When people do actually learn to code, do they get certified somewhere or do they just tell an employer "yeah, bruh, I can do all that, try me"?

@Flint I had to learn through online tutorials. I made a Flash animation and showed to a few editors, and essentially said, "yeah, bruh, I can do all that." I knew it was catching on with news companies. That was back in 06. It became most of my job after that. I guess there are schools for it now. I don't know.

On another topic, I watched "Hell or High Water" last night and it was excellent and I very much recommend it. West Texas white bank robbers in current era trying to save their family land--the whole movie is about rural America dying, whites being displaced by banks (echo echo echo), and sympathy for both law and disorder

Director of Sicario (dude must know Texas/border area well)

I have a very young cousin who went to Georgia Tech to learn some very deep, fundamental coding. She got such an awesome, lucrative job offer that she didn't even bother to graduate. She is a frightening genius though. When she talks to me I feel like I've been mind-melded.

@Flint LOVED that movie HOHW.

HOHW: best movie since Blade Runner 2049

Dissident right, the movie

Not so much in action, but in sentiment. I was shocked out how pro and sympathetic it was towards rural Whites

@Flint I know. They usually openly hate our guts.

That's probably why a 5 star movie got little to no press and very little coverage after it came out

I couldn't recommend it any harder. I was actually thinking while watching it that being in a room of /our guys/ with it on the screen would be intolerable--everyone would be commenting on it

I'm enjoying Ozark for the simple fact that their are NO important Black characters, and the chief bad guy is gay. The Mexicans are conspicuous by their absence. What a relief.

Haven't seen it yet, will check it out. Haven't paid *any* attention to entertainment shows in a while now

(my wife has resorted to streaming The Andy Griffith Show)

@Flint Yeah, Idiocracy got the same kind of bum's rush by the movie industry. It was too uncomfortably close to the social pathology we are experiencing now. Of course, years later, it's a massive PPV hit.

Idiocracy hit the nail on the head so hard that I don't laugh at it like I used to--too close to home

@Flint Back when Andy Griffith was still on, my brother and I WOULD NOT MISS IT. We still talk about Ernest T. Bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJUmIuc1X5s

@Nemets I wonder if the J's don't want to draw any attention to the Armenians bc they might pipe up about their genocide (and we know they can't share the lime light)

>Feel bad for not intervening whitey

Remember S O Y is bad for you

Whomp 'at thang Mr. Doorocher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZNEtZI8r00

Here in North Georgia I still here that old, strong country accent sometimes. And it's not always old people. After 27 years in California, I get the question a lot, "Where are you from?"

You spent more time in CA than I did and I was born and raised there, lol

So yeah, I'd imagine your accent is gone

I think maybe if I watch Swing Blade about 100 times, I might get the old accent back. That's another movie my brother and I crack up over. "What the f**k you doing with that lawnmower blade?" "I aim ta kill ya with it."

@Flint The accent is not totally gone. To the end in California I would occasionally get careful questions along the lines of, "Are you from Texas?", or "Are your folks from Oklahoma?" But they weren't sure. I had an old auntie of mine tell me a couple of years ago that I sounded like a disc jockey. I guess there are worse things to sound like.

Californians pick up on accents immediately because their's is so 'neutral' (or surfer, bro, or skater--as others call it). After 6 months in GA, I went back and strangers asked me where I was from

Mostly the Jorj-uh vs Joh-er-juh difference

Joh-er-juh is super Southern to them

>Any twang
>where you from?

@Flint My wife tells me that Black people respond very positively to me. I tell here that it's just because they're thrilled that any White person can even understand what they're saying. I don't know why, but I do get along with them on a very superficial level.

I'm from North Georgia. We pronounce our "R's" up here, whereas in South Georgia and Coastal Georgia they don't. I have a cousin from North Carolina, and his accent is super different from Georgia. I almost verges on a Baltimore accent. And don't get me started on all the socio-economic accents. Major differences.

True, Savannah was very *Su-thuhn*

btw, it's Friday night, where is everyone?

@Flint They're all out leaning on something or street-racing or hunting some of that right-wing trim. Now what I mean?

Sorry about all the misspellings. I have arthuritis in the Winter months.

https://youtu.be/j-_vwjQCbdw

Obamacare status: Dabbed

When Kritarchy goes the other way.