all programming is abstractions of hello world change my mind

Then define your terms, what is the mobility method, what are the bounds of the classes and by what metric and, what is excellent/great/good/average/poor/bad/terrible mobility?

Appropriately for the meme - also both boomers.

If there’s no way to get to the top, how is the upward mobility “great”?

interesting, how does one become a billionaire in such a way that anyone and everyone could do it?

I’ve come to realize that a significant portion of people just think other people should die and that’s fair and they’re OK with being the ones to do it.

I saw an Instagram reel the other day of someone in the military describing the best way to decide who to kill and who not to as you storm a civilian building, plus the latest Behind the Bastards about Yarvin’s affect on JD Vance and their belief that violence / killing and enforced poverty / slavery is not only a necessary but desirable method of governmental change - not as a reaction to oppression but as administrative.

Automated a copywriting gig on an extremely locked down terminal entirely in Excel VBA.

It would open my email, download the list of tasks, open a browser, extract the official product copy, RegEx it into bullets, I would add a few verbs and conjunctions, hit a button it would upload it to the CMS. Turned an 8 hour day into 30 mins.

really a mix, pop, death metal, jazz, alt, edm… although if I need to concentrate it needs to be a song that I don’t know if it has lyrics as otherwise it’s distracting

I feel like I read somewhere that if you can’t run away the best thing to do if in arms’ reach is run into them as fast as possible. Fuck trying to hit anyone in the jaw with a punch, just run into them, knock them over and keep running. Third best thing (eg they have a knife) is to continually evade without even trying to retaliate as it’s a lot easier to keep dodging out the way than it is to attack and they’ll tire quicker.

Jacob Collier has entered the chat.

Isn’t part of the controversy that its questionable there was even a knife involved?

or on the roof

Eh. it’s start up culture. They give the C suite 50 million dollars and want 100 million dollars in 10 years and they aren’t shy about going full Gordon Ramsay on anyone not 100% dedicated to that, even if you just get paid hourly to manage social media

venture capital. a group of investors with money who will put that money into promising companies so when it’s successful you make more money back.

and yet that is what that idiom implies - that you are seeing things that don’t exist

I didn’t sleep well. I was trying to work out if it was like Christmas for Cars

Are… are you saying capitalism doesn’t exist?

I’m OK (now? currently? hopefully forever) but when I’m struggling I too appreciate the warning.

android Firefox

how you hitting CTRL on a phone?

While I applaud those who can, it’s too traumatic for me personally.