She was going to be talking anyway

There’s certainly some reasonability to that. However, if the person decides to terminate service, maintaining the grid doesn’t become any cheaper for the power company. The lines are already installed, the connections made, and the company will continue to upkeep your connection all the way up to your home, even if it is terminated locally. They’ll do that just in case you or future homeowners no longer generate power and wish to continue service, and your neighbors will likely still be using it anyway. So by that same reasoning, maintaining a just-in-case service connection that you don’t typically need because you generate your own power also doesn’t result in increased maintenance costs to the power company. So there is also an argument to be made that that cost shouldn’t be pushed to them, but to the power drawers that the power company actually wants to serve anyway, the ones motivating them to build more grid in the first place.

I test my own code/scripts in dev when I’m working on it. QA usually tests acceptance criteria in test environment. And then staging is used for production data testing for performance and identifying missed edge cases. Actually, we sometimes use dev and test interchangeably when multiple people are working on the same repo, so the lines are a little blurrier than that.

Same. Early on as a new dev, I failed to performance check my script (as did my qa tester) before it was released to production, and that was my first roll back ever. It was very unoptimized and incredibly slow under one of our highest density data streams. Felt like an idiot that I was good with it’s 1-2 second execution time in the dev environment.

As a data engineer, testing with production loads is critical to performance checking, as well as finding edge cases where your assumptions about what can be expected in the data are curb stomped and send you back to the drawing board to cry and think about what you’ve done.

Knock some of their teeth loose and they can do the whistling part themselves

Bad Reputation by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts… like in Shrek.

https://youtu.be/aO7yO24g-Xs

That’s cuz she’s the whole package. Cute, fluffy, lazy, and roughly box shaped. The whole package.

Gotta get the kids started on associating themselves with our brand now. Subvert the competition asap.

So weird story about the movie Signs. The first time I watched the movie was at home with a friend on VHS on my 32 inch CRT TV (yes, I know how old that makes me sound).

So early on in the movie, the protagonist’s daughter wakes him in the middle of the night. She says she saw a monster outside of her room. He takes her back to her room to console her. They talk for a bit, then he looks outside and the camera cuts to his view of the roof and night sky. Some jump scare music plays, then he suddenly looks shocked and afraid. My friend and I were confused. We didn’t see anything shocking or scary, so we rewind the video back and play it through again. He looks out window… roof… scary music… shocked face… we don’t get it. What are we missing? We rewound back to the roof, and paused the video. We got up off the couch and got closer. We stared at the screen from like 2 feet away and didn’t see a damn thing. WTF?

We figure maybe there is something invisible that he is seeing? Maybe that is the point? Maybe he is crazy? Or maybe our movie is poorly edited and they cut out what he is meant to see by mistake? IDK. We continued watching for a while, and saw several glimpses of aliens soon their after, but no explanation about the roof.

We didn’t end up finishing the movie that sitting, and we didn’t come back to watch it for weeks, so when we did decide to finish it, we decided to watch it over from the beginning. Again, just my friend and I, same TV, same VHS. That scene rolls around where the girl wakes up dad, says she saw a monster outside her room… walk to bedroom… talk… he looks out window… roof… AND THERE IS A FUCKING ALIEN ON THE ROOF! CLEAR AS DAY! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!

Scared the shit out of us!

Still to this day, I don’t have an explanation for this. I’m sure it’s something dumb like someone fiddling with the color saturation on the TV or some shit, idk. But both of us fucking studied that roof the first time and saw absolutely nothing, then the second time there was no missing the alien for either of us! Most effective jump scare in a movie ever (with a weeks long delay).

I didn’t mock it. The meme did.

Sure. It would be personally meaningful. Changing your name is always meaningful, I would hope. But it is not contributing to the the dismantling of the patriarchal norms. Not every action has to be, of course. But the conceit of this post is implied to be that her intention was just that, a rejection of patriarchal naming conventions. If that was her intention, it was misguided and failed to achieve that goal.

The context of the meme implied she was doing it because she’s a feminist and that taking her mother’s name was somehow an expression of that. Of course she can do that, but it isn’t achieving anything if that was the goal

Wasn’t my post, just advocating for OP

Yeah… it can be interpreted that way. But even as a feminist myself, it is a dumb performative sort of protest. Paternal surnames are the least important fixtures of our patriarchal society, and, unless it was created wholecloth, there are no surnames that aren’t patriarchal historically, as the meme points out.

coughHookercough

Skill level: Asian, for sure.

Kind of reminds me of a DnD campaign prompt I read about once: A seer predicts a coming danger that has the potential to destroy their small kingdom. The king immediately takes action and seeks the greatest mercenaries that money can buy to protect his people. He provides his son, the high prince, with the full treasury, ever single gold piece, and sends him into the badlands to find their champions. The prince immediately blows the gold on hookers and drugs. Panicking and with the small chunk of change left, he hires a party of 5 inept misfits instead. You are those misfits. Good luck, champions.

The intrusive thoughts