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Ouch.

Even if you have no intention of ever using Ruby on Rails, if you’re doing database work in Ruby and not using ActiveRecord, you’re writing code that could basically write itself and give you awesome searching and relationship handling while doing so.

Using ActiveRecord standalone is surprisingly easy. I wrote up a description, but I found I was just rehashing the How to use ActiveRecord outside Rails wiki page. Do try it.

This post’s name is “Fuck”. Why, then, is it that? Because it’s my right to be able to say that. My country gives me the right to say that. Saying “Fuck” doesn’t hurt anyone. It hurts absolutely no one. If you have a strong aversion to the word “Fuck”, you can still leave this page or unsubscribe from my feed.

This is all well and good, right? Apparently not. There are assholes who believe that you can do anything as long as you don’t cuss. That not cussing is automatically treating your fellow people with dignity and respect - “making the world a better place”. What a crock of shit.

The people who flew airplanes into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon were deeply religious (if wrongheadedly so - that’s another issue). They probably didn’t cuss. How many times did the poor passengers on those flights cuss? Probably more than you can imagine. I’d be going “fuck” too if I was about to crash into the Pentagon. You can say a lot about the hijackers, but were they treating their fellow people with dignity and respect? Not a fucking chance.

People who tell other people to not say “fuck” are assholes. There’s a theory that changing the language redefines the way we can express ourselves, and it has yet to be disproven. Barring words because you don’t like them is totalitarian, uppity bullshit. Telling people to not say “fuck” is the ultimate in not treating your fellow people with dignity and respect, and a good start on the road to censorship.

Do me a favor and don’t watch your mouth this week. As long as the people around you have the option to simply not listen to you, you have absolutely no reason to.

The origin of the phrase “Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic”. Thank you, random strangers!