Trillian! Hadn’t thought of that in forever.

Make it per day and he might actually care.

EVEN SPLIT OR GTFO GAAAAAAH

Half Life 3 Fans

mathematicians.

Even Carl had more self respect than that.

Education.

Surely this feeling is due to some kind of chronoton radiation.

Wintermute is the name of a character from William Gibson’s Neuromancer novels, so it’s fairly common. But the German angle does add a bit of spice…

Having to deal with the hospital bills afterwards if they survive?

Yeah, that’s about the level of ordinance I’m talking about, just aim that gun-foot at the other gun-foot and you’ve got the right picture 😆

There’s a joke about chaps in here I’m not deviant enough to discover.

I was once on a team that would filter out staging-only bugs in bug triage meetings. The team would only ever fix a bug if it was found in production. It was exactly as foot-gun as it sounds.

Alexa skeezes me out. I have a single Google home mini I keep in the garage so that I can control music and stuff hands free, but that’s about it. I’ve stopped using it on my phone because it’s garbage now. I have to assume Alexa is equivalently enshittified.

🤞🏽

Managers when a tester does this in a planning meeting, asking for more time to write better teats: 😠

Managers when a staff level engineer does this in a post-fuckup root cause analysis meeting telling everyone what went wrong: 🤤

Managers when the tester points out it wouldn’t have happened if tests for it had gotten written:

Fair point. They’ve always defaulted to Shumering because shutting down the government causes a lot of pain for people dependent on public services, but with the idiots in charge already dismantling everything, there’s zero reason not to, most of the people dependent on the government are already getting fucked DOGEy style anyway.