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Oh, absolutely. "What 'machine' did you think they were raging against? The lawnmower?"

I find it incredibly ironic that Trump had "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" sung at his inauguration this year. It's a downright violently abolitionist, anti-oppression song. The whole thing is about the approaching and inexorable wrath of God against his "contemners" (people who show contempt for God by trafficking humans). You can imagine an unbelievably massive army, led by God holding a literal sword made of lightning, encamped in siege around the slavers and waiting to attack at morning's light; with the promise that whatever they do to those who oppress others, God will do the opposite to them.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.

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I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps, They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on.

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I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal"; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel, Since God is marching on.

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He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on.

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In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me. As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

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He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave, So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave, Our God is marching on.

"I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: 'As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal'" is hardcore. Among the most hardcore and fantastic sentences ever written. It feels like it should be in a high fantasy novel. Right along with "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free." Julia Ward Howe was angry with a cold, poetic anger.

Yep. There was one on the Sunday comics page every week when I was a kid, and I learned how to do it then. I never understood the people who can't do it, or thought it was fake.

Takes a while to get a jury together. The legal system is very slow, even in easy cases; and trying to find an unbiased jury makes it even harder.

If you haven't, I highly recommend reading "Superman Smashes the Klan." An all-timer, based on a radio story from 1946, which was honestly its own kind of ballsy.

Gotcha, thanks. I must've missed that one.

Yeah, I think the goal is to eventually make it irrespective of seniority, but right now he's the only one with 15+ years of institutional knowledge on the application, so he's trying to pass on as much as he can to reduce our bus factor.

Oh neat, our team does this but we call it "WTF Wednesday." Usually the most senior engineer digs back into our incident log and tries to reproduce it in our dev environment, and we live-solve with him playing the role of the customer.

He also thinks that the number of lines of code produced is a relevant measure of productivity, so him not understanding this isn't super surprising.

I assume it's a joke about Elon asking for developers to willingly put their code into a predatory but apparently welcoming input for digestion.

My math was assuming that most users do charge every night, and again during the day 2-3 times a month. 365 + (12x3) = 401. So it seems like we have both ends of standard usage. They've basically just said that this battery will only last one year of standard usage before they intentionally hobble it.

If that's for safety reasons, they need to stop putting unsafe hardware into their handsets.

Yeah, ok, fine, but he's also famously contradictory. You have to believe the worst promise of any politician, but him especially.