thebestaquaman

I never knew regex could be so beautiful <\3

never had more than one week off here or there

Wat?

I live in the US

That explains it...

You're welcome to hop over the pond if you ever want to combine fulfilling work with proper time off :)

Why would you do such things? Just let me log in using some trusted authenticator please. If you can't do that, you may as well replace everything with a confirmation mail every time I log in, cause you bet I'm going to click "forgot my password" Every Single Time and get in via the reset-email anyway.

You forcing me to change my password all the time just adds extra overhead to the inevitability that you'll let me in after mailing me a confirmation code.

Oh, just wait till you hit that sweet sweet python "Everything can have an else block"

if some_shit:
    try: 
        for stuff in thing:
             if stuff is bad:
                  raise ShitHitTheFanError
             # Massive block comment
             do = the_thing()
             if do is good:
                  break
        else:
            do = the_other_thing()
            if not a_thing:
                help_me() # May raise NoHelpFoundError
    except ShitHitTheFanError:
         my_life = recover()
         if my_life is bad:
             for fuck in my_life:
                  try:
                      fix(fuck)
                  except NoHelpFoundError:
                      break
             else:
                  fuck_this_shit()
    else:
         wat_is_going_on()
else:
    theres_another_one("?")

Gen Z is just as smart and capable as any other generation.

The introduction of social media, with all the addiction, depression, anxiety, etc. associated with it has somehow managed to not affect peoples problem-solving skills? There are so many studies confirming how fucked the younger generations are regarding all kinds of mental health that it's frankly absurd to believe those findings are completely independent of things like attention span and problem-solving skills.

Also:

• Article: Refers to an actual study.
• You: "This article is pointless speculation".

So... when used at a population level rather than at an individual level, and used for comparison between generations from the same place... they're a good metric?

Great reading: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2023/12/13/the-persistence-of-tradition-the-curious-case-of-henry-symeonis/

We have civil war, corruption, and murder, all wrapped up in a 550 year long mysterious grudge!

• Alcoholic suffering from alcoholism
• Best I can do is take away your alcohol

These companies literally design their product with the intention of making people overspend. As long as micro transactions have existed, the problem of kids over spending their parents money because they were allowed a single purchase has been a problem.

The companies in question are making bank off this. They know it's an issue, and they actively exploit it to make more money. It's extremely unethical.

Sure, I'm not advocating for doing what he did, regardless how he paid for it. I'm putting myself in the shoes of a young father that just wanted to make his kid happy and didn't properly consider the bigger picture.

People buy their kids all kinds of things that are bad for them with the best intentions. We usually don't conclude that they deserve debilitating debt as a consequence.

• 9 yo Kid is making vidya
• Doesn't have many viewers
• Want to make kid happy
• Spend 20 $ on ads
• maybe_a_couple_views.png
• Three weeks later
• I'm literally 118 009 $ in debt

MFW

Honestly, if you can't understand how absolutely debilitating this is over a tiny misstep, I hardly know what to say. People commit manslaughter and get off easier that this. It's in no way reasonable to say that "Oh, you shouldn't have used the company card to pay 20$ for your kid - you deserve life-ruining debt".

Blame the dad

Honestly, it shouldn't be legal to pull more than like 100 USD off a card without re-verifying the card holder. Fuck these companies that take your card once and have no fucking limit on how much they'll pull from it without verifying it's you.

Sure, you should have a limit on your card. That doesn't make it okay for others to exploit you when you make an obvious mistake. Let's not pretend these companies aren't aware how much money they're making off people's kids spending more money than they're allowed to.