Gumby

Good to see they chickened out the second they started to see a hint of their ad money drying up

It seems that AI really is good for some things after all

I agree with your main point, although I think your example of COBOL being used to this day in financial institutions is actually the opposite problem. The guys that originally developed that shit were damn good programmers, but they were severely constrained by the available hardware, limitations of the language, etc. So they had to get really clever in order to make these massive, complicated systems work. In my experience, those really old legacy systems tend to be rock solid with near 100% uptime and almost no errors. They’ve never been rewritten because doing so would be a multi-year effort costing millions of dollars, and the end result would be a system that is most likely slower, buggier, and has less functionality.

TLDR: The old COBOL systems are unmaintainable messes not because of incompetent developers, but because the limitations of the available technology when they were originally developed forced a bunch of really good devs to have to get extremely creative and hacky with their solutions.

The problem is, a lot of states have closed primaries. So by registering independent, you throw away the one opportunity you would conceivably actually have to help shape the party’s future by having a say in who their nominees are.

Only if it ends with Abraham Lincoln coming back from the dead and mowing every single one of them down with an AR-15 and then ending with a line like “Party of Lincoln, my ass!”

Which would be great for an election, but once the Republicans are already in power, they’ll just continue to fall in line.

Do you honestly believe he’ll be out of the news cycle if he loses?

But the constitution forbids the US military from operating within the borders of the US! Surely that’ll stop him from ever being able to do this! Right? Right???

I ran into this when I was thinking about buying some Doc Martens recently. I know there have been other examples, that’s just the most recent I can remember.

Damn, I’ve been singing their praises for years…but I haven’t actually bought a new pair in ages

Yeah but it’s all going down from Oregon to California. That’s down on the map, which means it’s all downhill, so it should really be quite simple. (/s obviously)

I’ll get right on that, as soon as I wrap up these 3 defects

Hi it’s me, your colleague

It’s been their #1 play for decades

EDIT: And somehow it has continued to work for them