If we have to cause suffering to survive…

https://jamesclear.com/great-speeches/this-is-water-by-david-foster-wallace

Or, if that is (understandably) TL;DR, then: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/97082-there-are-these-two-young-fish-swimming-along-and-they

As the comic says, politics (among other things) is the water we live in.

Oracle is not the worse DB in existence. They are a worse company than MS, but I’d much rather be talking to Oracle than MSSQL.

(My go-to is PostgreSQL, tho.)