Generally speaking, snakes only attack when they feel threatened.

Well, a lot of conservatives feel threatened. The fear isn’t justified, but it’s real.

Conservatives are such a heady mix of stupid and dishonest.

I don’t see who would buy it and it goes well for customers.

These megacorps shouldn’t be allowed to get so big in the first place!

This is why dark souls is one of my favorite franchises. Most of them have you fighting stuff in minutes. If you wanna do the zweihander, you’re basically set in 30 minutes.

Elden Ring suffers a bit by being so big, there’s a lot more chores to do to get started.

Without jeopardizing your academics, prioritize rare things.

TV and video games will always be there. Your friend asking you to come play tennis won’t. Go play tennis even if you don’t think you’ll love it.

Not easily and safely. You could try to talk to them, but most people are kind of brittle and will get defensive if you so much as suggest they are not saints.

Recognize that behavior in yourself, and try to be better. We’re all vulnerable to getting defensive when we’re wrong.

When I was a kid, I’d usually get As or B’s. This other kid told me whenever he got an A, he’d get $20 each. I said to my mom, “why don’t I get anything for my As?”

She said, “Because [other kid] is kind of stupid, so it’s a big deal when he gets one”

This was not a satisfying answer.

I also remember in late middle school, we were in the computer lab (I’m old) given a sort of free form assignment to do something for whatever book we’d read. I made a basic little game in BASIC (I’m still old). Some kid wrote the book title in WordArt. The teacher gushed over it, and I got a “that’s nice” for my fully operational game. Infuriating. Had a huge impact on my respect for authority and academic career, probably more than warranted.

My therapist tried to make me see the teacher’s point of view. Kyle was always fucking up and off task, so rewarding him when he’s not a fuckup for once must have felt like a big payoff. But I was always good, and she didn’t really understand what I was going on about, so she didn’t engage with it.

A large part of code review has been preventing people from doing stupid shit. AI is making stupid shit worse. It’s not defects, it’s “adding a whole micro service to get the user name from the ID, when the name is already in the metadata” or whatever that recent meme was.

Or that time a guy wrote a whole DSL instead of using the existing framework. Technically impressive, but adds a huge burden.

Many people simply do not seek a faster way of doing things.

Right. But if you’re a soulless manager, and you set faster timelines, you PIP and fire the people who don’t make it. They’ll use the tools or be replaced.

It’s the same as an AI mandate, except less stupid. (It can still be stupid if you set the timelines impossibly fast, but management is not known for being smart or informed)

I wouldn’t do this as me because I’m not a soulless manager.

If AI actually made people faster and more productive, they could simply set faster timelines and people would use the tools.

There are AI mandates because the people in leadership are stupid and dishonest. “Return to office” has the same shape. For many people working from home is healthier and more productive, and it’s better for the environment not to commute as much, but the emotional needs of leadership are primary.

I find in most cases someone using the phrase “shoved down your throat”, whatever they’re complaining about is nonsense.

I’d love this in the US, but we’re ruled by the wealthy assholes here. They have personal assistants to screen their calls.

I despise interfaces that try to be “friendly” by showing relative times. It’s not helpful. It’s counter productive. If you tell me it was at 08:45 I can look at what time it is now and fucking figure it out. Not so if you say “20 minutes ago”

And then some of them have fucking javascript to update the text. Fucking insanity.

Sometimes I think we should get rid of 3/4ths of the “product people”, but then wi the just engineering websites would just be like plain text and the occasional still photo. Which, honestly, sounds okay.

It’s infuriating that the mob just went on with their day.

I do wonder what the right wing fanatics are going to say about gun control when someone shoots a would be lynch mob dead.

Conservatives don’t care about facts or consistency. Their only value is “in-group good” and “out-group bad”. And, closely related, hierarchy is good and natural. That’s it.

You tell them that they contradicted themselves and they’re confused, because in their world view they did not. They defended their team earlier, and they’re defending their team now. No contradiction.

It’s hard to do anything and know anything when one of the two major parties, backed by the wealthy, is anti-doing and anti-knowing.

This reminds me of the antique meme template that was like “almost progressive redneck”. It’d have text expressing progressive ideas in dicey ways.

This is as much a movement as it’s going to get. Peer to peer.

I know. People are an endless source of disappointment.

You can stand to pee at a regular toilet.