Even bigger question: what then?

Say you deport a citizen of Mexican origin to Mexico. Can’t they just, you know, go back? They’re citizens, with a passport/id.

The only alternative is to strip them (at least de facto) of their citizenship, which is literally a Hitler move (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_über_den_Widerruf_von_Einbürgerungen_und_die_Aberkennung_der_deutschen_Staatsangehörigkeit, only a German source, unfortunately).

“Even deader internet theory”.

Honestly, it could be kind of cool.

If you’re doing it right, the juxtaposition of “profound” graphical appearance and nonsensical/banal text content can be funny.

Or at least not permanent.

I grew up in the early 2000s and while starting somewhere around 2005 cameras and the first social sites became a thing, nothing of that exists today. Myspace and SchülerVZ (German Facebook clone) were super popular, but don’t exist anymore. Camera phones didn’t have an easy way to export photos and most hard drives from back then just died at some point. There’s hardly anything left. And that’s a good thing.

They’re afraid to not get a chance to interview them again.

If you’re a political journalist and half the politicians won’t talk to you, you have a problem.

Now, a press with a backbone would of course retaliate by simply not showing anything of those politicians (just indirect statements, no pictures, no sound bites), but the press has no backbone, so…

I have no local thrift store, and the speakers you can find here are often too big. I just wanted small cheap speakers to listen to YouTube videos and essentially an extension cord to plug my (proper) headphones into.

I mean, soundwise they’re fine. Not awesome, but for the price perfectly ok. It’s just that everything else is crap for no reason.

I bought a cheap set of speakers for my workshop PC.

They have two buttons. One is the combined mode/on/off button. Short press turns it on, another short press cycles through different modes, which are not explained anywhere, but have different LED colors. One mode (line in) looks almost exactly like the red standby led, it just has a bit of a blue LED also lit. Pressing it long turns it off.

The second button switches between a regular and a “speech bubble” mode. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to do. However, longpressing that button switches between speakers and headphones.

Then there’s the volume knob. It’s extremely non-linear and has a delay of a second or two, so you have to be really precise. The volume knob is also not really synced to the headphone amp, so each time you put on headphones, you have to turn the volume like crazy, and then remember to turn it down again.

And the maximum fuck you: the speakers are so lightweight, that they slip around when trying to press the buttons, so you always need two hands.

Absolute garbage. Why are they going out of their way to create a worse product? It doesn’t make sense.

Damnit, that’s exactly the joke I wanted to make.

And even worse: bad polling amplifies the interpretation the pollsters want to see.

In this case, there’s no link to or mention of the actual question. Just the in favor/not in favor distribution.

Did they ask “the government should implement laws to ban children” or did it say “rules to prevent children from signing up”?

Did they mention the age limit? Asking any children and teenagers might lead to very different results.

And so on. If you can’t find the exact question, polls like this are useless.

Idiodin itself can’t get “bad” in any way. The carrier material might go bad, but that’s also just starches and a few mineral compounds. At worst, you get powder instead of a pill.

The expiration dates on medication are intentionally extremely conservative.

I mean, look at the username.

Wrote it before, and I’m not the author, but: conservatives stop thinking if they like the current result.

And that’s actually part of the problem: your title doesn’t mean anything.

Not that you’re not leading, but what “lead” or “senior” actually means is completely arbitrary.

In one project I’m lead in, I wrote maybe 5 lines of actual code, because I was in meetings, wrote documentation, did release management (well, I wrote pipelines here, but that’s like 200 lines), etc. The actual leg work was done by 4 or five other guys.

But in another project, I’m lead of myself and another bloke, of course I’m writing code in that one.

So it’s completely possible to have a bunch of guys with the “developer” tag on their title, but they’re not doing much developing.

Actually watch the video, you’re way too generous in your analysis.

The metric is essentially lines of code. That’s it.

So everyone who isn’t hacking away ultra verbose code is considered useless. Lead devs and architects often don’t write any code at all. They’re not unproductive.

Statistically speaking, a few of them definitely fucked up at some point and accidentally did the right thing. Or committed suicide.

At least Jesus is safe from burglary then.

If you want to get all philosophical (which is probably a bit too far, it’s George Lucas after all), you could make the argument that the downfall of the Republic is an example of a complacent, non-responsive governmental elite failing to react or even just recognize obvious problems.

The Jedi are just warrior monks and symptomatic for that. They didn’t bring her with them, because they don’t care about people that much. They are above the population and act more like demigods.

Palliativmedizin ist so ein seltsames Konzept.

Jeder weiß, dass die Patienten in sehr absehbarer Zukunft sterben werden und anstatt irgendwas dagegen zu machen, werden sie bewusstlos gespritzt, damit es etwas erträglicher wird. Aber wenn man das unabwendbare beschleunigt, ist man Mörder.

See, if you would have read my comment and actually bothered to understand it, you would have seen, that I haven’t said no one is at fault here.

So I have to assume, you’re arguing in bad faith, you’re putting words in my mouth to defeat a straw man, while not addressing any of my actual points.

So maybe pull that infantile sarcasm out of your ass and try actually thinking about what you’re saying.

My thoughts exactly.