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Abso-goddamn-lutely.

John Brown. The man stood up for what was right, even at the cost of his own life.

Oh wow just switch employers, is that all

Beyond that, you missed my point. Even if I were being paid more, I still wouldn’t have any incentive to make myself dispensable. Unless I’m vested in the company profits, then the profits don’t matter to me.

Lmao fuck integrity I’m trying to make rent

It’s not like the company has any integrity in their dealings, like when they lay off entire departments with no notice. One of my current coworkers worked for Dell for 17 years before being laid off. According to you, if she were confident in her abilities, she shouldn’t have worried.

Companies don’t care about integrity. They don’t care about people. All companies would replace you with someone cheaper if they could. Why should we care about them?

Then they should pay me based on that—giving me partial ownership, for example, would incentivize me to do better for the company. As it stands, I get paid the same no matter how the company is doing. I only have an incentive not to get fired… which is easier if I’m indispensable.

Capitalism offers a perverse incentive in this regard. I have no motive to keep the company healthy, only to get paid. Ensuring I can be replaced benefits the company while harming me.

A or (A or B) reduces to A or B, not A

Do you donate to Mozilla?

The documentary Stargate already answered this question

Software engineering as a discipline is pretty much a series of trick questions.

Every tenth line, this would evaluate to False, while on lines that aren’t multiples of ten, it would evaluate to True.

I’d like to pretend this is a dunk on lazy paper writers, but I don’t have that much hope left in me.

That’s different from the Japanese one… how, exactly?

Regular earthworms are also invasive in my area (as they are in most of the eastern US) so it’s one problem solving another problem I guess

My cat would die in seconds if I let him outside. He’s too dumb to live.

They were changed from African pygmies in later versions of the book. You can still find early copies which describe them explicitly as such:

Willy Wonka tamped down speculation that he made them of chocolate. “They are real people! They are some of my workers!” He advised the group that these tiny black people had been “Imported direct from Africa!” They belonged to “a tribe of tiny miniature pygmies known as Oompa-Loompas. I discovered them myself. I brought them over from Africa myself—the whole tribe of them, three thousand in all. I found them in the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had ever been before.

Not particularly. Male cats get sleepier but overall I haven’t found behavior changes much.

On the other hand, imagine being horny all the time with no thumbs to masturbate

Do you guys pronounce the L in salmonella?

Olives are great. Raisins taste how old people smell.

implying “the covid years” are over