Oursql Memes

Monday mornings hit different when you're contemplating whether the Soviet Union used "OurSQL" instead of "MySQL." The pun works on multiple levels: MySQL (pronounced "My-S-Q-L" or "My-Sequel") becomes "OurSQL" because, well, communism means no private property—everything belongs to the collective. Your database? Our database. Your queries? Our queries. Your poorly optimized joins? Also our problem now. The beauty of Monday morning existential database questions is that your brain is already running on half capacity, so why not ponder whether the Soviets would've even allowed individual database ownership? Spoiler: they probably would've just had one massive centralized database with no indexes and mandatory table scans for everyone. Equal suffering for all.