EpeeGnome
@EpeeGnome@lemm.ee
- Comment on Trump wanted to drain the swamp to make it easier for the swamp creatures to get around 1 week ago:
If the politicians and bureaucrats that Trump and friends pushed out are like murky swamp water, then the one he brought in are like raw sewage, so I always said that he only wanted to drain the swamp water so he’d have room to pump in said raw sewage.
- Comment on Tea Time 1 week ago:
Teas are not boiled, but steeped in hot water that was boiling a moment ago. I was going to say that cowboy coffee is boiled, but then I looked it up, and even then, the pot is pulled off the heat before adding the grounds.
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 2 months ago:
This is it exactly. “I am at home” describes your location. “I am home” describes your current state.
- Comment on Maybe Lovecraft wasn't as talented as people think? 4 months ago:
I can’t help but think of this from the wizard’s point of view as a 4chan green text.
be me, an edgy young wizard. Want to pick a really cool wizard name and come up with “Charles LeSorcier.”
mfw the older wizards all make fun of my name.
get in an argument with a local noble and lose my temper. claim I put a curse on his whole family line that they will each die when they are 30.
remember I haven’t learned how to do it. go home and try to figure out how to cast a blood line curse. it’s too complicated, I can’t figure it out. Can’t ask the other wizards now because they already heard about the curse and they’d just make fun of me more.
spend the next 10 years stuck in my lab trying to figure it out. still fail. time’s up, he turned 30. if the noble doesn’t die they’ll all know I lied. finally give up and just break into his house and murder him. make it look like an accident.
mfw the other wizards fall for it. they all think I’m cool now. maybe they will forget about the bloodline thing by the time the noble’s kid is 30.
the bloodline thing is all they want to talk about. 18 years later I have to murder the next one. the other wizards are super hyped I pulled it off, want to be my friend now.
mfw I’m stuck for the next few centuries hiding in a noble’s basement and murdering them ever couple decades to cover my lie.
- Comment on What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app? 4 months ago:
The board’s job is to hire the CEO and demand good value for shareholders. The CEO’s job is to make the big decisions to achieve that goal quickly and then usually leave before their short term thinking falls apart. The manager’s job is to enforce whatever decisions the CEO makes, even if it is stupid or cruel. And the employee’s job is to suffer so that each layer above can look good to the layer above them.
Not to say there’s no good people in the system. My manager for most of my time there was actually a good manager who felt that his primary job was to deflect away the shit that rolled down from above so we could focus on our work, but then he got laid off along with half my coworkers.
I do miss writing software, but I really don’t miss working in the corporate world.