I’m just waiting for some RTO’d workers to be told they’re being mass laid off, and instead they just beat the manager to death. The irony of it only being possible because they were forced back into the office will be delicious.

It’s a demand pointed out the entire capitalist hellscape, of which epic is a part, not them specifically.

Sweeney’s a billionaire. He could be pushing for labor to have a bigger slice of the pie. But he won’t, because he’s a soulless husk.

I don’t have the personal budget to buy a lot of games. Pay me more and I’ll spend more. Otherwise, fuck all the way off

Hegseth is the one who allegedly doesn’t wash his hands and doesn’t believe in germs. He should be removed from power.

Really depends on the details. If I can be an Awakened Mage then definitely that. With just the starting stats of mind/space or fate/time I would fix the world.

Cars and car-first infrastructure have been massively bad ecologically, socially, and environmentally.

The people at work who use AI the most know the least. They add very little value. AI is rather anti-labor in that way.

I’d also rather have some people who are slow and competent than fast and hallucinating

Have some dark fantasies, but probably not do anything about it. If I did see someone damaging the car or the owner, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

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File under “some problems have easy solutions but would upset a handful of rich people”, or maybe “…but would upset unqualified idiots”

I think a lot about the job I didn’t get last year. Technical interview was trivial. They said I did very well in the system design. But they ultimately went with someone “more cross functional”. What the fuck does that even mean?

I think it’s just code for “dunno we like the other guy’s vibe better”.

Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other

Some people will do anything to continue to fit in with their group. I don’t think it’s always even a conscious choice.

Has no one been pointing out to management that even firms like Microsoft are backpedaling on using AI?

Management doesn’t listen to low level people who actually do work. I think this is part of Ed zitron’s “Business Idiot” thesis. Upper management is so far removed from how things actually get done, they are in all measureable ways idiots

Sometimes they also have selfish or stupid side goals, too. Like, the rumor is the company gets a tax break for people going into the office. So now they make people go into the office, even when most of their team is remote. Climate criminals all, but they’re removed from the consequences.

Upper management are fools. Middle management just wants their paycheck, and maybe to rise high enough to become a business idiot themselves.

That’s kind of like “no one goes there anymore - it’s too crowded”

I mean, the one I’m at is mostly doing a hiring freeze. Management is frothing at the mouth over using AI. But there are currently a lot of people working here, some full time and some under dubious “contractor” arrangements.

and I am constantly telling them that in the workplace situation, to not be afraid or hesitate to act on something.

This really depends on the workplace. I’m at a megacorp and trying to fix anything is far more pain and work that just not.

Like I could try to convince them to move off of python3.9 because that’s old and well past end of life. But I need to explain that to my boss, the business lady, some other manager, “the audit team” (whoever the fuck they are), and then grapple with how they have 5-10 years of code and not a single line of automated test coverage.

There’s no reward.

Many people are just as stupid as him.

Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education

The book “dying of whiteness” has a whole section about this. They interview a lot of people who are survivors of gun suicide and find that for political reasons they don’t want gun control, even as they admit their loved ones are dead because guns made it so easy to die. One of them even privately says she agrees, but would never say so in public.

I’m out of the loop now, but when I was younger there was a weird divide between the youth/young adult stuff, and adult.

The adult stuff was a lot of traditional “sit and listen to a talk”.

The youth was a lot more hand on, interactive. “Let’s start a bonfire, write down our fears, and throw them into it”. “We got people from the community to teach how to make instruments out of junk”.

I really liked it when I was younger, and met a lot of kids who were very cool.

Maybe I should see what’s on offer around here. I don’t want to go to a “service” but I miss the community sometimes.

That’s like several months of food. Or years worth of video games. That’s so expensive. Even if I was a big fan of the sport, I wouldn’t be able to justify spending that.