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Yes, they are amazingly stupid. How could you possibly have guessed that? lol

It’s nice to see academia adapting (somewhat) to the work environment, even if it took a few decades.

I got massively brainwashed my first semester in college … because I made friends with black and gay people for the first time and realized they were just people.

My two cousins who live in Florida are white supremacists and love desantis like he’s the second coming of Jesus (they’re just OK with trump). They naturally also hate immigrants and want everybody deported. This would be utterly unremarkable for a couple of Floridians except for the fact that they’re half-Thai, the children of my white uncle and the Thai immigrant woman he brought back to the US after serving in Vietnam. My uncle was also anti-immigrant despite having married two immigrants (his second wife was from Spain and also hated immigrants lol). I just do not understand these people.

For me, developing applications was a joy … but only when I was left completely alone to do everything by myself. Such opportunities were just becoming rarer and rarer.

Most of my career was spent working for small shops that provided custom software for small-ish clients. The absolute number one skillset required was the ability to talk to clients, understand their business and figure out what they needed the software to actually do. Not only are these skills not taught in Computer Science programs, it’s never even suggested that you might possibly need them at some point in your career. In my opinion, this is why CS types cling so tenaciously to a rigid division of labor in software development: they want somebody else to do this and then hand them a well-written requirements document.

I spent a big chunk of my career going through mountains of incomprehensible human-generated code. I eventually learned that it was generally easier to just start over from scratch. At the same time I learned that nothing makes corporate bosses’ heads explode faster than telling them that their codebase sucks and needs to be rewritten from scratch. My solution to this fundamental dilemma was to become a school bus driver.

He helped prevent DECADES of conservative damage.

Meh, right-wing talking heads like him are a dime a dozen. The real power is in the media that feature them.

I’m still not fully sure who he was. 3 days ago, I’d never heard the name.

I knew there was some guy who was being parodied for his tiny face, but that was it.

My ex-girlfriend was American and half-Jewish (on her father’s side), thoroughly non-religious and very liberal. But after high school she spent a summer in Israel on kibbutz and somehow it made her completely insane on the subject of the Palestinians. She talked about how they needed to be exterminated and that Israel was completely right in what they were doing (and this was the '90s). If I tried to argue with her she insisted that I couldn’t understand since I’d never been to Israel. It was like talking to someone possessed by a demon.

our judges don’t use gavels

Good protection against Banksy …

I remember all the people on reddit in 2020 who were loudly insisting that Garland was just biding his time and making sure that the case against Trump was ironclad before moving against him. I’d say lol but it’s obviously not funny.

The only thing that should be reduced is the length of the rope.

I was out on my bike ride yesterday and one of the places I stop is next to a flagpole. The fucking flag was at half-mast for this asshole, just preposterous.

The bass lines were cool.

Why not? They’re the good kind.

i was about to say exactly that

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Arresting trump would have started the civil war.

Surely it would have been better to have had a Democrat in the white house when the civil war started than having trump there.

I mean, he’s obviously gotten plastic surgery at various times in the past. That shit needs constant retouching.