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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • This is about protecting kids as much as Trump was going to clean the “swamp” or release the Epstein files. I have read the bill, and it doesn’t matter what it says right now because what you read is not going to be what gets signed into law. By the time it gets on the books it will be a butchered piece of shit that will do the opposite of what it claims it will do now.
    As for your claim that we should all just be happy with government mandated surveillance, well you can just go tell your 3 letter agency overlords that I am not interested. My options to avoid mass surveillance and having my every word and move tracked may be diminishing at an alarming rate, but I am not going to accelerate it’s deterioration just because you are a Steve Job fuckboy who puts down your high score in flappy birds under “computer experience” on your resume.




  • Call centers maybe. Actual tech companies? No.

    AI is just another smoke screen. If AI was doing as much as they say, why would a company cut people rather than doing double the work it could do with the same work force?

    Executives don’t get bonuses and rewards based purely on “profit”. While there is “profit share” in most companies, that is mostly for the peons. Compared to performance bonuses, stock options, and all the other rewards that require all sorts of accounting shenanigans, profit share is very minor. These types of rewards are mostly based upon meeting specific performance markers. Once those markers are met, they have no need to cut further. In fact, they’re fully aware that cuts will hurt next year’s ability to hit those markers. If they are at the point of doing job cuts in order to meet their bonuses, that means they’ve already turned every other dial and flipped every other switch that they can to push the numbers up.

    Also, nobody wants to admit that the economy is spiralling into another great recession, especially not with a nutbag in the white house who will outright attack you and your company if you don’t tow the line and pretend everything is great.