there’s an alternate universe version of this where musk’s attendant sycophants and bodyguard have to fish his electrocuted/suffocated/crushed body out from the crawlspace he wedged himself into with a pocket knife

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      you’re right, most secure data centers are more paranoid about access than this, even if they had a server room to themselves. I’m assuming the part of the story we’re not getting is the intensifying sequence of billionaire manbaby meltdowns musk had every time he was told no, which you can kind of see by how the folks running the data center treated the damage he was doing to their infrastructure towards the end. very much “fuck it, I’m tired of getting yelled at, let him do it and we’ll bill or sue him later,” which is kind of a foolish approach when you know musk doesn’t pay

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        Yeah, the manbaby tantrums were my guess too

        Bluster and force and intimidation go a hell of a long way on people who don’t necessarily know what backing power they have (which a lot of people in gate/door control roles often fall into)

        I’m quite unsurprised they got that access

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        If they have a full room to themselves, a DC might let them fuck around without supervision. There’s no way I would let them into the structural/electrical bits without seeing his signature under the mother of all responsibility waivers, though.

        After that, if this was just a regular asshole I’d hope their fuckaround trip goes without a major incident both to save myself from a lot of trouble and out of common decency towards a fellow human. This particular asshole would really be testing the limits of the latter.

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          this is apparently NTT, presumably one of the bits that used to be Verio, and they’ve been fundamentally competent in my experience. To fuck around seriously, he’d have to buy NTT first.

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          Sometimes I’m not sure if it’s a Mandela effect when I remember huge binders full of service pack cd-roms for the NT servers we used to host the websites we built for our clients - in the server room of our office - with consumer-grade aircons running 24/7

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            every machine is the same shade of beige

            every desk has a mouse holder. nothing is arranged for any particular comfort while using the computer, but your job is in fact to use the computer

            we don’t speak of uptime here

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    Funniest detail to me is that this server lobotomy apparently fucked up Ron DeSanti’s stupid Twitter Spaces candidacy announcement. Of course RdS is never gonna be prez no matter how much techbros are fluffing him.

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      Of course RdS is never gonna be prez

      Trump might die. He is 77. (Which is also why the crazy Kennedy is a bit scary. I don’t expect America to do the normal thing this season).

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        Trump kicking the bucket before the nomination would be the funniest thing ever. There’s no given successor. Every other candidate apart from Christie pays him fealty. There’s no Trump ideology, it’s all what he says at any given moment. Thus, there’s no candidate who can state “I will continue Trump’s legacy”, because it’s never been clearly stated what that legacy is. The GOP donors want someone who can continue to deliver tax cuts and gut welfare, but they’re probably not as interested in pursuing the culture wars. The base, OTOH, just want red meat. And the people promising them the meat are in general hugely unpopular among the general electorate. RdS is there. People simply find him unlikeable.

        Sadly Trump’s parents lived long, so there’s no chance he’ll die.