That's because they're trying their best to ignore and silence him to death.
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Is he talking about Musk?
I.... I thought a middle manager is any manager who's not the very lowest manager, and not the CEO? As in, any manager who has managers above and below them?
No, I did not have to learn that the hard way. I could have learned it another way. You're objectively wrong. And you don't always have a backup. Especially not back in 1995, when this happened. Back then, backups typically happened nightly. So even with a backup, I would still have lost a day's worth of work.
I fell for a similar (but less) obvious joke on my first Linux installation back in 1995. That one used dd instead of rm. I lost a lot of code that I had written. After that, I've failed to see the humor in this kind of joke. There's always the risk that someone new doesn't understand it's a joke, and tries it out.
This is what I've been saying about US politics for a long time. They've got two parties - the far right, and the batshit crazy right.
Well... the type of stuff we long for are still around, it's just that we don't visit it as much anymore. Lemmy is a perfect example of this - it's around, it's better, but people still default to Reddit instead.