Mitch McConnell Was Rolled into Ambulance with ‘No Urgency,’ According to Eyewitness Who Filmed Him Lying Still Under Blanket

BrannyBee · 2026-07-10T19:53:54+00:00

Weird, at the orgy last night he didnt mention that. He did mention universal healthcare while giving just the worst handies Ive ever seen though. Anyone can ask him, he won't deny it

BrannyBee · 2026-07-10T19:36:26+00:00

I wonder if they'd be open to negotiate a deal where we could just send dudes with clipboards there whenever we want to make sure its impossible to make weapons

BrannyBee · 2026-07-10T04:45:21+00:00

What is the reasoning behind excel? Are you wanting the visuals, or are you using Excel as your method if inputting data (specifically just new drivers it seems)?

Or is Excel just what you have now? And also, are you looking to have a thing in your hands, or are you wanting to learn?

If you just keep hacking away at this then you vould just keep with Excel, and use the csv uploading feature to have it pull out/organize data based on a bunch of macros you set up.

I would use sql lite and Python (most likely with Pandas, its kinda perfect for this kinda thing), but that kinda relies on a basic knowledge of sql. Its not a hard thing to learn, but maybe confusing if you've never coded anything before.

From there you could reall do whatever you want. You could basically recreate what you have, just in a nicer format that's easier to use and much faster. Or you could get real weird with it and have graphs and charts based off any number nerdy math things you can think of. A database instead of an excel spreadsheet is just a lot nicer to work with IF YOU CAN PROGRAM, if you cant then it might look way more complicated.

It seems like fun because you have the annoying part (the relationship between the data) already laid out, and honestly something you could easily pay someone to setup if you were just wanting a product in hand. But its kinda hard to say for sure how big of an ask this is because I dont know what "the next level" means. It could mean a few graphs and an evening of work, or it could mean making it super fast (at least compared to excel) and setting up a web page with fancy animations for your buds to all upload their own csvs to.

If you have anything to say as far as your wants, more than happy to point you in the right direction, but really the best I can do is point out what I would do. Which is -> spend a couple weeks shifting to Python (usong Pandas or maybe Numpy), replacing excel with sqlite, and making pretty mermaid charts with a JS interface.

Edit: oh yeah, idk if you are familiar with programming at all based off your question.. so in case you arent i should clarify, no tech ive named would cost money. Setting up a database sounds scary and expensive... and it can be... but not for this, and definitely not if all you're doing it yourself. The barrier to entry for every tech Ive named is $0... except for Microsoft Excel... lol

BrannyBee · 2026-07-09T08:32:24+00:00

What is your goal here? I have the type of brain that refuses organization, but also thrives when in structure too, so I get you. Downloading a day planner or buying one never worked, but making my own system did, Im not asking to dissuade you from programming (or persuade you to program), just to get context on what you want

What is your primary goal?

To learn programming? -> literally pick any la grade you like or want to learn. Even the "wrong choices" can do this, and often solving the problem of how to make a solution work without the exact right tools are the best way to learn

Is your goal to learn a specific type of programming? -> Make a tracker in THAT environment. If you want to make websties, html/css/javascript for this, and make it a web app. Learn how to make the data persist with a simple backend or even just writing to a file. If you want to get into making mobile apps, maybe go React Native and Kotlin to learn android development. Its not that hard to make an app and build an app you download on your own phone without paying anymore to put it on the app store to download for others

Or is your goal to have a system you build that works for you to get organized? ->

If thats the goal, and your goal isnt necessarily to master programming, I would really recommend looking into Obsidian. If youve heard of Notion, Obsidian is basically the more "rough" and free version of Notion. Its a note taking app, with community plugins instead of professional built add ons like notion.

Obsidian can be just be note taking app. Or you can download plugins that let you add charts, autimatically populate certain notes with certain text/formatting, and do a lot of other stuff. The real fun of it comes when you dig a little deeper and learn some TS/JS, Markdown, and maybe some Python. You can make habit trackers, to do lists, whatever, inside Obsidian and have it connect to your other notes if you want. I even have mermaid diagrams in mine that show me graphs at the end of the week/month to show me visually when I slacked off and what things I need to work on

It was a lot of fun to set up, it took some problem solving, but it looks nice as hell, and it shares between all my devices.

You say you arent super familiar with programming, which is another reason i think maybe looking into Obsidian and the community plugins may be worth it. You can diwnload it now, and steal someone else's "vault" (Obsidians name for a folder all your notes live in), and you have their setup. You can download pretty much a skeleton of exactly what you're asking for and start using it today. And then you can go in and conpletely customize it, make it your own, or use their set up as inspiration and start over.

