It’s about training their replacement. The more that they are forced to use it, the faster it will learn all of their jobs.

I can’t decide if I am intensely jealous because your standard of health care and worker protection is so high that you and the people you work with, as working adults, don’t already know all of the forms of emergency care and which one is likely the least worst option for a given injury type.
Or am I more jealous of the idea that you went to emergency services for a minor injury like a sprained ligament in your hand, and your biggest irritation is that you didn’t know where to go to get it treated and not at being stressed out of your mind fighting with providers and insurance over who has to pay this massive debt.

Seriously, there’s a reason we don’t “build like the Romans”. We would be using 10x the concrete that we use now. We can’t even keep up with concrete demand now, I can’t even imagine how much worse the environment would already be if we needed 10x the concrete.

That’s a god damn lie! Trump did not bankrupt a casino!

A casino would imply that he learned his lesson after the first one. No, Trump bankrupted 4 casinos. And then for good measure, he went back and he bankrupted half of them again.

Makes sense when you realize that there’s almost no overlap in the people who believe each thing is morally wrong.

Publicly traded companies are soulless entities that are legally bound to 1 and only 1 goal, short term profits. Any time you see a company do something stupid, ineffectual, completely pointless, ect., then what you are seeing is step one in a plan. It is costing them money and future profits to make these changes that they know will be wildly unpopular just to maybe, sort of, possibly could, but won’t really, protect a very small number of the dumbest people on the planet? No, companies ruin, poison, make homeless, and kill people constantly while being completely aware of what they are doing. They do it and continue to come up with new ways to do it because they have just the 1 goal, profit. So, if this is not altruism then what is it? That’s what people are upset about. Because there are a lot of reasons for them not to do this, but the only reasons for them to do it are all bad in addition to violating their 1 goal. And they are still doing it anyway.

Infinity war was really good. Endgame was a fucking disaster. It was a horribly written piece of shit that proved to marvel that they could make a ton of money off of complete garbage.

I don’t know what you are talking about… There was the Highlander movie, and then there was the Highlander tv show. That’s all there ever was.

Ya, it takes a massive amount of time and effort to make sure you are born into a family where your mother is on the board of the one and only client big enough to set the standard for the rest of the industry.

Did you use AI to come up with the explanation?

I wouldn’t go as far as to call PDF a dumpster fire, but I can tell you that internally it is an absolute unholy mess internally. The fact that you feel like you get consistency out of it 100% comes down to the anal retentive developers who spend insane man hours tweaking the fuck out of their code to get whatever PDF library that they got stuck using from fucking up the image.
The worst part is that Adobe wants PDF to be the one and only format, but also wants to make sure that you have to use their very expensive PDF library to integrate it into your program. So, they constantly fuck with stuff and make changes that break shit. To make it even dumber, their own library doesn’t always keep up with their changes, and when you report the bugs they created, they give no fucks about ever fixing the issue unless you are big enough to for them to care.

Just like Rolls Royce (jet engines) and Rolls Royce Motor (automotive) haven’t had anything to do with each other since the 70s.

Checks out, because the lyingest mother fuckers out there are old men.

That’s fucking hilarious. I didn’t know that they covered a muppets song, now I like them even more than I did before.

Don’t forget the part where they also own the people who create the laws and therefore the people who enforce the laws.

Or you work for the olive garden.

Unfortunately, so called legit sites do this shit now too. So you may find government, school, or work forcing you to interact with asshats like this.

Wow, talk about moving goal posts… You were all enraged with his conflating Walmart and private sales, but have no problems making up stuff that I didn’t say.
As for online sales: “According to the ATF, any unlicensed person -meaning not a Federal Firearms Licensee- may transfer a firearm to another unlicensed person residing in the same state as long as that person is not barred from owning a gun. This means it’s perfectly legal under federal law to transfer your gun to another person without any extra steps as long as they are allowed to own a firearm. There is no federal requirement for having a license to do so, and you don’t need to fill out any paperwork. As long as you’re both residents of the same state, your transaction is essentially unrestricted.”

So how about state laws you ask?
“Private Transfers of Firearms Wyoming does not regulate private sales and transfers of firearms”.

Because you can buy guns at Walmart, maybe not in California, but they sell guns in approximately half of their stores in the US.
You can also go to gun shows and buy guns without a background check.
But of course you’re correct, he was wrong, It’s not as easy as going to Walmart to get a gun without a background check. It’s actually MUCH EASIER than that in more than half the US. You can just go online and pay for someone to send you a gun without any background check, site unseen, from the comfort of your own home.

I agree with that. The only caveat I have is that if you are a junior, entry level, or even just an underpaid developer being asked to work on “mission critical” code, then that code is not “mission critical”. It is code that management is obligated to provide but gives no real fucks about.

Much like a bar mitzvah or quinceañera signals the beginning of the transition from childhood to adulthood, there is the junior to senior transition for developers. It often starts with the realization that the most recent in a long line of super critical bugs you are working on has been sitting around untouched for weeks and is only now “critical” because a customer has bitched about it not being fixed. The best part is when you follow the progress of the bug and see that your fix doesn’t get touched by anyone for months because there never was an actual customer bitching about it in the first place, it was just some sales person or VP flexing their power because they felt ignored. So the bug got squeezed it into the already over packed production cycle by making it “mission critical” and assigning it to someone too junior to realize that it’s bullshit work.