Posted on ShitJustWorks for extra irony

ignore years of evidence that Biden’s admin can function

They’re doing a real bang-up job, both at home and abroad.

you’re the guy on the Internet who claimed I was ignorant

You’ve been hearing that a lot lately, eh?

Its not “bottle rockets”. Innocent people lost their lives.

The ship violated sovereign territory in the middle of a siege. Blockade running isn’t an innocent act. Every smuggler knows that.

You’re lucky you’re priveleged enough

Yes yes. Guy on the internet says other guy on the internet is privileged.

I hope nothing so awful ever happens to you

I’ll try not to charge a slow moving cargo ship through an active war zone.

And yes, I do know where Mecca is.

If you think you know where Mecca is, go on and pray towards it. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

What’s the point of all that expensive hardware if they have no clue what to do with it

I mean, if you straight up don’t know how to use a computer at all then that’s fair. But I don’t think the suggestion is that you learn how to code before you learn how to work a mouse. Hell, the whole target audience for the joke is people who are already online.

Its funny, because it actually didn’t have this. (Or, literally this)

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/28476/have-the-ending-credits-of-rambo-iii-been-changed

Original sources from the time of the movie’s release, 1988, state that the film is dedicated to the “gallant people of Afghanistan”.

The edited end-card was made as a joke, back in 2004, and circulated so many times online that it eventually became headcannon.

Listen, its their Gulf of Adan, they can do what they want. Its called National Sovereignty.

Do you see anyone telling Americans what they can do in their Gulf of Mexico? Of course not. Invade Haiti. Bomb Grenada. Embargo Cuba for 60 years. That’s called 2nd Amendment Rights, bucko. Maybe learn to read a copy of the US motherfucking Constitution.

But a couple of Arabs want to fire off a few bottle rockets in their backyard and suddenly the Liberal Nanny State has to pull up on the coast and tell them to cut it out? Get lost Grandpa Biden. You’re not the boss here. You can’t even find Mecca on a map.

Hey now, when they’re attacking Evil Russian Soviets in the mountains of Afghanistan, I like to call those Princes of the House of Saud my friends.

This Post Is Dedicated To The Brave Mujaheddin Fighters of Afghanistan

Its a good litmus test for people who are genuinely interested versus people who just heard “Lern 2 Kode” from a hustler on YouTube and thought they could bullshit their way through it.

But also, you’ll notice the cartoon character getting handed a nice looking laptop and keyboard. How cool is that? A cartoonist handing you a few hundred dollars worth of hardware plus presumably an always-on internet connection. Imagine if everyone had those kinds of resources just tossed to them at the asking.

Rolling up and getting started is a great way to find some really sloppy ways to do some initially very fascinating tricks. Like, its not a terrible idea on its face.

But there’s a huge difference between learning some javascript tricks or python commands to macro with and professionally designing a full stack. Really depends on what you’re trying to accomplish.

Best thing in the world is a fresh faced young developer who is eager to learn everything you put in front of them. Worst thing in the world is someone who only half-knows how to code but thinks they can do a proper mobile app from first principles. Every time I see a mile of copypasta spaghetti code sitting inside a single oversized Main() function, I die inside.