MAGA…

Musk’s

Agency

Getting

Audited

This guy is such a massive waste of space. 9 times out of 10 when he’s asked an economic question, “I don’t know” is his answer. And then the few other times he says shit like this, which also isn’t helpful.

Yeah. Most recently it was a shitty site that looked like it had been built in 2000 and I had to use to pay an EMS bill: services.webillems.com

Tried several times on Firefox and it wouldn’t let me proceed with the payment. It kind of acted like it had. But when I called them to confirm they said it never went through. Tried multiple times with the same results. So I then tried on Chrome and it went through first time.

There’s have been others too. But like I said before, it’s rare. But annoying.

It’s down to these sites using stale, poorly-written legacy code and/or never being upgraded.

Further proof that World War III has gone hot in Ukraine.

On the one side: Russia, North Korea, China, Belarus, Hungary, half of the US

On the other side: Ukraine, the rest of Europe, Canada, Australia, the other half of the US

Vivaldi and Librewolf are good recommends. So good call by the author.

I wish I could completely ditch Blink based browsers for Gecko ones, just because I dislike how dominant Blink is thanks to Chrome. But some sites don’t render correctly on Gecko. So a fallback is needed.

Edit: I haven’t used Vivaldi in a long time, and apparently it’s not what I thought it was. Are there really no outstanding open source Blink-based browser out there?

Of, it’s that asshole who said it. Yeah, not at all surprised.

Thanks. Added them to a list, with a number of others I found on the dei.watch website.

Is there a list of retail companies that are still committed to DEI policies? The only one I know of is Costco.

Edit: I did some more digging and found this website - dei.watch. The following are some of the ones listed as ‘committed’ on there at the time of writing:

• Albertsons
• Best Buy
• Costco
• CVS
• Dick’s Sporting Goods
• Dillard’s
• Dollar General *
• Dollar Tree *
• Guess
• H-E-B
• Home Depot
• Home Goods
• Ikea
• Lidl
• Marshall’s
• Meijer
• Patagonia
• Petco
• Publix
• REI
• Ross
• TJ Maxx
• Walgreens
• Wegman’s

Note: I’ve only listed physical store retailers who sell items (not restaurants) with either a nationwide presence or a significant number of retail stores. I’m sure I’m missing some, but this is a start.

*This chain might have an active DEI policy they are supporting and maintaining, but even among retailers they are also famous for treating their employees horribly.

“Mais non! Not like that!!”

The ‘states rights’ argument is so superficial. I have no idea why anyone still believes it. The Republicans have shown time and again that states rights only apply when it fits their agenda. And that they will use it as a convenient puppet during election cycles to do gullible voters, only to renege on it as soon as they are back in office.

I’m sure the mild finger-wagging he gets will really make him reflect on his mistakes. /s

Newsmax should just rebrand themselves as a meme coin, so they can go full circle. They are a joke already.

Be careful, you might hurt his delicate fee-fees! /s

But seriously, yes, screw him. He’s a toxic, narcissistic, man-child nepo-baby who has conned his way to the top, climbing on the backs of better people.

Musk has a very different definition of ‘evil’ than I and many others do.

One of the few campaign promises he actually kept. But yes, it was obvious to anyone with half a brain that this administration would gut social security. So you get what you deserve.

The people I feel bad for are the minority of voters who actually saw this coming and didn’t vote for him. They are stuck in this horrible situation because of all the stupid dipshits who are getting their faces eaten by leopards right now.

That’s a more viable solution than replacing most software engineers, honestly.

Damn. That’s some heavy “please clap!” vibes right there!

Ah yes, a classic tale…

“We’re going to take this perfectly efficient and functional COBOL code base and rewrite it in Java! And we’ll do it in a few months!”

So many more competent people and organizations than them have already tried this and spectacularly crashed and burned. There are literal case studies on these types of failed endeavors.

I bet they’ll do it in Waterfall too.

It’s interesting. If they use Grok, this could well be the deathknell for vibe programming (at least for now). It’s just fucking tragic that their hubris will cause grief and pain to so many Americans - and cost the lives of more than a few.

Edit: Fixed some typos.

More meat for the grinder.

It’s really unfortunate. Most banks and credit unions turn on overdraft protection by default. And many of them make it difficult to turn it off (burying it in online app/site menus, requiring people to call in or go into a branch to deactivate it, etc.). They do this because overdraft fees are a massive source of profit for them.

But it’s pretty easy for people to get trapped in a vicious cycle of debt due to these fees. Most people don’t know they can turn these off, and some don’t even realize they are in place to begin with.