Americans don’t have healthcare because their masters don’t want them to have it, not because the money is being spent elsewhere.

The US has one of the world’s highest per capita public spendings on healthcare and the highest private. There are more money per capita in the American healthcare system than in any other system in human history. The money is there already. What is lacking is political will to make these money go towards actual healthcare instead of grifts, corruption and rent extraction.

Never have I ever worked somewhere that charged employees for coffee. Even the shitty “learn not to be lazy” workfare bullshit I was once sent to by the job centre had free coffee as its only redeeming feature.

For the 32nd consecutive year the UN shows itself to be useless by not doing anything in the material world to prevent American economic warfare and terrorism against Cuba.

I feel very 2

People buy taxidermy bats? Why?

It was a very stupid thing to do but I kind of feel sorry for these poor sods. They committed a victimless crime, and now they are going to be fucked for life due to the American credit score system. Other people get off much easier for doing a lot worse things.

I feel the gloating online over them is a bit distasteful. If you can’t tell that there’s no way they’ll let some nobody get away with this you’re probably not the most resourceful person to begin with.

I get your point about how individualised development is part of the problem. I just want to point out how these rituals to divine the future of a project can become absolutely cursed when done as a team effort. Sitting by yourself and pondering how long it will take to make the computer go beep is a miserable experience, having to discuss the minutiae of how long something will take because management got the idea that this will make the estimates “more accurate” is many times worse.

What if we had regular snuggle sessions?

In my experience the thing that keeps the amount of “Agile” rituals down is management looking at how long it takes and realising that they’re not making any money while everybody is at meetings.

I worked on such a project in my old job. The application was the core product of their business and it was a sprawling mess that had evolved from constantly adding layers to a small proof of concept application.

There was never time for anything other than adding new features. You never got to fixing the architectural flaws or streamlining things. We couldn’t even fix the ugly and confusing UI that every customer was complaining about.

There’s an old saying that a pig doesn’t get any fatter by being weighed and there’s a lot of pig-weighing going in the software industry.

To me personally scrum rituals like daily standups are a minor nuisance. They are unproductive and often boring but most of the time you can get them over with relatively quickly.

What I really, really, really hate is the time registration tyranny where you have to do estimates, have meetings about estimates, remember to turn on and off timers, fiddle with timesheets when you forget about the timers, answer questions like “how will this change that everyone agrees needs to be done affect the estimates?” and defend why a task that was estimated to six hours took eight to complete.

I have ADHD, I have trouble making a realistic estimate on how long it takes to cook pasta and you expect me to be able to accurately predict how long it takes to compete a 3000+ hour project with a ton of external dependencies, arcane legacy code and agile constantly evolving requirements?

I understand that you need something to put on a bill that the customer will pay without complaining but come on, how can this be effective? Sometimes I feel I spend more time wrangling timesheets than actually coding.

The silver lining to the Burgerland election is that at the end of it at least one group of extremely evil and off-putting people are going to be very mad about it and go even more insane than they already are.

When some asshole with a deathwish tailgates me as I am driving past a row of trucks in the slow lane I deliberately stay in the fast lane, driving the speed limit lane until I’m past every truck in sight while the idiot behind me goes

Why should I move? He’s the one who sucks.

Of course he will, Kamala will only protect black people’s bitcoin

He’s not wrong. If you’re rich enough to buy private performances from candidates, both of them will “have their hearts in the right place” as far as you are concerned.

The system works as intended.

If you’re not ready to protect life and freedom by getting blown up within a week of arriving at the front in an unwinnable war you’re a bad person.

One would hope work would be significantly less miserable under socialism though

Korea is clearly afraid of an invasion.

Never trust anything you read on the internet

Under capitalism workers have to put up with jobs that makes them miserable. Otherwise they will become unemployed and even more miserable.

This is the best, most efficient and most rational economic system ever.