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    15 hours ago

    That’s because they’re back end devs. There is one way to do things, you learn the one way to do the thing, you do it that way, you’re done.

    The fun is in front end, there is 15 different ways of doing things, but you don’t like any of them, so you develop a 16th way, eventually you get bored of the 16th way so come up with a 17th way. Eventually you get sick of all of this and go back to SSGs as God intended.






  • They want it to go out as tax so they can then claim a bunch more on top of their existing charitable donations.

    You don’t pay tax on charitable donations, and it’s a good way to hord off some money if you don’t want to pay tax on it, at least until such time as you can relocate your money to a less taxing nation, but there is a limit to how much you can tax exempt in a year. For normal people this limit is irrelevant because it far exceeds the amount of money they would ever get in a year let alone amount they would be able to give as charitable donations.

    If there was a millionaire tax they could pay that and essentially offset the tax they pay by reducing their charitable donations. They would end up in exactly the same position as they currently are, but society would be slightly less pissed off with them. All to their benefit.

    The only millionaires and billionaires that don’t want this other ones that are doing weird dodgy tax things so they don’t pay anything. Most of the wealthy 1% do actually pay their fair share of tax (although it isn’t high enough) because it’s so little money to them that it’s not worth fighting about it. Likes of Elon Musk a special breed of narcissist who actually put more effort into not paying tax in its worth.




  • The reason that IT often gets lumped with this stuff is because if you leave it to anybody else they do it wrong especially logistics.

    Everyone except the IT department is now banned from ordering new IT equipment because they’ll order a bunch of laptops and then act all surprised when this huge pallet of devices arrives as if they didn’t just order one. So then it just sits in the entrance lobby the days on end until someone from IT comes and opens the pallet and takes the laptops upstairs. If they do that with new pens that’s fine, no one’s going to steal them.






  • Well for the purposes of understanding this, you don’t need to. This post is stupid for so many other reasons. Like any graph your axis have to make sense. You’re plotting two pieces of data against each other so you need to know what those two pieces of data are and what their scales are.

    But here they’re measuring IQ against political leanings. But that doesn’t work because political affiliation isn’t a scale any more then favourite colour is a scale. IQ is a scale, but the bottom axis is just nothing.




  • Well yeah. Farage is a threat to everyone one way or another.

    He’s eating the Conservatives alive they need to get rid of him.

    He’s pulling Labour to the right and there is some understanding within the party that that’s not a good thing.

    The Lib Dems are finding it difficult enough to get anyone to vote for them when there’s only other two options, they don’t need a third

    He’s not really a threat to the Greens, I suspect they just want him gone because he’s in the pockets of the oil industry.

    And of course Rupert Lowe hates him, and is totally on board with anything that humiliates Farage.