That people are smart.

Most people are abject morons who still believe in Iron Age mythology.

I taught my son to be a conscientious objector.

I caught hell for that, especially in conversations in my very, very small town where many people sent their kids into this meat grinder.

I told my son he was too good for that, and some locals hate me for that. Like they thought I was saying my son was better than theirs.

No, I just understand the system, and I’m not going to groom my kid to be chopped meat. You don’t have to do that either.

You do you. That’s not beautiful to me, though, e: and my son is the most beautiful thing in the world to me.

I was answering this as a dev and designer. That’s why this is more work.

Oh, then the dipshit is definitely going to try it.

For your layout preferences, colours, other UI options, states (what ‘back’ means), things like that, usually.
If you have an account, what page you were on last, your history so it can give you related items, and other ‘convenience’ features.

Less ethical sites use them to advertise to you, and (more rarely) some scammers use them to scam you.

Most are benign, but some are not.

Doesn’t the SecDef have more important things to do right now?

More important than thinking about children’s genitals?

He’s in the GOP. So no.

😱

I don’t like Veteran’s Day and I’ve been called out for that.

I do respect and appreciate veterans for what they’ve done, but I cannot respect or celebrate the military complex that has thrown people into a meat grinder and then discarded them for decades, which is what that day represents to me.

I cannot support these wars, where people are brainwashed, used, then cast aside, to benefit elites and politicians who will never feel that pain and will literally party when dropping their bombs.

Fuck everything about that.

Everyone wants a demon bursting through the ground in an explosion of lava. There are classes for that. Nobody has ever asked for a scarf in our game, and our code doesn’t even know what a neck is.

You do deserve better. I am glad you can see that now.

To be fair, if it wasn’t, would you expect him to say so?

He can say that under oath. Then we can talk about an apology for staying friends with a convicted child molestor.

Under oath. In front of everyone.

Yeah, IIRC when a bunch of large corporations got away with doing this in the 1980s and 90s, a lot of us just assumed it would keep happening. Some people have tried raising the alarm about this, but have been shouted down pretty consistently.

Nothing says ‘free speech’ like arresting people during your speech.

Sorry, but this is kinda separate:

we couldn’t possibly pay the market price for it.

&

I was like but that’s the job.

This is literally what labour unions are for?

Well, this shows that the people in charge have no idea what they’re running, and are not adding any value. We’ve been brainwashed (by them buying our eyeballs and brains) to think they do.

They do not.

I cannot stress this enough:

THEY. DO. NOT.

Thanks. It sounds like our backgrounds are similar.

Writing JDs for new roles I had to fill I was constantly getting them knocked back by HR.

That’s awful. It feels really bad when you feel you’re standing in the way of people getting jobs. When you would normally feel like you might be a leftist, this sort of point can be easily exploited to make you feel bad, right?

I don’t even want to address the rest of your points until we go over this one because it feels so important.

No, I ended up hiring under qualified people who had skills on paper but had no talent for the job, because I had to look at candidates who had ‘book’ qualifications in adjacent fields but not passion or any qualifications that actually meant anything to the specialty itself.
This was a design and engineering job.

e: and to be clear, our company president was famous for saying ‘specialisation is for insects’. Like that was his catchphrase.

I’d rather teach someone with passion and interest on the job vs someone who has neither of those but with a certificate any day, and I’ve done both.

15 years ago. Unfortunately not of my own volition (I became unable to work due to disability).

e: I can’t write right

deleted by creator