I don’t know, but somebody is going to have to keister some glitter for it.

You would have to have an incredible grindset to become a decent engineer without actually enjoying any of it. You could become a shitty one just by passing tests, I guess. (And probably many people do)

Shit, I wrote that wrong. Trying to do too many things at once.

Wow, I’ve never had this problem. The tricky one is Australia vs. NZ.

I mean, it is really big and looks like it’s in the way, although I wonder if it’s also parked wrong.

Maybe the owner needs a large pickup, but relatively few owners of large pickups do. For the rest it’s conspicuous consumption, which is always gross, and in cars seems to correlate with antisocial behavior.

The name might well have come from the community, since the whole app store model is as old as the modern smartphone, and downloading a different way is new, while possible, was always for power users.

If there had been a more normal software ecosystem from the get-go that would have been nice. Actual regulation to enforce device freedom would also be good.

Do people still do that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it IRL, but then again I don’t live somewhere that’s known for it.

And letting the US government spy on you helps with that?

In reality, people are built for the stone age and a little out of their depth with 21st century technology. Unless there’s some visual indicator of the spying their normal social instincts don’t kick in.

Well this feels like bait.

I was agreeing with you, FWIW. They’re not puppets run by some shadowy group, and what they actually do is very public (if you bother to look). My country televises parliament, and publishes all legislation. The US does something similar. It’s also easy to get facetime with representatives, if you’re willing to knock on doors and attend boring meetings.

Over the long run, conditions have improved, in spite of representative democracy being a cluster-fuck in the short term.

Then that’s not a problem with the law, but with enforcement.

If there was whatever glorious socialist revolution tomorrow, that law would stay.

Yup. I actually know and work with politicians. It’s a sales job alright; the legislation is pretty secondary regardless of who it benefits. You can see laws that fuck everyone rich or poor being passed sometimes, if they sound good in a speech.

Is that what the point of the meme was? You can read it as being about how much lower the stakes are, too.

This is my backup instance while SDF is down, if that’s what you’re talking about. It has good blocked/blocked by.

A fish in water doesn’t know it’s in water, right?

Yup, nobody uses sarcasm. /s

Hmm. Well, maybe I’m just in a bubble there. I don’t think I’ve seen it used in media.

I don’t even think it’s fashion. Some ideas sound good but are bad. Or, overlappingly, are convenient to use but actually turn into nightmarish spaghetti code. I don’t know how many people are still pushing MongoDB and BASE, for example.

Meanwhile SQL hasn’t changed, and C didn’t until someone figured out memory safety in Rust.

Enby is a nonbinary person. At least in English.

N.B, get it?

'Noughts or “the first decade of this century” are also around. The 2000’s seems to work fairly reliably, but like you said they still might interpret it as the century, and it’s just a mouthful.