I dislike AI. It’s like the one ring. Stop trying to use it. But all these people think they’re stronger than Boromir.

Corporate abuse of language is frustrating. I’ve worked with a lot of product manager types that really want to use extra words. “Let’s just swag it”. “We need to force rank these initiatives”. “Can you do a research spike this sprint?”

I expect that’s some people, yeah. Accepting that climate change is real means accepting uncomfortable ideas. Like that they’re responsible, at least a little.

Some people can’t accept that they’re everything less than a saint. You tell them that walking to the store is better for them and the environment than driving and they go berserk. Can’t handle the implication that they’re not perfectly faultless.

Many people would rather everyone suffer pollution and climate catastrophe than those people have a nice life.

My America defaultism made me excited for a moment, and then I saw this is about Australia. Sigh.

It’s like the bullshit asymmetry principle. You can spend months working on a conservative, getting them to trust you, and nudge their world-view from “hateful” to “iffy”. Meanwhile, they half-watch fox news for an hour and are ready to put {out-group} into a death camp.

It sucks. It feels unfair. Why do we have to do all this work when they’re the fuckups?

Fuck. Fuck all this AI slop.

Interesting. I dislike writing bash scripts so this might appeal to me, but probably not before a stable 1.x release.

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.

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”.

That’s a good point.

Though sometimes people are just sandbagging. Like I know one guy is just watching Netflix instead of working. I’m downstream from his work, so it’s a little annoying that I have to wait a couple days to get started.

I wouldn’t rat him out because my labor solidarity beats out my annoyance, but the annoyance is real.

One time we spent like more than an hour in a horrible meeting to plan out how long the next step of a project would take. 4 weeks, we said. Management came back and said to do it in 2. Well, why did we fucking have the meeting if they had a deadline in mind already?

On the other hand, at my current job I have seen a lot of “oh that’s going to take a couple days” protests for things that are 20 minutes of work.

Seems like the solution is to get rid of out of touch management.

I deeply dislike sarcasm. It’s neither funny nor helpful.

There was a guy I worked with that was pretty much always sarcastic.[1]. I’d ask him if he’d written the run book yet and he’d say like “Yes, it’s written in the style of a sonnet with hand drawn illustrations”, and I’d be like “I don’t know if that means you wrote it or not”. Everything with him took extra steps because his communication was such a swamp of insincerity.

[1] well, when I asked him to stop being sarcastic he said it wasn’t sarcasm. He was merely being ironic. Nonsense.

I would not be surprised if ICE was currently using gas chambers. I would be less surprised if they were doing some other method of mass murder.

Some people will do anything to continue to fit in with their group. I don’t think it’s always even a conscious choice.

Many people are just as stupid as him.

Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education

They don’t care. They don’t care about making sense or being internally consistent.

They care about their in-group being on top, and everyone else subjugated or dead. That’s it. Conservatives are bad people.

I want to say that everyone hates that kind of purple job prose, but I suspect there’s some small minority of people who actually think and talk like that.

I kind of want to build a LinkedIn but you’re only allowed to talk like a real person. If you post slop or whatever that kind of shit is, you’re banned and we all pledge not to work with you.

I use nano for quick edits. I don’t know more than the basics of vim, and don’t do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven’t needed to.

The parents sued, calling it a “secret gender transition plan” and arguing the school violated their constitutional rights by withholding information about their child’s gender identity.

These parents are bad. If they were reasonable people their child would feel comfortable talking to them.