SoyViking [he/him]

Terrorism has very little to do with the actual label and much more to do with who carries out the act and who they do it to.

Terrorism is nothing but a shorthand for violence (in the widest possible sense) that the ruling class dislikes.

It seems like a combination of racism (I bet they wouldn’t get worked up over two Norwegians communicating in their native language) and petty managerial tyranny.

Who could have thought that saying “fuck you and by the way my opponent is right” to voters would not be a winning electoral strategy

the white guy making the USA a police state

Which one of them?

They determine a lot through pricing and decision on availability.

People don’t like getting ripped off or paying more than they have to so people, myself included, buy more of whatever they happen to have on sale this week. At our house a lot of decisions on what to have for dinner start by looking through the weekly offers page on the supermarket’s app which influences our diet. For instance we eat a lot more chicken than we would do if it wasn’t constantly on sale.

Decisions to jack up prices also affect diet. For instance we used to eat a lot of ground beef and sour cream but now it has become so expensive that it is no longer worth what they’re charging so we almost never have it anymore.

Availability is also a huge part of the way they determine what we eat. It don’t even have to be a food desert to have a huge influence, the convenience of not having to go to more than one shop alone has a huge influence. For instance I like beefsteak tomatoes a lot more for everything where you cut up the tomatoes and don’t want the watery seeds. But I eat a lot more plum tomatoes because that’s what they have at ordinary supermarkets and I would have to go to the Arab store to get the other ones which would mean I would have to spend 20 minutes more shopping.

“We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.” - Georgy Zhukov

Yes, we can’t have state institutions voicing support for a vulnerable demographic’s right to exist. We could risk that bigots would not feel welcome.

Nope.

Those questions are not tough for them at all. The propaganda has it covered and they will give some version of “we tried our gosh darned best to bring the savages freedom and democracy but their barbarian culture was simply too primitive”.

I can’t seem to find anyone in real life who doesn’t.

I hate that it had to come to this but we are now required to replace the S’es in the name of the US with the more evil and ethnic letter Z:

• United ZtateZ
• UZ
• UZA

Business Process Optimization Tool Builder (I make boring backend systems to help boring businesses do their boring work more effectively)

I’m the guy on that airplane at the moment.

I get specs for an external API to use in a new major feature. I begin implementing, the specs doesn’t add up because nobody paid the eastern European gig programmers to document anything. Eventually I derive plausible specs from a frustrating process of emails and trial and error.

I implement the major feature to the specs provided by the client. The client tests in staging and requests several adjustments. I implement those, client tests again and accepts.

The feature is pushed to production. The client finds a ton of errors because of course the rudimentary specs I managed to wrestle out of the client and the big-shot corner-cutting third party API developer didn’t describe half of the ideosyncratic data structure they send. Stuff like sending completely empty posts and expecting empty rows to be inserted in the database, sending text comments in fields intended for storing numbers instead of in the dedicated comment field. That sort of bullshit. They want to pour garbage in an have garbage coming out.

So I had to do a ton of hotfixes directly to production. Everything have to be fixed yesterday because it is a business critical feature. It sucks. It’s a clusterfuck of cherry picking and it becomes impossible to do any sort of quality control.

A ton of errors got introduced because nobody explained to the Eastern Europeans what the API should do or gave them the time to do it properly. I am the lead engineer on the project and I have to rush to make emergency bug investigations all the time. Most of the things the bug is that the Eastern Europeans didn’t set up their system like they were asked to or that nobody told them how it should work and just assumed they would know. I wrote more emails than code. The client pays a ton of money for all of this and nothing gets done because they rushed into this feature without planning it properly.

Any serious government would have slipped some polonium into his tea a long time ago.

Musk may be more meritocratic than one would imagine. The term meritocracy was coined as a parody of the British class-based education system where children of the rich and powerful always just happens to have the most merit.

Potatoes, rice, rye bread and dry pasta.

So what does the full stack dev look like?

Traditional family Christmas: Tonight we have my mother in law and her husband over for Christmas dinner and a ton of gifts for the kids. Tomorrow on Christmas day we will have the traditional “food hangover” and total relaxation day while the kids play with their presents. Yesterday we went for dinner and presents at my father in law’s house and the day before that we had my parents over for presents and sweets. On boxing day we go to a combined family lunch and my mother in law’s birthday which usually involves sizable amounts of smoked fish.

I remember how everyone in my country who have opinions for a living were clutching their pearls saying “war in Europe” as if it was orders of magnitude worse than war everywhere else.

George Washington. This thing should have been nipped in the bud.

I’m used to driving old shitboxes but a few years ago we rented a completely new car. It was almost driving itself, making sure I stayed in my lane, it had automatic beam selection, a big screen for playing music and navigation, tiny little plastic thingies that pops out when you open the door making it harder to dent adjacent cars. It was a fucking spaceship. I’m not going to lie, I would love to have all of those fancy features.