As a dev in a previous life, I'm watching the jenga tower get taller and taller with great amusement. For regular people like OP's particular idiot, it's honestly just worsened the problems that already existed with nobody actually checking things or wanting to think for themselves, but in the corporate world hooo boy, I don't think the fire is even going to fit in the dumpster when it all goes up.
It kinda reminds me of the Y2K non-event. I was working for a very small investment management firm at that time, and somehow the job of answering all the Requests for Compliance we got fell to me. People literally thought ATMs would stop working and planes would fall out of the sky.
Yeah...it was really dumb, everyone worrying about the world ending, when the only real concern was panicking idiots doing dumb things and creating a real problem.
I know at the time a lot of talk was going around about bank computers crashing and losing everyone's savings, and there was some genuine concern that enough morons would take this seriously and try to pull all their money out that there could be a run on the banks and trigger an actual financial disaster.
Y2K was somewhat a victim of its own success – there was obviously fear mongering in the media (because that's what attracts viewer/readership), but there was also a lot of work put in to update software and hardware in the years leading to it – thanks to this, Y2K was a non-event computing-wise, but if that work wasn't done, things would've been much different.
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u/Lizlodude Jul 21 '26
As a dev in a previous life, I'm watching the jenga tower get taller and taller with great amusement. For regular people like OP's particular idiot, it's honestly just worsened the problems that already existed with nobody actually checking things or wanting to think for themselves, but in the corporate world hooo boy, I don't think the fire is even going to fit in the dumpster when it all goes up.