They’re called scabs because they are supposed to be receiving beatings from union workers.

That’s a process error, not an individual’s fault. Sounds like not a single person reviewed the code, they just said, “sounds good, deploy!” on a major production system.

You can be certain that there are tons of other bugs in the system that just have more subtle effects.

Endemic doesn’t mean unserious and vaccines do not prevent transmission or long COVID.

In other words, the person with a correct opinion at the party. What a nice compliment!