Refactoring is good work. Rewriting is shallow fun.

Do the math.

Exception: perl is write-only code. Always rewrite.

Soooooo, more soldiers?

The serious answer is that you need to have outside control over the process. Cops need to be accountable to someone other than themselves. Civilian review boards

… are targeted by screeching tinfoil-hat types as being ‘in cahoots’ with cops, the same as ACAB people claim prosecutors are in cahoots to keep bad cops doing wrong with impunity.

In this case, our IIO fills an important investigative role, as a Public organization created 12 years ago to investigate cops’ actions during bad incidents, and then where applicable forward charges onto the same crown counsel who charges and prosecutes civilian criminal behaviour.

But, you see, the IIO and CC and Cops, they’re all in cahoots. They talk to one another; they’re friends. And they’re all agents of the evil government we elected to manage our shared and collected resources as per our goals. They’re agents of The Man - nevermind the Man is agents of us - and thus all evil, etc, etc.

In short, civilian oversight is neat, but it’s not the automatic win; or even something the crunchies even respect any more than the cops they’re investigating.

Tell us you have red hair without using those words.

How can it be fixed top-down when it’s all cops?

All. That’s the first word in the initialism.

It’s a powerfully dismissive generalization that inhibits differentiation. That’s what we often accuse them of doing.

This.

Your criminals are dragging our ratfuck conservatives down with them. It’s shifting our politics toward a meaner, dirtier way of doing things, and I think we should avoid that.

It’s hard to call out the selfish conservatives and hold them to an actual answer when they can whine about mean press and such rotten badgering for the smallest tidbit.

This is the winner right here. Family is as Family does.

minor error

It was a the comma splice, wasn’t it? Depending on Bob’s cohort, he may never notice.

… and if I was receiving notes and questions about a role, an error like “emails” would earn relegation for sure; so be careful which error you leave in.

If you didn’t put Google’s name in there I would’ve assumed a different company facepalming. Hint: it’s the one whose name sounds like ‘unsure’.

in most states they didn’t “have” to pay severance in the first place. That’s really more reliant on the employment offer or contract

99% of the world lives outside America.

Deep breaths. You’ll be fine, but it may be a bit traumatic to learn.

I hoped people would learn from the bust after Y2K.

Companies were turfing staff, and often their seniors. Mentorships and peer oversight crashed in quality. The new mentors came from the ranks who had no mentoring themselves, and missed out on fundamentals, and passed their lack onward.

And that’s how we got systemd.