Because people who have a job with benefits feel like they’ve worked their way up the chain to earn those benefits. People who work but don’t have benefits just don’t work hard enough. And let’s not even talk about those who don’t work.

We need to divorce healthcare from employment.

There’s a word for it. It’s called hubris.

Those people clearly didn’t get the message of the Bible.

I’m there too. But not because AI. I just reviewed a PR by a newb. Code was fine. I could reason about what they did. It worked correctly. Then I read the other devs comments and what they requested done and now code that worked correctly and was easy to reason about is buried in abstraction that isn’t really needed but it “makes the code much better”. No it doesn’t.

That’s what I’m sick of. If I’m reading code and the logic that actually does something is buried that irritates me.

Some abstraction is great. Otherwise we would program with physical switches. But abstraction just because you think it makes the code look better is shit.

And yet somehow the tech blogs and such always scream about developer productivity. Go faster. Go faster.

From what I’ve seen over the years, only mids care about finishing fast.

Real genius.

Because in the USA it’s discouraged for girls/women to study STEM because it hurts men’s egos. In the 80s the ads for home computers, when home computing started to really take off, tended to focus on how it was a boy activity.

I keep doors open so that there is free airflow. I live in a high humidity area.

Six feet under

I loved that show.

Unless you’re sitting in the tower.

Right. There was some finance guy that wrote this all up once and you don’t even get a call back unless you have close to half billion. But then the lines they get are like 0.5% APR. it’s nuts.

This is how they all do it.

Friendship is when silence between two people is comfortable.

Everything is easy if you can put up with an amount of friction. Most people don’t want to deal with friction.

There’s a term that I can’t recall about positioning a bad person as a less bad alternative in order to gain support.

So basically the theory is when Trump goes, they’ll say, look he was the bad one, it’ll all be better now with this other guy.

They see the tide turning. And Trump will be dead by summer. Time to start positioning JD as the good guy … then they’ll start their bullshit up again…

Wait what? Just random people or does he target certain people? Not that one is better or worse but this is just…. I dunno sounds like an angry person with untreated neurological issues.

Fuck

Well you see, …. Frantically looks for talking points from their propaganda machine.

Here’s how I quit smoking about 15 years ago.

Step one: for about a month, every time I smoked I told myself I’m ready to quit. Every cigarette, every time.

Step two: the next month, every cigarette, every time, I told myself they stink and taste like shit.

Took about 3 weeks into the second month and I never picked up another. Oh and I can be around other smokers and don’t crave them. They still fucking stink.

YMMV