This was a couple of years ago but I think the numbers are still the same: sending a shipping container from Hong Kong to Newark cost about $3000 while sending the same container in the opposite direction cost about $500. This is because we badly want the shit China makes while they don’t want anything we make (the same situation that led Great Britain to force China to accept opium at gunpoint almost two hundred years ago). Sending a container to China is so cheap that for a stretch we were actually filling them with our garbage because it was less expensive to dispose of it there.

Anyone who think this represents economic weakness on China’s part is batshit crazy.

When you make an assumption, you make an ass out of u and mption.

Better or worse than rape-via-twitter? Better, I guess.

Making a million a year doesn’t mean you’re any less happy than making a billion.

Eh, I had a boss years ago who owned a temp agency. His income from the business was about $40K per month and he lived in a beautiful beach house and drove a nice Mercedes and ate out at great restaurants every day etc. etc. No financial problems whatsoever but his friends were all west coast venture capitalists worth hundreds of millions of dollars and he absolutely seethed with resentment at how relatively poor he was.

They eat road-pizza squirrels as well. Although they’re scared shitless by the still-living ones.

Meanwhile my local crows just sit there looking aggrieved while a single squirrel eats all the peanuts I put out for them. I don’t understand it at all, but squirrels must be seriously badass, at least as far as crows are concerned.

- Gang up on hawks
- Get chased away by solitary bluejays and squirrels

Fucking prompt engineers

With lingamberries yum!

The entire purpose of software is for humans to use it.

The good news is that once AI replaces humans for everything, there will be no need to produce software (or anything else) for humans and AI will be out of work.

And you still can’t afford the down payment.

I had a manager years ago who viewed his involvement in problem-solving as a variant of the rubber duck solution. I always wanted to tell him to his face that he was accurate, in the sense that he brought about as much to the table as an actual rubber duck.

Which is worse: forcing a programmer to attend daily meetings, or forcing them to work in an “open plan” office? If I had to choose one or the other, I would choose to go work on a garbage truck.

He looks much better in the last photo ever taken of him!

so they largely did just that right up until Pearl Harbor made it so they could not turn away

FWIW we (the United States) could conceivably have gone on turning away from what Germany was doing even after Pearl Harbor (although that was unlikely given Roosevelt’s anti-Germany stance). Hitler declared war on the US on December 11th, not the other way around.

“Internet Of Fucked” would have been my guess.

There is a difference: we’re helping to fund it.

Still didn’t try his hands at Nazi sympathy

TBF he died before he had the chance.

This one lol.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to become a nazi.