Both my brother and my brother-in-law are professional chefs and they each eat the weirdest nonsense on their own. It's like their palettes have to be so refined at work that they need to throw the wildest combos of flavors together at home to feel like they're eating something different.

So if anything I think this qualifies you as the "chef guy."

Who is John? Everyone knows JRR Tolkien stands for Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien.

This just in: mammals have hair.

Nothing more American than "this adult who we put in charge of minors assaulted a teenager, what should we do with them? Oh I know, let's put them in charge of even younger children!"

I hate our country.

You seem annoyed at either possibility here. Which would you prefer?

Because if they let third party scrapers access the private data without user action, it's not private and they may as well not do this at all.

Republicans didn't force her to collude with the DNC to tamper with the primary. Nor did they force her to campaign on such gems as "$15/hr minimum wage is too high" and "we don't need universal health care" and "if you don't vote for me you're sexist."

Basically scripts you can run on the fly to pull calculated data. You can (mostly) treat them like tables themselves if you create them on the server.

So if you have repeat requests, you can save the view with maybe some broader parameters and then just SELECT * FROM [View_Schema].[My_View] WHERE [Year] = 2023 or whatever.

It can really slow things down if your views start calling other views in since they're not actually tables. If you've got a view that you find you want to be calling in a lot of other views, you can try to extract as much of it as you can that isn't updated live into a calculated table that's updated by a stored procedure. Then set the stored procedure to run at a frequency that best captures the changes (usually daily). It can make a huge difference in runtime at the cost of storage space.

Hands down the worst phone I've had was the Nexus 6P. The battery issues were incredibly bad, to the point there was a successful class action lawsuit about it.

Since that was a Google phone manufactured by Huawei, I have no idea how that contributes to this conversation but it seemed relevant. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My favorite is when systems will stealth truncate your password without telling you, but only when setting it. For some reason I often encounter this with systems truncating to 20 characters.

• Set 24 character password: no error (secretly truncated to 20 characters).
• Try to log in: credentials invalid (it checks the full 24 character one against the 20 character one).
• Go to reset to what it should be, password can't be the same (again, stealth truncating to 20 characters).

Couldn't this just be an indirect way of saying people with more money live longer? Retiring at 55 means you're pretty well off, retiring at 67 likely means you couldn't afford to retire early. Less money means lower ability to afford healthy food and medical care.

And this is why unions are so important. A union for a former job of mine also made a big deal about not only duties beyond the job description but workload beyond normal.

Neoliberals need to get this through their head: a sizeable minority of us do not like the Democratic Party and don't believe we are represented by them, regardless of whatever empty rhetoric they spew. Sizeable enough that you can lose elections without us. We are not a long-term reliable voting bloc and you need to learn tactics other than bullying and fear-mongering to get your way.

To abuse a metaphor, Hillary Clinton and her primary shenanigans were the straw that broke my back. Donald Trump and what he represented was bad enough that I managed to muster enough energy to vote for Hillary in 2016 and Biden in 2020. But I'm tired, and if I'm able to muster the energy for 2024 it'll be the last time. I'm done voting for people that I do not want to be my president. It doesn't have to be a progressive, but give me someone I can stomach or you can leave me out of your election math.

And the tired refrain of "Biden is the most progressive president ever" isn't a consolation prize, it's salt in the wound.