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The introduction to The Lounge says:
Quote: The Lounge is rated Safe For Work. If you're about to post something inappropriate for a shared office environment, then don't post it. No ads, no abuse, and no programming questions. Trolling, (political, climate, religious or whatever) will result in your account being removed.
I am focused on the sentence: Trolling, (political, climate, religious or whatever) will result in your account being removed.
However, is bashing and trolling M$, Apple, Google, Meta, etc. when they, as companies, act stupid with their technology/programming/API offerings, OK?
Of course it is 
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It's not bashing. It's discussing, in painful detail, the issues that we face using our tools as part of a thoughtful dialogue.
To be honest, the state of software today is doing my head in.
(and it's been a while - how are you?)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: discussing, in painful detail, the issues that we face using our tools as part of a thoughtful dialogue
I think I will save that wording, and use it to tag some of the future Lounge postings that the OP is referring to 
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Seems like discussing the developer that was fired from Google for claiming that the Google AI is sentient would be border line on that?
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Strange boy he was !
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The AI or the human? 
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Hi Chris! Long time!
That's a very nice, "PC" way of putting it 
But to be fair, I've seen plenty of M$ bashing and trolling (and yes, I know it is out of love) --- and they deserve it somewhat
Regards,
Brian Hart
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7 weeks to go and I have SERIOUS short timer disease. I know it will pass, but at the moment...
Very heavy weather the last few days in the southeastern US... tornadoes up where one set of grandkids live, tornadoes a bit north of me, but....
530am - thunderstorm moving through the area, nice breeze blowing through the office, I just need to sedate the geriatric golden that I know has less than 6 months to live  Hips are failing.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Back when I was working with a lot of USAF officers, they called the syndrome FIGMO: F___It - Got My Orders. Is this a change of jobs, or actual retirement? I retired in 2016 then, last year, got a call from an old boss asking me to come back to help build an infrastructure for a new Tribe. So far it's been way more fun than retirement!
Will Rogers never met me.
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" Is this a change of jobs, or actual retirement?"
Actually both. I've mainly worked/consulted at this one place for 20+ years. The culture changed management-wise 5 or so years ago. Left a bad taste in my mouth, but the $$ was too good to walk away from. 5 years later, I'm in a better position financially, and I'm just tired of doing the same stuff. I expect to expand my local consulting to help small local businesses, etc that seem to be paying way, way too much for IT support.
One thing I'll admit too - after busting it for 40+ years, "retirement" is a hard thing to get my head around. One exciting concept is to be able to say, "I think I'll go fishing today..." and I don't like to fish, but my grandson loves it.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The best bit I found was looking at the clock at 06:30 and thinking "what shall I waste my time doing today?".
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I can't do that. I relate to guys like Gene Winfield, working at 91 because he loves it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Yep, I retired in '16 then went back to work last year. I'm not sure when I'll be ready to stop doing, if ever!
Will Rogers never met me.
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My point was that I do not have to get up at that time. I can work in my own time at my own pace.
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Same as, I'm 70 and just can't stop coding - I love it
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Simply enjoy your freedom
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this. I still have bills and what not. An an infinite supply of house projects.
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Iβm in the same situation. One good thing we can do at my work is ease into retirement. Presently I have voluntarily moved to 4 day week, and I can at my discretion drop further days and slowly transition work to other people.
After working for nearly 50 years I would hate to go from a 5 day week to nothing all at once. Sounds good in theory but I fear in reality it wouldnβt be. Hence I see this as a training period and readjustment of my lifestyle for retirement.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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