Give him the ability to divest his wealth first.

Just remove all violent people first

I have a spreadsheet.

Each month I check the balances of all my accounts (eg: savings, checking, vanguard). If anything looks unusual, I go investigate and make a note of what happened. (Eg: bought expensive boots here, moved money from this account to that account). If I was doing that a lot, I’d probably change something about my routine.

I used to export all the transactions from the bank websites and import them, but I found I wasn’t really using that data.

It helps that I’m naturally very frugal, and don’t have a lot of expenses.

It bugs me when people refuse to acknowledge they’re being a selfish prick. At least have the strength of character to look someone in the eye and say “Yes, I’d rather you die than me”. Fucking cowards.

Gop is like a clock where only the minute hand is stopped and the hour hand is flapping all over. Sometimes it’s kind of correct, but not for the bigger picture.

People believe in capitalism. They believe that the capitalist hiring the cheapest labor, cutting every corner, and keeping every penny is playing by the rules. They are blameless.

The immigrant, however, less so. If they are “illegal”, then they didn’t follow the rules and need to be corrected! But even if they are “legal”, they’re still “supposed” to be second in line.

If the rules are just, who made them, and how they are maintained? Not under question.

Communication aims at information exchange,

Metadata is data. Skipping small talk is exchanging less information.

One of my jobs went to microservices. Not really sure why. They had daily active users in the thousands, maybe. But it meant we spent a lot of time on inter-service communication, plus local development and testing got a lot more complicated.

But before that, it was a single API written in Go by an intern, so maybe it was an improvement.

I think a lot about the guy I worked with that said he was going to Palantir. We were like “but what if they have you doing awful things?” He was like, big shrug. He was always friendly to people in the office, but I guess that’s as far as it went.

Have you talked to a lot of tech workers? I feel like there’s a set of left wing ones, a larger set of libertarian types, and an even larger set of people who are shockingly ignorant of politics and history.

It’s wild to me how some places I’ve worked are like locked down, all the infrastructure is in terraform or whatever and can be deployed immediately… and other places are like “ssh into prod with the credentials from confluence, edit the config in vim, and paste the new code into a new file”

One time in a game of DND the players were exploring a strange cave system, and found a strange thick goo collecting in a pool. Players being players, one of them decided to eat some.

It was, in my notes, some sort of celestial honey made by these extra planar insects that were causing some of the region’s problems. It was supposed to taste amazing, but with some drawbacks. I started to blank when trying to describe how good it was, and the phrase that came out was “it’s like… It’s like … it’s like seven pizzas!”

The player eating it, his eyes lit up and was like “AMAZING”

The other players were like “wat”

I think that adequately captured how delicious it is but also maybe you shouldn’t be eating it.

I don’t think an average user is going to know how to interpret the output of mount or findmt

He kept talking about sin

My friend has a toddler and I always spoke to her like a regular person who just happened to not know things. She seemed to respect it a lot.

I think it would be pretty funny if jesus did return and cast all these rich assholes into the lake of fire. Because they fucking deserve it.

Innate spell resistance is hot.

Still mad about

I remember when I played ff10 thinking “Rikku is kind of hot”, and then reading she’s 15 in the fiction. 17 in the sequel where she’s even more naked. Nope. Why? Unnecessary. Just make her an adult!

At least ff7 Tifa is 20, which is still a little young. I didn’t have a big crush on her, but I did think her suplexing building sized monsters was hot.

What are people ordering so much of from amazon? I apparently haven’t ordered from them since late 2024, and those were a handful of small orders.

There seems to be a lot of “break the law, pay a fine, keep the profits” but maybe that’s just what it feels like