Back when I studied Anthropology in college, they would always talk about statuettes like these being evidence of a “cult of fertility”. Years later I realized that’s just fancy academia language for “porn”.

“Long distance relationships work great for me because I’m more attractive the farther away I am.”

Istan Bul?

It’s absolutely justified fear. For every one guy who will just take it as a sweet compliment, there are ten guys who will think “she wants the D!”

I remember when I first read about AGILE. I was like “this is pretty cool - but there’s no way corporations will actually adopt this methodology without completely turning it into just a set of new names for the same shit they’ve always done.” Naturally, that’s exactly what happened.

I recently learned that a web app I wrote in 1999 (for Internet Explorer lol) is still in use by the company I wrote it for. And this app was basically a graphical front end sitting on top of a mainframe application that dated to the 1970s, so my app’s continued existence means that mainframe POS is still running, too. My app was written in Classic ASP and Visual Basic 6 - I truly pity whatever poor bastard has to keep supporting that shit. They probably have one ancient PC in a closet somewhere acting as the server for it.

My favorite part of this was Klein-Heidelberg, a German passive radar system that used the broadcasts from Britain’s Chain Home radar stations to precisely locate Allied bomber formations. The Allies knew about it but kept Chain Home operational because they wanted German fighters to come up after the bombers - and get shot down.

Fun fact: during WWII, the British figured out a way to jam German radar by dropping bales of metal-coated plastic strips (called “chaff” or “Window”), but they held off on using it for more than a year because they didn’t want the Germans to figure out the secret and start using the same trick on their radar. Meanwhile, the Germans had also figured out this technique, but they also held out on using it because they didn’t want the British to get it.

This is so dumb. They weren’t originally named after a bird, they were named after a type of footstool.

Trumpers get ousted for disloyalty and nothing else.

I just wanna lose my gut

The most critical part of losing weight is counting the calories of what you eat, so you know exactly what you have to do to lose the weight. One pound of body fat is equivalent to 3500 calories, so if you can manage to eat at a 500-calories-per-day deficit you will lose one pound per week (most people lose scale weight at a faster rate than this when they first start dieting, but this is water weight loss and won’t be maintained in the long term).

Will drinking less alcohol and fewer sweet treats put you into a 500 calorie daily deficit? There’s no way to know unless you start recording the calories of everything you eat on a daily basis.

he claimed that “such a radar does not exist”

Lol just like his Nazi forefathers in WWII who refused to believe (more than once!) the British had the advanced radar that they actually did have.

Whew! Otherwise, George Lucas was going to have to buy the rights to Planet of the Apes and digitally change the ending.

There’s a theory that the Statue of Liberty shown at the end was actually the one from Las Vegas. Lucas could have changed that to the Las Vegas Sphere: “GOD DAMN U2 ALL TO HELL!”

dei

should we be using APIs?

Nah, it’s a fad.

I’m a programmer. In 2010 I had a boss come up to me and tell me we should start using APIs. He had just read an article about how APIs were the next big thing. Fortunately he had a short attention span and soon wandered off and never mentioned APIs again, and I was able to get back to work on the awesome Blackberry app I was writing.

I’m a school bus driver and I work with a few Trump-supporting lesbians. It’s no mystery why: they really, really hate black people and that hatred blinds them to any possible conception of their own self-interest. For good measure they’re also staunchly pro-union.

The US has a similar breakdown by % as this Australian one, except that what’s called “welfare” in Australia is called “entitlements” in the US and makes up about 50% of the budget. Welfare in terms of the dole aka money given to “work shy bambots” makes up only about half of one percent.