Hence why I said kind of.

We kind of have that:

https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-simple-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-drinking-water

The problem is that you can’t exactly boil solid food, and its energy intensive. But at least it’s something.

I’m shocked that friday’s deployment to prod didn’t explode.

Idiocracy strikes again

🎵 Kier, chosen one, Kier.

Kier, brilliant one, Kier.

Brings the bounty to the plain through the torment, through the rains,

Progress, knowledge show no fear,

Kier, chosen one, Kier. 🎵

I’ve been doing some shady shit with regex lately (parsing .md files for interactive TTRPG sheets), but I’m glad to have not been touching XML

🤮

I code using a telegraph machine in morse code.

That, or he doesn’t understand composite keys.

That one is by far the worst to work with.

It gets worse. Half the site is MVC, half is blazor. We depend on mainframe connections and external vendors, who in turn have their own API, which we have a wrapper API for.

The entire grahql fusion schema got nuked about two months ago, and we’re still panicking to fix it.

And each of our environments are half environments, that mesh with one another to create a data integrity hellscape.

It’s turtles rot all the way down.

We’ve got 10 APIs, with a fraction of a percent of code coverage. None of the responses/requests/error messages/fetch services are standardized.

So unsurprisingly this project has been going on for 6 years.

The “pro life” crowd everybody (it’s always been about control)

Homes, medical treatment, and financial stability are all a lot more expensive than bougie consumer products.

And while the average american can usually figure out how evil the oligarchy is, thinking through solutions and actions is a much bigger ask for the average american.