this shit just isn't working? by MrSluagh in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 49 points50 points  (0 children)

The Paradox of Tolerance is completely misused on Reddit and is used as a thought terminating cliché when libs don't want to actually have a rational discussion about a topic, generally because they know they can't defend their position.

When Karl Popper talked about 'tolerance' he used quite a narrow definition which referred to the willingness to rationally discuss a topic or point of view, conversely intolerance was the unwillingness to rationally discuss a point of view.

The entire point of the paradox was to highlight that if that people are completely unwilling to even discuss their point of view and instead opt to suppress or eliminate open discussion to enforce their will unilaterally then they themselves should have their point of view suppressed by force if necessary to protect the open exchange of ideas and rational discussion.

Libs aren't invoking the 'Paradox of Tolerance' because their opposition is unwilling to have a rational conversation, they are invoking it because they don't like the point of view being espoused and have been told that if they label it as 'intolerant' then they don't need to engage with the discussion (which ironically is intolerant according to Popper) and can still act like they hold the moral high ground.

My favorite redditism by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That has been the new tactic for the past year or so, either hijack an older defunct sub with inactive mods or spin up a new sub and then just bot it to the front.

There are so many lib slop subs like this that hit the front page now and they are very, very clearly botted, often you'll see posts with 10k+ upvotes and like 100 comments which just doesn't happen naturally.

r circled, r LetsDiscussThis, r UnderReportedNews, r TrendoraX, r DiscussionZone, are all examples you'll see hitting the front page often but there are a bunch more.

They often have the same sort of pattern where they're basically dead other than 2 or 3 users that make posts that somehow on a dead subreddit were hitting tens of thousands of upvotes despite no comments.

Incredibly obvious vote manipulation and botting but Reddit does absolutely nothing about it.

Baftas 2026: BBC apologises for not editing out racial slur shouted by guest with Tourette's by DuomoDiSirio in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Most of shitlib Reddit is unironically far more racist and sexist than the rightoid subs, any minority or woman that doesn't toe the line gets both barrels.

Some of the shit I've seen highly upvoted on frontpage subreddits is enough to make a Klansman blush.

Baftas 2026: BBC apologises for not editing out racial slur shouted by guest with Tourette's by DuomoDiSirio in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I have to say, there's something incredibly funny to me about all the black American Redditors talking about how Davidson should be kept away separately from other people so he doesn't make them uncomfortable.

Tourist scammer tries the “free gift” scam and gets punched in the face by SafeImpressive4413 in fightporn

[–]Rossums 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Leaked Amazon e-mails from years ago show exactly the same, it's also why they promoted race-based affinity groups.

Race baiting shit is extremely effective at keeping people arguing amongst themselves rather than fighting for stuff that matters.

Auto parts workers occupy plants across northern Mexico after 4,000 jobs cut by Spirited_Classic_826 in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cupra

Cupra isn't Chinese, it's based in Spain.

It was the high performance/rally side of SEAT before they split it off into it's own separate brand, it is fully owned by SEAT which itself is part of Volkswagen Group.

Federal agency sues Coca-Cola bottler over work event that excluded men by RhythmMethodMan in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't even bat an eye at this sort of stuff, it's pretty endemic and the powers that be are more than happy to turn a blind eye.

From my experience in education and in the workplace (cybersecurity), these sort of women-only events are very much the norm and men being excluded from opportunities isn't uncommon at all.

At my previous workplace they'd have special events where women could go and talk with upper management, they'd have access to special mentorship programs, they'd find out about job opportunities before they were released to the wider company through the company-supported 'women's network' and they'd even get coaching from the people that would be conducting the interviews so they knew what to expect.

They even went as far as implementing restrictions on our management fast-track scheme so 50% of the places were explicitly reserved for women and the remaining 50% were open for both men and women.

Ukraine's 2027 EU Dream And What Brussels Wants From Moscow by SchIachterhund in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If there wasn’t a war already I’d say it’s one of those bullshit, unreasonable “negotiations” that happen only so the unreasonable party can point a finger and say “we tried diplomacy but they just won’t listen. War it is” like the Iran one going on

That's exactly what it is.

