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kescusay , 1 month ago to world in EU elections 2024 live: Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament and calls snap elections after huge far-right gains

It’s truly bizarre. Every couple of decades or so, either the United States or significant chunks of Europe decide, “What the hell, let’s give the right-wingers another chance, they say they’ll fix immigration,” and then we end up cutting funding for services and giving tax cuts to the rich. They pull this shit every goddamn time, and we keep falling for the bait-and-switch.

kescusay , 1 month ago to world in EU elections 2024 live: Emmanuel Macron dissolves French parliament and calls snap elections after huge far-right gains

Hey, uhh, Europe? Can we talk?

Look, I know the way the left has been handling immigration has you upset, but could you please take a closer look at the absolute freaks you’re electing today?

I mean, just take a good look at the United States, circa 2017 through 2020. Did we look like electing an absolute freak worked out for us? Did it fix our own immigration problems? Did it make electing your own Donald Trumps look like a good idea?

kescusay , 1 month ago to technology in EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

Jeez, he’s lucky to be alive at all.

kescusay , 1 month ago to technology in EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

“Why do you hate freedom? And America? And puppies? And apple pie?” -Republicans, probably

kescusay , 1 month ago to technology in Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

This isn’t a case of No True Scotsman. There really is a right way and a whole lot of wrong ways to do Agile development. Any team that calls itself an Agile team that doesn’t actually follow the processes properly is doing it wrong and will fail.

That doesn’t mean any team that’s doing it right will succeed, but it’s like riding a horse: If you only climb halfway up the horse and try to hold on while at a 90-degree angle, it’s not going to work, and it would be stupid to declare that the concept of horse-riding is broken. No, it’s not broken, you’re just an idiot who thought you could ride a horse while only halfway up, clinging desperately to its side.

kescusay , 1 month ago to technology in Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Yeah, Agile isn’t really at fault here. If done right - if you’ve got a scrum master, a proper product owner, proper planning and backlog grooming, etc. - it works really well. The problem is some companies think Agile is just “give the devs some pie-in-the-sky hopes and dreams, let 'em loose, and if they don’t give half a dozen execs exactly what they want (despite their massively conflicting ideas on what they want), cancel the project.”

kescusay , 1 month ago to nottheonion in Gay Republican candidate melts down when he figured out that his party is homophobic

Sounds like some deeply, deeply internalized self-hatred going on there.

kescusay , 1 month ago to nottheonion in Idaho bar celebrates "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month" with free beer for straight men

Wow. This is… wow. OK, look… I like the sentiment, the idea that healthy relationships in general should be depicted more often, but can you name the last ten shows or movies you watched that feature healthy depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships? I can, because those depictions are so rare they stand out. I can’t name the last ten shows or movies I watched with straight relationships in them, because that’s literally all of them. Yes, including the ones that also depicted LGBTQ+ relationships.

There needs to be more healthy representation of relationships. But specifically straight ones? Nah… We’re saturated with those enough already.

kescusay , 1 month ago to nottheonion in ‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says

Holy shit, he actually said that.

This, right here, is a prime example of a political headline that looks like it comes from The Onion.

kescusay , 1 month ago to technology in Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address

New motto:

Linux: Still An Operating System, Not An Ad Platform

kescusay OP , 1 month ago to nottheonion in [META] Help!

You do raise some valid points, but the problem here is that if we go that route, we might as well rename this community from “Not The Onion” to “Politics But Focused Mostly On Hypocrisy”.

I don’t think most of the people in this community want this to be a politically-focused community to the exclusion of everything else. We don’t want every article on the front page to be yet another “Trump did/said something hypocritical again.” That’s not Onion-y.

kescusay , 1 month ago to technology in Instagram is testing unskippable "Ad Breaks" lasting 3-5 seconds, disrupting user browsing experience

What a coincidence! I’ve been testing something myself! I call it, “Not using Instagram for anything ever in any way whatsoever.”

kescusay OP , 1 month ago to nottheonion in [META] Help!

No worries. I’m utterly incapable of basic logic until I get my coffee.

kescusay OP , 1 month ago to nottheonion in [META] Help!

I’ll allow it.

kescusay OP , 1 month ago to nottheonion in [META] Help!

Those were examples of actual Onion headlines to serve as guidelines for the headlines that would fit well here. But yeah, actual Onion articles wouldn’t fit here, because… This is Not The Onion.

So… Please drink some coffee.