As in Margaret Thatcher was an Englishman?

Chronic flow in an engaging project. Start on a Saturday morning, feel like a coffee since you’re a bit sleepy, notice it’s Sunday

I had a team of contractors working on some code. They had learnt in their previous jobs to document everything in the work wiki (aside from the design documents which have their own repository)

And it was good they did, since the project was put on hold due to too much mismatch between backend and front, and all the contractors were fired (a day before Xmas) leaving the useless doco as the best reference for whoever needs to resurrect our code

You’re correct. I was confusing the two cities

Your username sounds like a way to become very caffeinated

For that to work, one must pronounce SQL as an acronym, not an initialism

Some people will be constitutionally unable to make that tune work

I’m a scrum master. Drinking now. A lot

Gotta stay at the Ballmer peak

Southern Italy is better at pizza. Florence is about the best

I care, I don’t like him and like the chance to cheer for the cancer

Wiktionary disagrees with you. It gives only one spelling which is the one I used. Your spelling is correct for the equivalent Italian word

The US also has a problem because the federal elections are first past the post, which excludes minor parties

I’m pretty sure that’s the root cause for the polarisation in American politics

The word is spelt “sophisticated”

And yes, a democracy with a sufficiently educated populous is immune to authoritarianism

That’s probably why the American right attacks education

That was last time, we had a wage-price spiral. Wages went high, which pushed prices up, which pushed wages up, etc

On this occasion it is a price-nothing spiral. Prices go up, wages stay static, prices go up, etc

It is telling that prices have gone up so much on manufactured products, but there has been nearly no change in price of meat from a butcher

Land usage prices haven’t changed, raw materials haven’t changed. It’s just the companies.

COVID is tame compared to the diseases we immunize against.

I wasn’t able to have my measles vaccine as a baby because I had a fever — from a measles infection

If I had been exposed to measles a month later, I would have been fine, by getting the illness unvaccinated I was at much greater risk. Luckily I suffered no lasting damage.

Every day a child goes without vaccination is a risk

knowingly

You think she knew real stuff?

That’s it. You can convert someone from a nutty belief better by inviting them to your social group’s events than by telling them they’re wrong.

Nearly no one’s a flat earther because it makes sense; they’re there because it makes friends

I was a green day fan when they were new. You couldn’t possibly follow them without knowing their politics, it’s not like they sucked you in with pot then hit you with politics, it was politics, pot, and unsuccessful love the whole time