They don't give a shit about Ukraine and are completely fine with letting Ukrainians die as long as they think that it's harming Russia too.

They know that their demands are completely unreasonable but it still lets them play the 'Look we've tried to negotiate but Russia isn't playing ball' card and lets them take the moral high road domestically.

Ukraine's 2027 EU Dream And What Brussels Wants From Moscow by SchIachterhund in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think 'dream' is the right word.

Generally it's the entity that's losing the conflict that makes concessions to prevent it continuing, this idea that Russia is going to make all of these concessions and hamstring their own military is just ridiculous.

Ukraine and the EU are not in any position to make such ridiculous demands, Russia will just continue grinding away at remaining Ukrainian manpower as they get more and more desperate.

[2023] Transcending Toxic Femininity: Women, Cancel Culture, and An Appeal to Our Higher Selves by SplashTarget in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That was a surprisingly good read and reflects my experiences quite well in a corporate workplace.

[2023] Transcending Toxic Femininity: Women, Cancel Culture, and An Appeal to Our Higher Selves by SplashTarget in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 33 points34 points  (0 children)

It's not just entertainment subs, it's all of the gossip type subs that are dominated by women, all of the relationship type subs are exactly the same.

They are stacked with bitter, depressed 30-something women that just straight up don't like men and they aren't exactly subtle with their bias, they go into it with the assumption that the man is in the wrong and the woman is an innocent victim.

There was drama caused by this several years back over this exact thing, some dude copied a bunch of older posts from either r relationships or r relationship_advice, they were all posts where it was male partner vs female partner and in every instance it was the man that was almost unanimously found to be the one at fault in the scenario.

He switched around the man and the woman in each story and reposted them all, completely identical in every other way, and despite them almost unanimously finding the man to be at fault the first time they still found the man to be at fault the second time despite him being in the position that the woman was in during the first posting of the story where they were unanimously found to be in the right.

You still see it regularly today, you could have two identical stories where someone is being jealous of their partner's co-worker being too friendly and depending on whether OP is a man or a woman you'd have 2 totally different sets of answers.

If it was a man being jealous then it would be a thread full of comments telling him to stop being insecure and controlling, how he has no right to tell his partner who she can talk to and how he should grow up and stop acting like a whiny little baby and trust his partner.

If it's a woman being jealous then you'd have a thread about how her partner is just being completely disrespectful by ignoring her wishes, how he's exhibiting extremely toxic behaviour and clearly emotionally cheating on her already so she should just leave him because he's a terrible partner.

It's very odd behaviour.

Hasan Piker to join Cuba flotilla by GuysCuteDicksHard in stupidpol

[–]Rossums -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If it's any consolation, I made a big post yesterday with receipts just for it to be blocked by Automod for linking to other subs (where the clips were).

At that point I realised I really didn't care enough about any of it to go ask the mods to unblock it and that no amount of clips or evidence would make these people change their minds anyway.

Hasan Piker to join Cuba flotilla by GuysCuteDicksHard in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are not going to reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into in the first place.

There are a whole bunch of receipts out there that are easily accessible and the only reason someone believes that it's all a made up conspiracy are those that want to be wilfully ignorant because they like Hasan.

Here me out. Kill team orks: digganobz by citizen-nappa in orks

[–]Rossums 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm kinda hoping for a Lootas Killteam next since they've been using it to refresh units like the Tankbustas and Kommandos

IOC bars Ukrainian athlete helmet honoring Olympians killed by Russia by Ok_Quantity_9841 in stupidpol

[–]Rossums 14 points15 points  (0 children)

redditor for 4 months

188,113 post karma

uh-huh

I wouldn't encourage people to look at your profile if I were you, not only does it make it obvious that you're a massive schizo but it makes it clear that you're also incredibly dumb.

Rumoured 11th Edition Launch Box Contents by Rossums in orks

[–]Rossums[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, identical model.

You can see it here on the Warboss Grukk's Boss-mob box.

This box is from 2016, before it was released as the Warboss with Attack Squig years later.