The downvotes are for the unnecessary holier-than-thou rant at the end attacking everyone using this very site.

Consult the chart

It took a sinister turn right at the end…

To be clear, when you say doctors endorsed cigarette smoking, a small percentage of doctors were duped into endorsing it and their recommendations boosted by the tobacco industry.

I’ve got my Grandfather’s old copy of The Boy’s Companion published before the date in that meme, and it’s very clear in its message that smoking is bad for you. They’ve known it was harmful to health since at least the 17th century, and tobacco was only brought to Europe in the 16th.

The cunts who sent that mascot to the hospital fucking KNEW. (edit: or at least they would have if they existed, it looks like the whole thing might have been AI generated)

It was created by an Elon Musk superfan who identified himself to ARTnews as a French tech entrepreneur under the pseudonym “Louis XXII."

His other pseudonyms include Adrian Dittman and Doge Designer

It was a major plot point on one of the seasons of The Sopranos. Junior ordered a hit on Tony Soprano after Tony found out that Junior ate pussy and teased him for it.

Of all the notions that exist around hypermasculinity, this one is the weirdest.

I’ve been inside a few big companies and I’ve seen exactly how it works.

In order to manage huge organisations, they divide them all up into cost centers. And the website is considered marketing so it gets given a budget on the theory that it brings customers. It uses the budget to make games and it does indeed bring customers.

Then a few years later, the shareholders are asking why their stock hasn’t outperformed the market, and they put in a CEO tasked with fixing it, and the CEO asks the head of the department in charge of websites what can he do to address the fact that his department is losing money instead of making it.

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I googled the author, he’s a Tech Bro pretending to be a media critic. Shame on The Guardian for publishing this moronic clickbait guff.

I would say the guy clearly doesn’t understand the most basic concepts of fiction, except I suspect he probably does but is ignoring them in order to push his agenda.

Thank you.

“I don’t have to know CS201 Data Structures and Algorithms to do my job”, says a thousand D-tier coders online, whose code is costing their employers a small fortune in unnecessary cloud compute bills because they just blindly imported a ton of python libraries and went with the least suitable data structures and algorithms for the task at hand, because that’s what the defaults were for that library. “It fulfils all the requirements from the client perfectly, bow to my experience and skill in delivering customer value”.

It’s classic Dunning-Kruger, incompetent people who are too incompetent to know they’re incompetent.

Bonus points when they cite the fact that they were involved with a project that cost a hundred million dollars, as “proof” that they’re a world-class expert, when it probably would have been a ten million dollar project with an actually competent engineer…

Imagine sucking so bad it makes the news.

That was the opposite of nuance. It was pedantry that deliberately missed the point.

From 2013 to 2020 I didn’t have bittorrent installed anywhere, and paid for Netflix, NowTV, and Crunchyroll. Then the enshittification kicked in, and now most of what I watch is from bittorrent.

Competence played a big part in Singapore’s success. Lots of highly qualified people governing by pragmatism over ideology. Exact polar opposite of what we’re seeing in the US.

I scraped my knuckles just looking at that

Darn. Problem with the Fediverse is you don’t know how things will render on other people’s clients.

One of my friends is married to a Chinese woman only two years his junior, but because she, like most Asian women, looks a lot younger than her European contemporaries he still gets lots of dirty looks and untoward comments from judgy fucks who think it’s any of their fucking business.

Trump has now ordered NIST to reverse their recommendation on Rust.

It wasn’t until all this kicked off that I learned just how many companies that I thought were European were in fact owned by American conglomerates.

Which makes MAGA’s “the world is taking advantage of America” rhetoric all the more infuriatingly hypocritical. You spent decades using the strong dollar to go on a massive global shopping trip buying up every other country’s companies, and are now crying foul that those companies you own are supplying their local markets instead of importing from the US?

Sod 'em.