Benjaben

Naked greed has a way of making even the orangest turd seem to sparkle like gold.

It's okay, you can even those numbers out by beating up more fascists!

I love stories from hardware / embedded design. Reminds me that black magic is real, and it's a miracle any of this works.

Make no mistake, I see it as very likely that this problem doesn't get solved without significant violence.

Lol eh, that sounds pretty hilarious

I hope it at least had the good manners to do the comical "collapse up / backwards on itself" thing!

Bb gun fights were the best. Topped only by Roman candle fights, and we had some epic, like 10v10 ones spanning entire parks.

We would've gotten along famously lol. We used to treat cartoons like instruction manuals for fun and cool shit, none of it worked like on TV of course, but still lots of (often painful) fun to be had.

Bedsheets do not in fact make an adequate parachute for a second story jump, btw.

The high road is gone.

Republicans reshaped their party from the inside via the Tea Party dorks. We're all worse off for that, but - at this point, the only path forward is for Democrats to do the same, reshape the party by going hard left, vehemently attack the corporate Democrats (almost all of them).

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Ah interesting, I think for some reason I assumed it'd be more of an administrative career path offshoot for someone working in chemistry, but architecture does make more sense. And I know how you feel, I started my career in industrial controls because the idea of working at the interface between invisible electrical black magic and moving valves, motors, and other machinery seemed real cool.

Quickly learned that in that world, creativity and innovation are treated more like liabilities than anything else lol, and rightly so. There's a few great, proven ways to do most things, and rarely is it wise or fruitful to develop novel approaches over one of the proven solutions. I wouldn't want to be a chemist in a lab toting multiple new designs, lol.

I found it stifling, but could've tolerated it a lot better if the majority were WFH like yours!

Seriously. There's no reasonable argument that they should have been allowed to continue to exist after that.