Jesus Fucking Christ.

I’ve done a lot of SQL/Database type work as well, and yep, I’ve been the person learning their insane spider web of db structures, and then either trying to enforce some kind of actual defined standards going forward, or in some instances, succeeding at restrucuring the dbs, transitioning them, and convincing corporate that this actually needed to be done.

It’s insane to think what the civil engineering world would be like if it had the career structure of the software world.

Points at understaffed ATC tower, collapsing bridge that hasn’t been even evaluated in a decade, general state of roadway disrepair and constant re-repair, also the new highway/overpass/lane expansion being built to ‘solve traffic’ despite doing that literally never working

I’ve got to go, so no time to research this now, but I’ll wager there’s plenty of areas in southern states & maybe the Bible belt where that income would be considered pretty decent.

Yes, it would be more decent in the poorer areas with even higher rates of being rent overburdened, higher rates of poverty.

You gave an average, I gave an average.

You wanna break it all down state by state, both metrics, you’ll still find the same broad trend, using averages is a neat way to talk about broad trends without outputting a full 30 page comprehensive analysis.

I didn’t “normalize” anything.

Not in the statistical sense, no.

But your massive internalized privilege has left you bereft of a realistic frame of reference for how bad the economic situation really is for so many millions of Americans.

You’ve thus normalized, in your own mind, the idea of it being ok for a massive chunk of society to be in a horrendously precarious material and financial position.

Oh what a suprise you’re a reddit power user, I am shocked, shocked I say, to find such a person being a fascist apologist via dubious rhetorical manipulation!

Yeah, many situations have nuance.

I have considered, and indeed, first hand experienced the ‘nuance’ that you describe and now hint at, and find it hollow.

You are obviously an extremely privileged perma online person, who delights in being theoretically morally superior in all situations, not actually giving a fuck about the plain and obvious injustice of a situation.

Yes you truly have mastered the art of sanctimonious aping, bravo at being a completely insufferable ass.

You can’t seriously be trying to deploy the ‘you’re doing black and white logic’ tactic when… you yourself acknowledge that these people are into it, that they voluntarily engage in it, and also just utterly ignore that I’ve personally known many drug addicts, ex cons, who have ended up homeless, and actually did their damndest to get off drugs, to go straight/legit, to recover, that they walked the hard path because it was the right path.

Again, I can only hope that ‘nuance’ visits your doorstep and impacts your life personally, because you are obviously a disingenuous, solipsistic troll who can’t learn anything until it hits them in face like a brick.

Kindly fuck off back to reddit, most of lemmy is really doing its best to be rid of people like you.

~$30 dollars an hour is, across the whole country broadly, just shy of a basic, liveable wage.

~$30 dollars an hour is what the minimum wage would now be, if it was still as it was originally intended to be, a wage allowing for a reasonably comfortable, non poverty existence.

If you think those are respectable numbers, you’ve normalized the idea of tens of millions of people living in poverty.

http://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-year

If trends continue, the average renter will pay $19,801 in 2025 ($1,650/month).

There ya go, 1:3 rent to income ratio means you need to make ~$60k to afford the average apartment.

Annual rent per square foot in 2025 is an estimated $27.67//ft2, up 47.3% from 2020 ($18.79/ft2).

Yep, ~50% increase in rent prices in 5 years.

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/renter-households-cost-burdened-race.html

A household has on average ~2.6 people, so thats uh, ~55 million people that couldn’t really afford rent in 2023… and those are the people who have since 2023ish been putting everything on credit, on klarna, on afterpay… you don’t even want to know how bad the US looks if you take net wealth into the equation… basically, at least 25% of US households have negative net wealth, and that’s obviously going to be more concentrated amongst those who can’t afford rent.

And no, I’m not using the US gov’s definiton(s) of ‘poverty’, because they are bullshit that doesn’t account for what I have above described.

Also, thanks Mr. Trump, bye bye Section 8, bye bye foodstamps/EBT, bye bye Medicaid! I’m sure all those things weren’t helpful or needed by anyone struggling to afford rent.

Nah, fuck em.

Plenty of ex cons or people in shitty situations in general do their best to get by without directly harming people, by having or gaining morals and trying to genuinely be a good person.

Taking the path of least resistance in terms of ‘career options’ just makes you a bully and a coward.

I am a person who has gone homeless and hungry, from being the victim of these kinds of people… I’ve never hurt anybody, I put up with all the bullshit and paperwork and constant harassment from every member of society that comes along with being homeless, and managed to crawl my way back to not being homeless, and doing PT, and repairing my credit after having my wallet/bank cards/id stolen.

I have infinitely negative sympathy for people who have actually done crimes and then victimize more people out of the mere fear of ending up dispossed.

Fuck, they could just go work on the farms instead, that would be a legitimate line of work, lots of job openings there!

Your logic is horrendous and allows for a society where anyone doing anything shitty for basically any reason can be pearl clutched and crocodile tear’d away by unduly sympathizing with their personal sob story.

You really think you’d feel the same if these ex con neo nazis fucks busted down your door and sent you to GITMO, CECOT, or Alligator Auschwitz, simply on account of your skin being too melinated and you having a foreign sounding last name?

Gimme a break.

You gonna sympathize with their victims? Write an opinion piece from their perspective?

You are doing apologia for the modern Gestapo, that shit didn’t fly at Nuremberg, if it flies with you now, you’re a fascist apologist.

