A Palestinian Jew advocating socialism. They’d kill him on the spot.

When you’re around a cat, stare at it. It will leave you alone.

Just don’t stare too hard, or you’ll convince it you’re such a threat that it must kill you.

It’s serious. Looking at a cat is interpreted as threatening. To be non-threatening, you have to look away and even close your eyes. By ignoring the cat you show that you aren’t a threat.

That’s why cats always approach the person who doesn’t like them. That’s the only person looking away, so it’s the only person who is signaling that they aren’t a threat.

Later on, I learned that an excess of comments is actually not considered a good practice.

Pointless or uninformative comments are not good, regardless of the quantity.

Useful and informative comments are always good, regardless of the quantity.

I learned that comments might be a code smell indicating that the code is not very clear.

When I’m looking at someone else’s code, I want to see extensive, descriptive comments.

Good code should be so clear, that it doesn’t need comments.

That hits me like something a teacher tells you in a coding class that turns out to be nonsense when you get to the real world.

I’m not sure how others do it.

As I’m coding, the comments form part of my plan. I write the comments before the code. As I discover I’ve made incorrect assumptions or poor decisions, I correct the comments with the new plan, then correct the code to match the updated comments.

As a final step in coding, when I feel it is complete, I’ll review comments to determine what should remain to help future me if I ever have to dig into it again.

Variable names should be reasonably memorable and make contextual sense, but that’s it. That’s what they exist for. Don’t overload the purpose of anything I’m the code.

Now come on, I’m sure plenty still are.

Not to mention that they aren’t the ones who’d be deported.

They’ll be scooped up just like everyone else. They just think they won’t be. They’ll believe it’s all just a big mistake right up to the end.

It’s the only way the right is progressive.

We need another banana for scale.

No way.

In that situation, you didn’t hire door dash, Best Buy did. You paid Best Buy for a product. If they used a delivery service that stole your product, then Best Buy didn’t deliver what you paid for. Best Buy would have a brief, reasonable opportunity to do the right thing, then it would be a charge back.

If you’re looking at the bottom, you’re not going to find fraud and waste in large amounts. To find fraud and waste, you’re going to have to look at the top.

In other words, the fraud and waste are in the administration leadership. That’s not what DOGE was looking at. They didn’t lay off the people at the top. They laid off the people who actually do the work.

As others have said, it wasn’t about fixing anything. It was about breaking everything.

Don’t get me wrong, I think we’re at the point where it may be the only way out. It’s just nothing to look forward to, and suggesting Europe “does it better” isn’t comforting.

Even in Europe when things would get bad enough for the people to put aside their differences and kill the ruling class, the differences tend to re-assert themselves once the common enemy is gone. That’s where things go south. Cutting heads off is like eating potato chips. You can’t just stop once you’ve started. Eventually you’re pulling crumbs out of the bottom of the bag.

If it gets bad enough for the American people to unite to kill the oppressors, the oppressors will definitely have a bad time, but you better be ready for one hell of a rough ride after.

I can imagine a loving God allowing these vile creatures to exist, but I can’t believe he would allow them to speak for him.

Imagine for a moment if the fortune spent on the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was instead invested in reducing our dependence on oil.

Odd. For me it says:

Sheriff’s Office: Vision, Mission and, Values

VISION:

Our vision is to become the most professional law enforcement agency in the County and our region. To make this vision a reality:

We will become well known for our high professionalism, our competence, and the dependability of our word—and through these we will gain and establish the public’s trust. We will consistently demonstrate exemplary performance of duty to serve and protect the Court and the citizens of Adams County, and to assist our peers in the law enforcement community to maintain order in our community. We will become known as reliable members of the community, as enthusiastic participants in its activities, and as visible forces for good within it. Each of us will become a knowledgeable and skilled ambassador for the Sheriff’s Office and an educator-through-action for the public. Through our actions and our integrity, we will become known as models of diligent, steadfast, and thoughtful public service. We will carry ourselves with dignity and be proud to show our passion for exceeding expectations, doing things well, and making the work of others easier. We will always learn something valuable from our mistakes, and never miss an opportunity to help create a positive heritage for the people we serve.

MISSION:

The mission of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office is to provide first-class professional, dignified, and courteous service to the Adams County Court, the citizens of the County, its agencies, and all law enforcement agencies with whom we partner to maintain order in our community.

We will serve with integrity and distinction, whether providing security for court proceedings, serving warrants and papers, conducting prisoner transport, or fulfilling any other duties required under law and statute.

As we undertake our Mission, we shall keep in mind at all time the Vision and Core Values of this organization.

CORE VALUES:

We subscribe to three (3) core values which guide our actions and our conduct:

Duty Service Integrity Our duty is to uphold the Constitution of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the statutes of the state. We have a duty to uphold the trust of the public we serve, a duty towards each other, to the Office of the Sheriff of Adams County, and to ourselves.

We are mindful that we are a service organization, funded by the public, and guided by the notion that community partnerships are the best way to establish trust between public law enforcement agencies and the citizens they serve. As service providers, we have a duty to serve each other with diligence, dignity, and respect so that we can all do our best to serve those outside our office.

We understand that integrity is the currency of all our transactions, the stock in trade and basis of our worth as an office. Without integrity, there can be no trust from the people we serve.

To show that these values are fundamental to our performance as a team:

We will always be true to our word, keep all our promises, and take every step that quality follow-through requires. We will take every opportunity to convey our mutual support for each other and what we stand for. We will earn the respect that others have for us through service, hard work, and proven commitment to our own growth and self-improvement. We will act with dignity, respect, and self-possession—because what each one does reflects upon us all.

Interesting read:

https://www.adamscountypa.gov/departments/sheriff/contacts/james-165f386f3bd77473551eec07f8fbfe34/james:

If I remember correctly, they weren’t undocumented. They were in the country and working legally.

My oldest has no children and works fully remote.

When the pandemic started, his company decided to have everyone work from home. They very quickly discovered that they were just as productive, and the owner decided it made sense to dump their office space.

A group of employees decided to go on vacation together, while still working. Since they are all remote, they didn’t actually have to work from home. They got an Airbnb with good Internet, worked during the day, and saw the sites and had fun together after work.

If you’re remote and you miss that sense of community, reach out to your coworkers and ask them if they want to hang out after work. It’s possible they don’t and you’ll be disappointed. It’s also possible that they feel the same way but didn’t know they could do something about it.

Either you’ll be the hero that saved everyone from their solitary existence, or you’ll have to accept that they don’t want to hang out with you.

It’s important to remember that Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom.

The pressure needs to increase until the problem is solved.

Reminds me of a guy who came to my door to get me to sign a survey to stop an ice cream shop from opening up down the street. Except, he started with the argument that he thought would get agreement and ended with the way it would affect him.

He started by talking about how dangerous it would be for children because the ice cream shop was going to be next to railroad tracks.

I pointed out that the kids who would cross the tracks occasionally for ice cream were already crossing the tracks every day to get to the elementary school. He then shared his true reason: he lived next door to the proposed ice cream shop and didn’t want to deal with the crowds or trash.

When I suggested his “think of the children” argument was dishonest, he got a bit angry with me. I might have ended the discussion by telling him to fuck off.

He didn’t prevail. Ice cream won out as it often does. When we moved here a few years before, the first thing we said when we saw that little building was that it would be perfect for a little ice cream shop.