Nah, they’re actually fantastic at brain numbing tasks. I like to feed it sql tables and have it act like an ORM, but without the tradeoffs of an ORM. I’d never do it manually, but it’s far more readable and easy to work with

I also love using it for api’s. You can feed it a response, say “hey, I just want the id, status, and amount” (or whatever) and it’ll restructure the data for you

These are not hard problems… They are tedious ones though. They solve a problem by brute force, a problem we “solve” over and over because at the end of the day: programmers are lazy.

You can over engineer complex bindings until the cows come home, but a simple pattern with each field explicitly mapped is the best solution. It’s just really, really annoying to actually do it

I feel bad because I’ve made the world worse, or that I’ve disappointed myself. But when circumstances force me to act in ways I find immoral, I just feel disgust

I want good things for everyone in general, but I’m not some endlessly patient Buddha.

I just try to understand people through their own eyes… And I try to understand myself too. I feel what they feel, but I can also just walk away

But it’s not about them, not really.

It’s about me - who am I? Do I make things better or worse? Do I make people better or worse? If you brought me into a perfect world, would I make that world worse?

If there were 5 billion of me, what kind of world would it be?

Wait, what?? Are you guys walking around holding back a savage animal through raw force of will?

Like…I’ve done lots of things I regret, but then later I don’t want to do them anymore, because I know it’ll feel bad

This is fucking stupid. It’s when you concentrate as group in a place. That fucking simple. And it’s, it’s always horrible

You get hit by a baseball. Then you’re cursed with an overwhelming fear of getting hit by baseballs

This compels you to get protective equipment and hide behind a guy (who’s entire job is to catch the ball if it makes it past the batter)

Do you like where you work, and does it pay enough for you to live comfortably? I think that’s the most important question

Next is how long do you think it would take to get a new job if the contractor life isn’t for you?

Other than that, I’d lean towards going for it. You can make a lot more money as a contractor or you can work a whole lot less. Finding work can be difficult, but if you make relationships work tends to lead to more work

Granted, finding work can be challenging and stressful sometimes, so it’s not for everyone

No, that’s the rationalization. They admin wants to use palantir to collect data on American citizens, including giving ICE mobile camera installations to do face tracking. They want to do a 1984, and they don’t want any speed bumps from the states

Also, AI companies gave Trump money and there’s talk of restricting their power/water access to data centers to prioritize the people living nearby

I think you’re kind of comparing apples to oranges, we’re pretty fucked over here right now

I’d call him a progressive. He has socialist ideals, but he’s operating as a populist - he can’t get out there and say “we’re going to do free healthcare” because we’re not there right now

It seems to me that he’ll be as left-wing as the moment allows, but what he’s actually pushing for is pretty tame IMO

You first. We’re not on board with any of this

I don’t think you understand.

Socialism isn’t on the table. We’re so incredibly far from that. Let me know when the revolution is coming and I’ll be there for it… Until then we very real issues that we can make a bit better. Not good - we’re totally fucked - but we can make things less horrible

There’s a genocide in progress. We’re going to go through a depression. We can tea party the Democrats to be more progressive… There’s no time to build up something new

I can’t impress on you enough how many people are going to die

You spelled “take” wrong

It matters because the party isn’t the people, it’s infrastructure. It’s buildings, it’s support staff, it’s mailing lists and payment processors

It’s getting a special (often unfair) place on the ballot in all 50 states. It’s 50 (often flawed) primary processes that follow local laws

And it’s a banner. Not one people like, but it’s one banner. A banner that theoretically stands for democracy and the common man

The left is not organized. Do we rally behind a fresh, ideologically pure banner? Which one? How long to work out which group is the best? How long until we can build up that infrastructure?

Fuck that. Winning is what matters.

The people are on our side for now, there’s so much anger and energy. How long until they adjust to the new normal and go back to refusing to believe in a better world?

We have a chance right now. The next 18 months. In one sweep we can take a tattered banner and get in control - before people get cold feet. While they’re still just screaming for someone to stop Trump.

We can use the momentum to unfuck our democracy once we take control, but we can’t get distracted. There’s no room for purity or lofty ideals. We have to take what is offered and exploit every opportunity. We have to use the system against itself.

We have to win. Now. Or we all die

Why? The party is dead. They’re just holding onto their seats

Take the seats, you take it all. Keep the infrastructure of the party, keep the name recognition and the data they have, and replace the members

It’s happening already - Hoggs funneled money into Mumdani’s primary even as they try to ratfuck him out…

If great white sharks count I think orcas would too

But yeah… Those are cool and all, but it’s like asking me what my favorite kind of flower is. I see how they look cool, I see how others might get excited for them, but I’m just not that interested in them

But orcas have many different languages and cultures. They swim across entire oceans. Some of them started sinking yahts (for what I’m convinced is based on understanding which humans are destroying the world), but they never harm humans (outside of the ones driven insane by confinement)

They might actually be smarter than us, their brains are the most wrinkly in the world. They could have oral traditions going back as far as human history

Can’t you just get a new launcher? That’s day one of getting a new phone for me

Okay, that flavor maths out much better, I can picture it

You don’t understand. They never stopped, they aren’t distracting from Gaza… They needed another war to keep Netanyahu in power

Okay, I’ll eat shrimp tails sometimes, hell I eat the end of chicken bones until they get all splintery

But you say leftover… Do you just like, pop a handful in your mouth one by one? And is this something that’s surprisingly satisfying, or just ok?

Then do orcas count? Because I just can’t think of anything from the depths I find that interesting, things just move so slow down there

But I have orca facts for days

I don’t have one, but now I’m thinking about it

Lol hell no.

We had all that before! The old solutions were better in almost every way but cost. It also didn’t fill the world with micro plastics

You can still get real soap, it’s better for your skin. You can still get real clothes, they’re far more durable and lasts hundreds of times longer. You can buy real gum, I haven’t found any to try yet but apparently it doesn’t keep flavor for as long, but it also doesn’t fill your body with micro plastics

Obviously there’s exceptions - like glass made with plastics are an actual modern marvel. Some healthcare devices basically require certain plastics