Getting caught was kind of a blunder, but other than that…

Capitalism sucks, but it didn’t cause climate change. Any economic system could have exploited our resources and polluted our environment.

Could have. But capitalism did.

I like to think that a system that didn’t concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few people would be less likely to pollute.

Would you vote to poison your own river? Probably not. But the factory owners who don’t live by the river don’t seem to mind.

What episode was this from?

I had a friend in high school who was always putting down pink Floyd. He’d say the lyrics were simple and the music was gimmicky.

Eventually, one day, I got out of him that the real source of his ire was he, quote, “didn’t want to be one of those kids who’s into pink Floyd”.

I think about this sometimes. He made up all these plausible sounding excuses, but the truth was something social that he was embarrassed to admit.

Granted, we were in 10th grade, but I think a lot of people still act that way.

Hopefully Tim’s doing good these days.

Good. Fuck that management. Oust them and give the company to the people who actually do work.

I saw master boot record a couple months ago. Great show. They covered Doom’s e1m1 and I was like “ooo shit”. My partner was like “do you know this song?” Yeah babe it’s burned into my memory

It definitely seems like we’re setting ourselves up for a dystopia, where no one knows how to do software anymore. Like the time machine or Idiocracy. Management just wants short term gains, and they don’t care if there’s no one around in 10 years with any experience

Interesting. For stuff like “what’s the #1 in category?” it’s really “what’s the #2?”, because that’s what people probably guessed a lot of.

How fuzzy is the matching? Like if the answer is Chocolate Chip, how close do I need to be to get credit?

Suppose for example, you’re an automobile manufacturer. Then the success of campaigns to eliminate automobiles is a risk to your business.

We should come up with a society where people’s individual interests aren’t bad for society. Somehow. Perhaps magic?

But yeah there’s a lot of “but I need my orphan grinding machines to sell that’s my whole business” and I don’t have a lot of sympathy, because those machines are dangerous and bad. Like, just stop selling mega-suvs or single use plastic junk or whatever. I’d be happy for the state to pay them to do something else instead.

A guy at work got so mad when I asked if some confusing code on a PR he submitted was from his brain, he went directly to my boss to complain.

Fuck you, Sam. I hope your AI lover tells you to mix household cleaners.

Yes. Microsoft is shit. They’re too big and the people making decisions there are too removed from shared reality. Fuck them. Split it up. Give it to the workers. Bury the owners in lead containers with warnings.

Linux is fine.

. The net result is that everyone has learned very quickly to praise executives on their visionary AI prowess, or they will be gunned down in the proverbial streets.

Once again, the people making the decisions are idiots.

Interesting game. Took me a long time to see where my own hp was. Sometimes I don’t think holding attack registered. Not sure if I need to?

There’s items??

This brought back a wave of vague angry memories about games with vague information. Stuff like “chance to deflect attacks” and it’s like, “what chance? 2%? 20%? Does deflect set damage to 0? TELL ME”

It’s like that “how many times do we have to teach you this lesson” meme. It’s capitalism. Capitalism always does this. The people calling the shots and keeping the profits aren’t the people doing the work.

I run a tabletop game of Vampire, and last week the players found a NIMBY “no bike lanes” activist and ran her over with her own SUV until she was dead. Gosh was that cathartic.

I’m so tired of being helpless as fucking idiots make things worse for stupid reasons.

Labor should keep the profits of its work. The owners just sit around and make bad decisions. Fuck them. They’d be lucky to walk away, if there was justice in this world.

Peer pressure is one of the only things that can change minds. Facts don’t do it so much as your friends and people you look up to pushing back on you.

We could be building useful infrastructure. Mass transit. Renewable energy. Housing.

Fuck these data centers and their enablers.