I once worked for a big corporation that makes hydraulic rescue tools, where management somehow failed to grasp that the chief selling point of these tools is that they do the job reliably every time. No firefighter wants to be trying to get someone out of a car like, “Damnit! The cutter is acting up again. We should probably look into that.”

But the executives kept demanding that we add “features” to the tools that effectively compromised the reliability and then got all surprised Pikachu face when it was explained to them that the customers thought the tools were overpriced half-assed garbage.

I guess my point is I’ve seen plenty of incredibly stupid examples of management ignoring the engineers and yet somehow Musk demanding that radar be scrapped in favor of cameras is right at the top of the list. Especially if you want your customers to live long enough to buy your products more than once.

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Oh wait, wrong Dax.

Reddit was never “mainstream social media”. Annecdotally, I have heard more people referring to Reddit in casual conversation so maybe it is becoming more widely accepted.

If that’s true, then I still have no regrets about leaving. If I wanted to look at a news feed full of hot garbage I would have stayed on Facebook.

The legislature HATES the ballot initiative process. They’ve tried and failed to kill it several times.

Why use many frame when few frame do trick?

“Look at how much we’re winning! So much winning!” Frantically screams country currently seeking assistance from North Korea for a “three day special military operation” which is now in its third year.

Monster: “I’m just going to go chill in this dark basement for a bit. Nobody is going to come bother me in here.”

I hear a lot of devs that don’t seem to get this.

“WhY wOuLd YoU uSe ExCeL? I pReFeR tO cOdE mY oWn SoLuTiOn.”

No, Why would I spend a week coding something that I can create a pivot table and some charts for in an hour? Especially when if I code it myself, that means I now own and have to support my lovely new utility. Time is money and I’ve got way more important things to do than build custom reporting suites that no one except me is ever going to use.

Lol Google sheets has nowhere near the capabilities of Excel. They’re not even in the same class.

And still the spreadsheet gold standard. Microsoft gets plenty of shit wrong but Excel is one thing they got right.

Those rates are nothing short of preditory. I’m also going to guess the average consumer doesn’t “shop” for credit cards.

If you’re going to run a credit card balance, which you typically shouldn’t, you might as well make sure it’s costing you as little as possible.

Fixed rate cards and cards from regional banks or credit unions will often offer lower rates.

Walmart is in the process of acquiring Vizio for the express purpose of using TV’s to serve advertisements.

Somewhere in the North Korean constitution

“South Korea = Hostile State Hostile State”

^Look everybody! They’ve redefined South Korea as a “hostile state”!

Oh wait, nobody cares.

No way I’m paying the bank 28% interest to buy Christmas presents. That’s completely asinine.

She does it to me! Let’s one rip and with a mischievous little grin says, “I toot.”

I love my kids. They are a ton of work but I couldn’t imagine life without them. But being a parent is not for everyone and that’s ok.

This meme was inspired by my wife telling me about our two year old having a full on five-alarm melt down at Sam’s Club and screaming, “I see Christmas trees! I go see Christmas trees!” While my wife tried to assure her that they would go see Christmas trees on the way out. All you can do is laugh at the sudden realization that the poor person with the screaming child in the middle of the store is you.

Support your local newspaper. Especially if they value quality journalism over quantity.

If my grandma wanted a cheeseburger, she would have kept it to herself and eaten a piece of smoked chicken that was hanging in the attic (where they stored the smoked chickens) instead because that’s what they could afford.

In hindsight, I can kind of understand why my grandparents saved every damn thing that they ever bought. When you grow up dirt poor you find all kinds of new uses for what most people consider trash.

I’ve had plenty of hard times in my life but “so poor I gotta save every egg carton like it’s made of gold” is not an experience I’m personally familiar with. I’m thankful for that.

I honestly have had a better experience overall with T-Mobile than with Verizon or AT&T.

That said, having three huge telecoms dominating the wireless communications industry is not a good thing.

Hell, two of those dinosaurs are direct descendents of the same company that monopolized the US telecom industry for decades.