Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

--Alex Blechman

Except in this case it's a political party instead of a tech company.

I prefer funny over accurate.

It's like the people who call Ted Cruz stupid. They're absolutely wrong. Those two aren't stupid, they're just terrible people (assuming Cruz is a person) and are actively working against the well-being of the vast majority of the US.

I'm an American and I haven't really had this problem. My career trajectory is weird in that I did systems and networks (with lots of automation because I'm lazy), then SRE, and now development.

I get headhunters calling me weekly. I was able to take a low stress medium pay job for a few years to recharge and moved right back into a faster paced good paying job within weeks of deciding I was ready for it. I don't know what jobs these folks are applying for but I very rarely see those "10 years experience in 2 year old language" jobs these days. A few years back they were all over the place, though.

As a fat redneck, you're mostly correct. You just forgot to add the word drunk in there somewhere.

Imma fry one up in about half an hour. I'm also gonna start drinking in just a minute. My fat drunk uncle who lost several of his fingers in a fireworks incident is smiling down on me from redneck heaven.

Pine is so soft and the pores are so big that it soaks up everything. For me, pine is for painting.

#The following code does nothing, but if removed the whole program crashes

-Me, circa 2011

The problem is that the second you responded to something like that you'd be buried in copycats the next year all hoping to go viral. So you've made your job more difficult or burnt bridges on the way out the door.

No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.

She was 87. Yeah, she was sharp as a tack, no doubt. But 87 isn't dying early. It sure isn't dying early when you account for the fact that she was diagnosed with colon cancer back in 99, pancreatic cancer in 09, and had surgery in 2014 because of the cancer.

This has nothing to do with empathy or painting old people with any brush. This has to do with the health of the nation. She could have retired during the Obama years when she was already well past the average age of death and her body was failing to enjoy a few years of retirement.

I didn't say everyone over 65 needs to be pushed out to sea on an ice floe. If you're feeling like any of my words are an attack on old people maybe examine why. Because it's showing more about you than about me.

They've been reinvented repeatedly. Citrix, terminal servers, thin clients, cloud desktops, web apps, remote app delivery......

Most people (not necessarily here) need a web browser and an office program. Most people are well suited to terminals or something like a Chromebook.

I need actual hardware for my job and hobbies, but even I have a mini PC set up like a gaming console so that if I want to play games on my bedroom TV I don't have to hook up my Steam Deck or gaming laptop. I just stream them.

I don't know what the going rate is but I assume that if you just want a throw you could probably get a mid tier prostitute almost once a week for that price.