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.

Need more details to really make sense of this.

There are some things in games that could be parses as annoying or core, depending on what you’re looking for. Like, some people might say not being able to quick save/load is horrible, and being sent back to a checkpoint on death is bullshit. But that’s fundamental to some game loops

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

Once, I got a whole pizza pie from the place down the street, and ate it while hanging with my cat and playing some nice single player games.

Another time, a friend of mine surprise ordered me Indian food. Ate it while playing video games with the cat.

Different time, was cat sitting for a friend. She ordered me a pie, which I ate while playing games and chilling with the cat.

All were pretty good, really.

The why was “I’m not that close with my family, don’t want to travel, and I’m not seeing anyone who invited me”

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.

CEOs and other managers that are like “you should do more work for me for free” are bad people who should not be allowed to lead

Like my old CEO at a startup wanted people to work nights and weekends to hit deadlines. I’m like, if we make it big you get rich and I get the same salary. That’s a horrible deal for me. Give me a lot of equity and we’ll talk.

• gym teacher manager. Not great at the math and science parts, but believes in his team
• checked out youth. Watches YouTube instead of working.
• checked out elder. He’s so close to retiring. He’s got stories to tell from before HR was all formalized
• checked out middle career guy. He wanted to fix things. Then he fell into the tar pit. Why bother when a ten minute fix is going to take two research spikes, a stakeholder meeting, a team meeting, a feedback meeting, a sprint planning meeting and so on. Fuck it.
• day care HR. Do they work? Who knows. They seem nice, when you can find them.
• quiet union sympathizer. Got a “talking to” about it, so now he just shit talks management in back channels. Joins meetings smoking from his back porch. Knows where some bodies are buried.

I work at a bad place.

Current system is bad. Capitalism sends profits to people who don’t work. Piracy sidesteps a lot of that, and some people send the money saved to people who do work.

Adding to the chorus: switched to Linux. No regrets. Plays all my video games, watches my media, does my coding and office work.

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

Well that’s concerning. They say it’s all insured via the partner banks ( https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wealthfront-fdic-insurance/ ) but you can just put anything on a website.

That’s why I specified liquid, not-a-house, money.

As the other said, it’s not per person. Wealthfront and betterment insure up to like 500k, because they put the money in several banks. Vanguard probably has a similar thing.

With 3 million dollars in liquid assets (ie: not a house), you can bring in about $120k from the safest of investments. Just a high yield savings account. Fully insured.

With an index fund, you can bring in $300k.

That’s enough to live on, given how many people live on that much or less from their job.

So some millionaires may work, but they’re not really the same.

We’d be working 12 hour days 7 days a week, being paid in company scrip.

There was a lot of violence in the 19th and early 20th century just to get the scraps we have now. Capital is your enemy.

If work paid me a fair wage, provided decent health care, paid for holidays, and didn’t reward AI usage as its own isolated metric, maybe I would work more. Maybe. It’s not like I get paid more for working more. No matter how much I produce, I get paid the same. The owners keep any excess profits.

I’d love to see reductions in car usage because I very much dislike cars and car culture. I don’t personally mind inconvenience - I wait for mass transit when friends are like “just take an Uber lol” (not even touching the labor dimension there). I also always say electric cars and self driving cars are solving the wrong problems.

I’m just pessimistic that we’ll make much progress voluntarily. A lot of people are stupid and selfish, and the rich have power to keep things shitty for their personal benefit.

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.