My first thought was that he doubled up with the l. Like “bl a n d” or “b la n d”, but I have to admit that I like your ideas better.

Although, now that I think about it for a bit longer, I really feel like if you are going to tattoo the word bland, and use the double letter style, the double letter needs to be the n and d on the pinky finger: “b l a nd”. With the 2 letters squeezed together and kind of trailing off and down the finger.

Pinkertons.

I do miss some of the niche subreddits, and the free, often OC, highly cultivated porn. Unfortunately, the real quality porn largely disappeared during covid due to everyone having to monetize their hobbies just to survive.

This is why they want you to have to verify your identity and give a DNA sample before you will be allowed near an electric device.

This is the real answer. AI is just an excuse to cut costs while the economy is going to shit. By claiming it is all about AI, they get to cut and slash all they want without signaling to the stock market and their competitors that things are going to shit. It also allows them to cut without blaming the economy because pointing out the failing economy would upset the man-baby that is fucking up the entire world economy.

So they were dated the same day exactly 6 yrs apart. What a crazy coincidence.

I’ve been around long enough to have experienced multiple technologies that were the “end” of programmers and yet they still exist.
As you pointed out, the job changes a bit, but we are still here. When I started, the job was a lot more about compilation. You had to remember exact syntaxes (spelling, letter cases, line continuation, ect) and code optimization. You couldn’t just look up a function name or something like a win32 API by typing part of it into your code editor. You couldn’t even just go to Google and search because Google and the Internet didn’t exist. You had a literal shelf of books next to your desk that were heavily worn and you referenced constantly. Books got handed down from senior programmers to junior programmers. The senior got a new book that wasn’t held together by a rubber band and the junior got a stack of pages, often partially glued together by coffee stains, that contained invaluable notes in the margins.
Compilers used to be really dumb. Schooling, blogs, articles, ect, these days are all about “readable code”, but for a long time readability wasn’t even in the top 10 or 20 things that you thought about. Just getting the damn thing to compile was easily half of your job and time spent. Schooling and articles spent a massive amount of time discussing optimizations and memory usage. Things like “if else” vs “switch”, which one was actually better and how you could abuse both. Just in case you were wondering, “switch” was king and the “if else” lovers can get go fuck themselves.
I have seen massive shifts in the industry, and companies will use any excuse to fire everyone useful and eviscerate themselves in the name of short term profits. People used to talk about IBM, HP, Sun, Dell, Compaq, ect, like they talk about Amazon and Facebook now. But those are just brands owned by some new titan that didn’t even exist that long ago.
CS will come back, it will be a little different, but new companies will rise from the carcasses of all those that tried to replace developers with ai.
Honestly, given what Facebook is these days, I am more surprised that they still have that many software developers to lay off than I am with the idea that they are laying off people due to AI.

Nabisco. Lots of fancy chips.

Or maybe Nvidia?

I know that you meant this as 100% sarcasm, but this is going to be the real answer.

It’s going to be Biden, possibly Clinton, Samsung, and possibly whoever else has slighted or failed to bribe him who are at fault. And these dumb, hateful mother fuckers are going to accept it and keep worshiping Trump.

Could be a muscle sprain, muscle cramps, anxiety, gas, allergic reaction (hives), inflamed bowel (when my appendix tried to kill me, I didn’t feel any pain in my side, the only thing I felt was pain up under my sternum, like severe heartburn, due to my appendix inflamming my bowels), kidney problems, poison, forbidden love, voodoo dolls, and giving love a bad name.

And profit.

Some of it is probably the look of deep resignation that you get when they ask. Plus the fact that you clearly freeze your face to avoid showing any emotion right before being shown the image. But mostly, it’s the way that despite all of the above, that you still somehow manage to still convey incredibly deep disappointment no matter what they show you.

It’s about training their replacement. The more that they are forced to use it, the faster it will learn all of their jobs.

When I hear someone who has something to say about common core, I just ask “why can’t they just teach” and then I describe common core without telling them its common core. 100% will tell you that what you described is the right way cause it just makes sense and the other ways are just stupid and pointlessly difficult.

Then you get to tell them that’s common core, and the looks of confusion and mental distress you get to watch are just amazing. And then before they have time to rally up their indignation about some bullshit thing they saw about kids getting the right answer but being marked wrong, you point out that all the uproar is becoming a few people who like to do math the stupid way are upset that they taught the kids to do it the stupid way, but the elementary school homework wasn’t about getting the right answer, it was about learning how to do it the easy way and not the hard way, so they got marked wrong for doing the homework wrong.

What, you don’t think that the air filter and gas tank aren’t designed to move from spot to spot? Or maybe you have issues with the innovative dual intake dual carb setup?

I can’t decide if I am intensely jealous because your standard of health care and worker protection is so high that you and the people you work with, as working adults, don’t already know all of the forms of emergency care and which one is likely the least worst option for a given injury type.
Or am I more jealous of the idea that you went to emergency services for a minor injury like a sprained ligament in your hand, and your biggest irritation is that you didn’t know where to go to get it treated and not at being stressed out of your mind fighting with providers and insurance over who has to pay this massive debt.

That’s a god damn lie! Trump did not bankrupt a casino!

A casino would imply that he learned his lesson after the first one. No, Trump bankrupted 4 casinos. And then for good measure, he went back and he bankrupted half of them again.

Makes sense when you realize that there’s almost no overlap in the people who believe each thing is morally wrong.

Publicly traded companies are soulless entities that are legally bound to 1 and only 1 goal, short term profits. Any time you see a company do something stupid, ineffectual, completely pointless, ect., then what you are seeing is step one in a plan. It is costing them money and future profits to make these changes that they know will be wildly unpopular just to maybe, sort of, possibly could, but won’t really, protect a very small number of the dumbest people on the planet? No, companies ruin, poison, make homeless, and kill people constantly while being completely aware of what they are doing. They do it and continue to come up with new ways to do it because they have just the 1 goal, profit. So, if this is not altruism then what is it? That’s what people are upset about. Because there are a lot of reasons for them not to do this, but the only reasons for them to do it are all bad in addition to violating their 1 goal. And they are still doing it anyway.

Infinity war was really good. Endgame was a fucking disaster. It was a horribly written piece of shit that proved to marvel that they could make a ton of money off of complete garbage.