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Literally, I just heard from a particular place on the Internet … and I shit you not…

A recession is better than whatever the other person had in store for us.

I swear, Trump could bend them over and shove shards of glass up their ass and they would just prefer that over whatever bad they imagined in their head.

A quick lesson that clearly the two geniuses in the White House never learned from History.

You can absolutely sow chaos into anything, but you will always be wrong if you believe that you can control that chaos.

Me who was a raging alcoholic as a teen.

“Y’all used humor?!”

The firing on the 21st was the Aviation Security Advisory Committee. Which is plane hijackings and bombings. But Musk did “friendly” pressure the Michael Whitaker to step down. Mostly because Musk was still upset about being grounded because his rocket broke up over some Caribbean Islands.

So no direct effect, but all the recent firings in the FAA are likely to have had knock on effects, that might have led to this. DC is a crazy busy airport. Maybe this was bound to happen. But there’s always the current chaos going on that Trump is making that’s just adding to the pile.

I’m not going to put direct blame on the President but I’m totally going to go with, fucking around with agencies have effects, it affects people who need to put 1,000% of themselves into their job. The President seriously needs to get a fucking handle on this upheaval he’s causing. These people need to go back to giving their undivided attention to their job. Otherwise more people are likely to die.

We all going to be deported to Linus’ house for not using Microsoft spyware. All because some Chinese AI shook Zuck’s AI investors.

Shit we already seeing it real time. Facebook recently banned anything related to Linux.

Shit. Where you getting the money for so many cigarettes? Best I can do is drag a two pack of Swisher Sweets out over the week.

Yes, but the concentration of CO₂ is about 420 ppm from 2023 measurements. Whereas your average carbonated soda is around 10,000 to 15,000 ppm. And most people call anything below 2,000 ppm flat.

Something to consider.

Digital circuits. Went to college for Electromechanical engineering. Got really into digital circuits.

Got out of college and pretty much fell into computer programming. Fast forward several decades and I finally land a job with same hours and good pay with life in a semi stable state.

Decide to hobby my enjoyment for digital circuits. Fucking chip shortage happens and getting MCUs and GALs (among others) become harder to get.

It’s slowly gotten better, but it had me asking if the universe didn’t want me doing digital circuits.

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“Will”? We got Sen. Fetterman the other say saying that we should be thinking about Greenland like we do the Louisiana Purchase.

The Orange Turd isn’t even in office and everyone in DC is already lost their goddamn mind.

Why would the vice president need to approve the President’s message?

I remember my sophomore year in High School a friend walked up to me and we got to talking and then they ask “so are you planning anything for homecoming?”. I just replied “nah. I’m not really into football and I think I have to work that night anyway.” And they were like “Okay well cool.”

Fast forward 35 years, I tell this story to a friend and they said “so did they ask you out anyway?” And I was like “No, I… WAIT! Is that what they were getting at? It actually flew over my head? Holy shit!” And it took a whole 35 years before I finally realized it.

In all fairness though, I had a lot going on at that point in my life. My mother two years earlier had passed away from a three year battle with cancer and my father had left us orphan about three weeks later. I was still processing shit with the whole foster care and nobody else in my god forsaken family wanting to take me or my siblings in.

Oh and I never got with the person because like maybe four months later I had to move to another foster family (which side note: I eventually had to leave that other family too because the parents were that weird religious abusive kind and I got pulled during a welfare check to go elsewhere) which meant a change in schools (had to change schools yet again after that second family). Something, something the foster care dad got arrested with a DUI, something something, you can’t keep kids in your house. But you know looking back maybe it was for the best because it would have sucked to have to move after developing emotions for someone.

Oh my goodness. I have a hard time getting folks to stop using QRPGLESRC and QCBLLESRC and start using the IFS so that we can put source in places like /home/devname/src. And don’t even get me started, we still have DDS defined files even after IBM deprecated them in favor of SQL DDL tables.

The newest IBM i machines (formerly AS/400) even come with git but can’t use that because that’s too confusing for some still. And oh my goodness, RPGLE now comes with a builtin %upper() and %lower() but folks still using %xlate(), which doesn’t work with things like UTF-8. I can’t with some of the older devs at my place and I’m not exactly a spring chicken.

All these tools IBM packs in to help people make more modern software and convert the older stuff to more modern implementations, but biggest problem I have is getting others to learn the new stuff and getting legal to be okay with major changes.

That’s the fun thing about some of the older systems. Program names were limited to eight or ten characters so you had to get creative with naming within a library (basically the equal of a folder on AS/360 … AS/400 systems) if it got large.

      IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
      PROGRAM-ID. YOURWRNG.
      ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
      PROCEDURE DIVISION.
          DISPLAY 'YOU WERE WRONG MOM'.
          STOP RUN.

LOL!!

I moved somewhere, where the local government owns the majority share of the teleco that provides the Internet in the area. 30% ownership is co-op, which leaves something like 15% that’s private interest. The ISP runs amazing, 1Gbps fiber to the house for $45/mo and the co-op just forwarded a motion to the local government for consideration to upgrade to 10Gbps.

I moved here from a place that was a Comcast monopoly zone that gave max 350Mbps for $70/mo.

In a better society the CEOs of AT&T and Comcast would have already been dragged out into the street, long before we got to this point.

Pretty much. Russia isn’t the only one doing it, but boy are they a well oiled machine.

Hey maybe this time he won’t get a significant portion of the United States killed and have to suggest sticking an UV light bulb up their asses while drinking bleach.

I’m setting my bar really fucking low these next four years. If he does actually get under it, well people won’t be worrying about inflation that’s for sure.

ICE: We did it. We did it. We did it! Yay! ¡Lo hicimos!