Biggest problem with it is that it lies with the exact same confidence it tells the truth. Or, put another way, it's confidently incorrect as often as it is confidently correct - and there's no way to tell the difference unless you already know the answer.

"Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby"

Heh, haven't seen the bash forkbomb in close to two decades... Thanks for the trip down memory lane! :)

"Actual inflation" is just some capitalist a bit further up the supply chain "turning the screws on everyone just because they can". Inflation is the ultimate proof capitalism is an inherently flawed system.

I started a new job some months back, and my boss straight up told us in a team meeting "we're not paying you to give 100% all the time, that's not possible. We're paying you for your average effort. Everyone has good days and bad, so don't worry about it. Just do the job as good as you can on any given day and if we were right in hiring you, that will be enough." Kind of blew my mind and confirmed I'd done the right thing signing with that company.

Laying off a lot of people does wonders for the end of year report...

I've always been partial to the phrase "the worst thing someone has experienced is the worst thing they've experienced". Someone elses experiences never invalidates that.

"Praise the lord and pass the ammunition" ;)

I've always been partial to "sticks and stones may break my bones but words can really hurt me".

They tried it in France after the revolution IIRC. Didn't work all that well :)

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows the war is over

Everybody knows the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That's how it goes

Everybody knows

• Everybody Knows, Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, 1988

Perhaps look into the DC-X program, fully 20 years before SpaceX Falcon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

I haven't done web API work for a while now, but postman had gone to shit even back then, to the point that I actively looked for alternatives. Ended up using an extension for VS Code called Thunder Client if I recall correctly. It was a bit rough around the edges but it got the job done without me having to log in anywhere or upload my requests anywhere.

That's the way. I've been programming for nigh on four decades, and it's almost a daily occurrence with junior devs going to stack overflow or chatGPT to solve an issue instead of just searching the code where nine times out of ten the problem (or a very similar one) is already solved.

Their money is already there so them moving wouldn't make much of a difference.

That was an interesting read, thank you!

1. "Blam, blam, stop!, blam, police!, blam"...

Dopesmoker by Sleep clocking in at a nice 63:29 minutes 🙂

Left hand by the scruff, right hand by the belt, lift, swing forward, back, forward, and release. Easy :)

Also why life on earth is dying off as well...