TF2 source code comments are just beautiful.

I mean, I’m certainly guilty of having to tidy up codebases before shipping, to remove all the goofy stuff and swear words, so these comments just make those Valve employees very relatable for me.

Would be funny to get a big bunch of theatre lightbulbs that consume energy in kilowatts and light them up around Google HQ. 🌝

Nigel Farage’s party has been plunged into crisis after an undercover sting operation revealed racist, sexual, and violent rhetoric among its members.

What a blue baller article. I thought there’d be some definitive proof of Russian funding or something, not public knowledge that Farage and Co are racists, sexists and generally all around assholes.

I like band idea, but I’d make it a big band of Voronoy pattern shaped islands, with just enough water in between for civilisations to ensure communication, but make invading each other a pain in the ass. Would probably also make some water regions shallow to act like some sort of water speed bump and limit seafaring capacity and force humans to eventually be building big ass bridges.

Would probably also make some outlier islands with difficult inhospitable terrain or climate to act as nature’s reserves.

Actually how some some small governments work - “okay, the discussion today has gone too heated now so we all have to go cool down and continue tomorrow.

I’ve seen really rough “analogue” and hybrid control designs. Like, an oven with knobs and touch buttons, so you can set temperature more easily with a knob, but some more specific settings are set through touch input. Overall idea sounds good, until you try do something with it - then it quickly becomes a convoluted mess, because rather than separately choosing which directions to heat or whether to turn on the fan, manufacturers decided to make a list of all possible combinations to scroll through. 🌝

I talked with some Russians about that years ago, and got an answer that they just justify it with something like “if I don’t do that - they will find some who will”.

Last time I said I stopped reading news (at least intentionally) - some folks jumped on me with things like “I’d love to be this privileged to be able to ignore news”.

And I’m like, living in a milder part of a war zone. 🗿

Well, we here have a situation, where giving soapy baths to pigs (yes, that’s the job) at local farm may earn one 3 times the salary of entry IT job. Simply because it’s that hard to find workers these days, and don’t get me started on actual technical jobs - it’s near impossible to find a lathe machinist today.

So yeah, it all… depends… And yeah, there is one local business that I avoid, because it’s run by a guy associated with local conspiracy theorist clown. So yeah, I do little investigations to make sure I don’t give money to people who will then use it to make world a worse place.

If we talk about groceries - from my experience there’s no reason to shop at big chains if there is a farmers market nearby. I bring my own reusable packaging for solid stuff and bottles for milk and juice. And people who run it are usually chill and just doing their thing.

But as we venture into tech territory - it becomes really muddy, many of people running small IT businesses in here are pompous arses. Like dude runs some musty basement and thinks of himself a Bill Gates.

If one mashes bugs in blender rather than milk them - it ain't bug milk, it's bug juice.

Damn, how do I become a man now that I never subscribed to Joe Rogan's podcast in the first place. 🌝

I have better name - "United Shitposts of America". Because people elected a Twitter shitposter as president, twice, and all he delivers are goddamn shitposts.

As someone doing teaching, I already had quite enough of "If you have any further questions - just let me now! 😊" in answer boxes.

I work in a place where there are quite a bit of older folks, and there were really classy looking folks well in their 90's.

Like, in modern world with that amount of power and wealth it's absolutely a choice to look this shit in one's 80's.

“Compromise” stance is just a mask to look less bloodthirsty to outsiders. Tankies get even worse when dropping that mask.

Remember Operation Spiderweb? Russia retaliated by yet another attack on residential buildings and top comments for these news in .ml were “yeah, that’s what they get for their terroristic attacks on Russia”.

When they also say "We're one big family here!". They don't say it's a dysfunctional one. 🌚

Each sensible country nowadays figured that all those Olympics and World Cups are now simply an enormous money sink and dick measuring contest for authoritarian hellholes, hence the protests in all somewhat sensible countries before each one.

And I wouldn't even go into massive corruption of all these international sports committees, with president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino specifically also being a fucking tone-deaf degenerate.

I’m imagining a situation where I’d do that if I were the dad, to then nag to my child:

• Dear, are you sure, he’s a Java programmer, it’s fucking boring.

Some companies now have AI trainings, that are AI-generated, like AI-generated avatar with AI-generated voice tells people about AI.

What in the dystopian cyberpunk hell is that. 🫠