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TSA in airports: Security Theater
ICE in airports: Security Theater of Cruelty
Maybe, if I'm very good in this life, I'll come back as a bookstore cat, like this fine specimen from the Book Barn in Niantic, CT.
I wasn't really a fan of Chuck Norris, but at least he gave us Chuck Norris jokes, and I'm not really a fan of Chuck Norris jokes, but at least they gave us Bruce Schneier jokes, which I do enjoy.
Square Law Of Software Dependencies: the number of bugs introduced by an upgrade is proportional to the square of the number of supporting modules upgraded.
If you upgrade 1 module, you will have to resolve 1 new bug.
If you upgrade 3 modules, 9 new bugs.
If you upgrade more than 10 modules, you should consider trashing the entire project and rewriting everything from scratch.
I know why they say it, but I still find the term "one-way attack drone” mildly amusing. No one talks about "one-way bombs" or “one-way missiles”.
That’s probably for the best, actually. It would be upsetting to live in a world where a ballistic missile sauntered casually home after blowing stuff up and showed you photos of all the places it visited on vacation.
It's #caturday. This very pristine little feline lives in Algeria's M’Zab Valley, on the outskirts of a place called Beni Isguen.
New HTTP status code just dropped.
**506 - Service Unavailable Due To Hostilities**
The web server responds with this code when it is unable to handle the request due to equipment or infrastructure damage caused by hostile action, or for political reasons such as a state of war existing between the server's home nation and that of the agent. The agent should delay resubmitting the request until a peace treaty has been signed.
Actual conversation:
"Pretty much all the cats we fostered have found homes. Even Murderfloof. Who had … issues.”
"Yes, but she was so beautiful.”
"True.”
“She's probably living with some influencer … BITING some influencer.”
“Ah. Living the dream, in other words.”
