Imagine writing out something this unironically reductive and actually hitting the reply button.

SMH

CDN != Library, smh

IMO the only valid move for Biden right now asap, is to use his new immunity powers to invalidate his immunity powers, as a display of self checkmate.

Declare the full supreme court under threat of death has to go back and redo the decision, and all of them must vote to reverse it and remove the presidential immunity, or be hung.

This of course means "if you dont remove my ability to kill you, you will die".

Its the ultimate display of being handed ultimate power, and rejecting it through the power itself.

I cant think of any other move that makes sense really. It would be a headache in court but thats what the supreme justices get for making such a stupid ass decision.

You clearly don't understand how risk works then.

If the house floods in a disaster, do you think tenants are liable for that at all?

No. They can just walk away and go find a new home.

Do you think you can so easily do that of its a house you have 15 years of mortgage left on?

SMH

Homes very much don't appreciate in value unless constantly maintained.

And you are lucky if you can afford to pay for the fixes with rent.

In reality, it's not uncommon for 1 bad dice roll to evaporate your entire bank account in an instant.

It's purely a gamble, through and through.

Renting is fundamentally paying money so someone else can gamble their entire life savings instead of yours.

And sure, lots if people do fine for 10-15 years without some shit happening.

Fundamentally, here's how it works:

There's this game of Russian roulette going on people play. It's a 100 chamber gun though, very small chance you get shot and die.

If you dont die though, you make a little bit of money everytime you pull the trigger.

You have to play this game though, or, be homeless which is it's own different game of Russian roulette.

However, someone offers you a deal.

They'll pull the trigger for you on their own head! If they win money, they keep it, but if they die it's their fault, not yours.

In return you don't have to be homeless, but also you don't gotta play the r6ssian roulette game.

All they ask is you pay them some money to cover the risk they are taking on, so you never have to pull the trigger.

That is what you are paying for.

Tell me you've never owned a property without telling me you've never owned a property, lololol.

God I wish it was "once or twice a lifetime" holy shit lololol.

Oh sweet naive child.

The landlord is being paid for assuming the risk.

It's no different than paying to rent anything else. You can't afford to buy a whole as 50k car when you visit a country, but you'll pay to rent a car for a week.

You can't afford to buy a whole ass house, but you do wanna rent one short term.

Not just in terms of raw cash to buy it, but also affording all the financial risk if things go sideways.

The renter has decided "yeah I can't afford if the engine shits the bed on a 50k car", if their rented cars engine shits the bed, the company they rent from handles it.

In return you pay a fee to temporarily use the item, without taking on that risk.

This is fairly basic stuff, but people seem to have missed these lessons in school I guess.

yeah okay, just confirmed trolling, kk

Your response sounds a lot like you didnt read a single thing written.

Its closer to "collect rent to pay for the constant deluge of random shit breaking down and failing"

Typically landlords dont actually make a lot of "take home" pay per hour, its a full time job. People seriously underestimate the enormous amount of bureaucracy involved in maintaining a rental space. Theres mountains of legal paperwork all the time. Every single thing that gets fixed has to be tracked and filed and entered in and accounted. Money has to be tracked very carefully so you dont get audited by the feds. etc etc.

Its not as simple as "call the plumber", its...

"call up the insurance agency, tell them what happened, send a bunch of emails, get the approved in network plumber assigned to you, the plumber agency calls you, you confirm the time the plumber will arrive, they then fax you a bunch of paperwork to fill out, you fill that out and then file your own copies, you then send that back to the plumber agency, they send you back some more info, you have to copy and file THAT now, then you have to go find your notification of entry paperwork and make a copy of that, then you gotta go let the tenant know when the plumber is going to arrive and deliver them the notification of entry..." ... "then on the day of you get further coordination, you have to drive over to the location and use your keys to let the plumber in, give them access to what's needed, then make sure they fix it, then they give you even more paperwork to fill out, then you make copies of that, then you file all that, then you have to followup with the insurance agency and let them know everything is fixed..." ... "Then later in the year when you are doing your taxes, you have to go find all that paperwork and make sure it's included as part of your filing, of course"

All for 1 single plumber trip.

And realize every single time something, anything has to be done, the landlord should be tracking that shit, and you can pretty quickly see why it starts to become a full time job.

Fundamentally the service you are paying for is risk alleviation.

Buying a whole ass property and putting a 20 year mortgage on it is a pretty big risk, home prices fluctuate wildly, shit can go sideways, things can break, anyone who's ever had to suddenly face a situation where "You now have to cough up 10s of thousands of dollars asap or your home becomes condemned" understands this. It happens.

Renting means the landlord assumes this risk for you, they now have to be the one who goes bankrupt if the boiler, washing machine, dishwasher, toilet, sink, whatever suddenly shits the bed and now you have a small pond in your living room or whatever.

Renters get to have a home to live in, with many renters rights, but they at any time can just walk away from the deal and go find somewhere else to live.

If you buy a home, do you think you can suddenly go "ah nevermind Im not feeling it anymore" to the bank and walk away from your mortgage? No, it's an assumed risk you are now chained to for 20 years.

