I’ve worked on projects where microservices are a godsend. I’ve also worked on a 12-endpoint REST API atop a SQL database and an Elasticsearch instance serving 500 internal users that somebody had engineered into 8 microservices because management thought microservices were the future. Real mixed bag.

How is the way other people experience their lives infuriating? It’s no skin off your back

That’s a pretty understated shoe, I wouldn’t worry about it. As long as your jeans fit and are in good condition, and the rest of your outfit is well presented, I wouldn’t think it out of place.

Spoken like somebody who has internalized the carbon footprint propaganda and built their self worth on how they measure up to that standard. Your abstinence will not stop those farms. The market will support factory farmed meat until regulated to do otherwise, and any action you take that does not move towards that regulation is ultimately futile.

Nitpicking individuals over their carbon footprint is exactly what the oil barons and industrialist billionaires who actually drive climate change want you to do.

Because it lets you run code, which can harm your computer. For full compliance, throw your electronics into the nearest volcano.

So, so many ways.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/ offers some good discussion.

this was the winner by a landslide, looks like a human shop job to me

I think this is actually about the Armenian genocide. The reply is from a Turkish account, 1.5 million is the highest generally accepted death count, and Turkey maintains that it was not a genocide.

That to me speaks more of a failing in the legal system than anything else, though cheerleading in particular is 100% a sport.

I’m with OP on this one.

In my view, sports are games where pure physicality (speed/power/endurance) confers a major advantage. All physical games reward coordination and precision, but I would only call the subset of those that also reward physicality sports.

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