Yeah, they were really good at killing people.

Hey now! That’s not fair.

North Korea and Vietnam have dictators, too.

But why would you include this as an example here?

What do those three countries have in common?

Do you mean “agitprop”?

Not if it works now? This happened almost a year ago.

You forgot

• pissed that his daughter is trans, and he thinks that Twitter made her that way

This happened a year ago.

Yikes. This is how bad things are: a multi-billion dollar company like Intel can look at the situation in Palestine and think “Yes, this seems reasonable. Allying ourselves with Israel will in no way come back to bite us in the ass.”

How many Halloween movies are there? How many Christmas movies?

On Halloween, they push candy and costumes. On Christmas, they push everything.

I sometimes wonder about that word “finger”. If fingers fing, then what is finging?

Whenever I meet another web dev, they either have a job as a web dev, they’re looking for a job as a web dev, or they’re trying to create a startup. There are no hobbyists.

I often wonder about this. Does capitalism impose so much emotional freight that it makes coding intimidating? Does having it attached to ideas about working hard and getting a job drain the fun out of it?

I’m beginning to think that I would actually get more coding done if I abandoned it as a career path.

Ballmer seems like a cokehead. He probably did plenty of both, though.

If this is in the US, I feel like it would be a violation of OSHA. Or maybe it’s something so stupid that OSHA never thought to make it a rule.

If you’re going to make “as well” into one word, why not add “may”, too? Mayaswell!

Mushrooms are awesome! Milk is nasty.

Same energy

There is a huge difference between criticizing a government and criticizing a religion

Agreed, but I don’t think it’s religious bigotry; I think it’s racial bigotry. Antisemitism is a form of racism. Do you think the Nazis gave atheist Jews a free pass?

The funny thing is you’re both right.