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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I’ll try and assume that you’re not just a Maga type who hates facts, for just a second.

    You can’t prepare for the lies that the opponent will peddle, because Vance uses the tactic where he just throws an avalanche of bullshit, with a tiny bit of truth in there. Its literally what he’s been doing so far. No normal human being will be able to fact check all that in real time and give any rebuttal, waltz would look like he doesn’t know what he’s talking about even though in reality Vance would just be lying his ass off.

    This is why you have moderators who do fact checking. If it seems to you that the fact checking is rather one sided, then you’re very close to underi the issue, you just need that one last extra step where you understand that trump & co are full of bullshit







  • Most tech sucks because it’s closed source. Closed source products are typically made with “the least amount of work done to sell for the most amount of buck”. So standards are only sloppily and partially implemented (or sometimes purposefully badly or differently to ensure incompatibility), and bugs after sale won’t be fixed because why would they? They already have your money. Middle managers will work hard to ensure more money goes to advertising and marketing than to actual development.

    Then there is the embrace, expand, extinguish mentality (hello Microsoft!) to force customers to stay around their shitty products. Microsoft 365 and teams shit are perfect examples. The company I work at currently uses it and it’s beyond garbage shit that is expensive as hell. Not an hour goes by without me being confronted by bad design, bugs, bugs, bugs, so many bugs… And it’s all designed to ensure you stay in their little walled garden. I can’t change this today, but I’m planning to be rid of it in about a year from now, fingers crossed.

    In my experience, open source software is fucking awesome because people built it to actually build something awesome. Standards are implemented to the letter, bugs are fixed, and it all works and looks awesome.