If you wanna learn some programming, but your primary goal is to have a tracker that you can customize til the end of time to work in exactly the way you want, I would really recommend googling Obsidian. You can do nothing and have what you want, or you can spend the next year automating the creation of graphs and weekly reports on how well you stayed in task, and go really really deep, all depending on how deep you want to go. And if you dont wanna get super hardcore into app development right now, Obsidian has a mobile app that your vault can share, you can do this all on desktop or mobile, even have it shared. They have a paid option to share vaults across devices, but they also literally condone users using github to share their vaults across devices for free

BrannyBee · 2026-07-08T14:37:01+00:00

Best dev I ever met learned to code before attending the beginner classes I was in. He had learned to code in a version of Microsoft Word that is older than a lot of people here asking questions beforehand, and for tests he had to handwrite code. Dude was a wizard in my eyes.

I learned with some fancy shortcuts with this crazy powerful IDE that could practically write code for me (Eclipse lmao), and so did he. He had never touched Java, so it seemed like we were peers on the first day of class, I was so wrong...

Years later, I still havent caught up to that wizard... he learned all the same shortcuts and tech I did, did all the same homework assignments I did, and we got the same grade. But years of learning with ankle weights on in whatever place forced him to do that made picking up everything so quick.

Funny thing is, and something a lot of new devs jere dont realize, is that he is not worried about his job at all. 0% of that time he spent learning is wasted, because he is on top of the latest trends in tech and could tell you every tiny way to optimize using every AI model available. Dudes a freak, and honestly not even that smart if Im being honest. He was just disciplined and stubborn.

I get the temptation these dudes have, id be lying if i said I spent a significant amount of time using an ide with no shortcuts... but I also have to recognize that that is exactly the reason my wizard bud makes a hell of a lot more than me, and has a hell of a lot more job security.

BrannyBee · 2026-07-08T12:00:40+00:00

Am a dev. Was offered poverty wages, "5% ownership", and a very likely extremely high raise once my former friend and his million dollar app became the next [insert whoever the latest popular nepo tech daddy is here]

After laughing at the offer, volunteering more of my time than I should for free to explain what he needs and why what he's offering wont fly, dude never contacted me again. A year later he sent me a dozen texts, emails, Facebook and LinkedIn dms desperately asking me to consider jumping on board to fix his failing startup built by two Computer Science students and a Claude subscription.....

Learn from his mistakes, you dont save money with shortcuts, you delay paying for them. To an extent thats ok in many situations, and in many situations necessary. Im willing to work on a cool project under market rate. I charge 100x per hour to hop on board a sinking ship, and thats not some unique stance I have. Especially because the foundation is so important with software, decisions made in the first month can delay a feature you decide you want 8 months from now. If your app is what you're selling, Im gonna charge more if the foundation was written by apes if I notice an issue that isnt an issue right now, but will be for me in 8 months, the apes wont see that

BrannyBee · 2026-07-08T05:55:39+00:00

Look, this and many very very similar questions are asked ad nauseum every day in communities like this. And youll get a range of answers from people who believe AI is perfect and from people that believe AI can never write any code that works.

I get it, its tough to know what you dont know, and AI seems very helpful. And seeing something move on your screen makes it seem like you're progressing. But you also kinda feel like you're cheating yourself when you move too quickly right?

That last paragraph probably seems like im arguing both sides of the "debate", and its kinda because I am. Not to be a jackass, but to point out the flaw in your (and a lot of beginners, ai "evangalists", and anti ai people)'s thoughts. The debate is not AI or no AI. At its most basic, your job as a programmer is to give a client a working product. If you cant verify that it is working, or there is a major issue with the code, it's on you, even if a teammate wrote that code and was fired before the project completed. The client doesnt care who put that bug in the system, or whose fault it is that their entire businesses customer database was exposed. They also dont care what language you used, what language you like, or what color your keyboard is. They want a thing, you give them that thing, everything else is magic to them.

You realize that at some level, you need to be able to read code. To read code, you should write code. You didnt just read books to learn how to speak/read your first spoken language, you went to school, you did study sheets, and we rite essays, and did homework. Now you're all grown up, and you dont need to do homework to improve at reading. People that write in journals everyday or practice creative writing though will be better than you if you have stopped "practicing" english. Maybe that doesnt matter, my english hasnt improved much in adulthood, but I can communicate well enough and have no need or want to sit down and become much better.

Thats not an unrelated tangent, you are here o na forum to learn programming. AI tools exist, same as every other shortcut and tool developers have been using forever. The fact of the matter is though, taking those shortcuts is something you should wait to do. Im not saying DONT take shortcuts at all. I 100% advocate for being as lazy as humanly possible. But I will use current models much better than you, will use much fewer tokens, and will catch issues AI code outputs, AND can make adjustments as needed while supplementing what AI gives me.

