God damn sounds tough...
Making the new guy take the Christmas shift is a dick move on the part of the team/company.
For me it feels like the longer I work as a developer the less code I write. My days are usually spend more in research, creating plans, reviewing PRs, etc.
I do also miss coding and like to experiment with new features and languages so I just code on the side with things like advent of code or leetcode.
"we didn't download any porn, and the one we downloaded was for personal use"
This is fucking ridiculous...
Why Civil Resistance Works the book that 2x figure comes from has some major controversy about cherry picking data as well as playing with the definition of peaceful protest.
If peaceful protests worked (as good as this article suggestions) the BBC wouldn't be writing about them.
When animals are infected or sick they get avoided by their species, when a human gets infected we appoit them to lead the protection against infections and disease....
American apartments now:

Isn't Supervised Full Self-Driving an oxymoron? How can it be both Supervised and Full Self-Driving?
Can't wait for the "the doors will remain locked for the length of the ad" update. /s
Your heartbeat is measured in Hz
Reusable rockets save milions
My dude still waiting for trickle down economics to kick in
You have a point, but in my experience most of your colleagues are out so if you have questions it is harder to find someone who can help.