Please tell me you just code golf or similar, and aren't making things for people to actually use and maintain.

So TL;DR it has no teeth really.

The lights turn on, and the cockroaches scatter. Look at that.

I actually respect people who are racists and open about it, in a way. They're very wrong, and obviously resistant to education on why, but at least they're being true to what they think is right. A lot of these people have to know they're rotten on some level.

The thing people always overlook is that these legacy systems are only still running because they're super important. Nobody's hiring a junior COBOL dev to maintain NORAD, and hopefully nobody's contemplating putting ChatGPT in charge either.

The move if you want this kind of job is to learn a language that's not quite a dinosaur yet, and have 20 years experience in 20 years. Perl or PHP maybe.

Hmm. What areas? AFAIK they're on all the same continents as humans, and a few species get as far north as places like Canada. I guess Ireland famously has no snakes, so maybe there. I'd expect northern Canada and Ireland could both get dragon myths by import from distant lands.

So, that's my attempt at an explanation.

Crave it. The other way would be cruel.

IRL I'd go somewhere else, of course, but that's not the spirit of the question.

Not necessarily. Israel has a lot of special carveouts built into US law specifically for it. For example, they're the only country that can spend US military aid money on their own suppliers.

I'm biased, but Alberta is still reasonably cosmopolitan, at least. It's also not as cheap as we thought apparently, because of the other costs of living.

I don't know about Manitoba, but I would have to be truly damn broke to consider Saskatchewan.

Assuming they're checking the emails at all.

Remember when that guy decided to read a book while his Tesla was doing basic lane following, and merged into a semi? I 'member.

Has somebody done this?

Relevant XKCD.

or just the ultimate in stubborn pedantry.

More like legalism. It sounds like the registry is for things that can directly poison you, which finished plastics cannot, so (IANAL) it was legal fuckery to introduce federal authority that way. What happens when it's being manufactured or after it's processed as waste is beyond the purview of this specific instrument.