The point about the Bechdel test is that it’s such an incredibly low bar, and yet most fiction fail at it.

Bitcoin is estimated to consume 172 TWh, which is way more than Google and Microsoft combined.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Bermuda Triangle was always a manufactured mystery. It is true that some ships disappeared in the area, but that’s true for most oceans in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle

I think this is a bit disingenuous. There’s no customer interaction in these panels.

So waterfall would be:

Customer says they want to go to Mars.

You spend years building a rocket capable of going to Mars, draining all the company budget in the process.

Customer then clarifies they actually meant they wanted to go to Mars, Pennsylvania, USA - not the planet!

That’s right, it goes into the square hole

That wasn’t real communism. Everybody’s equal under real communism.

Hetero people would get executed too!

That XKCD is almost 18 years old and is still as relevant.

Freedom is obviously when I can be an asshole without repercussion.

Being a bit nostalgic, but Gmail was such a leap forward when it was released. In a world where everybody took the shittiness of hotmail for granted, using Gmail was like peeking into the future. In many ways it was.

Now Gmail is that shitty hotmail we took for granted.

It is with a heavy heart I announce the sale of my long term ape, Salazar. Most of my early followers know me as this ape. My kids know me as this ape. I met my wife when I WAS this ape and had my first kid when I was still proudly wore this ape. By extension, it is part of me.

I’m sure his wife and kids are deeply relieved by this news.

Had a coworker who was a bit like this. They were tasked to do one simple thing. Required a few lines of code change at most.

They end up refactoring the entire damn thing and introduced new bugs in the process.

Blockchain is only potentially useful if there’s no single entity that can be trusted. If banks can’t even trust themselves to manage their own internal ledgers, they have much bigger problems to deal with.