Ah so it’s like a “special test” for access. Right.

Judge Qanon.

fucking jenius.

Every media outlet: OMG right-wing assholes are racist! Read all about it!

Everyone: well, yeah. We know. YOU know.

I have spoken!

FFS Oklahoma what is with you and the schools

So wait, he said to the mob “i’m gonna send out our daughters and maybe you’ll rape them and leave us alone?” And he was God’s point man there?

Bro. That’s fucked up, yo.

I know a shit ton of people in southern states and not a got dang one of them likes country. Or Western!

(now there is some overlap in the rockabilly and singer-songwriter types, and Nashville is where a ton of musician hotshots live, but straight top 40 radio Barf Grits country - nah.)

He [Putin] also said that the fleet is being replenished with new ships, equipped with modern weapons, and that domestic shipbuilders will hand over more than 40 vessels to the Defense Ministry this year.

Sure, do that.

It’s both. The word “Agile” is used for either depending on context.

To that end, it’s several “systems” depending on if it’s used for straight-software development in a department, or manufacturing with technological components, or an entire enterprise using Agile concepts (like SAFe). Each one could be slightly different, and each one is some variation on the philosophy.

What it differs from mostly is a phase-gate approach typified by project management, where a plan is made, a budget secured, and a timeline set. All of those things are of course present in Agile, just in different ways and not one-after-the-other.

The big difference is project management has been around forever; Agile just over twenty years. So the former is what everybody knows by default, the latter sounds very “woo woo” to a lot of people. I think that’s really what the comic is trying to say - Agile stuff sounds silly.

Good points all - I was just responding to a comic strip that I think meant to riff on the old, “what the customer wanted”, “how sales described it”, “what engineering proposed” etc. about project management but it just wasn’t finding the funny as it put the onus on Agile like isn’t this a silly discipline - well, no. :)

Ah, here it is:

Sure. Texas is a blight in multiple dimensions.

But theres good people there too, so. Let’s hope we collectively get our s—t together.

Would they not see all the posts though? Intelligent conversational threads interposed with little eddies of tankie spew?

Yeah I think that was my main reservation, and he’s been gone a few years now. But it was a little while - in the fuckstormchaos of 2017-2020 - where you’d see a theindependent link and it was straight garbage. It’s hopefully much better now.

Agile methodology is a defined framework for software development success. It helps teams adapt and solve specific needs at a given time and prioritizes accelerated time to market and the value of user insights. Agile is based upon a set of four values and twelve principles laid out in the Manifesto for Agile Software development.

Via https://builtin.com/agile

Lets see a big industry leader influencing and directing state forces is called something . . It’s . . agh I was just thinking this the other day . . Oh well. It’s probably not relevant.

Good point, if they’re sending a rocket up there anyway, why not just push it away from earth rather than towards it? Is it because it’s in LEO and there’s a ton of other satellites farther out?

While I agree, The Intercept has its own problems. Yes the NYT slant-a-palooza is always bad, but the Independent is not without problems.

See: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-intercept/ for a detailed breakdown

Analysis / Bias The Intercept has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats, such as this New Yorker article that reads, “Greenwald’s focus on “deep state” depredations has exiled him from MSNBC but has given him a place on Fox News.”

Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald has criticized MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for turning into an “utterly scripted, intellectually dishonest, partisan hack.” Greenwald says this criticism has led to the end of his appearances on MSNBC. Greenwald often criticized left-leaning media coverage of Trump-Russia collusion, namely CNN, MSNBC, and CBS, arguing that “very little evidence supported the idea that Moscow was hot for Donald.”

However, The Intercept is harshly critical of Donald Trump and right-wing policies with articles such as this: Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Culmination of War on Terror Mentality but Still Uniquely Shameful. In review, The Intercept publishes articles with strongly emotionally loaded language, such as “The Ignored Legacy of George H.W. Bush: War Crimes, Racism, and Obstruction of Justice” and “The 10 Most Appalling Articles in the Weekly Standard’s Short and Dreadful Life.”

The Intercept rejects mainstream establishment politics in favor of progressive liberalism with this pro-Bernie Sanders quote: “ignore the opinion polls and the bogus arguments against him: whether you like him or not, Bernie Sanders is the frontrunner right now,” from “Critics Say Bernie Sanders Is Too Old, Too White, and Too Socialist to Run for President in 2020. They’re Wrong.”

Regarding sourcing, The Intercept always uses credible sources such as The Economist, The Hill, Politico, NYMag, and the Washington Post.

In general, The Intercept provides in-depth investigative stories that are sensational in nature. Most stories are critical of the right-left establishment and lean strongly progressive left in ideology.

Eh - i dunno. They “stripped” them of being able to convict without trial by jury. That’s it. Which they do sometimes anyway.

And, If they go to trial they’ll quadruple the penalties / sentences just because that’s how federal prosecutors do.

I’m not convinced it’s all bad just yet. I could be wrong but that’s the takeaway i got so far.

trump is illegitimate because he coordinated with russia to tip the election in his favor. That’s illegal. His SCOTUS picks are illegitimate as a result of that (not to mention the perjury, cover up of rape and so on, but for this argument that’s not necessary).

Failure to impeach and a failure to rectify both the illegal campaign AND the attempted coup (who the fuck does anyone think planned and approved that shitshow anyway) means we’re in fucking la la land as it is, so if we can’t vote them out because 18th century slaveholders befucked a system that crooked pols refuse to fix . . . Well, then ya got problems.

Keep cool and make it better as you can. In the meantime have a refreshing beverage.