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  1. Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923– December 12,1999)

    Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.

    That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century - a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.

    #books #writers #reading #catch22 #JosephHeller #Heller #book #bookstodon @bookstodon

  2. Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923– December 12,1999)

    Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.

    That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century - a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.

    #books #writers #reading #catch22 #JosephHeller #Heller #book #bookstodon @bookstodon

  3. Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923– December 12,1999)

    Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.

    That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century - a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.

    #books #writers #reading #catch22 #JosephHeller #Heller #book #bookstodon @bookstodon

  4. Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923– December 12,1999)

    Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.

    That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century - a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.

    #books #writers #reading #catch22 #JosephHeller #Heller #book #bookstodon @bookstodon

  5. Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923– December 12,1999)

    Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.

    That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century - a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.

    #books #writers #reading #catch22 #JosephHeller #Heller #book #bookstodon @bookstodon

  6. @ai6yr Wait! I’m not building even more wind farms than anyone. Where’s my payout?

    #catch22

  7. we need to ship those hydrocarbons through the Strait of Hormuz so we can burn them and raise sea levels so we can bypass the Strait of Hormuz #catch22

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:euxiglnnaiq7cncdavvlxnbg/post/3mgufg5fxux2p

  8. @alansuspect

    Wow, what a story, an AWS (Amazon Web Services) story…
    Catch22 has nothing on them!
    Good luck activating the “ah, support, situation”! 🤞 If you don’t report back in a reasonable time, we’ll send your clothes… 😁 (joke)

    #Amazon #AWS #Catch22 #humour #support #weird

  9. the thing about off-site offline backup is that you need to occasionally get it back on-site to update and verify #catch22

  10. @ennolenze Du brauchst jeden Tag ein Einstempeln und ein Ausstempeln, sonst ist es keine Zeiterfassung! #catch22

  11. Marker: Too much computer. Needs more information in marker's domain of knowledge.

    Me, adding features: I have univariate time series feature analysis working across multiple dimensions, and a mostly functional classification system attached. Each dimension runs in its own thread, shit is fast yo. I have attained enlightenment.

    Anyone looking for eldrich R knowledge for time series analysis, theft is an interesting CRAN package. Blunt instruments are great. Note tsibbles have header data, you can't just yank columns out of them, it causes baffling downstream errors even if keys and indexes are included.

    journal.r-project.org/articles

    #R #catch22 #tsfeatures

  12. Make no mistake: The cruelty of ICE is no fault, it's precisely the point.
    The continued rampage of this gestapo-esque Trump militia has two potential outcomes:
    a) People get more and more intimidated, cover and hide in fear -> Trump wins
    b) Resistance against ICE turns violent. Trump cracks down on "domestic terrorists" -› Trump wins
    #catch22
    Classic #fascists handbook at work.
    #ICE #ice_raids

  13. @teacher_rick Nog zoiets: omdat de bank-app op m'n oude smartphone niet meer functioneert, heb ik een nieuw toestel nodig. Het door mij gewenste type is echter alleen online verkrijgbaar.

    Om dat ding te kunnen betalen heb ik dus m'n bank-app nodig... die het niet meer doet! 🙄

    #catch22

  14. Am I going mad, or is this a Catch 22 situation?

    I'm trying to do the UK Companies House identity verification process and have hit this screen, which appears to be saying that to verify my identity I need to enter the code I got when I verified my identity.

    What am I missing?

    #UX #Catch22 #GoingMad

  15. @Sebastian Immer wieder im Angebot: Support like Hell

    Letztens bei SumUp: Mail an Support (wie in AGB angegeben), umgehend Autoresponder mit Info, dass Support nur noch über Chat. Chat-Bot: Ich verstehe Sie nicht, nutzen Sie Kontaktseite. Dort: Support nur über Chat oder … Mail. #Catch22

  16. #Snowden No. Not That Snowden. The one in #Catch22 .

    (content warning but only if you watch the clip)

    youtu.be/AhYkkg8xPs4

  17. @fefe_interim This is terrifying, as it is happening all over the place, not only Apple. The thresholds for any "potentially fraudulent" activity have to be so low, that a lot of people are affected many, many times (especially older ones, with less technical ability than yours). Any contact is limited to AI, chatbots and FAQ-sites and do not offer any real decision power in case of a system glitch - which you have fallen victim of. The IT-#catch22-situations are piling up.

  18. Support bei #SumUp ist doch eher fabelhaft. Dazu meine Fabelgeschichte:

    Eine E-Mail an die auch in den AGB genannte Supportadresse wird automatisch "abgewiesen", Support gäbe es nicht mehr über E-Mail, man solle den Chat verwenden.

