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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • 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.



  • 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.





  • 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.





  • I wouldn’t go as far as to call PDF a dumpster fire, but I can tell you that internally it is an absolute unholy mess internally. The fact that you feel like you get consistency out of it 100% comes down to the anal retentive developers who spend insane man hours tweaking the fuck out of their code to get whatever PDF library that they got stuck using from fucking up the image.
    The worst part is that Adobe wants PDF to be the one and only format, but also wants to make sure that you have to use their very expensive PDF library to integrate it into your program. So, they constantly fuck with stuff and make changes that break shit. To make it even dumber, their own library doesn’t always keep up with their changes, and when you report the bugs they created, they give no fucks about ever fixing the issue unless you are big enough to for them to care.