git pull --rebase origin master

There might possibly be no other command in the history of software development that has saved more man-hours than this gem.

Assuming I am alone, there are emergency roadside phone every mile or so that I can use. Alternatively, I can use a normal landline or flag down a passing state trooper. I don't see this as an issue, as it will happen at most a handful of times in my life.

If I need a ride home after city buses have stopped, I can call a cab or I can stay the night. Again, is this really a problem? Did people never leave home before cell phones?

Why do you need to phone someone when you show up at their apartment? Why not use the buzzer or knock on the door? If this is a case where the apartment doesn't have doors or buzzers, I can send them a message when I leave home, "hey, I'll be there in 15 minutes."

You came up with three exceptionally weak circumstances where a cell phone might be a bit more convenient if you have managed to not plan anything you're doing.

Again, folks assuming that day-to-day life is impossible without a cell phone.

I do web development and it's mostly the standard LAMP stack type stuff. One of the frustrations I have constantly is that I still need to learn how to do someone else's job simply to do my own.

In that regard I've learned how to use Linux with various services, learned about SOLR, Nginx, Apache, ESXi, Docker, MAAS, and a list of other things I've probably mostly forgotten. If I wanted to, I feel confident I could rebrand as a sysadmin, but lord knows I don't want to. I like writing code and solving challenges, but I hate having to trudge through all bits about getting infrastructure to work.

On top of that I work almost entirely on e-commerce sites, so I am forced to learn various business models, sales tax implications, PCI-compliance standards, payment and shipping APIs, assorted accounting software, and on and on.

I complain, but at the same time I understand that certain combinations of certain skillsets are what make an employee desirable. I like having the ability to do other people's jobs, sometimes I just don't want to.

I would like to report that I have been free of a cell phone for approximately 3 years now and am still alive, happy, and savvy to the things happening in the world.

You don't need to have that thing attached to your face at all hours of the day.

I agree! I think we should go dig up all the dead criminals and stick their remains in a building with bars guarded by men with guns. That'll teach 'em!

Dealing with infections while in the wilderness is pointless, huh? Holy shit are you ignorant.

... or just put on your resume that you have gone through all the free CS video lectures.

This sounds completely backwards to me. The students who are already interested in the program are the ones who don't get to attend?

Are we still in a race to the bottom here? I thought society decided at some point that we should be encouraging our best and brightest ... I see I am mistaken.

Also, other than the hail and possibility of a tornado, it's a damn fine place to grow nursery stock. A lot of nursery stock in Colorado comes from Oklahoma (and other nearby tough climates for growing, I'm sure, I can only speak for CO).

They will eventually, but in the amount of time it takes for them to regrow, drastic environmental impacts may happen which destroy their habitat and make it no longer a fit for that particular plant. A simple example would be mountain flooding after a wildfire. When conifers burn, they will leave a sheet of wax on top of the dirt. When snow runoff season begins (or there are heavy rains, as seen in Colorado in 2013) the ground is not as good at sponging up the moisture and releasing it slowly down-river over the course of the season. Instead it beads off the surface and heads straight to the bottom, causing runoff to be more violent and increasing the risk of flash-flood events.

With those increased events, the habitat can be altered dramatically, possibly to the point where the trees that loved living there no longer find it suitable. Willows, dogwoods, cottonwoods, etc will all suffer as they are plants that would have increased risk (since they like living right next to the river). To compound the issue, there might be other plants that are now able to grow in areas where they couldn't before. The result of that is increased monoculture of forest species, which of course leads to increased risk of disease.

Can you begin to see the feedback loop? Increased disease, increased fire risk, increased flood risk, increased environment destruction, increased monoculture, and repeat.

The problem with wildfires now is that too many years of fire suppression has led to these situations where instead of smaller fires burning and replenishing areas periodically, we have massive fires that destroy massive areas and make it more difficult, if not impossible, for the area to recover.

I'm not sure I understand their definition of "deforestation". Is that only man-made, or does it include the work of insects, blight, and other maladies that wipe out huge swaths of forest?

Do you think that might be related to the increasing number of things that are totally fucked on our planet? I totally understand that hyperbole and sensationalism sell and that we are fed a steady diet of both, but don't throw the baby out of a moving car with a glass of water ... or whatever that saying is.

I don't understand how you can label Canada as losing all that forestation without mentioning MPB and other outbreaks which are on the rise.

Do they not realize that many of those forest fires wouldn't have happened outbreaks were less severe? This is ignoring the wildfire suppression that happened in the first place which contributed to the destruction being seen in the last few years.

Interesting to think that suppressing wildfires might actually contribute to climate change.

You know, if you keep doing ridiculous shit long enough (and getting away with it), eventually you can do something super ridiculous and send out the PR release on April 1. Everyone will think it's a joke.

What I find interesting is the opacity of this submission.

I read the summary, and based solely on how the summary is written, it comes off as a plausible story. I went to the comments and saw folks talking about AFD jokes, and then I thought, this was a joke? How is it funny?

Then, of course, I clicked a couple links and saw the reference and at this point ... and here's the interesting bit ... it actually got less funny.

Amazingly, when analyzed by an advanced comedic interpreter, this comment is scored as the funniest of the day.