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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • When Sarah is up for re-election I hope all the rural Arkansans, especially farmers and ranchers, remember one thing in particular. Cooks Venture (a poultry processor) went bankrupt practically overnight and left a bunch of poor farmers with tens of thousands of chickens that they couldn’t feed or get rid of.

    What does governors office do? Euthanize most of the birds and then – in so many words – tell the farmers to take the rotting corpses and shove them up their own asses.

    That’s honestly really low on the list of terrible/incompetent shit that’s gone on since she was elected governor but it’s important for one reason. It was a giant “fuck you” to her own base. SHS is telling the very people who put her in office, “I don’t care about you AT ALL.”


  • I once worked for a big corporation that makes hydraulic rescue tools, where management somehow failed to grasp that the chief selling point of these tools is that they do the job reliably every time. No firefighter wants to be trying to get someone out of a car like, “Damnit! The cutter is acting up again. We should probably look into that.”

    But the executives kept demanding that we add “features” to the tools that effectively compromised the reliability and then got all surprised Pikachu face when it was explained to them that the customers thought the tools were overpriced half-assed garbage.

    I guess my point is I’ve seen plenty of incredibly stupid examples of management ignoring the engineers and yet somehow Musk demanding that radar be scrapped in favor of cameras is right at the top of the list. Especially if you want your customers to live long enough to buy your products more than once.





  • Remember that one time when the state of Kansas enacted huge tax cuts that produced no meaningful economic growth and nearly bankrupted the state?

    Six years later, even the GOP realized they had fucked up and the legislature rolled back most of the prior cuts. And yet there are still lots of people who are too stupid to understand that investments in public infrastructure and public welfare pay off way more than any tax cuts.





  • Medicare for All would do more to help small businesses than just about anything.

    I always find it ironic that the very people who are always worried about “the economy” don’t seem to realize that the privatized health “insurance” model is an enormous drag on the economy and is bad for basically everyone. Everyone except health insurance companies that is.




  • I hear a lot of devs that don’t seem to get this.

    “WhY wOuLd YoU uSe ExCeL? I pReFeR tO cOdE mY oWn SoLuTiOn.”

    No, Why would I spend a week coding something that I can create a pivot table and some charts for in an hour? Especially when if I code it myself, that means I now own and have to support my lovely new utility. Time is money and I’ve got way more important things to do than build custom reporting suites that no one except me is ever going to use.