My job is making everyone use AI for everything (while also not keeping staff levels up)

I hate it. Even when it works I kind of hate it.

I’ve been using it as a search supplement for like “how do I make a uuid in a GitHub action and use it in future steps” stuff. Sometimes it works. I’d kind of rather have well written docs.

Drivers are short sighted morons that should not be listened to. They’d pave everything and then whine about traffic.

We’re not far off from The Smith Act making a comeback. That “we’re going to arrest people who attended a meeting once” stuff is in living memory. The US has never lived up to its stated ideals.

They should lose their car and license, and be made to repair all the damage they did. Maybe some community service, too.

The organization also said nine people have been killed in hit-and-run crashes across New York City in the last two weeks

Our society just lives with this rate of death. Lives with, except for the victims.

There’s so much we could do to make things safer that don’t even involve digging up the earth and building more transit infrastructure.

A lot of Americans have shitty, immature, views on sexuality and the human body.

I remember some coworkers and I chatting about it, and two of them both said they’d rather their kid watch a movie where someone got shot in the head than one where someone received oral sex.

That’s a clever hack around how people are stupid and dislike change, any change, even good change.

Humans are emotional creatures. We’re stupid that way. It’s faster to just go with feelings and accurate enough that it must have been a pro survival trait.

But it’s stupid. It’s destroying the world because people follow their emotions into conservative policies.

Conservatives don’t care about facts. They care about feelings. Specifically, the high of in-group solidarity and the thrill of hurting the out-group. They’re stupid. You can’t engage with them on facts because they aren’t there. You need to change their in-group, somehow get their in-group to change beliefs, or traumatize them. Those are the only things that change minds.

They’re not trying to make a good product. They’re trying to get their short term gains.

Normal capitalist bullshit where a handful of people (who probably don’t even do any work) make decisions and keep almost all the profits.

The majority of the time you just click play in steam, heroic, or whatever. It’s no worse than windows.

I don’t do any tinkering on my desktop.

I write this a lot, but it remains true: conservatives don’t see it as hypocrisy because their only rule is being upheld. In-groups good, out-groups bad.

If Ron had stolen money from Trump, maybe then they would be upset.

This is like the platonic ideal of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Shouldn’t be allowed. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other. We already know what happens with consolidation.

Right. Traffic enforcement that’s “random” is fundamentally unjust. But conservatives like it because they can bully the out-groups, and some assholes like it because it brings money in via fines.

Anyone who looks at their phone while driving should lose their phone, vehicle, and license.

At the lowest level, it is possible to pull people in your peer-group out of shitty world views. It’s slow and difficult. But like I got an old coworker to be way less homophobic through our chats at work.

At the larger level, nah, fuck em.

Don’t buy it. Tell your friends not to buy it. Don’t engage with it. But better stuff.

That’s about all you can do unless you’re secretly very wealthy and/or connected.

Desktop: 0. It’s off. I close the browser when I’m done

Phone: the number says 64, but only 25 “active”. I should probably prune.

Conservatives are bad people. That’s it.