Next time just ask for une pipe

They just respond in English after hearing my childlike attempts to parle français

Never been banned on reddit but I prefer how there is less of a moderation here for my searing hot takes when I feel like shitposting

Yeah if I were being charitable I might imagine they aren’t on the list because they are already subject to extremely high tarrifs and embargoes. Maybe increased those tarrifs could be a bargaining chip in ending the Ukraine invasion. Impossible to tell with Trump though.

Uh I guess my movie enthusiast opinion is that Clerks is a very funny movie that has some surprisingly good social commentary burried under the irreverence.

If we’re talking about the actual morality of normal people working at “evil” companies, then I guess it wouldn’t be an injustice if there was some kind of cosmic punishment for it. The reality is that capitalism is cut throat and typically more “evil” companies like the arms, gambling or tobacco industry offer you better benefits or financial renumeration than ones that don’t have that stigma.

At the same time I’d argue that there are very few truly “good” jobs. A large component of the charity sector is essentially sales; even if you are working at a company building some inoffensive productivity app or B2B software you can end up potentially automating work that used to be done by a human office admin.

At the end of the day you need to work out what your individual tolerance level is for the excesses of capitalism. If society really frowns upon an industry then people vote and the laws change so ultimately those are the parameters you are working within.

My friend used to work at the call centre for Sky tv who are like a cable company in the UK. People phone up because they want to cancel and their job is to try to discourage them from cancelling for another few days. He left after convincing a legally blind lady to keep her tv subscription.

The purpose of school is to get you used to going to a grey building with people you hate every day

I have never worked in IT and not had at least one project I worked on which I didn’t think was immoral. Even at a small web dev agency I was working on an app for keeping track of zero hours contract workers during their shifts in a major UK supermarket. I got invited into a meeting 2 weeks before it got released and told not to buy any tescos stock.

2 weeks later on release they fired several thousand of their full time employees and referred them on to this 3rd party to get their old jobs back with new - worse - contracts like zero guaranteed working hours.

Then there was the startup that was in adtech and spied on people online. We were on the adblock easylist of trackers to block.

After that there was the gambling company… idk it just seems like every job has a morally grey component to it.

Edit: had an episode of John Oliver Last Week Tonight about my current company on air last week.

Edit 2: One of my friends was working for VW in Berlin when the emissions test scandal came out. Ultimately she quit being a SWE and became a nurse. I guess everyone has their own tolerance levels for the shady shit they are comfortable doing at work.

Another friend used to work for a porn site but wouldn’t ever touch gambling. He’s still a SWE though.

9 people and counting who are in love with OP’s mom

The evil dominatrix demon from the God Hand in Berserk. I believe she’s called Slan.

OP implied it should be controversial

There is a separate kernel which is being written entirely in rust from scratch that might interest you. I’m not sure if this is the main one https://github.com/asterinas/asterinas but it is the first one that came up when I searched.

By the tone of your post you might just want to watch the world burn in which case I’d raise an issue in that repo saying “Rewrite in C++ for compatibility with wider variety of CPU archs” ;)

I just humour people when they tell me political opinions I don’t agree with. No one ever changes their minds.

Rule #1 never trust your users

Yes, I find that dude to be very disagreeable. He’s like everything that haters claim Linus Torvalds is - but manifested IRL.

Arguably there is quite a lot of horror at the centre of My Neighbour Totoro (also Spirited Away but you didn’t mention that one).

The floating red shoes are a reference to a real life event in Japan that was in the news at the time where a girl had drowned.

Additionally, you could view the events of the film as taking place in the protagonist’s mind as a coping mechanism for extreme grief.

Edit: Missed a few things. Apparently the destination on the cat bus says “grave” on it and there is a fan theory that Totoro is a shinigami.