I’ve been applying to jobs for like a year. Very few interviews. So much AI slop and froth.

The place I’m at is barely hiring, but it’s like a rotting corpse of a megacorp. They take months to do anything.

Kind of makes sense. To be a Republican you have to have some traits, and many of those are bad. Those bad traits would affect all sorts of things.

Increasing traffic surveillance to automatically ticket scofflaws who block bus lanes, and deploying police officers to enforce rules on 20 daily routes, up from 14.

Good. Anti social assholes blocking bus lanes (and bike lanes) need to be stopped. They probably have a primitive moral reasoning framework, so maybe punishment is the only thing that understand.

It’s all in-group pandering and shitty petro-masculinity. No conservatives should be in power. They are bad people.

I think some games on steam you can just launch from the executable file. I rarely have, because my process is usually “open steam… stare at list of games… pick one”, so steam is already open.

But yeah, at least it adds some value (proton magic, recording and screenshots, the overlay used to be real useful when i only had one monitor…)

Good. Break them up. Criminally charge their leadership.

I also don’t have a lot of money for fun because no one is hiring because all the psychotic C-suite think AI is going to replace everyone. Or they think they can just squeeze labor harder and use AI as an excuse.

But either way, fuck Microsoft.

Ed Zitron wrote a whole thing about these people. Calls them “Business Idiots”

Microsoft should be broken up. A lot of problems go away if we just stop letting power consolidate.

You should be allowed to stand your ground and shoot dead anyone rolling coal. They’re assaulting you and everyone around you.

You could go down that train of thought, but you’ll find it impossible to make any decisions for fear of making things worse. “Should I put out this fire in my kitchen? No, what if the house has to burn down to stop double-mecha-hitler from being born??” is not a useful way of thinking.

Do you mean, like, for kids to play? For adults socially? Or like professional sports like the world cup?

If I saw a dude pop out of a time machine and shoot both of these fucks dead, I’d be like “yeah that makes sense”.

Microsoft will continue on inertia for years. but it’s basically a walking corpse full of parasites at this point.

The fact that rich people stop paying into it is so stupid.

It should be progressive. The first $x you make aren’t taxed at all, then the next bucket at a small percent, then a larger percent, and so on.

Instead if you’re income-rich you just get a bump to your take home pay partway through the year.

If Sony was selling a backlog going back to 1980 at deep discount with no monthly fees and DRM-free at the seller’s discretion, they would get less flak.

My hypothesis is that the least competent people use AI the most, and it’s a big multiplier on their incompetence.

A lot of Linux works out of the box now. If folks started selling preconfigured Linux machines like you can buy for windows, that’s all most people need. Valve is following a good strategy

He shouldn’t be allowed to keep going.

They’re all so stupid it’s frustrating.