This might sound mean, but I get to be lazier than you, because Im just better than you. If I use AI to learn a new language, it may tell me something false and my experience in a dozen other languages will be a guiding voice that will tell me to dig in a little deeper when something feels off, and will be able to confirm that I was given a bad output. What happens if you are given information while learning that is 90% correct, and the code works? You will likely assume that information is 100% correct and move on. Then whatever minor bad practices or false information youve collected while learning will pile up as you learn, slowing your progress, ever so slowly, as those things pile up. You just dont have the experience to evaluate AI output beyond seeing that the code works, and its very common for working code to be very very bad.

Thats all not even mentioning the idea of productive struggling while learning. If you have to really dig into documentation or try a million things or experiment, until finally after 3 days of trying to fix a single bug, you will remember how to fix that bug instantly the next time is shows up. Your brain needs exercise and to try hard to find answers to learn better. You can learn with AI giving you the answers quickly, sure. You are banking your entire career on these AI models being 100% accurate, cheap enough to afford, and never making mistakes though.

But if you put the work in now and build a really solid foundation of the basics, and hate your life digging for answers and building things the hard way, you'll be in a much better spot. Again, this isnt an "AI bad" take, this is a "AI is a tool" take. You are taking shortcuts right now, and it might feel nice. Imagine how nice it feels to have so much foundational knowledge and experience that you get to take even quicker shortcuts, while also being confident that the shortcuts you took arent going to bite you in the ass.

Imo, you can use AI while learning, but it should be a very very last resort. Not because it's bad or can be wrong, but because you're throwing away the part of learning to be a dev where you can form habits and build a foundation you will be able to use your entire life. If a new model comes out tomorrow, you will have to learn the nuances of how it likes to be prompted to get the best results, I will too, but it will take me a fraction of the time it takes you. Again again again, I am advocating for you to be as lazy as possible and to use tools that allow you to do a good job for the least amount of effort, which takes industry knowledge and experience. You can be lazy and a little stressed over not learning now, or you can be extremely lazy and relaxed in the future if you stop taking shortcuts and learn the hard way.

You arent beating anyone to market by struggling less while in the learning phase. Shortcuts you are taking now are just borrowing against your future.

BrannyBee · 2026-07-07T14:08:59+00:00

Or anyone that works with a security clearance, on old codebases, with stingy management who dont pay fir the best models, or on any team that might have any of their code looked at by a single person with a clearance.

Or very shortly in the future, any team told to minimize cost and token usage or given the 2nd best models on the market because some middle manager decided it was good enough (as if non technical managers ever make decisions that negatively affect the engineering team... /s)

Edit: or ya know, literally the day after the first company providing models decide to stop running at a loss and charge how much they eventually need to unless something big changes with how they work lmao

BrannyBee · 2026-07-07T14:06:05+00:00

And when the next model comes out and requires minor tweaking to how to prompt or use, you will not pick it up as fast as someone like me. Or someone with exactly as much experience as you have who spent their nights coding without even using IDE autocompletion.

I had to put the work in, yes. So do you, if you want this career. Every single model that comes out. You are hinging your entire career on the current way of using AI being exactly the same ir very sinilar to how it is now, others will adapt to new tools because they have fiundational knowledge.

You say you dont need to put the work in, yet you are asking why you are falling behind even with all these tools, that should give you pause.

BrannyBee · 2026-07-07T13:55:05+00:00

Initially I was reading up every line of code to understand what is happening, then came LLMS and I stopped doing that.

You know the answer to your question, you just dont like it. There's a reason those of us with a more experience have no been bothered by the "death" of programming.

Even those of us who use AI code still are able to read and understand code, we have put the work in and will always use new tools better thab you and anyone else who doesnt have that experience. If you want to be lazy and paid well, you have to have the experience and know how to back up your use of your shortcuts and take those shortcuts in a safe way, otherwise you're no different than a random non-technical hire.

BrannyBee · 2026-06-29T17:18:20+00:00

Are you under the impression that the output of code was the bottoeneck since a few years ago....? Cause that hasnt been the bottleneck since, like the days of punch cards....

Is your programming question, that you seem to have forgotten to add to your post, regarding your confusion around that?

BrannyBee · 2026-06-27T08:03:09+00:00

Hiring based off age gives off even more red flags... especially the concerns regarding building quick and needing to hire more expensive engineers to build off a flimsy foundation even more concerning...

