xantoxis

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xantoxis,

I guess I’m not surprised that programmers don’t know how to follow meme standards.

The three panels following the first one are supposed to be helping the first one.

xantoxis, (edited )

These bugs are always opened by IC developers who need help and have little agency. So,

Closed “won’t fix” with note

Contributions accepted if you want to deliver the fix. If you are not in a position to dictate to your employer how your time is spent (and, if so, I understand your problem) please report to your manager that you will be unable to use this software without contributing the fix. Alternately, switch to [competitor]. Your manager should understand that the cost to the company of contributing a fix for this bug is less than the switching cost for [competitor]. I wish you luck, either way.

And then make the above text a template response, so you don’t have to spend your time typing it more than once.

xantoxis,

Altman is a fucking con artist. He’s just Elon Musk on the way up, with the exact same nonexistent ethical framework. I hope he gets eaten alive before the world rewards him with Musk-level money.

xantoxis,

When I say I hope he gets eaten, I’m not making a metaphor about the invisible hand of the market, I want a wild animal to devour him

xantoxis,

Even if he doesn’t realize it

… or want it, considering he’s not really affiliated with them any more.

xantoxis,

Meh, this story needs to be either 1) funnier or 2) more plausible.

xantoxis,

Not just retirement, put them in a machine that extrudes protein paste and use that to feed the next crop of legislators.

If you retire early, you don’t get put in the machine.

xantoxis, (edited )

Absolutely none of this is true.

  1. Alzheimer’s is only one specific disease that leads to rapid mental breakdown. There are many forms of senility, all of which including Alzheimer’s become more likely as you get older, which means that
  2. There is absolutely a strong correlation between age and degraded mental facilities. If I gave you three citations I’d be leaving out hundreds more citations.
  3. There won’t be a scientific breakthrough that doubles the average lifespan of every human on earth. There are so many flaws with this idea it’s exhausting just to think about it.
  4. Mandatory retirement ages are in use all over the place. Judicial appointments have this in place already in 18 states. Executive boards can legally have this rule in place as well. Any situation where old age in a job is a safety issue creates an exception in the form of an unmet bona fide occupational qualification. I would definitely argue that old men who create policy for hundreds of millions of people create a safety risk for those people if they aren’t mentally qualified to do the job.
xantoxis,

Block and move on kids

4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good?

Was 25 and super nervous, so when the realtor was like “oh yeah they just check for basic stuff, but I looked around and it looks great” I was like “Oh okay, this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good…”...

xantoxis, (edited )

I’m not trying to give you shit here OP, you did what you did 4 years ago and you’re thinking of doing something about it now so it’s all good, but:

this is so astronomically expensive every penny saved is good…”

This is so astronomically expensive that I can’t imagine caring about 300 bucks to see if anything is horrifically wrong with it. Seriously folks, get an inspection if you’re buying a house! This would be like, I dunno, taking a job without talking to a single person who works there, except at least with the job you can quit without wasting thousands of dollars! The inspection could save your life!

xantoxis,

Because change is costly and therefore a risk. When it seems that resources are scarce, risks are dangerous, and it can seem rational to destroy ideas that cost more resources, lest your imagined model of society collapse for lack of resources as the idea takes over.

It’s always conservatism, in other words.

US House votes to force weapons shipments to Israel, rebuking Biden (www.reuters.com)

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would force President Joe Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect civilians during its war with Hamas....

xantoxis,

Sure but the point is, after months of pithy quips about how the Democrats will support genocide of the Palestinians and the Republicans will support genocide of everyone including the Palestinians;

here we see that even on this specific issue, the parties have differences. So make the right choice.

xantoxis,

Dog teeth only have to last about 15 years.

xantoxis,

I mean, yeah

xantoxis,

When you order surf & turf, you’re eating the shells?

xantoxis, (edited )

The picture is of the outside of clams, but it says “shells”. The rest of the names of things in this picture don’t seem to have inaccuracies or non-English names–suggesting that “shells” is, in fact, what the creator of this superstitious sign actually meant.

Shell powder is actually added to some things as a calcium enhancement or preservative, but, notably, this is not at all what happens when you eat surf and turf. The only conclusion is that the surf & turf person up there thinks people eat the shell when they order lobster.

xantoxis,

This feels a bit subtle, they should have gone with a black and white photo of Hitler and “Miss me yet?”

xantoxis,

The Secret Service was created to investigate counterfeiting. The president stuff came later.

xantoxis,

I chuckled at the first commenter’s description of this as a boulder, but honestly the metaphor is pretty robust.

xantoxis,

We’re just doing pro cop memes now? How bout no

xantoxis,

Both of those things are part of the joke. Monopoly is a parody of capitalism, intended to make you hate rich people. The luxury tax is tiny, reflecting how there’s no real cost of living for rich people. Rich people can “go to jail”, but it’s trivial to get away again.

xantoxis,

Only one person can win when it comes to property ownership

Meaning, at the end of the game, more people hate the rich than are the rich. It’s not capitalist propaganda.

xantoxis,

It’s not even true. If there’s a medical product in eyeshot, they’ll be seeing its logos

xantoxis,

This feels like the way email scammers operate. Send a troll so obvious that reasonable people are pre-filtered out, leaving only the rubes.

I’m not sure why they’d want to do that to influence an election, though

Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio (www.theverge.com)

Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge....

xantoxis,

You’re right but let’s be clear here: Microsoft doesn’t care if it changes the industry for worse, so the only calculus that matters to the execs is whether it works

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