Sarcastic Fringehead and Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker, go clean your rooms! And stop teasing your little sister Common Cockchafer.

I don’t have to use anything cause I live in a civilized place where parents don’t mutilate their children.

I suspect circumcision is a devious, elaborate conspiracy by the lotion industry.

But only bad music.

Yeah, that’s the kind of toxic family that one should cut off as soon as possible.

They gave us the thagomizer. What more do you want?

I always cringe when I see native speakers confuse “it’s” and “its”, “their”, “they’re” and “there” and all the other subtleties of their language. But then again, I’m a pedantic German and maybe Americans are so anti-education already that they’re cool with that.

Psst. You forgot the megameters.

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It was missing an important thing.

As a general rule, I overthink everywhere. But the only time I actually have helpful ideas is when taking a dump.

You’re right, but I did manage to make the device show up as a compliant Linux laptop in their Intune UI, and that was all that mattered to them.

They don’t care that you have to make Intune think the distro is Ubuntu when it’s in fact EndeavourOS. Some necktie people were satisfied with the result and devs can now use Linux. Après moi, le déluge.

Boss told me I couldn’t use EndeavourOS because “it doesn’t work with M$ InTune”.

So I said if I could make an old unused laptop work with that setup, maybe the company could turn that into a pilot system and we could be more sexy to new developers we want to hire.

Boss said why not. IT said sure, here’s your laptop, have fun.

A few months later, a couple of devs have switched to Linux. Some have kept Windows. Some didn’t care because they have Macs. Everyone’s happy, we have more options, and everyone can choose what they subjectively feel is the best tool for the job - which is what professionals do instead of fighting.

And we actually hired a new dev who uses Linux.

Samesies.

I used to be a programming monkey. It was absolutely fine, I enjoyed it and other people got the flak if things weren’t done on time or there were other problems. My code was never the problem - each day, I spent at least four hours working for the company and up to four hours on my own projects, on the company dime.

Seems like I got too… confident in meetings. Made suggestions. People took too much notice.

Now I’m some kind of lead architect which pays really well, but there’s no more time for myself, there’s much more pressure, I can’t code nearly as much as I want to and the fun is gone.

“Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Schach und Billard?” - “Beim Schach hat man den Kö nich.”

“What’s the difference between chess and billiards?” - Answer is a pun, can mean both “In chess, you have the king.” and “In chess, you don’t have the cue.” Doesn’t translate at all.

Tsunamis move at those speeds you mentioned only at open sea. The closer to land they come, the slower they get, as all that kinetic energy is used to build up height.

But even when they reach shore, they’re still much too fast to escape from on foot, as we have seen on all those videos.

That’s why education isn’t just some nice-to-have luxury. Moments like these should make people go “wait, maybe it’s a shitty idea that conservatives like the Trump regime oppose proper, widely available and cheap education for everyone”.

I sometimes wonder how many lives would not have been lost if those people had known “sea magically disappear from beach mean big wave coming” when that Indian ocean tsunami happened. Instead, many even went to the beach to observe this strange phenomenon.

Knowledge can save your life.

It’s already gutted and separated in two halves, the tail end is what holds the thing together. You grab it by the tail, swallow the fish, bite it off the tail and throw that tail away.

Also, I would very much doubt there is anything on par with Dutch herring. Just saying. I absolutely love that stuff.

Absolutely. It is complex and pleasant. Best time to have it is in late June when they celebrate the opening of the new batch at Scheveningen (Den Haag).

We have pickled herring in Germany as well. You can buy it as grocery stores. It’s labelled “nordische Art” (“northern style”), and totally not the same as the real thing from the Netherlands - much more salty, less complex and not in the same league at all. So if ever you go to Germany, don’t confuse the two.