If you're getting an email or a call late on Friday that something needs to be done by Monday, it's your manager that has already let everyone down. Unless something is on fire, anything that's a weekend surprise is a failure of planning. I can understand crunch for a project that's been in the works for years and has an approaching deadline, but random shit that has sprung up from nowhere means you have incompetent bosses and you bailing their ass out of the fire will only teach them that they can pull the same shit again.

I'm not sure the average Facebook user is even distinguishable from a bot to begin with. Who's to say what is truly human anymore?

Nah, fuck Sony on this one. They have no need to do this and I hope they eat shit all day for it. I hope Arrowhead finds a new publisher for their games going forward.

Russia isn't going to do anything to Germany or the rest of the EU NATO members. If Russia starts a war with them they'd lose. Badly. There's a strong possibility that everyone loses if nukes start to fly, but that's a good reason why such a war won't take place. Removing nuclear weapons from the equation and Russia can barely fight a war against Ukraine, which doesn't have the military capabilities of a country like Germany, much less everyone Germany would bring in with them. Russia's military has already been decimated trying to fight on a small front. Even if the U.S. sat out, the Russians would get their asses whipped. Badly.

Germany should respond in kind. Fuck Russian networks and computer systems up and tell they can decode when to stop. Bullies usually don't like to get hit back and that's usually enough to stop the behavior. No need to escalate to war when there's less punitive correct action that can be take.

Friend you are in luck. Please give me your telephone number and I will have one of my associates contact you, probably right around the time you're just sitting down to eat.

Let's just be thankful she's found browser tabs as a conduit for this kind of behavior. I can't imagine the smell if she had 7,400 cats.

"If Narcocide doesn't appear to be up to anything that only means he's craftier than we first thought. Double your efforts men!"

Google is still better for programming related searches, particularly anything really niche or specific. For most common searches I would agree they're either no better or actually worse though. Mom and pop would be fine using DDG these days.

There's a valid alternative take that they're still surveilling Americans without a warrant, but they aren't even bothering with the bullshit regulations the government has carved out for itself to violate the constitution.

Pissing off the people who run Boeing seems to be a pretty bad event. It's possibly becoming a lot more common as well.

As the saying goes, once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, but three times is enemy action.

That money is spent buying American made munitions. We don't particularly care who is blowing up who with them as long as they aren't on the naughty list. If they are the CIA might sell them the munitions under the table, unless they're also on the CIA's naughty list. Regardless, the end result is American arms manufacturers make more money. As far as government spending goes it's not completely wasteful, but it does still spend my and your tax dollars on shit we wouldn't want to if we had the choice.

The federal government owns a lot of land that it could sell to cover the debt. Maybe it should start doing some of that.

Many of the countries where the USD is used as an unofficial second currency only due so because it's a better store of value than their own official currency. The USD can be used in six months to buy about the same quantity of goods or services as it will buy now, whereas a local currency may have lost half of its value by that point. If we start playing silly games with the printing press those other countries will have no reason to prefer dollars over their own currency and will start trying to get rid of them.

Frankly, I think we should aim for an even lower amount of inflation. No more than one-half percent per year, and ideally comfortably below that. Government also needs to be forced to have a balanced budget. No more spending money that they don't have. Cut spending, raise taxes, or meet in the middle. I don't particularly care, but we keep letting a bad problem grow worse.

You don't need to own a car if you don't want to. Automotive insurance is only required if you own and operate a vehicle and not all forms of insurance are mandated. There are plenty of people who don't need to own a car and can use taxis on the odd occasion they would need one and public transport options aren't available.

Medical insurance (and the system as well) would probably work better if it was limited to expensive emergency care. Car insurance doesn't cover oil changes or other mundane maintenance. I suspect that if more common medical services were removed from insurance it would result in a more competitive industry that's up front about costs to patients.

Timestamps and high score leaderboards make layoff planning so much easier.