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My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that.
  • Adding to their perspective, as another kid who grew up in a poor family.. why not? Rich families were always spending "insane" amounts (aka literally any amount) on food, vacations, extra cars..

    $2,500 for a day trip? ..sounds insane and unachievable, just like everything else in life. So, yeah, why wouldn't it cost that much?

    When you are poor, the cost of everything sounds insane.

  • Texas AG sues doctor who allegedly provided transgender care to 21 minors
  • The elected doctor. /s

    Jk, I had a hard time pinpointing the target of speech as well, the final comment about holding elected office was the only indicator I found. Most people are really poor communicators/writers, eh?

  • [Meme] Which one is it for you?
  • You're missing the Barclay Saga, lol.

    DS9 is my fave but VOY had it's moments, certainly worth watching for the doctor alone.

    If you want a good VOY episode that won't spoil anything, check out Living Witness (4x23).

    Nvm, I misread your comment, you've seen it, leaving comment unedited for others.

  • Cost of dealing with PFAS problem sites ‘frightening’, says Environment Agency
  • Well, according to capitalism the appropriate thing to do is to solve it for the ultra rich and let everyone else be contaminated and die of awful cancers.

    It's only rational. The alternative would be banding together to make the world better for everyone but that is just silly. I mean, it would be expensive, and by expensive I mean that as a world we've de-incentivized any action that doesn't generate wealth for the capital owners. Should we change this paradigm? No, rich people would be mad.

    How will we know who is better than others if we can't have children inherit unearned wealth which allows them to be smug cunts to everyone their whole life?

    People who are born without wealth are just worse people, clearly. And there is nothing to be done.about it. If your parent ever made a questionable financial decision, the appropriate thing to do is have that mistake ripple through dozens of generations causing untold trauma. As it should be.

    Edit: /s is obvious. No?

  • [Meme] Which one is it for you?
  • What a perfectly rational thing to post in a television and shows forum. You totally don't seem like you're trying to be annoying..

    In the past I would have written a lot more, now I just block dummies. After briefly calling them dumb.

    Hey, you're dumb.

    To the blocking!

  • North Korea to cut off all roads and railways to South Korea
  • It seemed to me that the "beautiful propaganda" as you call it.. and I can't really disagree with you.. could be an olive-branch extended from the SK film industry to NK audience (because we know NKs smuggle and watch SK dramas.. even a soldier in the show does that).

    So idk, I like to always approach things pessimistically AND optimistically.. then compare the two perspectives. In this case you're the critic and I'm devil's advocate.

    Will it make a difference on the large scale? No. Will it delight and sway a few NK citizens toward reunification? I'd guess probably. But who knows.

  • Boeing withdraws 30% pay rise offer to striking workers amid stalemate
  • Trash company with trash reputation does trash actions. And no one was surprised.

    Boeing went from a company everyone was proud to work for to a company that leverages civilian death for profit.

    But hey, in the interim the stock price went up and a few CEOs got richer. I bet the civilians who died weren't even millionaires. Tbh probably deserved it. /s

    In a just world, Boeing would fuck off and go bankrupt instead of relying on welfare from the government to survive.

    But we don't have capitalism for corporations, they get socialism, not citizens tho, citizens get homelessness and tear gas at protests.

    Fuck Boeing and fuck every manager who worked there and didn't blow the whistle. All corrupt. All have blood on their hands.

    Edit : Oh, one last thought. If we had UBI, citizens could turn on and pressure their employers because if they get fired, well they will still have their base-needs met. Companies would be safer and held to a higher standard with a workforce that doesn't fear termination. And we need to stop tying insurance and benefits to jobs, they should be separate. But that's a topic for another day.

    TLDR, I said rude things about Boeing, then Boeing managers, then realized I was probably too harsh on managers because they exist in a system that rewards corruption and punishes truth with termination (death? TBD). Then I presented my solution to keeping whistle blowers safe. UBI. While doing so I noticed (once again) that our entire system is designed to fuck up people and protect corporations. The same corporations that see people as expendable meat robots, aka, "replaceable parts".

  • Bring them home in one piece
  • I very much enjoy watching them do it on the show.

    But it's cool to know a machine exists for puff pastry, I'll have to find a video of one later.

    ..then that's as good a reason as any to go to the pastry shop. >=}

  • Factorio @lemmy.ml stembolts @programming.dev

    Automate Backup of Factorio Saves

    I found this Python script a few years ago, it is simple enough that a non-programmer could understand 90% of it. I just remembered it had been running as a scheduled task all this time when I thought I had lost some saves.

    Thought I'd post it here in case anyone can use it. Minor things are hard coded but they are few and easy to edit.

    https://github.com/nonbhoward/backup_factorio_saves/blob/main/run.py

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    Cannot Get Points in Sprints..

    Edit : I appreciate all the PoVs and I will reply to everyone. This is important to me. Just going to go rest a bit and I'll be back.

    Edit : Leaving the self-insulting language in, but yeah.. Point taken, I should stop being so mean to myself. And to add another FYI, I've been on this codebase for about 3 months, which I probably should have mentioned.

    I have no idea what is wrong with me. I get tasks, I work on them, they NEVER seem to close. Meanwhile everyone around me is left and right solving their issues. I reach out for a second opinion because I must just be stupid, and every time I reach out the person is never able to assist in any meaningful way.

    It's like my tasks always have blockers that everyone around me seems perplexed by, I get a lot of, "Wow, that's crazy," or, "Yeah your job does seem to have a lot of unusual blockers."

    I'm at the point where I'm in a daily meeting where I explain what I'm working on to a senior dev because obviously they noticed I'm a person on the team with sometimes zero points in a whole month. It's so discouraging to have to go to a daily meeting because apparently I'm stupid? The thing is, when I explain what I'm blocked by, every person has said, "Oh weird, this seems like a really confusing task." Or, "Damn I've never seen anything like that."

    So obviously I look at other peoples' tasks.. what are they working on? And their tasks are SO simple and straightforward, yet I've NEVER had a task like that, all my tasks were opened years ago, remained open for months or years, then were assigned to me. And they're all fucky. Wth.

    Tbh I'm running out of things to write because I don't want to justify it, because I feel like I should be doing better. What the hell is wrong with me?

    I have wanted to change jobs for close to two years now.. but you've all interacted with recruiters.. they never help, and job search is impossible as a person with anxiety and possibly autism?

    I love coding, I hate my coding environment.. Anyone else ever have this type of issue in programming?

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