I mean, that’s exactly what programmers in the '70s thought. That there would be no way in hell that their crap code would still be in use going onto 2000.

Thing is, copy/paste is always going to be easier than writing new code and that’s only going to get worse as chat bots start coding for us.

Y2K wasn’t entirely fear mongering horse shit. There were quite a few important cogs in our digital infrastructure that were using code that would not work past 1999. It was necessary to terrify corporate ownership into paying to fix the code, otherwise there would have never done it.

Okay, you’re not required to snarkily broadcast that in the conversation, though. You could just ignore it.

The term football used to apply to any ball sport played on foot (as apposed to on horseback). The idea that it could only belong to soccer is actually quite arrogant.

They likely didn’t know how to save the file, so they took a picture of the screen.

It’s not so much the excess hay their collecting, it’s the giant electromagnetic they’re building.

The “replaceable CEO” is part of the reason the system is broken in the first place.

In fact, it’s done nothing but make their own life worse.