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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I mean, we spend more on defense than the next several nations combined and we haven’t won a war in 80 years.

    We spend more on healthcare than every other nation and it’s still the most expensive healthcare system in the world.

    We spend hundreds of billions on a welfare system that forces people on it to keep working until the day they die.

    We throw out billions in kickbacks and “incentives” to billion dollar companies.

    I could go on with the numerous, seemingly never ending problems with the US, but the point is that our system is indeed bad and dumb. Nothing we have works, and all of it is extremely over funded and under delivering. At this point, tearing it all up and starting again seems like the easier way to fix things, and getting to that point is never good






  • I was part of a fun era at my university where they switched from C++, which is what I took in intro to programming, to java. So by the time I was doing some group projects senior year, I was working in C# with people who had only done Java.

    They wanted to abstract everything. Everything had to be a class. Any time they repeated 2 lines of code it got put into a helper class.

    We ran into an issue where the code just would not run no matter how hard we tried and of course no one on the project but me bothered to use git (they would literally send me the zipped up project on discord and I had to copy and paste everything into the actual code). I ended up rewriting the entire project overnight. It actually wasn’t that bad once I got into the flow of things. Turns out none of them knew how to program without being explicitly told how.

    Still not the worst college group project though. Maybe top 5.



  • I can’t speak with certainty, but I can speak subjectively on this -

    I have family and friends all over the US (I’m only missing someone from both Dakotas to complete the collection), so I’ve heard damn near every accent, regional dialect, language, etc that there is to hear in the US, including some near dead native languages and Pennsylvania Dutch.

    The only people I know that use “females” instead of women are either in the military like OP or they’re sexist. Sometimes it’s blatantly misogynistic, sometimes they’re casually sexist.

    Or they’re both. It’s frequently both.