Sheesh, leave some for the rest of us to pick on, you savage!

Thank you for this explanation!

I mean it’s not like they don’t have magic powers. It’s just that the law that society has (more or less) agreed on has WAY BETTER magic powers.

Einstein has reincarnated

Oof levels: HIGH

I get the irritation but this is 100% normal practice for any news outlet. They leave off “allegedly” and if the defendant is found not guilty they can sue for defamation.

You greatly underestimate the risks of sedating a dangerous animal, both to human and to the animal. Ask a vet or wildlife officer. It’s not like the movies. Also if they are checking for certain brain diseases, there is simply no way to test an animal and keep it alive.

BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER

DevOps on the resume, Sysadmin in my heart forever.

The argument for Buddhism in a nutshell

Full on Madhyamika gender

Exactly!

One time I was deleting a user from our MySQL-backed RADIUS database.

DELETE * FROM PASSWORDS;

And yeah, if you don’t have a WHERE clause? It just deletes everything. About 60,000 records for a decent-sized ISP.

That afternoon really, really sucked. We had only ad-hoc backups. It was not a well-run business.

Now when I interview sysadmins (or these days devops), I always ask about their worst cock-up. It tells you a lot about a candidate.

Hasten the day

As a Canadian I support having this specific image on our currency and coin

Exactly what kind of *ussy is “sussy”?

Oh no!

Anyway

Diary of an Appthecary is a real delight

Worked at a Borders in the 90s. We joked constantly about just sorting everything by size and colour.

This lady needs a visit from child welfare. That kid is almost certainly neglected and probably also abused.