These motherfuckers looked a job description that read ‘You will routinely carry out crimes against humanity’ and said 'Hell yeah, sign me up!"

They deserve all the sympathy of the Nazis captured by the Inglorious Basterds, tap tap tap goes the baseball bat.

EDIT: But hey, at least your user name is apt, Sanctimonious Ape.

No, not for the vast majority of EU States, no, it requires an actual official government id like the EU eID, your tax ID number, something like that.

Many US states have official citizens initiatives systems, but not on the Federal level, no.

Likely never, the intiative is not pushing for retroactive legal changes, it is pushing for new regulations / legal standards going forward.

No, no no.

You have to input your name, address, and various ways of establishing your EU member state, such as an EU electronic visa/id, or your specific EU state drivers liscence or tax id or some such, and the form makes it very obvious you must actually be an EU citizen.

Examples:

Poland

Portugal

Estonia

Its possible there could be spam or accidental/malformed inputs… but if you are putting fake info into an official government portal, especially en masse, thats potentially a number of crimes, and if its a genuine mistake from an EU citizen, it seems like there is a review process where people will be contacted and allowed to fix up their info.

Also, technically, there are a few countries with more lax submission requirements, such as the Netherlands, likely due to more intense personal privacy laws… but its not like this system is not logging people’s IPs, not like they won’t be taking that into acount.

This isn’t a change.org petition, its an official EU government portal for a core process of democracy.

Knowingly falsifying info on this is again, potentially a large number of crimes, as if you say lied on voting registration, or lied to Social Security or your US state’s unemployment assistance system.

Dean Hall and RocketWorkz of uh DayZ fame/infamy… are working on Kitten Space Agency… I dunno, maybe they could pull it off?

Dean’s track record is really hit and miss imo, but hey, at least they actually give a damn and try, often with pretty bold / niche concepts.

The US has been regularly helping to assasinate Iranian foreigner dignitaries for years now, literally assasinsting many high ranking members of their government/military for years as well.

Exploding golf ball.

Please.

He let Epstein use Mar a Lago as a ‘recruiting ground’ for a fucking decade.

Not only did Trump very obviously partake in this evil business, he was a fucking integral part to facilitating it.

Every time you hear any Trumpoid cabinet member mention that Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago… yeah, yeah that’s after a fucking decade of him disappearing women and girls from there, there’s no fucking way he didn’t know what was going on, he just kicked him out when he got too sloppy and tried to fuck the daughter of someone Trump was trying to impress.

http://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/epstein-mar-a-lago-trump-1456221

http://www.newsweek.com/jeffrey-epsteins-visits-mar-lago-detailed-1857636

Not it isn’t.

A command line literally is a UI.

You seem to be confusing GUI and UI?

I have definitely gone into a rageful fugue state and woken up a week later after reworking an entire code base from being an inconsistent mess of slop…

…into actually having a common library of functions instead of just rewriting slightly different versions of them 8 times, having those functions only actually instantiated for necesarry classes…

…rewriting every variable name and function name to an actually consistent and intelligible naming scheme…

… and finally, moving a whole bunch of shit out of some kind of global ‘think’ type loop that doesn’t actually need to be called or checked every goddamned micro second.

Done that more than once actually.

Never look inside ‘baby’s first video game mod’ code, unless you have healthy blood pressure.

But uh yeah, spite, hatred, and anger are indeed powerful motivators for making good code, lol.

… so many idiots just jam everything into a global, called every tick loop, and then claim that it just can’t be optimized, because “the game engine just can’t handle it”…

lol, RIP Jebs 1 - 48395.

But uh yeah, the… the lore is basically:

We made some cute little dudes and dudettes that are… possibly animated, sapient fungi? Or something?

Anyway they are sm0l and live in sm0l solar system.

And they have a space program.

And most of the characters are just obvious cutesy knock offs of famous humans in spaceflight.

Woo!

lol

Derp.

Looks like I need to complexify the manifolds of my own brain, haha!

Uh, its more like a new publisher bought the IP, functionally fired almost all of the original dev team, and then hired a bunch of other people who had no idea how their insanely modified version of Unity worked…

And then the idiot in charge just started spamming out extremely grand and difficult to implement new core functionalities… with a team of mostly newbies who had no idea how anything worked.

So, basically, they started out where KSP started out… and would very obviously thus need years and years and years to get it out of Early Access / Alpha state… but it needed to make money NOW, and it didn’t, so everyone got laid off (other than the idiot in charge), and the game was functionally abandoned, but not totally abandoned, because MY IP MINE NO YOU CANT HAVE IT!!!

Or… maybe not? With regard to the IP rights?

Nobody seems to know who actually owns the KSP IP at this point.

http://techdriveplay.com/2025/01/03/kerbal-space-program-2-a-tale-of-corporate-neglect-and-failure/

Bro why you trippin’?

All my homies be constantly morphin’ into better, more flexible and robust versions of themselves.

Generally, biologically speaking:

Men have a urethra and an anus.

Women have a urethra, and anus, and a vagina.

Presumably, discounting mutations, birth defects, serious injuries, etc, most people have the same number of uh… head/face holes.

…

Allowing for rarer cases:

Also… intersex people exist… there have been at least a few recorded instances of duplicate and/or forking dongs…

And I guess we could also consider varying kinds of conjoined twins.

…

Also also, we could argue about whether milk producing mammaries constitute a topological ‘hole’.