Absolutely.

Bad, rushed software that wires together 200 different giant libraries just to use a fraction of them and then run it in a sandboxed container with three daemons it needs for some reason doesn't mean "8 Gb isn't enough", it means write tighter, better software.

Well, he's not just a science ambassador, he's an actual SCIENTIST. Imagine having all that knowledge and experience and doing the real work of being a scientist and then having to go out there on the daily and meet with people who tell you with full confidence the Earth is flat. How long could you keep up an unyielding pleasant demeanor?

I'm sure I'd come off egotistical too.

Inappropriately watch a missing woman's personal logs like they're your private entertainment.

I felt the same way. I was VERY happy with that outcome. I won't say PayPal earned my LOYALTY with that, because loyalty to ANY company is stupidity, but at the very least they earned my respect for the time being. Of course, I reserve the right to revoke it at any time.

In my experience, their consumer protection is great.

PayPal has been absolutely instrumental for me in issuing refunds with obstinate vendors. Once or twice they've issued me a refund after being refused a return/refund when an Aliexpress vendor either sent the wrong item or nothing at all.

I even got them to secure me a refund against the Australian government after they refused to issue a refund after directing me to apply for a tourist visa with the wrong visa process.

That whole page is a meme itself.

I mean, mine does. And there only needs to be the one for my script.

Rea... ding?

Good point.

"Me writing a script that looks for my obituary, and when it finds it, sends memes from my account to my friends, until one of the random memes is a webp, python starts throwing errors in an infinite loop, it doesn't properly reset the timer because I had that inside the try block, and the whole system crashes from an error log file eating all the hard disk space 2 days later."

Better than I expected, tbh.

The weird date format with an X in the 10's spot. It was a play on Mega Man's 200X when Homestar Runner first came up with it, and now it's an actual date format in a real game.

It's a little obscure, but since there's no "game memes" community, I guess this is where it goes.

It feels a little ridiculous that we've gotten 6 comments deep into this, but...

None of those comments make any claims about poster. 2 of them are pedantic jokes in the "Can I use the bathroom?/I don't know, can you?" school of ignoring colloquial usage, and one is what I assume is a well-intentioned legitimate caution about not getting caught in a cyclical spiral of self-defeatism.

As to the meme format, a green text can be anything from an epic 50+ post story about faking an IT job, to a single line about hating one's name, to threatening a cartoon cat, so I'm not sure what template format it's violating. If you don't think it's particularly well-written or interesting, that's fine of course, but just say that.

As long as you’re alive and capable of communicating

...here we go with the impossible standards.

I take you at your word that that was your intention, but it doesn't read that way. It comes off with a tone of mockery and hostility.

What gross vibes?

Don't lump the guy in with incels. He's not blaming other people for his problems, or complaining. He's just lamenting. I don't see anything in his post that's gross. Leave a lonely dude alone. God forbid he let himself feel sad for 5 seconds.

Romance is different when you're both old enough to have so much life experience under your belt. It isn't the same. Not saying it's better or worse, but it's absolutely different.

This is less of a brag and more a question for the philosoraptor.

Edit: Apologies... didn't even notice that loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works beat me to this observation.