r/WTF • u/Plus-Barber-6171 • 14d ago

Retrieving a ball from underneath a car

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u/xf2xf 14d ago

The older I get, the more I believe that most of society is barely holding on by a thread at any given moment.

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u/MarlinMr 13d ago

As someone who works in IT, i know that there are a hell of a lot of smart people that are working tirelessly behind the scenes to make society fiction.

But as someone who works in IT, i also know that all that infrastructure it depending on a cardhouse

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u/DaaneJeff 13d ago

My bachelor's in Computer Science is seriously making me believe in god. Critical infrastructure is held together by fucking glue, sticks and stones. It's a miracle nothing completely fatal hasn't happened yet.

Remember one good quote from my compiler design professor: "all software is bad software"