I've completely banned any code that can't be explained. I've had my CTO send me code at 3 AM to implement and when I ask him what I'm looking at he just says it doesn't need review, just push it.

Uhh, no sir, I'm not doing shit because you've handed me GCC and we're MSVC.

After I bitched endlessly to the CEO about that he said I have final say on what goes into the project.

I was walking across the bridge when I saw someone standing on the ledge, looking ready to jump.

I rushed over and shouted, "Don't do it! Think of the collective struggle! There is so much worth organizing for!"

They looked up, wiping away tears, and asked, "Like what?"

I said, "Well... are you a reactionary, or do you fight for systemic progress?"

They sniffed. "I fight for systemic progress."

"Great!" I said. "Are you a liberal reformist, or an anti-capitalist leftist?"

"An anti-capitalist leftist," they replied.

"Fantastic! Are you an anarchist or a Marxist?"

"Marxist."

"Incredible! Marxist-Leninist, Trotskyist, or Maoist?"

"Trotskyist."

"Amazing, comrades in the vanguard! Fourth International, or the International Socialist Tendency?"

"Fourth International!"

"Unbelievable! Posadist revolutionary permanent struggle, or orthodox United Secretariat?"

"Orthodox United Secretariat!"

"We are practically reading the exact same pamphlets! Now, tell me: when analyzing the Degenerated Workers' State hypothesis regarding post-1928 Soviet bureaucratic collectivism, was the bureaucracy an emergent ruling class with unique exploitative relations to production, or merely a parasitic caste misallocating surplus value while preserving the proletarian property base?"

They frowned. "Clearly, state ownership meant it remained a distorted workers' state, so the bureaucracy was merely a counter-revolutionary caste, not a true class."

I took a step back, clenched my fist, and yelled:

"Die, class-collaborationist counter-revolutionary revisionist scab!"

...and shoved them off the ledge.

Informed consent does not exist in the animal world and I'm very saddened that that's a sentence I had to type.

You cannot apply human standards to animals, they do not understand contract law.....again, a sentence I'm just very sad I had to type because they didn't understand that.

I'd hardly call Palworld innovative, It's Satisfactory/Factorio meets Rust with legally distinct pokemon. The novelty is what carries it but it didn't exactly reinvent the genre by any stretch.

A man walked to the newspaper stand to buy a copy every single day. The man would take one look at the cover then simply throw the paper into the trash and go about his day.

Eventually the shopkeep became curious after months of this behavior and he decided to ask the guy what he was doing.

"Looking for an obituary." the man replied.

"Obituaries are in the back of the paper, not the cover." the shopkeeper said, a little confused.

"Not the obituary I'm look for." was the response.

Yea I really hate it when my shapeshifting demi-god narrative gets interrupted by anatomical errors of deities.

I'm sure he's crying into his millions of dollars while being consoled by his highschool sweetheart wife that a youtuber said mean things about him.

You do realize that license plates are government issued plates attached to your identity and that they keep lists of those plates....right?

Because it would be incredibly silly if you thought otherwise.

The problem with that is it assumes every idea or opinion is of equal value and that every idea or opinion deserves equal time.

They just don't. I don't need give you a platform, weigh the pros and cons, and listen to you extol the virtues of you shitting in my soup. It is not on equal footing to the idea of not shitting in my soup.

Likewise, I don't need to listen to the pros and cons of a flavor of linux backed by technocrats in bed with a body politic that would cause any founding father to eat his own beard in rage.

Using it gives it legitimacy.

Not everyone participates in reading the deeper meaning of media.

Some people just turn off their brains and watch the magic smiles box and come away liking the characters and movie without thinking any further than what was portrayed on screen.

Half the characters on this list are just really awesome visual/character portrayals.

They didn't misunderstand the message, you misunderstood their intent going into the media.

You watch movies to dissect their meanings, others watch movies to escape reality for a bit.

I love my job, even when I have to deal with nonsense like that and I'm compensated very well to be on call 24/7.

Announcing it was the entire point, it gets more people thinking about poisoning their datasets too. You're concerned about a dollar when we're positioned to make thousands.

All of it is bullshit to try and get a bailout from the government and a monopoly.

Just because it's super important.

DO NOT TALK ABOUT CRIMES YOU COMMIT OR POST THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

There are two types of criminals, those that keep their mouth shut and those getting arrested.

If you somehow get approached by police, DO NOT SPEAK TO THEM AT ALL. Explicitly state that you want a lawyer to represent you and that you will not be speaking or answering any questions. The only questions you have to legally answer (in most jurisdictions) is to identify yourself. Once you have done that, ask for a lawyer and SHUT THE FUCK UP.

There's a time and place to talk and it's with your lawyer present.

The vouch needed isn't that it works. It's how they handle your data.

This is already happening.

They are paying people bottom market rates to generate unique written content and people are just having AI write it for them.

Why would they need that? They can perfectly map out your house and your position in it using your wifi.

The Earth belongs to the living.

The dead had their time, they have zero say now.

Turns out, when you have anonymous posting, anyone can be anyone.

9 times out of 10, if you're engaging someone in political talk, you're talking to someone in China, Russia, or India.