about as open as a TV remote smashed on the side of the highway after it’s been run over by around 1000 eighteen wheelers.

that’s where the second amendment comes in.

it’s going to be a red Christmas folks.

if the road to fascism has roadside attractions, we’re currently taking a leisurely stroll through McCarthyism.

you can see the warm amber glow of fascism down the road at night and a faint scent of smoke, but nothing too alarming.

we haven’t even passed the Stalin tollway yet.

or what, motherfuckers?

this is me every time I’m trying to take a shit.

I have Chinese manufactured IP cameras. they do not connect to the internet. yet, they still attempt to connect to Chinese servers at least once a minute.

this has been going on for at least 15 years.

it’s almost as if corporations in China are forced to comply with state affairs…

not only was the dev summarily dismissed, the monitoring team that was responsible for escalation was sternly talked to by the CFO. evidently there were alarms going off that entire week but nobody did anything about it because “it’s in dev, it’s always noisy.”

they actually worked it out with AWS and was able to get the bill reduced but it was still more than $500k (at least that’s all my boss would let me know).

a fool and his money will soon be parted.

you know where innovation comes from?

independent research.

you know what the oligopolies hate?

independent research.

pick one. you can’t have it both ways.

burying her would end the same.

just jettison her into space.

trading tyrants. never a wise decision.

how about Europe become independent?

no…can’t have that. if they would rely on themselves for all their manufacturing needs they wouldn’t be able to stand in their ivory tower and look down on everyone destroying their environment for profit!

not me, someone else.

someone deployed a change to the development AWS account at work before a holiday that caused a lambda to execute over 60 million times in a week.

not bad until you find out that the lambda was responsible for creating EC2 instances.

frakin toasters!

*could

won’t

I’m a Mennonite fan myself. I met Noah Dyck and Anita Dyck. they’re good Dyck’s and they’ve always been good to our community and have always used us right. though there was that time that Charity Dyck–well we don’t speak of that anymore.