It was a huge shock to us all, all around the world, watching him go from attempting to run for president of the U.S., to actually attaining it. The best thing I can say for it, is that it shows that Americans have a genuine hunger for change. If it could just be directed in a productive way...

This would turn gay in exactly 47 seconds

Exactly, accounts signed off on this, so clearly it's not crazy. Who knows maybe they're thinking "Wow I can't believe we got this person for only 42"

The iPhone is just the cherry on top

I knew this the first time I said "rip" out loud.

That's curious because I find I rewatch more movies than ever before, since it's so easy to find them, and I already know whether I like them or not.

The proposal also includes $6 billion in aid for Ukraine.
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“Well look, Russia invaded Ukraine and I think if they are allowed to get way with that and the United States does not support Ukraine it will simply embolden Russian imperialism and create a never ending crisis in Europe,” Sanders says.

He does not appear to be against their aid too, no.

Source, and again. Not American, but this Sanders guy seems alright.

wow you've really been focused on upgrading your skills and taking all of those udemy courses really shows you dedication to continued employment at planetfuckers ltd

Vetinari IRL. From Soul Music by Terry Pratchett:

Besides, Lord Vetinari, the supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, rather liked music.

People wondered what sort of music would appeal to such a man. Highly formalized chamber music, possibly, or thunder-and-lightning opera scores.

In fact the kind of music he really liked was the kind that never got played. It ruined music, in his opinion, to torment it by involving it on dried skins, bits of dead cat, and lumps of metal hammered into wires and tubes. It ought to stay written down, on the page, in rows of little dots and crotchets all neatly caught between lines. Only there was it pure. It was when people started doing things with it that the rot set in. Much better to sit quietly in a room and read the sheets, with nothing between yourself and the mind of the composer but a scribble of ink. Having it played by sweaty fat men and people with hair in their ears and spit dribbling out of the end of their oboe… well, the idea made him shudder. Although not much, because he never did anything to extremes.

Billionaires are hard workers like middle managers are hard workers. They certainly do things during the day, and they earn a lot more money than the actual workers. But it has nothing to do with the value of their labour, and everything to do with their position.

Anyway, preaching to the choir, I know.

Software Engineers and UX/UI Designers need a code of ethics, like yesterday.

Yes, business is ultimately to blame, but those folks are beyond saving - they will never ever ever put the brakes on an initiative that could make more money legally. Unless there's blowback from an ethics board / professionals in charge of implementing their dark patterns.

Engineer here - we're undervalued too. We just happen to have more clout in the workplace at the moment, and so more individual bargaining power. That can change on a dime, though.

Wow I didn't even know that Amazon owned Whole Food. That's disgusting.

If they'd done this right out of the gate, they would not have nearly the market share they have today, let alone all of the free advertising in the form of guides, courses, Q&As, and general expertise.

It's a classic honeydick.

Oh that's infinitely less disturbing than the images my mind conjured up

Not this particular example, maybe, but the concept of a device remaining usable in failure runs counter to planned obsolescence.

Wait all the time iPhone users have been flexing?

Joke's on you, I have so many abandoned activities, I can just cycle through them

Ah reminds me of the time (back in the LAMP days) when I tried to apply this complicated equation that sales had come up with to our inventory database. This was one of those "just have the junior run it at midnight" type of shops. Anyway, I made a mistake and ended up exactly halving all inventory prices on production. See OP's picture for my face.

In retrospect, I'm thankful for that memory.

rm -rf $STEAM_ROOT/ takes me wayyy back. I remember hearing about that one. It was part of a script that shipped with a Stream installer?

Whatever it was, the bug was that if the env var in that line wasn't defined, it would just rm the actual root. Hilarious if doesn't happen to you!