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Anyone know what this one means?

Amazingly, looking at the Disqus and other threads (there’s a colorized one on Facebook from February), no one seems to know wtf it means.

Someone mentions that a “Flanagan” is traditionally a character that messes things up, so maybe that’s it?

Thank you! I was wondering about the context

I really liked Rocko’s Modern Life!

The real reason they cite is also quite interesting. Twice as many leased electric vehicles are coming to market.

Analysts attribute the surge to a glut of hundreds of thousands of cheap pre-owned EVs that were purchased on leases in the early 2020s and which are now returning to market as those leases expire. According to credit bureau Experian, EVs will account for 15 percent of all off-lease vehicles at the end of this year, up from 7.7 percent in the first quarter.

This reminds me of Coyote Linux, a firewall distribution that I also used to run on a 386 from a floppy disk!

I mean, for good reason.

If I had to deal with shushtain I’d quit too.

That explains the David Bowie song I am more familiar with! I always wondered but never enough to remember to look it up later.

Vince Russo is one of the most genuinely depressing people in pro wrestling. Which is saying a lot.

“Please god someone hire me! I used to write shitty wrestling. I still do, but I used to, too”

Legitimately was going to say the same thing. Who would ever download this garbage?

The narcissism is embarrassing.

so not very vague at all.

Literally the first sentence is of the definition you posted is vague.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that codifies some of the rights and freedoms of all human beings.

Some of the rights and freedoms? So, yeah, “not very vague at all”.

On the other hand I’ve never made any bones about the fact that I work to develop good products and if someone can make money on that good for them, but I fight for the best design for end users I can.

Your entire comment nailed it for me. Thank you for reading between the lines of my snarky annoyance and expressing it more eloquently.

I also love internal tooling and worked at shitty, bizarre places (General Dynamics, for one. Speaking of “places you’ve never heard of,” right?), and literally the entire reason to work there is to try make it better for the people who use the thing. Not doing that is preposterous to me!

Somehow the original author ignored the only thing I would care about. Or it’s there and I missed it.

As an aside, I think the title “Cyber-Lip” might be a translation issue.

According to Wikipedia, the Hepburn pronunciation of the original title is “Saibā-Rippu,” and Cyber-Rip makes a bit more sense than Cyber-Lip.

If I were a better developer, would I have worked on more products people love? No

There you go, justify your shitty work.

If you were a better person, you would work on better products.

You choose where you work and what you work on. The fact that you went from Zendesk working on a shitty product to Microsoft working on a shitty product is definitely about you.

In fact, a reliable engineer ought to be comfortable working on products people hate, because engineers work for the company, not for users.

“It’s ok that I work at shitty companies! They pay me more”

I have never heard of Cyber Lip, the art looks very cool!

The Terminator 2: Judgment Day rail shooter might also fit.

Incredibly, I was trying to think of others and the one that came to mind was the Aerosmith game Revolution X. Then I came back here and you also mentioned it! I can’t even remember why it was cyberpunk, but it did come to mind.

I don’t know if this exactly fits, but Smash T.V. is a dystopian future TV show.

I turn off notifications for every device I have, other than things like text messages.

I don’t know how people can stand all the badges and stuff.

Ah damn I was fooled by their “make a donation” text

El queso es viejo y mohosa.

That is very cool!

Seems like it, yeah. Free for personal use.

I don’t want to dust the tops of all those pans.

And cast iron usually requires oil after use, which traps the dust even better!