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@fluffy ... brain glitch, most likely. I have no better explanation. Apologies.

@fluffy @Azure @rey Hence why I said the grudge had nothing really to do with you, merely that I have one and that I'm already aware it's not entirely rooted in logic. At least, I thought I said it. I was, ironically, trying to stave off arguments about technology by admitting my biases to stave off any perception that my comment was based on technology.

I suspect I've simply complicated things. I had a really stressful day and I'm not at my best right now.

@fluffy @Azure @rey When you don't have domain expertise and you're facing a business-enforced external deadline, choosing a language with minimal in-house support doesn't make sense. I expect senior developers to be able to make business-level decisions, not just technology-level ones.

@Azure @fluffy @rey ... that's PYTHON 3 and PERL 6. I went to college. I have a Master's Degree in this, I swear. =x.x=

@Azure @fluffy @rey Gaaaah. Perl 6. Python 6 and Perl 3 need to head off and do something unspeakable in a corner together. i'd love to see that childe in the moonlight.

@fluffy @Azure @rey Sorry, this was a huge argument at work about six months ago when a freshly-hired senior developer decided the latest project would be in Python for "development speed" at a company with new native Python text and damned few Python speakers. On top of still vaguely feeling like Python killed Perl, which I confess is still my ugly mutant baby despite knowing it needs to die. I have a lingering grudge against Python that's less about _it_ and more about _me_. That and types.

@fluffy @Azure @rey I have many feature requests and if you write it in Java or Rust, I will offer code revires. If you pick Python, I'll probably follow but I'll grumble about it. :)

@irisjaycomics @makyo And so many organs!

And most of this came unprompted.

And yes, he said "when," not "if." He was really frank with me about what he thought my odds of success were. Which he also thought was terrible.

I like him. I'm gonna miss him.

It's always great fun when the HR rep suggests using the employee assistance program to sue the company insurance provider.

Even better, he said America sucks, the corporate insurance provider sucks, the parent company sucks for forcing us to use them, and he'd consider it a sign of great personal courage and strength if I went and found a new job to take care of my family, which is a fucking crime because I have a positive rep and he knows the business will suffer when I leave.

@Mous I'm just fortunate my Thing I Must Do happens in half an hour, so I can get part of my workday back.

@adeptomega I was proposing that AFD might still work if it were treated like Toon Valentine's. Weirding up the lives of loved ones as a sign of respect and emotional engagement.

@adeptomega Total agreement here. I'm glad this clip exists.

@adeptomega To be sure, it's great content. We _need_ humor, more than ever before. We need to laugh, to juxtapose crazy ideas and be wondrous. I don't think that can happen at scale any more. That doesn't mean the day is a bad day, or the idea of the day is a bad idea, but I don't think it works as a _societal_ construct. I don't think the world shares enough context.

Maybe it could still work interpersonally, like Toon Valentine's.

@adeptomega ... that, that right there is the perfect hook.

If this had been a Look Around You episode, I'd have loved it.

This was the BBC, and while I can sit back and laugh at the idea that anybody would be fooled into thinking spaghetti grew on trees... I live in a world in which people cite the Onion straight in legal briefs and the footnotes of government bills.

I wish I lived in a world in which I felt like we could afford AFD.

@Soreth @adeptomega At its heart, it's that inability to spot what's going to go wrong -- the awareness that I can't hold the world's context in my head -- that keeps April Fool's from being fun for me. I'm constantly aware that I can't know if what I'm doing is about to hurt someone, and I've already hurt people trusting something would be seen as a prank and finding out others didn't spot the satire. And... I get burned a lot not being able to spot satire. So, a day dedicated to satire... no.

@Soreth @adeptomega And to be sure, I brought it on myself. I once changed my species in a therian IRC community on April Fool's Day and claimed it had been a religious visitation. A lot of people took it _really_ badly and told me I'd betrayed their trust because they believed me, and finding out it had been an April Fool's Prank made them doubt their faith, and my sincerity. I don't think I was "shitty," but I had no idea how to judge what "shitty" was.

@Soreth @adeptomega I miss the weird and bizarre hijinx, but at the same time, I don't miss the ways in which some people faked tragedy as an attempt at "shock humor." I've had my fill of couples "teasing" friends with mock break-up posts, straight people faking coming out, celebrity fake deaths, not-really-lost jobs, and the like.

I value the spirit of whimsy, but I ran into a lot of people who couldn't be trusted with it, and it left me sour on the whole affair as it's practised in the main.

@makyo Highly dependent on whose and for what. I enjoy giving oral, but prefer to give pawjobs. I love being licked, but it rarely brings me to orgasm.

The eponymous "tang" of Tang is because of tangerine flavor.

I've been drinking this stuff for forty years, and I only figured this out.