So are they protesting them because immigration at the current conditions is causing issues? Or is it just the usual, “I hate their culture” rhetoric? It seems like the latter, and that’s something immigration policies will never look at, so seems a pointless protest.

But the rhetoric worked in the US and now their cripplingly low unemployment rate is getting even lower, offset by businesses shutting down. While the Presidents plans for a boost to domestic manufacturing is short by about 50 million people because they were just never there to begin with.

Actually, this also seems like a kind of Britain thing to do, to be honest.

And then we’ll lynch then for good measure

Yeah, this is what I end up doing. SQL does all the heavy lifting, and python or M usually doing the rest. Though M can be soooo slow.

God, I’m so over SQL.

It’s great, but it is so old and shows it. Feels like 99% of my SQL queries are just cheese.

Works though, and quick.

Friend’s colleague needed Excel to, “return the month where the majority of days in the week fall into”. Had Copilot do it and sent it to my friend, apparently impressed by making such a robust looking formula.

The formula:

My friend’s solution a minute later:

I can see it could be slimmed even less, but I assume the table is large so LET is doing performance stuff.

I live life by recognising three things we all share in common…

1. We had no say in being born
2. We had no say in what vessel we’d get to live in
3. We had no say in the conditions we’d be born into

Anyone that can’t acknowledge this has long since been able to acknowledge themselves. They are so lost that they will never find happiness.

I watch the NHL some times and it amazes me how many insurance, car leasing, and drugs ads the US has. And the ads are so weird; they feel like they were made by aliens trying to blend in with humans, so nothing is normal and everyone in the ad is apparently micro-dosing psilocybin.

Satisfaction.

Have you considered some kids weren’t interested in video games?

Have you considered some kids were blind?

Have you considered some kids are dead now?

Have you considered some kids weren’t allowed games?

Have you considered some kids didn’t know English or Japanese?

Have you considered some kids didn’t care for Pokemon to know anything about it?

Have you considered these things were banned in some countries?

Have you considered some kids had no hands?

Have you considered you make comments on the internet for no reason other than to devalue others?

Have you considered why you’d even do that?

Have you considered some kids weren’t in the intended market?

Have you considered some kids had different peer cultures?

Have you considered some kids had religious boundaries?

Have you considered a single word OP had said?

They say it’s number-one in history. What we’ve done, including stopping seven wars

Oh! Ooooh! I finally figured it out!

The elusive “they” he always mentions are Statler and Waldorf’s ghosts from The Muppet Christmas Carol and no one else can see them.

Apparently my TV has normalisation, but it doesn’t seem to do much. There is a setting that boosts dialogue, but it’s jarring enough that being the fastest remote in the West still comes out on top.

Maybe I can do something with the spare Pi…

…why would a professional whatever make a remark for technology doing their job for them and making their career redundant?

Farmer, coder, driver, whatever. “I can’t wait for the bots to do this” is not a common muttering. Except maybe if in the c-suite…

This is another fine example of where assumptions get you no where on the internet. My job isn’t coding but it requires knowing to do it well. If I exit the job market, as per your request, I cannot be replaced by a coder. Believe it or not, most jobs that require a coding skillset are not about coding. Crazy, right? 😲

God, I’m so sick of coding. Please. Bring it.

As of right now though? 5-6 years fie the basics

Well I’m not being judgy, but Washington AC/DC would be a good start.

I dunno. I view my dogs as companions. Yeah, they need me to look after.them like they’re children, but I need them to take care of me in the wilderness, protect the house, cheer me up, entertain guests, tow me on the longboard.

There’s no association with them and a human child for me. If anything dog ownership has shifted my mentality into the symbiotic relationship of a pack. I think being stuck thinking of them as children would make for some very miserable times and bad behaviour from both the owner and the dog.

I have the confidence level turned down too but lately it doubles down on itself.

The usual conversation…

VI: “You could do this.”
Me: “That won’t work because XYZ.”
VI: “No, you can definitely do that. XYZ has nothing to do with it.”
Me: pastes it’s own suggestion in.
VI: “Almost, but that won’t work because of XYZ.”

It’s most notorious one is adding an s to Table.AddColumn() then proceeding to make a full snippet around this newly made up function. This specific example is so regular it’s become a joke at work for giving someone an unhelp response,

“What do you want to do for lunch today?”

“Have you tried table add columns?”

Especially when the worst that could happen is nothing which is exactly what’s going to happen if OP says no. Literally can’t go backwards no matter what, but it’s possible they could go forward.

Well…unless something psycho happens, I guess. Then OP will suffer greatly, go very backward, traumatised for life etc. etc. etc…

Nah, they’ll be fiiiine.

I think Vance would then flip on everything Trump failed at and refer to his historical ctions to say, “I was never about that”, appealing to a lot of short-term thinkers on the back of a large angry mob familiar with him and are looking to redeem their egos. And he seems to be kind of playing that. He can’t be too loud else he’ll lose favour, hence he’s been around a long time when most others are well and truly discarded by now.

Unpopular opinion, but Vance is actually quite clever. He’s ambitious and plays the game well. His history is riddled with sucking onto whatever’s doing well. When he was younger it could be argued he was actually a good person at times, but ambition took over and he’s certainly a prime candidate for any devil wanting a cheap soul.

If this shit continues, he’ll do well out of it because he plays his cards well. He knows when to be the idiot that throws people under the bus for personal gain, he knows when to be the idiot that throws himself under the bus for being valued internally, he knows when to say the right things at the right time to weirdly seem sensible at times. Then out of no where “slips up” to make chaos.

The dude seems to be a cunning fox when you actually look at the big picture over time. Every time he does something stupid, I’m sure it’s intentional. It’s either that or he’s improbably fucking lucky and Americans are dumber than we realised.