Well if you allowed one more year, I really feel that stopping the Columbine shooting would have an exponential improvement on the quality of the timeline.

Joseph Smith enters the chat…

Mormons believe that the Native Americans are tribes of Isreal. Swap Mike Johnson for Mike Lee, problem solved. I hate that he’s my Senator.

Great book

Well it used to be that rich people preferred to have porcelain white skin, because the poor had to be outside to work. Then the poor started working indoors, so now the rich prefer to be tanned.

Art tastes will change similarly. Art with obvious imperfections will be considered better. Actual paintings with large obvious, textured brush strokes. Books and poems printed on rough hand made paper. Maybe even hand lettered. Things that were obviously done by a skilled craftsman, but would be difficult to do with machines and Ai.

Think the neovictorians from Neal Stephensons The Diamond Age.

Well I’m not crazy about how some cultures make a habit of staying up until 2am blasting Ranchero music on the weekends. I just want to sleep, is that too much to ask?

But that’s not grounds for dehumanizing them and shipping them off to alligator camps.

Thanks

What about scams you’re born into, but stayed in waaaay to long? If so Mormonism and the Republican party.

Idk I kind of liked Uru. Love me some Peter Gabriel.

Did you read the books? They’re not bad.

Myst, I wanted to write books that linked to worlds. Figured the closest thing was programming.

Civilization 1, patients, economics, frustration.

Doom, was just a shit ton of fun and got me into networking so we could play against each other.

Yes.

Tigtone. It’s so weird and disturbing to watch,yet hilarious. Perfect

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I’ve spent the last 25 years writing enterprise applications. 10 or so years ago the sdlc became “Dark Scrum” where all the trappings of scrum, expectations of waterfall and non of the prep work of waterfall. It’s an interesting system where management can demand anything and then blame the devs for any and all problems that occur because “we didn’t follow the process”. Recently I’ve been given a larger management role and kind threw the entire process out of the window. Baby, bathwater, all of it. And just went with a basic kanban style. We try to do one thing at a time and a lot of my time is spent keeping a backlog that is estimated and prioritized. We have a standup type of call on Monday and Thursday for no more than 5 minutes. (we’re a 100% remote team now, so no office)

Yeah, I’ve got a lot of sisters.

One time I was out walking someplace and a woman was walking about 20 feet in front of me. I just took out my phone and called my wife and rather loudly announced where I was walking to, asked her about her day etc. The woman visible seemed to relax.

I think the people should boycott all headlines with slams in the title. Unless it’s about professional wrestling.

I was raised Mormon. Finally left in my 40s.

So Al Green got booted from the room. Interesting.

I always go with experiences over stuff. I want to do something with the people I care about and collect memories instead of things. It gives people the freedom to be as frugal or lavish as they want and I don’t have to store or return anything.