Their plan is that we’ll earn money doing the jobs robots won’t or are too expensive to do. Giving them handjobs at breakfast, or fighting lions with a knife on PPV. Whatever we can do to give them a moment’s respite from the gray boredom of incomparable wealth, privilege, and pointlessness.

Too late. It’s Doged. Sorry, Taxes. I mean Texas.

Stay in it anyway because you want a 75% pay cut even less. Only put in 40 hours. Enjoy the rest of your life outside of work.

That’s my solution, anyway. Though, I actually love tech itself, it’s the people and processes I hate, so changing industries isn’t actually a solution.

You’re disagreeing with my unserious suggestion? I just… okay. No. Micropenises aren’t a solution. I just don’t think there is one.

If you want to disagree with that, let’s hear it. I have 15 and 13 year old daughters. Anyone can buy a $400 computer, install Linux, install AI, and undress people all day long. There is no legal restraint capable of stopping that, only punishing it.

Shut down model distribution and it’ll move to torrent. Put the kids in the legal system and they are going to face lifelong consequences for 12-year-old assholery. (To be fair, victims often face long repercussions for being targeted, but that’s not imposed by the state which demands a higher standard.) Hold parents accountable and it will disproportionately impact families who spend more hours working and can’t supervise their kids 24/7.

So I’m short on answers, but open to discussion.

It’s obviously not a serious suggestion, but the reality is the tools are out there and Pandora’s box can’t be put back on the shelf. Kids can’t be held accountable in a meaningful way. This is just an issue we are going to face basically forever now.

There is a window of time during which most kids are little sociopaths and you can’t appeal to any better nature. They have the means and often no internal or external restraint. And so mutually assured destruction is my tongue in cheek answer.

The only defense is to train AI to draw guys with micropenises. As long as kids being kids is a defense for this shit (and to be fair, kids are pretty fucking stupid and need the freedom to grow out of that) rule makers have no power here. At least insofar as the AI to do this can be run locally on a potato.

Bet: 1337, 1138, 6969

My work laptop is Mac, which isn’t much better when it comes to bloated MS shit, but that’s more the corporate world. If Linux would get on board with supporting corporate overlords spying on every minute of every day, we’d have shitty Linux desktop distros at work, too.

It’s just that, for what most of us want to do on our computers all day, Microsoft doesn’t offer anything. I can browse, I can run my home, stream movies, play games, and tinker with software all arguably better on Linux. Driver support being the only really spotty thing, but OS getting better at an incredible rate. And if I really fucking hated something, I give myself fair odds of being able to make myself a fix for it.

I remember when I first started playing with Linux, must’ve been around Windows 8? 7? I was like this would be great if I had nostalgia for Windows 3.1 and fumbling around learning DOS (or technically AmigaOS in my case) for the first time, but I wanted stuff to just work better and look better.

But Linux has caught up in every way except corporate bloat, and I love it for every day use. I have an SSD with my old windows installation laying around gathering dust. Thought I’d need it for emergencies. Haven’t had an emergency it would help with — ever.

Every empire falls. Behold our example and learn from it. Or follow.

Been two years since I’ve touched Windows. Microsoft isn’t needed.

I don’t agree both sides do it to nearly the same degree, but yeah on the occasion I catch the left doing it, it frustrates me. So much stuff to legitimately be upset about and people are posting Teslas dropping folks off in a no parking zone.

I’ll even acknowledge that an unmanned electric car standing to drop someone off or pick them up is indistinguishable from parking but still it’s pointless splitting of hairs compared to gestures at everything.

I think we are in an era where people don’t care what’s real and what’s a lie as long as the lie is entertaining enough and validates their own thoughts.

Add it to the list…

I find myself thinking harder and learning more when I use AI. I’m constantly thinking what I can do to double check it. I constantly look at what it writes and consider whether it did the task I asked it to do or the task I need done.

I’m on track to rewrite 25000 lines of code from one testing framework to another in 3 days, and I started out not knowing either framework and not having really written in typescript in years. And I’m pretty sure I can write the tests from scratch in my primary project that is just getting started.

This one anecdote doesn’t disprove a study, of course, but it seems to me that the findings are not universally true for some reason. Whether it’s a matter of technique or brain chemistry, I don’t know. Ideally, people could be taught to use AI to improve their thinking rather than supplant it.

Red line for what? For what? Do you think there is some moral superiority in pissing away your own country while watching Palestinians burn anyway?

How fucking useless to anyone can a person be?

Wake the fuck up.

No, you wake the fuck up. News flash: if both Dems and Republicans are going to let Israel bomb Palestinians, not bombing Palestinians isn’t on the ballot. You can just eliminate that as a point of consideration.

Does that fucking suck? Yes.

Do some people choose to throw away their vote by staying home or voting 3rd party over that? Yes.

But the country is only going to pick one of those two. So unless you literally give not one single fuck about any other action either party might take, you are throwing away your vote.

That’s not me. I have things I care about. And bombing Palestinians is fucking awful but it’s out of my control in that voting booth. So I vote on issues where my vote makes a difference.

That’s the fucking reality, and you’re the one dreaming.

I looked up PSL. Even if I entertained communism for a single second, they aren’t going to hold any office, much less national office, for several lifetimes. That’s not a realistic answer, though I’m sure you are passionate in your idealism. My approach is to pick the most left-leaning party that can actually win, vote for the most left leaning candidate in their primary that can actually win, and then vote that party in the general.

Which is to say, if a communist ever wins an election, it’ll be by running as a Democrat. Good luck, but I’ll be honest, I hope never to see the day when communism is the sane choice in an election.

You can either get in through primaries and take control from within, or you can build a new grass roots party from local elections across the country and build it up over decades, or you can lose.

If you like rogue one, watch Andor. Ahsoka is okay, but if you haven’t watched Clone Wars & Rebels, it will fall flat for you and IMO the first few episodes are really weak. I don’t hate it. I really love Baylen Skoll as a character (RIP Ray Stevenson), but if you are on the cusp with Star Wars, I can’t recommend it — it’s more for the fans than to make fans, you know?

Mando is good for a lighthearted romp through the galaxy, especially the first season and the second season has some gems.

Clone Wars has some really good Star Wars in it but certainly not every episode and I found the first couple of seasons to be a slog.

There’s not a lot else I’d recommend right now. I love all of the shows (Book of Boba Fett was not great, but it had its moments — you need a high tolerance for cheese, though).

A lot of people hate on The Acolyte, but I enjoyed it. It features a deeper dive into the Jedi, an alternate viewpoint of The Force, and the unrealized promise (due to cancellation) of a compelling bad guy. But enough people hate it that I’m hesitant to recommend it to someone who is struggling to enjoy Star Wars as much as they’d like.

Good luck, friend!

Voting third party is just voting for Trump. Dems have to be suborned from the inside.