Davin

Like another poster said, it's truly a microcosm of the MAGA/Republican governing style. Pay a buddy way too much pretending that the problem is easy to solve. The buddy grifts by cheaping out on everything. They fuck up the system so badly it becomes a cesspool. And result is that it gets worse and becomes even more expensive to fix.

Hit the nail on the head.

No! Snark and condescension only!

I mean, I feel you, but also I feel like not enough people will vote when we get a chance because they didn't last time. And if people won't do something like walk into a building and mark a piece of paper, I have doubts they'll do more than that. So yeah, plaster that fuckers face on everything. Have everyone look at his stupid ugly face until they do something about it.

Not in my experience from what I've seen. Republicans are more than happy to punch down and send money up to the top. While that may have been like half the GOP reps 40 years ago, now it's almost all of them. They spend tons of money on handouts to corporations and the wealthy.

While there's no shortage of Dems doing the same, they have more often done good things for the population.

Example, Clinton balanced the budget and handed a surplus to Bush part II. Bush II took that, and cut taxes for big corporations and the wealthy, and increased spending the the military of course, but also in things to help out the big corporations. Cut things like education and safety nets. Handouts for the wealthy but not those that need it to live.

Also, both don't end up spending the same, the GOP has always spent more (at least since the 60s). The national debt nearly doubled every time a Republican was president, and either stagnates or is reduced when a Democrat is president. We have the data on that.

Same Kind of shit my mom said, before blaming Democrats for their spending. Now Dems are not wholly innocent, but for the last like 80 years, it's been the GoP that's been increasing the national debt, and it's not because they're expanding spending on safety nets and education

That's one of the problems with you absolutist weirdos. I'm not locking anyone into anything, including any one of the many standards that you lot keep creating. Maybe the next one will finally be it. Hasn't worked for decades and decades, but maybe the next one will be it.

I've worked with getting shipping working with a few a different companies. I find it a little silly to try to use shipping as an example of a non bespoke system. They can't even agree whether to do HxWxD or HxDxW. They agreed on one thing, great, that doesn't do much for the systems.

I don't think it's necessary to completely unbespoke the systems, we've wasted decades and decades on trying that and only ended up creating more and more different standards.

I also don't think that everything needs needs to remain as disjointed and insanely different as it currently is. But whenever I hear a person say, "don't reinvent the wheel." They, so far, have always tended to lack the understanding of how things actually work in the real world.

It's been a long time. At some point people need to abandon this idea that all needs and wants must align exactly so that we can have only one standard. I understand the pull for it, but it's not realistic.

Yes, let's not reinvent any wheels to save time and money. What? Why do you have to use three different screens from two different applications to get the information you need for one shipment invoice? Because we didn't reinvent any wheels. You're welcome.

At 13 years old, I finished the book on the way to watch the movie. I had been reading it for a few weeks. Great book. Imo, they're too close for me to judge which is better.

I agree. I read the comics after the movie and while I enjoyed them, imo the movie was better.