libertarians: “the increase in global quality of life is all because of capitalism!”

communists: “the increase in global quality of life is all because of communism!”

Rules of thumb can be very useful for a relatively inexperienced programmer, and once you understand why they exist you can choose to ignore them when they would get in the way. Clean Code is totally unhinged though

because the goal of tamper resistance is to make it harder to unscrew without apple’s approval

This description could be anyone.

CIA assassination is the leading cause of death worldwide

monospace means the width of the “whole” character is always the same, but the width of the visible part of the character is not (imagine how large the dot would have to be for that to work)

...mm.m.

are you a goldfish.

When you meet a bear in the woods, there is a 0% chance they will notice how the situation bears a resemblance to the popular meme and proceed to mansplain about how bears are more dangerous.

This is and has always been the one and only reason women choose the bear. But one question yet eludes us: how did the cycle start?

or that I don’t want to (google what it is and then) press some weird keybind and spend minutes scrolling through the list of emojis when good ol’ emoticons do the trick

if you accelerate it to exactly the speed of light, it will destroy everything within about 15 billion lightyears (galaxies further than that are safe because they recede from you faster than light)

note that both rage comics and pepe became popular memes in 2008, and wojak in 2009

driver is john cena, who has the catchphrase “you can’t see me”

relevant xkcd