Obviously not.

There are no microsoft developers these days.

Only chatgpt spewing slop.

That’s why every single update breaks some fundamental feature that had been working for ages.

And no one can fix it, because they fired everyone who knew anything about how their software works.

Return of the Obra Dinn.

But I can’t.

Because I already know the names and causes of death. 😭

Just washing one’s hands before touching the patient would make a massive difference, alcohol is pretty abundant, willow bark tea for the pain (and contact your local herbalist for other remedies), you could infect people with cowpox to vaccinate them against smallpox, you might even be able to grow some penicillin if you manage to make some rudimentary Petri dishes out of broth or beer wort and happen to have the right spores floating around…

and be a productive member of society

I just write useless software for a useless company. I’m not a productive member of society today, I wouldn’t be one at any point in the past. 🤷‍♂️

I like Futurama’s classification. We’re living in the stupid ages.

They’re not doing a very good job…

Why not both?

Donald Trump clumsily motorboating Rudy Ghouliani in drag.

Is “Bubba” Rudy Ghouliani’s nickname…?

in all cases

There is a finite amount of money in this world.

Not really… that’s kind of the whole point of fiat currencies, you can always mint more.

Most billionaires don’t even have any money. At that level they don’t need it. They don’t pay for things. They just get loans they’ll never pay back, with older loans as collateral.

The problem with billionaires isn’t money (though billionaires are one of the main problems with money). The problem with billionaires is that their fiat, virtual, wealth gives them an unfair amount of influence over everyone else’s lives, and that they alone get to enjoy a living standard (being able to get all your necessities and live a fulfilling life essentially for free) that should (and could, with an adequate distribution of resources) be available to everyone.

Nonsense. Kubrick hated travelling. He filmed it in London, like Fullmetal Jacket.

Being a perfectionist, though, he had NASA land astronauts on the moon to take reference pictures for the backgrounds.

In exchange for filming it NASA gave him the lens he used to film Barry Lyndon’s candlelit scenes.

Barry Lyndon.

Kubrick managed to make every single frame look like a period painting, and used Zeiss 50mm f/0.7 lenses, originally built for NASA to photograph the dark side of the Moon, to film scenes by candlelight (granted, even with that lens he had to use lots of special candles with three wicks to get enough light; if I recall correctly some actors ended up with thermal burns from the radiated heat).

Came here to mention this.

The way Lumet uses camera angles to create tension and reinforce the personalities of the characters, especially how he makes the room look smaller and more claustrophobic as time moves on, is simply masterful.

Me and my hammer would be happy to offer our retrophrenological services to any executives looking to improve their performance and personality (painkillers not included).