You either have to find some other person willing to buy that risk off of you (sell your house), which is a HUGE amount of effort and requires lawyers and realtors and etc, or live with it.

Renters get to swerve all that and THAT is primarily what you are paying for.

Once you own a home you begin to understand how enormous some random bullshit bad dice roll can quite suddenly empty your entire bank account.

A pipe explodes? a bird decides to fly through your window? Your shower suddenly cracks? Your washing machine shits the bed?

You are the only person around who is liable for all that now when you literally own it, which means you and only you are responsible for fixing it. Hope you had the money set aside.

If you are renting? You call the landlord and they fix it and you dont have to pay a single penny

Every single day you spend living in the home is wear and tear on the facilities. You use the machines, you open and close doors and drawers, that adds up to non zero costs.

Do you think Air conditioners never break down from use? Fridge blowers dont suddenly shit the bed? Furnaces dont require yearly maint?

That shit is expensive and if no one lived in the building, all of it could be shut off.

This is all stuff you are leveraging onto the landlord when you rent, so yes, obviously that is worth a monetary value.

Most SQL Dbs use bits, so it would be WHERE field = 1

The entire shirt caused me 4d6 psychological damage.

A crew of people wearing clown makeup as an anti authoritarian crew of antiheros operating under the ultimate of anarchist clown boys in a dystopian cityscape sounds actually pretty familiar... where have I seen that before in popular media.... 🤔

One can make the conscious adult decision to not propagate greatest that are abliest and, frankly speaking, not even funny.

This is a place to share actually entertaining content, not whatever this bottom of the barrel attempt at humor is...

My understanding is risk is low on this one as we already have a prepared and tested vaccine, and we have a known medicative treatment.

So it'd suck if it spreads but we at least have the tools to fight it on hand.

It's pretty likely they'll understand exactly what you mean, emotional manipulation tactics are timeless so they'll prolly be like "oh yeah there was this asshole my sister met who was like that, never liked him, pompous arsehole"

I go to a United Church up here in Canada, and it's similar. Giant rainbow painted on the sidewalk, fair number of LGBTQ+ members, affirming church, participates and supports the pride festivals every year, the loveliest most welcoming people I've ever met.

Might wanna read it again, it's right there :)

The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.

It's an incredibly critical part companies love to completely ignore.

If you assign devs to teams and lock em down, you've violated a core principle

And it's a key role in being able to achieve these two:

Agile processes promote sustainable development.

And

The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

This is talked about at length by the likes of Fowler, who talk about how locking devs down us a super fast way to kill sustainable development. It burns devs out fast as hell.

Note that it's careful not to say on the same project

That's actually a pretty important part of its original premise.

It's a big part of why scrum meetings were a thing, as the expectation was any curious dev could just join in to see what's up, if they like.

Not tying devs down to 1 specific thing is like the cornerstone of agile, and over many years of marketing and corporate bastardization, everyone had completely forgotten that was literally the point.

The whole point of the process was to address 2 things:

1. That client requirements can't easily be 100% covered day one (But you still need to get as many as you can!)

2. To avoid silo'ing and tying devs down to specific things, and running into the one bus rule ("how fucked would this project be if <dev> got hit by a bus?")

And the prime solution posited is to approach your internal projects the same way open source works. Keep it open and available to the whole company, any dev can check it out, chime in if they're familiar with a challenge, etc.

One big issue often noted in non-agile companies (aka almost all of them) is that a dev slent ages hacking away at an issue with little success, only to find out far too late someone else in the company already has solved that one before.

An actually agile approach should be way more open and free range. Devs should be constantly encouraged to cross pollinate info, tips, help each other, post about their issues, etc. There should be first class supported communication channels for asking for help and tips company wide.

If your company doesn't even have a "ask for help on (common topic)" channel for peeps to imfoshare, you are soooooooo far away from being agile yet.

I've literally never actually seen a self proclaimed "agile" company at all get agile right.

If your developers are on teams that are tied to and own specific projects, that's not agile.

If you involve the clients in the scrum meeting, that's not agile.

If your devs aren't often opening PRs on a variety of different projects all over the place, you very likely aren't agile.

If your devs can't open up a PR in git as the way to perform devops, you aren't agile.

Instead you have most of the time devs rotting away on the sane project forever and everyone on "teams" siloed away from each other with very little criss talk, devops is maintained by like 1-2 ppl by hand, and tonnes of ppl all the time keep getting stuck on specific chunks of domains because "they worked on it so they knpw how it works"

Shortly after the dev burns out because no one can keep working on the same 1 thing endlessly and not slowly come to fucking losthe their job.

Everyone forgets the first core principle if an agile workplace and literally its namesake us devs gotta be allowed to free roam.

Let them take a break and go work on another project or chunk of the domain. Let them go tinker with another problem. Let them pop in to help another group out with something.

A really helpful metric, to be honest, of agile "health" at your company is monitor how many distinct repos devs are opening PRs into per year on average.

A healthy company should often see many devs contributing to numerous projects all over the company per year, not just sitting and slowly be coming welded to the hull of ThatOneProject.

I feel like I often do 1 step above the farthest right, which is doing "guta", with the t very soft.

"I'mma "guta" go to te sto" is how it comes out when I say it quickly.