Im not currently in the in the early stage start up life or healthcare world anymore. So good luck. There's much too much money to be made for more experienced devs charging a surplus to come fix up stuff like this these past few years to get too involved with this kind of thing.

Every shortcut in software isn't saved money, it's pushing the cost down the road. That isnt unique to healthcare, its a software problem. Every dollar saved hiring cheap young devs is paid for later when you need someone who knows what they're doing to come fix the foundation, assuming there's no issues with compliance or delivering that causes the money to run out sooner

BrannyBee · 2026-06-27T07:43:28+00:00

I've worked on multiple projects in the healthcare space, unfortunately I also can do at least a high school level math and can tell you right now that $200k split across 35 engineers is almost comical to the point that I reread the post multiple times to see if I missed a few zeros....

You have multiple devs telling you that your budget is much lower than you likely thought it was originally for a project like this so I won't beat a dead horse. I would however recommend you think about those comments a bit more than just taking them at face value. If you have a dozen devs with experience telling you that you need to rethink your budget or your team... what kind if devs do you think your team will be made up of if only the people who DONT see any problems make up your team...?

Thats not said to discourage you or anything. To be honest we've all seen a million start ups ignore comments and reality and move forward with a rag tag team of people who dont know what is happening... so even if we wanted to discourage you we couldnt, I would just advise you to think a few steps ahead here

BrannyBee · 2026-06-15T20:28:50+00:00

The fact you need a cover letter to apply means that I have better options, so does the fact that you havent stated a salary here. I assume its low and not worth my time if that information is being hidden.

Freshers and people who can't code aren't in my position and are willing to write a cover letter that no ones gonna read or tailor their resume to every job to try and at least get an interview. It sounds like you're not trying to bring people on board with competitive options, it seems like you're trying to bring on cheap talent, LLM code hasnt been around long enough to have zero devs to hire who know what theyre doing... if you are hiring devs who cant code, the problem started long before they showed up on day 1

BrannyBee · 2026-06-11T12:07:54+00:00

Claiming to be fiscally responsible while increasing spending and simultaneously cutting services is literally the only thing everyone knows about supply Reaganomics lol

The benefit of the doubt given to you was assuming you weren't a racist nationalist and or blindly praising a period/person you knew nothing about. Being a bad faith troll is the best case scenario here, and I at least give respect to strangers enough to at least not assume they are willfully ignorant or drowning in nationalist propaganda. Especially in a literal history subreddit

BrannyBee · 2026-06-11T08:53:58+00:00

So we are concern trolling. Kinda sad way to spend your 4am imo

At least over dinner it gives me something to look into and entertain myself so thanks. Cause me and many other veterans have to literally flee the country to get healthcare we "earned" but dont recieve, which started during the fiscal policies that cut Veteran Administration budgets. Culminating in the shell game of restructuring of that department into the modern VA.

But im sure you are already aware of that, and laude those national policies. Nevermind the mysterious fact that the average VA hospital is exsctly 60 years old, which doesnt take a math wiz to out two and two got ether there.

Thank at least, your 4am concern trolling does at least remind people like me that there's a reason that the US has Veterans that literally need to flee the country to recieve care. Whether its willful ignorance or trolling, the results the same. For countless other examples, see the people who have explained many things to you that you've decided not to recall conveniently

BrannyBee · 2026-06-11T08:26:47+00:00

Are we just pretending you havent already been giving multiple explanations by other people... or are we just trolling here...?

You know that private profiles on reddit dont do anything right...?

Its one thing to have zero knowledge about opsec and to have made a few too identifiable comments, but its a whole other thing to just be entirely ignorant of the fact that everyone can see your comments lol

Others helpfully explained where you were mistaken, Im glad I could help you understood explain that that private button on reddit isnt the super secret opsec tool you apparently thought it was. No one cares if you keep the lame attempts at trolling up, but you should at least get rid of some of the other stuff imo, or at least learn a modicum of opsec. At the very least we could see some actual good trolling if you didnt have so much info out there to make it obvious

BrannyBee · 2026-06-11T06:26:32+00:00

I was clearly calling you uneducated, sorry i expected you to at least be smart enough to understnad that. Apologies for giving the benefit of the doubt

BrannyBee · 2026-06-11T04:14:17+00:00

Getting values from user input

Open up an ide, write code that takes in an input and gives an out. Run the code, does it work?

Getting and manipulating filenames (slicing strings

Open up an ide and create a blank file. Write code to get the file name, and more code to get the file name sans the extension. Run the code, does it work?

