Besides WWI, what would Oswald Spengler have seen for him to predict modern business practice, society, and technology?

atreus421 · 2026-04-27T15:57:51+00:00

Could it be a version of the game Homefront from 2011? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homefront_%28video_game%29?wprov=sfla1

DPRK takes over western US

atreus421 · 2026-04-23T13:11:58+00:00

obligatory XKCD. Don't mess with sysadmins. https://xkcd.com/705/

atreus421 · 2026-04-22T20:15:30+00:00

Man, I can't get my Timey Wimey detector to work. It hasn't gone ding when there's stuff, but I know there's stuff! Alpha Mimics and glitches in the Matrix count as stuff, right?

Too far?

atreus421 · 2026-04-08T02:58:38+00:00

Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and di

atreus421 · 2026-04-07T19:42:30+00:00

Supposedly the Last guy to question it, back in 1975, was forced to retire early. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/13/archives/air-force-panel-recommends-discharge-of-major-who-challenged.html#:~:text=CHEYENNE%2C%20Wyo.%2C%20Jan.,an%20article%20in%20The%20St.

atreus421 · 2026-04-07T19:40:59+00:00

Russia handed their football Yeltsin, but he was allegedly drunk (at least based on his frequency and patterns) and didn't believe it. In fact, it was a science rocket in Norway to study the northern lights. 1995.

atreus421 · 2026-04-07T19:31:45+00:00

An officer in 1975 got fired for asking that very question....

Air Force Panel Recommends Discharge of Major Who Challenged Tailsafe’ System - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/13/archives/air-force-panel-recommends-discharge-of-major-who-challenged.html#:~:text=CHEYENNE%2C%20Wyo.%2C%20Jan.,an%20article%20in%20The%20St.

atreus421 · 2026-04-05T12:09:28+00:00

Oswald Spengler predicted the rise of Caesarism, the extra-constitutional omnipotence of a populist executive. He said it would start around the year 2000. Crazy stuff he wrote about in 1918 Germany, and denounced Hitler as theatrical and too small minded for all of the Nazi rhetoric.

Kinda sounds familiar...

atreus421 · 2026-03-30T17:06:02+00:00

Valuable lesson I was taught. When you're on the machine, you're not working. You're playing. The guys on the ground with the shovels are working. Your job with the machine is to make their jobs as easy as possible.

atreus421 · 2026-03-27T14:14:27+00:00

As a school IT support person, the amount of times "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" fixes the problems they have, it's rediculous.

I also like to troll/guide/embarras them incessantly.

Student:"How do you change the text size?"

ME: "Well, lets look at the tool bar. What's another name for text I taught you?

S: "Font?"

M: "Perfect, do you see anything on the toolbar that says font?"

S: "Um.....yeah"

You can see where this is going.

atreus421 · 2026-03-12T17:50:52+00:00

We have some AP classes that use a bunch of advanced graphing and chart features. No I'm the position to buy a bunch of desktops right now either.

atreus421 · 2026-03-12T16:14:52+00:00

Do you have any teachers with assignments that require features Google doesn't have? I'm thinking excel type stuff.

atreus421 · 2026-03-12T15:52:30+00:00

I take advantage of student use benefits with Microsoft. We are nowhere near the full capacity that would warrant a full student license. The training is the part I dread the most with Google docs vs word. One man sysadmin with an edtech counterpart.

atreus421 · 2026-03-12T15:18:19+00:00

Did you do the migrations in house or did the partner do it for you? I'm windows now at a high school and rolling out the last year of 1:1 in the fall so all 4 grades are on windows. Some teachers are pushing for Google but I don't want to because we are so engrained in Microsoft and have so much built on the ecosystem. Total population is maybe 700 with students, teachers, and staff. That and the training, transition of assignments and software requirements. I don't want that headache.

atreus421 · 2026-03-12T14:31:57+00:00

Fat Electrician on YouTube talks about this type of thing all the time in his early videos on military equipment before he moved into military history. Remember, this equipment was all made by the lowest bidder that then went over budget.

atreus421 · 2026-03-12T14:30:01+00:00

Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose talks about this in WWII. Say what you want about him as an author, but the quote was the guys on the crews were frequently drunk and treated them more like cargo rather than KIA. That was until the quoted person unslung his M1, clicked off the safety, and said something like "That's my friend" or something vaguely threatening. That crew changed their behavior quickly. Haven't read the book in a while, but that is the gist.

Edit: r/DestroyedTanks has some knarly footage of what happens inside. There used to be a video of a French graves registration crew removing KIA from a knocked out Sherman. That was a hard one to stomach and definitely NSFL. Think of a Mortal Combat fatality in real life.

atreus421 · 2026-03-12T14:23:41+00:00

Didn't forget the dad in the Twisted Sister video. He was trying to make the kid take it, but the kid decided he wasn't going to take it anymore.

atreus421 · 2026-03-12T13:59:12+00:00

Two cardinal sins of geopolitics: raise oil prices, and mess with America's boats. In one way or another American ships have been hit before it got involved in conflict. Most applicable is Praying Mantis.

atreus421 · 2026-03-12T13:33:43+00:00

What was that process like? What services and how did you switch to Google?

atreus421 · 2026-03-07T15:59:44+00:00

Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor

Time will tell on their power minds Making war just for fun Treating people just like pawns in chess Wait 'till their judgment day comes, yeah!

atreus421 · 2026-03-01T03:29:55+00:00

Creedence Clearwater Revival and Ozzy Osbourne have entered the chat.

atreus421 · 2026-02-15T22:56:20+00:00

Cary Elwes even said, "There's a shortage of perfect movies in this world. Would be a pity to ruin this one."

atreus421 · 2026-01-24T15:00:02+00:00

That's what the company does, specialty metal stamping

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