Department of War when they can blow up innocent civilian fishing boats that can’t fight back. Department of Defense when they get fucked up from someone who can, and does, fight back.

Isn’t this around Vlad’s castle?

A group at the web dev team for my company started a Dev Club to meet on Zoom to discuss code info and showcase dev work from them and other dev teams. Being a sysadmin scripter, I wanted to join to get experience in professional dev workflow as a creeper in the shadows. Then genAI code helpers happened and the guy leading it, the senior web dev at my company, started to use Claude and other genAI tools. Now, that’s like all they talk about and showcase. Like 2 or 3 devs decided to outsource their thinking and now that’s all the convo is about. Not even about their stuff, but leading genAI developments.

I stopped attending the monthly Zoom meetings. Not sure how many in there are into genAI, but since it wasn’t my bag, I didn’t want to say anything and just declined the recurring calendar event. Maybe I’ll start my own dev club with blackjack and hookers!

I remember reading a comment on a similar article about why people don’t have more kids anymore. It summed it up pretty well:

Caged animals don’t want to fuck.

Make the world prohibitively terrible, where we all feel like trapped animals in a system we can’t escape, and we’ll focus on survival.

Interesting tidbit about Disney’s Mulan (animated):

In all Disney animated movie, singalong songs are the norm. Except, that is, for the animated Mulan movie. The last song they sing is this one, which ends abruptly as they arrive to join forces with the main dude’s father’s army. They were all wiped out by the enemy before they got there. After that, the rest of the movie is somber and includes no more sing along songs.

Also, it was the first movie to include CGI with hand-drawn animations.

I do this all the time because of my ADHD hyper-focus. It’s how I stay so slim (unhealthy as fuck on the inside, I’m sure)!