    Der Chat-Bot kann mir bei meiner Kündigung nicht helfen und verweist auf die Kontaktseite der Website. Dort wird auf den Chat verwiesen. #Catch22

    Auf der Impressumseite steht genau eine E-Mail-Adresse, es ist (war) die des Supports. Die Telefonnummer im Impressum stellt sich als Support-Telefonnummer heraus - die sonst nirgendwo steht. Von dort erhalte ich eine E-Mail-Adresse, auf die sonst nirgendwo hingewiesen wird (übrigens mit der Supportadresse als Absender). An diese Adresse soll ich meine Kündigung schicken.

    Gut, dass ich einfach nur kündigen will.

  19. @DerEmil

    Typisches Catch-22 Dilemma 😞

    "Das Buch Catch-22 beschreibt eine Situation, in der Geisteskranke vom Kriegsdienst freigestellt werden. Ein Antrag auf Freistellung wird aber als Zeichen offensichtlicher geistiger Gesundheit gesehen, weil Angst vor dem Kriegsdienst normal ist. Logischer Schluss: Ein Aussteigen ist nicht möglich."

    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22

    #dilemma #Catch22 #catch #jobcenter #burgergeld

  20. @DerEmil

    #Catch22 revisited.
    Du kannst dich wegen einer psychischen Krankheit von Kriegseinsätzen befreien lassen.
    Stellst du den Antrag auf Befreiung kannst du nicht psychisch krank sein.

  21. Lovely – jemand hat einen Email-Alias von mir auf eine Google-Groups-Mailingliste gesetzt. Und ich kann nicht unsubscriben, weil ich dazu eine Mail mit diesem Alias als Absender versenden muss. Was ich probiert habe – aber die wird als Spam zurückgewiesen, weil sie nicht per SPF oder DKIM authentifiziert wurde. Das kann ich auch gar nicht, denn ich kann über die Domain (nicht meine) keine Emails versenden.

    #Catch22 #Sigh

  22. Catch-22 firmware update on my USB-C powered ThinkPad: Thunderbolt controller update can only be applied if my ThinkPad is plugged in, but can't be applied if the Thunderbolt port (aka USB-C) is in use ... 🤔

    #linux #thinkpad #thunderbolt #Catch22 #hmm

  23. La carrera por estudiar "las maravillas" la #Antártida antes de que sea demasiado tarde - BBC News Mundo

    Durante 20 años, #SimonMorley ha estado haciendo huecos sobre la superficie helada del #océano Antártico y sumergiéndose en sus aguas gélidas para estudiar la colorida y extraña vida marina que allí existe, entre ellas ascidias y esponjas.

    El hielo está creando lo que se conoce como una situación #Catch22.

    Es muy grueso para que lleguen los botes hasta allí, pero no lo suficiente para cortar los huecos y poder hacer las sesiones de buceo"

    El volumen de #aguas congelada en la Antártida se está reduciendo en un alto índice, la vegetación se está esparciendo por amplias zonas y la temperatura del aire está aumentando.

    El #glaciar que aprendí a explorar con esquíes en #SouthGeorgia ya no es un glaciar. Ya no está allí", señaló Morley, quien trabaja en este lugar desde 2005.

    En vez del glaciar, ahora en la isla que está ubicada en el nordeste de la península antártica se ha llenado de áreas de hierba invasiva que han ido apareciendo en los últimos años.

    https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cqjz1rj9zldo

    Con el calentamiento del clima de la Antártida a un ritmo sin precedentes, los científicos tienen que lidiar con un hielo peligrosamente fino y equipos que caen al mar.

    #Leyendo #Ciencia #Glaciares ##Español #Biología

  24. Today, signing into the Wi-Fi network in Walmart required receiving a 6-digit code through email for "security". Receiving this email before it expires after 15 minutes requires a cellular subscription. If they're requiring guest Wi-Fi users to already have cellular data, why even offer guest Wi-Fi?

    #catch22 #walmart #wifi #guestwifi #2fa #cellular #mobiledata #antipoor

  25. @z428 it's a bit of a #Catch22. There are potential customers, like you, unable to find a reliable vendor. There are also heaps of ethical tech #cooperatives out there desperately looking for paying customers (eg I recently met some people from #WebArchitects and #CoLab).
    @jcbrand

  26. With this crisis I need to bring more money in but I’m scared. I’m not able to stay afloat financially right now. I have and so my can deteriorate to the point where I can’t do anything… at the moment I’m stable and happy, but if I push for a promotion and bag a tougher job with longer hours it might push me over the edge… again. 😢