Aceticon

Lies!

Everybody knows that the terrorists on the planes aimed them at the floor containing the Illuminati outpost and it was the fire from the cooling liquid for the supercomputers used to mind control everybody in New York that melted the support steel structure.

Above a certain level of seniority (in the sense of real breadth and depth of experience rather than merely high count of work years) one's increased productivity is mainly in making others more productive.

You can only be so productive at making code, but you can certainly make others more productive with better design of the software, better software architecture, properly designed (for productivity, bug reduction and future extensibility) libraries, adequate and suitably adjusted software development processes for the specifics of the business for which the software is being made, proper technical and requirements analysis well before time has been wasted in coding, mentorship, use of experience to foresee future needs and potential pitfalls at all levels (from requirements all the way through systems design and down to code making), and so on.

Don't pay for that and then be surprised of just how much work turns out to have been wasted in doing the wrong things, how much trouble people have with integration, how many "unexpected" things delay the deliveries, how fast your code base ages and how brittle it seems, how often whole applications and systems have to be rewritten, how much the software made mismatches the needs of the users, how mistrusting and even adversarial the developer-user relationship ends up being and so on.

From the outside it's actually pretty easy to deduce (and also from having known people on the inside) how plenty of Tech companies (Google being a prime example) haven't learned the lesson that there are more forms of value in the software development process than merely "works 14h/day, is young and intelligent (but clearly not wise)"

I suspect indirectly both variants come from the same source or maybe even it's the La Haine that's indirectly the source for my variant (though I learned this joke a long time ago, possibly before 1995).

By the way, that's excellent film intro.

Reminds me of the joke about the guy falling from the top of the Empire State Building who, half way down, was heard saying: "Well, so far, so good"

This kind of thing just confirms how it's really all about the Power elites keeping an eye out on the plebes trying to organise and change things so that they can kill any such things in the early stages.

Democracy was supposed to slowly bring Autocracies around to its way of doing things but instead what we're seing is the very opposite of that.

Who needs integration testing when we have users who will do it for us?!

Play the ball, not the player.

That too!

Just as much a sociopath as Biden, probably more - Biden's love for Fascism and Fascist violence is indirect, whilst Putin's is very much direct: Putin is doing the deed himself whilst Biden is "only" giving weapons and support to those doing the deed.

I'm sorry but a guy supporting the Zionist ethno-Fascists who are way more racists and murderous than the Ku Klux Klan to the point of targeting Palestinian children with snipers, has no moral high-ground to use the Ku Klux Klan as example of horrible racist people because he himself is way much worse: his moral "high-ground" is the mountain of blood children's remains with an Israeli flag on top that he helped build with weapon shipments and diplomatic cover for the Zionist Genocide.

This fucking Nazi-loving disgusting hypocrite sociopath should shut up and let Kamala do her thing.

There are two reasons for something being said by multiple people:

• It's just people following people, and repeating what others said, which indeed is a trend.
• It's multiple people independently deriving the same conclusions from the facts on the ground.

If somebody is shot on the street in front of a crowd and dies, and 10 passerbys who saw it are interviewed and all say that "a person was murdered", it's not a trend, it's them deriving the same conclusion from having observed what happenned.

Similary the people here having read again and again, from the government of Israel and Western "leaders" such as Sholz and Biden calling Israel "the Jewish Nation" and even accusing those critical of Israel and its actions of being anti-semite (i.e. of being "against Jews", not of being against Israel) and then seeing news of somebody attacking a Jew whilst loudly criticising Israel, multiple people are all concluding from that base data that all those claims of Israel representing Jews are why some people really do believe Israel represents Jews, is simple logic: cause and consequence rather than a social mechanism like a "trend".

It's so simple logic, that confusing it with a meme is strange.

Beyond that, the tendency for people to actually go to the trouble of sharing with others that conclusion here now is probably driven by their outrage at the actions of Israel in recent times - very few people were pointing out the logic conclusion that "Israel claiming to represent Jews will lead others to actually believe it and hence blame Jews for any bad actions of Israel" back when the Israeli Genocide was slow burning and they weren't murdering thousands of chidren a month.

Shit man, there are even Jews who are against the very existence of Israel for religious reasons.

I mean, only a fucking ignorant racist idiot would believe the bollocks about Israel and the Jewish Religion being the same thing and I apply that to both the the morons passing laws that make demonstrating against the Israeli Genocide be treated as anti-semitism and to the morons attacking Jews because of the actions of Israel.

Mind you, in many places Neoliberalism so normalized "benevolent" racism (the kind that says "people from this ethnic group are good" or that "this nation represents this ethnicity") that it made it easy for many to flip from that into "malevolent" racism (i.e. "people of this ethnicity are bad") when the "representatives" of the ethnicity do evil shit.

This is not to justify the racism morons: I'm just pointing out that when you constantly plow and fertilize the moral ideas field with Prejudice ("people should be judged by their ethnicity"), don't be surprised when it's just as fertile to grow "people of this ethnicity are good and deserve special treatment" ideas as "people of this ethnicity are evil and deserve 'special' treatment" ones.

(Sorry for the blow up: I really detest the slimy manipulative racism of Neoliberalist Modern Politics that adjusted the tribalism, prejudice and racism of the old days into a "fashionable" format to keep using it to manipulate the masses, rather than genuinelly be "liberal" - i.e. all people are the same and should be judged by their own beliefs and actions - in the moral sense)

Sure...

Your worry about posters here "unfairly" blaming Israel - whose government can't stop genociding men, women and children of another ethnicity at the same time as claiming they represent all Jews and call those that criticize that government and that genocide anti-semites - for the increase of acts of anti-semitism justified by said genocide, is purelly the result of you being a pure, loving soul that can't but empathise with the suffering of the poor Genocidal ethno-Fascists.

I mean, what pure soul out there wouldn't feel pain when people are "unfairly" blaming genocidal ethno-Fascists who claim to represent an entire ethnicity and accuse those critical of them of being against that ethnicity, for an increase in actions against that ethnicity justified by the genocide being commited by those ethno-Fascists: there is clearly no relation at all between ethno-Fascists doing horrible deeds claiming it's for an entire ethnicity and there being people who believe that ethnicity is responsible for those crimes.

And don't get me started on how your choice of "whatabout" targets just happen to be Islamic nations and Islam, THE favorite choice of pro-Zionism racists, and not even being an equivalent "whatabout" since none of those nation went around committing genocide whilst claiming to represent Islam and accusing critics of being Islamophobic.

Clearly you're just one big misunderstood impeccably fair softy and all the coincidences in the kind, form, quality and target of that argument of yours with the style used by pro-Zionist racists is just an amazing coincidence.