I really like that!

A while back, Someone shared their collection of radioactive ceramics. Opened up a new world for me!

Growing up in the 90s, there were so many hobbies that were unobtainable.

Like, I was a kid and didn’t have anybody to teach me about trees. So they recommend you go to a library and get some books on trees. But the books are either at a college level, or something extremely basic. And your support was only as helpful as the librarian. So they knew zilch about the topic, you’re fucked.

Today, you wanna know about trees? Visit a wiki. Watch YouTube videos. Ask AI. Go to the library with actual resources to get the right books or audio books.

Huge opportunity and a wealth of information.

It said do a hobby for the fun of it, not create pain and suffering

Fun fact: internet explorer was originally built off the File Explorer.

I kinda stopped following programming for windows a decade ago. But in sure there is some ancient code from 30 years ago that is holding some critical files together.

Need a Explanation?

(Gestures vaguely in the air)

How am I defending rapists?

I get youre frustrated. Im frustrated.

The moment a platform/site/community starts actively advocating for violence, then it can get delisted, blocked, banned, etc.

I work in an industry which literally cuts the Internet off of platforms that do that. I don’t want to get a ticket that tells me to remove Lemmy from the rest of the world.

Can we not actively advocate for violence in meme form?

And instead post subtle funny memes where it’s implied while also linking to where women/poc can learn gun safety?

Mostly because this stuff gets taken down after a while.

On Reddit, there was a post that outlined why this rando voted for Trump that had thousands of upvotes.

The major complaint was the constant noise about things like BLM, DEI, LGBTQ, defund the police and hating private prisons.

I can understand if this racist hates the first half. And I can understand if they also love sucking off cops.

But why the fuck would anybody support a private prison? Literally a company that makes money off of people being punished?

I tip my bank teller, the canvasser with the clipboard in front of the supermarket, and the traffic light for turning green.

I didn’t even notice the rape joke.

I read it as getting knifed.

As a person with allergies to specific foods, then don’t make this mistake. Measure twice, cut once. These rules were written in blood, and tiniest violin for companies who fail it.

This is my neighbor all the time.

Like dude, round up!

Something I’m noticing is the people who scream the loudest about the “what ifs” like rape and murder are often really fucking crazy themselves.

And this is why we do The Scotty Principle

That’s the “One minute manager” bullshit. It’s literally just popping in randomly to course correct.

It’s distracting as fuck as a engineer.

Totally agree. Drives me insane with drive-by status updates.

It’s this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/2rmir6/why_developers_hate_being_interrupted/

Absolutely! But it also depends on the size of the company. Small companies can absolutely benefit from PMs. I used to take freelance clients as a engineer, and never accepted a job without a PM who was willing to block out the noise.

In big companies though, I have a lot of disdain for PMs.

Many literally spend their hours being the middleman between actual stakeholders. I recently had a project where the PM was just forwarding emails from one department lead to another. They didn’t understand the product or cared to follow any processes. Then distracting my team for status updates so they can build reports in Excel, so they can feed it up the chain if something was done or not.

Fortunately, our retros are heavily engineer-centric and we can give harsh feedback/fire our PMs, which we have done successfully over the past few years.

Absolutely this.

This is going to sound awful coming from a person who voted for Kamala. But when Trump wanted something, he pushed forward and gave zero fucks who he burned. Trump wanted a wall, and then there’s a wall. Granted, it’s shitty, it’s expensive and an eyesore, and it does absolutely nothing and no Democrats voted for it (that I’m aware of). But to the stupids, they see it as a win.

Democrats fight for a policy, and then carve it over and over to appease corporations, billionaires, conservatives, and anybody who might feel threatened by it. And to those who could really benefit, they suffer. So yeah, I can see why people would shrug at giving a vote for Kamala.

Again, I voted for her. But in reality, I want a candidate who will go, “Listen motherfuckers. All kids in America will get fed. Suck my dick if you hate it. Every single kid will get a sandwich and if you speak again, will destroy you.”

I want to comment that you nailed so many valid points.

I know a lot of people don’t want to hear this, and I know what I’m about to say sounds racist as hell. But Obama was a fluke and America in general is just not willing to elect a minority again.

This one, I don’t think I agree that it was a fluke.

Democrats are continuing to let the loudest crybabies take over the room. And then compromise. Conservatives are right on one thing: the message that Kamala put out to their people was, “You don’t want to vote for a fascist.” Which doesn’t resonate with them. What they instead saw was a person who was going to keep things the same.

Can a minority run again? Absolutely.

But only stop catering to the status quo and bowing down to companies. Do Bernie Sanders shit.