The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

My feeds are filled up with too much sponsored content that is repetitive. All this in your face advertising make social media less and less atractive

Pong. It wasn't fancy, but it was the first.

Always Standard time? Right, I want to wake up to sunshine at 4:00 am and have it dark by 9:00 pm No Thanks!

Headlights are already blinding to oncoming traffic and now we want to make them brighter? That's the stupidest idea I've heard in a long time.

Don't forget Offshoring. Coders are cheaper in 3rd world country's

Programming (as I like to call it) is most certainly a skill. You need Logic, problem solving and creativity. The current state of AI, with all it's touchy-feely algorithms will not be up to the task anytime. And if your only skill is coding in one computer language, you should have upped you skill set along time ago

To many employers are requiring RTO, for no other reason than to give their middle managers a feeling of power and we don't want to go back. Many times the job is getting done better and faster than when seated in an office. Remote work also does away with the long commute

I was taking business away from TDS, until they got the FCC to allow them to change their tariffs. T-1 circuits for an ISP more than quadrupled overnight. But only for ISPs. If you were the hospital and you wanted a T-1 you got the old rate. I did not have the finances to put up a legal fight; needless to say I was forced out of business. TDS is getting whats coming to them.