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Yes, but those things bring more value than simple green grass. I can eat the chickens and their eggs. I can eat veggies from the garden. I can’t eat St Augustine grass because I’m not a goat.

I would never!

If I simply stop, I won’t be able to find my house. There has to be a better plan. Native plants are probably the answer.

> There’s a lot of yardspace that could become gardens and chicken farms in a pinch.

I’d do anything to stop caring for the damned lawn.

People I know in Manhattan are still paying their cleaners even though there’s no more cleaning. These are fewer and fewer as folks permanently decamp from the city.

Your comment echoes my experience... in New York City. I’m white too, and I’d gotten pulled over more times in NYC than anywhere else. There’s always something: you drove over the yellow line for a second; your hands weren’t on 10 and 2; we may have seen a cell phone at your ear; why does your car have a big dent? The NYPD is one huge pain in the ass.

I live in Florida now; sheriff’s deputies in my county are very chill. They wave and say hello, and they don’t care why there’s something weird in the back of my truck.

I’m an immigrant, and I’ll never stand for any kind of reparations for descendants of former slaves. Invariably this will come out of tax dollars to which I’m contributing by way of income tax. Why should I be charged for wrongs - however horrible - in which neither myself nor my ancestors were involved? When there was still slavery in America, my people were enslaving members of their own ethnic group back in the old country. Forgive me for not wanting any part of this current dispute.

And to those who will certainly tell me that I’ve benefitted from the modern spoils of slavery: I beg to differ. My first decade in the US was all about climbing out of the pit of “you’re not white enough for us because you didn’t go to a top school”. That shit still haunts me to this day.

> That is like saying "the sick made this hospital uninviting".

But the sick do make a hospital uninviting! Think of all those heart attack patients who opted not to visit their local emergency department. Heart attacks are still happening regardless of how many additional patients are at the hospital due to infection.

> My fear of the decline of traditional marriage?

The only marriage you have the right to be concerned about is your own, if any. If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t get gay married. It’s that simple.

The whole “traditional marriage” mindset stems from religion. When forced upon others by law it’s just another way to limit individual freedoms. It’s disgusting and has to stop.

I was fat before the pandemic. I continue to be fat during the pandemic. I will be fat after the pandemic is over. Fitness is for other people.

I’m doing great, thanks for asking. I drink good whiskey on my porch while I watch the bomb ass explosive sunsets that Florida is so famous for. I shoot projectile weapons into an earthen berm. I listen to my favorite synthwave playlists. I eat good food. I go to the beach.

Just because I’m fat doesn’t mean I’m doing poorly. In fact I’m willing to bet that I’m happier than most posers who go around telling everyone that they do CrossFit. (That my iPhone has capitalized CrossFit is alarming in itself...)

You don’t have to download the internet upon each build.

First, in a corporate environment it’s common to run builds backed by artifact servers that’ll cache just about anything.

Second, it’s easy to place files in a Docker build context (that’s just a $25 dollar way of saying “next to the Dockerfile”) that would have been downloaded from the internet, but are stored locally instead. This is easier said than done for some formats. Source tarballs? Easy. Anything Java or Debian that requires a pesky server which works a certain way? You’re going to have to use a caching artifact server.

“Free market” isn’t “free everything”. In a free market the bid-ask spread is king. It’s just another kind of tyranny, which, like all such things, benefits those who are set up to take advantage of it, and leaves most others in the dust.

This reminds me of a famously obtuse and obdurate boss who asked for things that were utterly impossible. He had delusions of grandeur which left him convinced that he and only he was qualified to challenge the “cheap, fast, good - pick any two” triangle.

Naturally, I did my best to explain the laws of physics to him, but he wouldn’t hear it. In a spectacular display of Stockholm syndrome I did my best to appease him for four years, but, as many of you can surely predict by this point in the story, I failed in every possible way and eventually gave up. Just wish I could have my four years back.

I was glad to read that OP at least got paid well for his efforts.

For this reason I’ve been dockerizing my builds for almost five years. I was late to the Docker party, but when I saw the benefits it brings to build pipelines, I was sold.

It's true that a dockerized build isn’t any simpler than its non-dockerized ancestor, but at least there’s a Dockerfile that lays bare all the black magic and special sauce which goes into each build. And it can be version controlled to watch for drift over time.

This stuff is useful in a corporate setting, but the other fetishization of reproducible builds is just a distraction that can stay where it belongs: open source mailing lists.