My secret sexist opinion is: Fill your DBA team with women, lead by a woman, and then just stand back and turn them loose. I absolutely love all female DBA teams because they kick fucking ass always. [edit I’m a cis wm 50s for context]

Every woman developer or QA person I’ve ever worked with has been an absolute rockstar.

My theory is that this is because the industry is sexist enough that all the women who aren’t like that don’t find it worth their while to persist at it and find other careers. : (

I’m sad that I missed my opportunity to take a PE exam in software engineering.

So what you’re saying is that there’s no way to make it legal and it simply needs to be deleted entirely.

I agree.

No, I said no such thing. Quit putting words in my mouth.

What I said – the only thing I said – was disagreeing with your rationalizing of the wear as somehow a good thing.

I’m not sure how much of a “lost artform” it can be when you can just buy a can of the stuff at Home Depot.

(Sure, that isn’t “the good stuff” as per @Orbituary@lemmy.world, but IMO it’s not a big deal. “Clear” and “thin” are the correct choices for OP anyway, so the only disadvantage to this premixed spray compared to buying flakes and mixing it yourself is that whatever is leftover in the can will probably go bad before OP has a use for it. Also, I’ve found spray shellac to be very easy to work with, but I suppose YMMV.)

On one hand, the patina of real brass oxidizing can be pretty nice. On the other hand, the ‘patina’ of brass-colored paint rubbing off of plastic or pot metal or whatever the Hell that thing’s actually made of… not so much.

but something P2P would probably work if you can stream from multiple seeders

Which is, in fact, exactly how PeerTube works: it’s got BitTorrent built right into it.

Frankly, it’s ridiculous how people keep harping on this “problem” as if it isn’t long since solved.

What part of “bittorrent” do you not understand? I am really getting fucking sick and tired of people like you posting this bullshit FUD.

Yeah, and there’s a reason contracts of adhesion are [supposed to be] illegal.

Please drink verification can.

It all becomes clear once you understand that the Jews returning to Israel is a precondition for the Christian apocalypse. Christofascists don’t give a flying fuck about the Jews; they support Israel as a country (and Zionism in particular) for the entirely ghoulishly selfish reason that they wanna get ‘raptured.’

Digital license plate

I understand the words, but the phrase makes no fucking sense whatsoever.

Front plates are bad for aerodynamics/fuel efficiency.

Why would they learn that when they’re not the ones suffering the consequences?

How racist a place is perceived as is directly proportional to how many minorities actually live there. It’s easy for racists to be in denial about their bigotry when there are so few minorities that they’re treated as a curiosity rather than a demographic.

For example, you probably think Oregon is less racist than Georgia, right? Well, guess which one was founded as a whites-only ethnostate.

Similarly, Finns considering black people in the abstract probably think they aren’t racist, but when confronted with being concretely affecting by one, well, you see the result.

Drones that weigh 0.55 pounds or more must be registered with the Federal Aviation Administration. If you buy a drone, you’re supposed to register it, and that puts the drone and your name into a Federal database.

Now that Ukraine has made it clear that drones are “arms,” the anti-gun-registration 2nd Amendment people are gonna get right on that, right?

…right?

Are the cheap drones really shooting people with bullets? I was under the impression they just had small explosives strapped to them and were single-use.

The Syrian Revolution has fuck-all legitimately to do with Zionist colonialism in the Golan Heights. Netanyahu using it as an excuse is absolutely nothing but pure opportunistic bullshit.

or forcing people ti find private servers to play with each other like in the good old days.

No shit, Sherlock. That’s exactly what I was advocating for.

I wouldn’t call it “forcing,” though – that’s another strawman. It’s “allowing” the option.

That’s a strawman argument. First of all, plenty of people would be happy to self-host a game for their friends, if they were still allowed the option. Second, even people who want to run a public server would still be free to ban people (for whatever reason they wanted). We’re not talking about being forced to tolerate antisocial fuckwads.