ChickenLadyLovesLife

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

I think it's more indicative that he doesn't listen to or care about the opinions or feelings of anybody around him, which is a bad quality in a leader unless you want your country run by a despot. Mao never brushed his teeth and reportedly had breath that could raise the dead.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 hours ago

If I had employees I would seriously fire them for watching porn on a company laptop, not because I care that they're watching porn and not doing their work but because it's indicative of a major problem with thinking clearly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Vance isn't going anywhere. Admitting to mistakes is not in their playbook.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

"I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?" No, he can't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, I don't even like talking politics with people I agree with. My parents are lifelong Democrats and despise Trump, but they are absolutely obsessed with him in the same way that pro wrestling fans are obsessed with the latest heel. They just can't stop talking about him and whatever his latest line of bullshit is. Whereas my only hope for sanity is to tune this shit out as much as I possibly can.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I always claimed in job interviews to be good at debugging, but there are no certifications for debugging and there's really no way for an interviewer to verify such a claim. So even though it is an incredibly important skill, companies just do not look for it. There is also the hilariously misguided belief that good coders do not produce bugs so there's no need for debugging.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I grew up in a town in Ohio where the famous abolitionist John Brown (hanged in 1859 after his abortive raid on Harpers Ferry) had built a tannery in ~~the 1840s~~ 1835 that was still standing in 1976. To celebrate the bicentennial, the city council had it condemned and torn down, to make way for ... a parking lot. Hilariously, the council claimed it was a danger because it was about to collapse, but it took three days to demolish and they had to bring in special heavy equipment to do it after their wrecking balls failed to make a dent in it. This thing had been built with massive 40-foot long oak beams with 12"x8" cross-sections that showed no signs of rot (my dad salvaged a piece of one of these beams and set it up as a bench in our garden, and it was still in good shape in 2012 despite being outside the whole time), so it could have easily been preserved as a historical site. In fact it had been declared an official historical site by the state just days before its destruction but the town council simply ignored that.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I wish police would simply enforce noise ordinances

I live next to a catholic church/school and sometimes on the weekend or near sunset a local kid rides his motocross bike all around the church yard. Annoying as fuck and it chews up the yard and everything. I've called the cops three or four times but they've never bothered to send an officer out. I called the church and all they did was install a bunch of super-bright LED lights which are on 24 hours a day. Kid still rides his bike there and now I can't sit outside at night anymore because of the fucking lights.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I don't really understand how cats even can get this large. I've kept a number of cats and always just fed them dry food in big bowls or auto-feed dispensers where they could eat as much as they wanted whenever they wanted it, and they always stayed a normal weight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

One thing I always liked about the various flavors of BASIC was that nobody ever pushed that shit as a religion.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used to work for a software development company in Louisiana. At company meetings the CEO would always close with a prayer to Jesus, which was certainly the only time in my programming career I had to deal with that. Maybe 80% of the company were Christians but the rest of us were Jews, Muslims, Hindus and atheists (just me) and it was always weird to be looking around at each other while everybody else had their heads bowed. Unfortunately, this company was pretty much the only game in town for programmers so nobody was willing to call the CEO out for this shit.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They don't think that. They don't have morals.

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