I was guilty of that very thing once. During my first programming class back in college, I wrote an Asteroids clone as a project. My professor kept sending it back telling me to fix it. I really racked my brain trying to figure out what he was sending back to me (he wouldn’t tell me, I was supposed to find and correct the error). The game ran just fine. Finally a gave up and asked him to tell me the answer of what my code was doing wrong. He showed me that I had one line of code that was basically making a new instance of the entire game for every screen refresh. (I wrote it in Java, so Java was just correcting it for me in real time.)

It’s funny to me to see people mythologize how perfect video games were before they could be remotely updated.

Sure, game developers rely on fix-it-later updates much more than they should today, but games had bugs back then too.

Progressive voter: “I’m sick of how old cowardly the Democrat party is.”

Me: “Are you going to run for office.”

Progressive voter: “Uh… No. That’s too hard.”

One executive order. It could literally be one sentence long.

With the exception of the spending bill, everything that’s been done by this administration has been done by executive order. The real problem is that the administration ran off all the skilled and knowledgeable workers.

This is, in fact, the opposite of a stable regulatory environment.

Did you make a group?

Did you make a group?

Hello, my fellow Episkopol! I’m new here myself too. If you start one up I’ll subscribe!

That… Is some fucked up shit.

A few pieces of advice:

1. Get off of online social networks. Online social networks are bad for your still developing brain. This is not a criticism of you, only that you are a teenager and have a teenagers brain, and that there is a lot of really good psychological evidence coming out showing that being active in online social networks is really bad for you. I recommend that you delete all of your accounts and just enjoy being a teenager. (I swear, after a few weeks you really won’t miss it as much as you think you might.)

2. You aren’t over reacting. You are a teenager dating a teenager. If he’s not reacting to your texts we quickly as you like, that cool. So it’s not working out. Break up with him. It’s not going to get better. You really can still be friends at this point, and odds are your relationship probably wasn’t going to survive the post-high school-to-college distance anyway. Shrug it off, go buy a cute shirt for yourself and just enjoy being a teenager.

That’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure. My family eats at least one a week.

Actually you need more than a few.

Remember, when push comes to shove, not a single Republican voted to remove him from office after he tried to kill them.

No that’s not it.

There are just a few left in the GOP that are smart enough to realize that the White “Christian” state that is developing isn’t going to put them on top like they thought it would…

In Dallas, you can get one at Sam’s Club or Costco for $5.

And “old” in this case means “cooked this morning”.

Rotisserie chicken is like the absolute cheapest food a person can buy.

They were so… Innocent.

Like, everyone trusted everyone. Like, sure perfect stranger online, I don’t mind telling you my real name, home address, and age. What’s the harm?

I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.

Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it’s not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.

Scouting America is a nearly completely volunteer organization. Their technology is generally about 20 years behind because it’s all pieced together by volunteers that “kinda done something like this for my company once”.

I’m just talking about a human capability standpoint. Maybe over time a person just develops the stamina to do it, but I’m pretty wiped after a solid 9-hour day. Honestly, my productivity collapses after about 5 hours of solid focused work.