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

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.

OpenRC works just fine on my PC

I find the Darwin approach to dynamic linking too restrictive. Sometimes there needs to be a new release which is not backwards compatible or you end up with Windows weirdness. It is also too restrictive on volunteer developers giving their time to open source.

At the same time, containerization where we throw every library - and the kitchen sink - at an executable to get it to run does not seem like progress to me. It’s like the meme where the dude is standing on a huge horizontal pile of ladders to look over a small wall.

At the moment you can choose to use a distro which follows a particular approach to this problem; one which enthuses its developers, giving some guarantee of long term support. This free market of distros that we have at the moment is ideal in my opinion.

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.

I think generally the same but there are extreme cases like murder where a person can atone all they want but shouldn’t necessarily be granted forgiveness.

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.

Showing genuine interest in their personality and hobbies with eye contact. Asking questions about the aforementioned hobbies.

If you ever have the opposite situation, like say you are taken but someone has started flirting with you. You can either say you are spoken for or do the opposite of the above advice and talk only about yourself, adding some petty complaints about your life in general.

XFCE would be my choice too