Talk to them about it like adults? But I gather these are children, so I don’t know.

Work in a big multi national company. not a software company, but I’m on an engineering team.

Leadership makes a lot of noises about AI.

The engineers can’t even use git competently. I’ve suggested quietly maybe we should focus on learning software fundamentals instead of chasing dreams but no one here listens to me.

They just say stuff for results. They have an emotion and they’ll say whatever supports it, even if they said something contradictory earlier. They are, frankly, stupid and dishonest people.

Yes.

Primarily, too much fear response. Fear makes you stupid.

Secondarily, too much in-group loyalty. They’ll do and believe anything if that’s what the group believes.

I sort of hate podcasts. I don’t want parasocial relationships. I don’t want to hear in 30 minutes what I could have read in 3, with better options for following up (highlight -> search vs “what did they say? how do you spell that?”)

Im going to go make some toast right now

What point do you think it’s trying to make. Seems obvious to me.

I thought about getting one but then I got laid off from my good paying job. Then they made it expensive with expensive games. So, no.

If capital wants us to spend money they need to pay us more first.

Javascript is a horrible language, but it is ubiquitous. You’ll want to spend a little time on html and css if you expect them to do more than print output.

You could focus on TypeScript, which will help them avoid some of the worst things, but then you spend more time on tooling and it won’t just run in the browser console.

Python is a reasonably popular language with a good standard library. It has fewer bizarre quirks like adding two lists of ints together to get a string.

I wouldn’t teach C to a general audience.

Do you live in such an area?

If you were make an ordered list of things that destroy a community, where does “petty theft of groceries” fall on the list? What other things are included?

Seems fine. Implementation details could make it better or worse. I’m just glad it’s not more AI slop.

Jokes aside, isn’t this also a phenomenon with finishing books and TV shows?

I’ve had the same thought. When I finish a really good, lengthy, book it feels similar to when you lose touch with friends.

Or just… Email.

My parents just email me pictures of stuff. It’s fine.

Being able to admit fault, admit being wrong, updating their worldview, emotional regulation.

You’ve probably all encountered the kind of person who when challenged has a whole melt down. You say something like “I’m not eating meat today because it’s bad for the environment and animals” and they have a whole name-calling meltdown. Too stupid to handle their sense of being good person threatened.

It won’t make things better all on its own. The things that enable and create him are still around. I mean, unless there was like a plane with a whole lot of republicans and billionaires all together and it went down in a fiery crash with no survivors. That might make a big enough vacuum for change.

Most of the people don’t want to be convinced. They come adamant that they won’t change their opinion

I link this comic a lot but I think it’s often relevant: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Basically, people don’t believe things or accept facts that conflict with their emotions.

I don’t know. A coworker years ago said to me “you have to make what you want people to do the easy thing”, and I think he was right. But someone still has to do work. Back then, it was me changing the deploy script to automatically run tests and open the report so people had to go out of their way to skip all that.

I’m not sure what that looks like for the fediverse. Linking them directly? Some sort of “sign up with Google” SSO mechanism? Just make the account for your friend and give it to them?

Ideally we’d go up one level and address why people are so mentally depleted they can’t handle a sign up form.

I’ve been using Linux with Nvidia for a few years now without any problems. I don’t play the most cutting edge stuff at high resolution, but like path of exile 2, elden ring, expedition 33 all ran just fine.

Yeah, that could be some of it. We can’t all be perfect all the time. It’s impossible.

I’d appreciate more honest appraisals, though. “I know Twitter is garbage run by a Nazi, but I got linked to it and scrolled a bit” is far better than “well other people are worse so who cares”. There’s this childish whataboutism that a lot of people bring out to justify their poor behavior.

People don’t really care about anything other than convenience. Twitter could be grinding up puppies live on camera and most people would just shrug and be like “well the good memes are here”.

Personally I think that’s downstream from how we’re all too polite about shit like this. We just smile and change the topic instead of doing the intensely uncomfortable “You really shouldn’t use twitter” conversation. But also we’re all too… childish, I guess, because most people if someone says that will not respond with “You make a good point and I will change in accordance,” but rather with “Fuck you for saying things that make me feel bad. You suck. I’m not listening to anything you say.”

So I guess we’re fucked because people are immature, fragile, little shits.