Anytime we have a power outage, it resets and I turn that damn beep off before I even change the clock because it annoys me so much.
After a power outage, my microwave absolutely refuses to do anything until I set the time. As if it’s a clock that also happens to have the ability to cook food, and not the other way around.
What kind of jerk plays Uno against an opponent who is completely incapable of saying the word, “Uno”?
What’s their next game? Basketball against a person with no arms? An eating competition against a person who has just had gastric bypass surgery? Tennis against a blind person?
I don’t think it is good for their sanity to allow delusional people to rant about their conspiracy theories to other people.
I don’t know what Jack Dee looked like in his 20s, but I think he was probably a grumpy old man when he was in his 20s.
What a twist. The guy who owns a boat knows how to swim. I do enjoy the abject stupidity of the elf’s hatred for humans in this comic.
The more I think about it, the more I’m on the machines’ side in The Matrix.
There’s an old saying, “Never meet your heroes.”
But now with social media, you know every famous person’s opinions, and really just the concept of a hero is almost gone. You have a couple of honest people here and there, and then you have a litany of people who idolize celebrities with well-known despicable or ridiculously stupid views like Chuck Norris.
That’s not a pointless warning or anything. Introducing other animals can get the zoo animals extremely irritated. They can go into hunting mode or rampage mode. It’s bad enough with just the humans there.
Surely he can’t be less qualified than Don Jr and Eric, though?
One other route is the method from the song Fancy, where you seduce a rich man. Sometimes, your sugar daddy will marry you. Sometimes, he’ll just just keep you on the side.
And sometimes, he’ll keep finding you better and better jobs even though you keep on getting fired, until eventually you become Vice President of the United States of America.
That is my assumption as well. I was just considering how much better this country could be if we just taught children to use steel man arguments instead of straw man arguments.
I don’t know if it has a base designation, but there is a way to represent natural numbers without 0. You just use 1, and numbers are distinguished by the number of 1s. So you’d count 1 11 111 1111 11111 and so on.
The problem with short excerpts like this is that I don’t have enough context to know exactly what the mayor intended to mean.
If I want to go in giving him the benefit of the doubt, and I don’t see why I wouldn’t, there are some contexts that could make sense.
He might be referring to America in general rather than just Chicago. Or, he could be speaking broadly about how exploited people always do most of the work, and just said slaves and indigenous people as examples of exploited people.
I would say they’re more pathological than mythological.
If the government still recognizes the authority of the constitution, then you can fix the constitution via amendments.
Otherwise, it would be time for a new constitution. But of course, in that case, there would truly be nothing to be proud of. It would mean your entire country and government was a complete failure, and that whatever new constitution you ratified would have to make many provisions to protect the government from the overwhelming stupidity of the citizens.
The most unrealistic part of that sequence is where the old lady realizes her mistake, admits she was wrong, and says she’s sorry about her “up yours” statement.
I remember doing that exact thing as a child. Well, teenager, but that’s still a child. I had a driver’s license. I had money from my part time job and/or allowance. I had access to a vehicle.
If I wanted a burger, I could just go get one. I rarely did unless I was out during a mealtime, because I had good food at home and didn’t want to spend money. But that’s the same decision I make as an adult.
Whining and bitching is the most American thing you can do. It often means that you see something that can be improved, and democracy is supposed to be about eternal vigilance.
Being proud of your country should mean being proud not of our current laws, but of the constitution that allows us to fix those laws when they are deficient.
I wonder if he wrote that post character-by-character.
But actually typing out the code is the least difficult part of programming, once you’ve been doing it for five or ten years. You have to understand the code that is already there. You have to decide the behavior, either way. You have to review the code, either way. Design the local and overall architecture. Design interfaces and APIs.
The fact that he thinks typing out new code took so much effort basically means that he was never a decent programmer. His statement betrays that he doesn’t even understand what’s difficult. People with his level of understanding of a topic shouldn’t broadcast their ignorance publicly.
Right after I got my first job out of college, I sent an email like that to a coworker, and later, when I saw him in person, I mentioned the email, and he said that he saw that stuff at the top and just deleted the email without reading further.
Now, that guy was an asshole, not just for that interaction but for many others. For example, he had a doctorate, and insisted that people call him “Dr. Clark”, rather than his first name, even though nobody else did that.
But I did start writing emails much better after that. I write the subject in order to get people to decide to read the body. The first sentence of the body is what I am asking them to do. The next few sentences are the most important points, and the rest is details. I know… It’s just like they teach you to write in English classes, but it didn’t sink in until I spent a long while writing an email and it was immediately tossed in the garbage unread.