People like that don’t do jury duty. Being forced to serve like some peasant is beneath them.

You underestimate the enduring laziness of programmers.

I mean, that’s exactly what programmers in the '70s thought. That there would be no way in hell that their crap code would still be in use going onto 2000.

Thing is, copy/paste is always going to be easier than writing new code and that’s only going to get worse as chat bots start coding for us.

Y2K wasn’t entirely fear mongering horse shit. There were quite a few important cogs in our digital infrastructure that were using code that would not work past 1999. It was necessary to terrify corporate ownership into paying to fix the code, otherwise they would have never done it.

The term football used to apply to any ball sport played on foot (as apposed to on horseback). The idea that it could only belong to soccer is actually quite arrogant.

You sir, are entirely divorced from reality. It would be best for you to stop replying to the straw man you made up in your head and reconsider this entire exchange.

I guess the world can be whatever you want when you just make up reality in your head.

Good luck with that.

You may want to freshen up on your history. Ending slavery was a huge debate right at the beginning. They chose poorly in the end, but not for no reason.

Also, there’s a reason the only person you could come up with for your silly comparison was Thomas Jefferson. He was probably one of the most flawed of the founding fathers. Though he’s still a significantly better man than Musk on the whole.

Most of the founding fathers wanted to abolish slavery, but they also knew they needed the economic power of the southern states’ cotton trade and that they would be virulently against ending slavery. They kicked that can down the road, but laid the groundwork that eventually led us there for the most part.

So would you say the mugger that knocked you out and took your phone and wallet earned them? It was an effort after all.

They likely didn’t know how to save the file, so they took a picture of the screen.

It’s not so much the excess hay their collecting, it’s the giant electromagnetic they’re building.

Probably just a bunch of people getting in on the short.

The “replaceable CEO” is part of the reason the system is broken in the first place.

In fact, it’s done nothing but make their own life worse.