Technical Debt:

1. Current company is running one of its main databases on Oracle 13 because they refuse to pay Uncle Larry a dime, but also cannot migrate it (Oracle eBusiness Suite EBS).

2. Last company made copies of all customer servers hard drives and kept them in a cold vault. So, they had to maintain systems dating back to the 1980s to current in order to recover data from drives in cold storage. The local data recovery company loved them too as drives freeze up and don’t spin after a while. They went under during Covid citing operational issues.

Was fun having a sun 2 pizzabox, a Sun Ultrasparc 10, an SGI Orion and a series of x86 systems on my desk all the time though.

3. A power company whose name I cannot share insisted on having 5 access and control rooms per power plant (most usually have 2-3 per plant) for redundancy. It drove them to near bankruptcy in the 2010s because of their tech debt trying to keep them all in sync world wide. Coolest part: I setup 20 x 70" Plasma TVs as a single C&C panel for their HQ back in 2007 using 3 Matrox video cards.

Psst… Soy de Mexico, but thanks for playing.

Increases in students from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Brazil, Russia, Georgia, Iran and African nations doesn’t mean ‘everyone’ LMAO.

Chinese solar manufacturers: Thanks Trump!

There’s probably another somewhere, but the only bronze rat that’ll stay stuck in your head forever is the Pratt Rat

edit: Adding history https://www.instagram.com/reel/CGqkG5dHSMP/

After my last trip to Australia, I’ve decided cunt is no longer a profanity. It’s used by Aussies north to south so indiscriminately now.

I hope he is so humiliated by this that he quits driving altogether.

‘Why are you treating me like a criminal?’

Because you entitled drunk driving prick: You WERE a criminal at that moment.

This calls for another Iranian Public Execution!

IRGC: Fuckem all.

Caribou Coffee is preferred in most of Minnesota anyways.

Why a hamster?

A lawyer representing 4chan has repeatedly responded to Ofcom’s legally binding, “dozens of pages” of correspondence by stating it will make “excellent bedding for my pet hamster”.

Still too big for this fool.

Tass: Russian Propaganda

Unreliable news source

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And to think, all of them have to dump their ethnicity and adopt a Han one or ‘disappear’.

https://www.economist.com/china/2026/03/09/there-are-56-ethnicities-in-china-and-55-are-getting-squashed

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Dear Iran, please bomb the currently under construction: Disneyland, Abu Dhabi south of Dubai. No one wants that shit.

OK I don’t know most of those services.
That’s because they vary from country to country.

VW Flex is a car rental service, or some sort of car sharing program, why are you mad that VW offer such a service? If you don’t want it, you are 100% free not to rent a car from VW or anyone else.
SIXT isn’t even VW but BMW!

When I briefly looked at an ID.4 and ID Buzz they insisted, even though it was untrue, that VW Flex and SIXT+ were the only options for me to lease… SIXT+ is used here for Porsche and certain VW models, but is more a rental service than a leasing service. That’s definitely true.

I can see you may have a point about some of the other items.
But here we don’t have those, but the app is also very limited here, and I cannot lock the doors of my car remotely, something I found weird, since it must be extremely easy to make.
Navigation is however included without charge. And there are no subscriptions.

Yup. Again, this is VW getting away with whatever they can where they can.

I have no idea what the points below are supposed to be about. Except VW works fine with unions in Europe, but USA has no protections of unions, so blame your government and fellow Americans for that one too. Absolutely fight for unions, If I were American I would support a unionized brand as well.

Well, I have family in Frankfurt, DE that also hates VW as of late. They just announced for example they’re laying 50k people off worldwide… not because they’re suffering, but because of lower than expected profits. Post tax profits dropped? boohooo. Eat shit VW.

You make some good points, but I don’t get why you start out with points in both sections that seem pretty stupid non issues, apart from diesel-gate of course being an issue, but since everybody did it, you can’t really use that for anything.

I have no excuse for this other than it was an energetic response full of emotion that prevented better articulation lol.

USA, any VW dealership:

• VW Flex
• SIXT+
• Remote access sub
• Navigation Sub
• Plus Navigation Sub
• ID.3 power upgrade sub

Lies:

• Dieselgate
• Union busting Tennessee
• German zero impact factories
• Belgium manufacturing plant pollution

Take your pick. VW has been failing for so long that they moved to subscriptions to pick up the bottom line from their remaining customers, then complain no one wants their vehicles.

VW: Once the king of affordable and reliable, now just garbage.

May they fail miserably and fade into obscurity in my lifetime.

Sincerely, a VW hater since Dieselgate.