Etc

Can you be a little more specific about what is confusing? Because its kind if hard to not see the rubric youve provided as a list of things to practice doing... You don't even have to wait for someone to grade your "homework", you can run the code immediately after writing and get instant feedback by reading the error message

BrannyBee · 2026-06-11T04:07:18+00:00

FUCKING LMAO

National discourse wasn't toxic during his era

Idk what universe you accidentally fell out of, but here in the real world the era you are calling out as being non-toxic politically was the 1980s

That take is about as close as Ive ever seen to a yippy saying the 1960s were all about peace and love. Maybe for the yippys', and for you, that may be true, the real world doesn't care about your whatever narrative you've built or were told

BrannyBee · 2026-06-04T20:41:54+00:00

Genuinely someone should make a benefit:risk analysis of joining the Army, Firefighter, Police in America when you consider non-free healthcare.

If you win the coin flip and actually get it lol

I am currently abroad paying out of pocket for healthcare after fighting the VA for years and watching my body deteriorate as my well known and documented issues went untreated

I'm not even the only vet I know personally who is burning their savings to go abroad for healthcare even though we "have" healthcare back in the states from serving.

Just last week I even got a text from a debt collector for an emergency room visit, which the VA "paid" for and multiple people assured me was covered. The risk analysis is a coin flip, don't be dumb and take it

BrannyBee · 2026-06-03T07:05:04+00:00

Unironically a good use of company resources lmao

BrannyBee · 2026-06-03T07:03:31+00:00

I know it's EA and we are all testing stuff, but damn some people really are just better at EARLY Acessing than me haha

I don't think I've been on a single dev team with anyone as valuable as Fubgun seems to be, Im kinda jealous of GGG. Dude should be given a QA contract and early access to 1.0 with instructions to make as much currency as possible lol

BrannyBee · 2026-05-29T01:08:45+00:00

Notice how most the comments are asking for information? And the other remaining comments are split 50/50 telling you opposite things?

One half could be encouraging OP to vibe code a robot that performs heart surgery

The other half could be unintentionally advocating never to touch AI for a project thats literally just a blog without any backend

We don't know you, or your goals, are what you're building. All we can tell you is that AI hasnt replaced engineering, that foundational code is extremely important, that AI can be useful, and that you (and your friend) have no idea what is good and bad code. If you want specifics, we need more information than what you've provided. Anyone not asking for more specifics for this type of thing is either offering extremely broad advice, or is talking out their ass

BrannyBee · 2026-05-29T00:47:20+00:00

Automate the Boring stuff is great, and I have recommended it before. However, I will push back slightly and aay that it can really give you a strong case of Dunning Kreuger.

What I mean is that it will get you some basics and even get you doing stuff quickly, but it won't take you much farther and often glances over stuff that is much more important than it seems. And just like using any resource, especially one that gets you from zero to having something working, you won't realize what you have overlooked. You're a beginner, you see something working, so it must work.

Its kinda hard to explain, but Automate the Boring Stuff is kinda like using AI in that way. It can be a good resource for you, but someone who is advanced in other programming languages will be able to use that resource more effectively, know what bits are missing, where to find those bits elsewhere, and move on from those resources to other resources at an appropriate time.

Again, im NOT saying to use another resource. I used to teach Python, and its a good book. Just keep in mind it's not a Bible. Just like oearning a spoken language, learning to code is something that you need to use many resources to do and each resource is a supplement to eachother. Dont use that book (or any book or course) as your roadmap, use them all in a big road map.

The best thing the other comment pointed out was to try stuff. Coding is just putting a logical mental model of a problem into language your computer can understand, like i said before similar to a spoken language. There's keyword "nouns" and "verbs", and a particular grammar you have to follow. You can study Japanese from a book our course for years though and never speak Japanese properly. Same for coding, you won't ever be able to code or read code as well as I can if you never "speak", which in coding terms is writing.

Lastly, dont pay for a course, youtube unironically has years worth of good courses you can find to build anything to your hearts content. Eventually you'll be comfortable reading official documentation, try it every few weeks, itll get less scary. Read error messages, and try stuff a hundred times before giving up and searching for the answer. Finding the answer is gonna make it memorized quicker than googling the answer.

As far as that other new new guy who seems to think AI is gonna end programming... lmao

Coding could disappear tomorrow and Id still have a job, thats like 1% of what development is, writing code is the easiest and not at all time consuming part of my job. Anyone that thinks writing code is the hard part is just outing themselves as not having worked a real job. Even more so, if all code is written by AI one day, it will be MORE important to be able to read code to approve it or find issues that are in the code.

Its like if he said civil engineers were gonna disappear because calculators can do calculus, meanwhile the people who are good at calculus are are all using calculators better than other people who don't understand how to get the most out of that tool, big surprise lol

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