[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago

I was part of a stable of about 50 programmers working for a company that manufactured lubricants circa 2000. For about a month at one point, the entire roomful of programmers spent the entire day calling into Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to try and get on the show. Absolutely nothing happened to the company -- lubricants kept getting manufactured and sent to customers on schedule. The entire operation ran on mainframe applications that dated to the 1970s. I'm not even sure what any of these programmers did other than myself, and all I did was write IE6-based web frontends that sat on top of the mainframe apps (and they're still running to this day lol, which means the mainframe apps are still in use).

I got as far as Calculus III and Linear Algebra in college. Nowadays I'm sure I could not do a derivation or an integration to save my fucking life and when I see a matrix my brain thinks "wow, numbers in a grid!"

Every time I've seen Russia mentioned in the MSM, it's "Russia has attempted to influence our elections" without mentioning that the influence was on behalf of trump.

My last company had a cool pathway where you could become a "distinguished engineer" instead of a manager and get the same sort of huge salary and stock options. Unfortunately, my last company also liked to lay off huge swaths of engineers, particular those who were a year away from being eligible to become "distinguished engineers".

If you're dumb enough to have been dumb, keep being dumb.

Donald Trump has done similar things.

Like shilling for Goya products from the Oval Office? Yes that's totally similar to turning down a raise.

In the Roman Republic, it was understood that officials needed to line their pockets as much and as quickly as possible during their limited time in office. This is why term limits are also bad when combined with low pay.

Four years of "Merrick Garland is a professional and he is just making sure all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed before prosecuting trump".

My favorite thing is the cop cars that have an actual fucking laptop set up next to the driver. Nothing distracting about that, no sir.

My grandmother had her first child out of wedlock at the age of 14, her second child (my mom) out of wedlock with a different father at the age of 16, and her third child out of wedlock with yet another different father at the age of 17. And this was all in the 1930s. I strongly suspect grandma really enjoyed the sex -- otherwise, why go through all the social approbation and abandonment by her family that went along with it?

"Fascistic" means like fascism. This isn't like fascism, it is fascism.

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