A story about my dad: He had trapped a giant skunk that had been eating his pheasants and chickens. He gave the skunk the usual treatment of breathing car exhaust for an hour then going for a swim while still in the trap. This routine had been developed because sometimes carbon monoxide isn't enough to kill a skunk, but drowning is. And this method makes them unlikely to spray. Now my dad is a taxidermist, so letting a giant skunk pelt go to waste wasn't gonna happen. But he was busy, so he retrieved the dead skunk from the pond and put the whole thing into a bag and into a chest freezer so he could skin it later. A week or so goes by and my dad goes back to this freezer to retrieve a different animal skin and he notices that there are some claw or tooth marks on some of the hides. While trying to figure out whether those marks were new, a creature jumps up onto the rim of the still open freezer, placing itself adjacent to the doorway leaving out of this shed. Realizing it's the skunk, my dad tries to shoe it out the door so they can have a rematch sometime later when he's less likely to be sprayed. The skunk won't go, so he grabs the nearest tool, a pitchfork, and uses the handle end to coax it off the freezer and away it can run instead of fight. Well, the skunk decides it's gonna spray my dad first, and then run away by jumping behind the freezer and trapping itself between the freezer and the wall. My dad is angry now, flips the pitchfork around, and starts ramming it down between the freezer and the wall, spearing the skunk repeatedly. The skunk sprays its stink again, but at this point, my dad just wants this thing dead. Eventually my dad wins the struggle, with the skunk finally dying from the pitchfork. Then the skunk is laid to rest again in the proper place, a taxidermist's freezer.

@James_Weitz10 @peterboghossian Since 2003, I believe.

@syntoythesis As far as I can tell the SRE's job is to make it easy for devs to spin up 8 instances of a microservice in kubernetes and then complain about the amount of resources the devs are using.

@abettertake I don't understand why monkey labor would be a bad thing. It's not like we can get eggs without hen labor. Or catch local high-school's druggie without canine labor. Or honey without bee labor.

@punished_daniel I THINK THIS STORY IS EASY AND WE SHOULD GIVE IT 3 POINTS, NOT FIVE!

@kitten_beloved I think it's more likely the requirements to amortize SWE salaries as capital expenditure.

@kitten_beloved "work from home isnt work"

@mbateman That makes sense, thanks!

@CartoonsHateHer Send him with 30 packets of jelly beans. You have plausible deniability to get away with that one until the week ends.

@PstafarianPrice I thought it was a different loudmouth x employee.

@CJHandmer This seems in line with @Meaningness 's predictions.

I think Gemini for Search may be innumerate.

@APKramar My emplouer should try to maximize the number of post-nut-clarity hours they get from me.

@CartoonsHateHer This insight is why I'm subscribed.

@vincit_amore True, but it's gotten worse in the past week. So either buying a CO2 monitor makes me sleepwalk. Or a kid has decided to touch my glasses at night.

@peterrhague The `S` stands for `Shared` and the `P` stands for `Publicly`

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@PSA_Sitch Surely that skill could be applied to figuring out how to maximize the fun a Disneyland Trip.