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I actually had “an entire country fails the Bechdel test” on my 2024 bingo card.

That’s because apple wants to form an abusive relationship with you where you try to justify all the dumb shit they do because you build it into your ego identity.

The model should basically refuse to engage for some time after suicide ideation is brought up, besides mentioning help. “I’m sorry but this is not something am qualified to help with, if you need to talk please call 988.”

Then the next day, “are you feeling better? We can talk if you promise never to do that again.”

Right, and both of these ideas represent the same form of flawed modernist structuralism which has been largely supplanted by more contemporary theories which take a more pragmatic view on harm reduction as an iterative process in pursuit of post scarcity materialism. This is literally fucking Dengism, but if you say that people should do that stuff, and also value individual liberty, it’s shitlib and the ppb spam. The entire problem is that so many MLs immediately reject any form of leftist revisionism which doesn’t mesh with, questions, or even dares to reject the authoritarian traditions of Mao or Stalin as some kind of capitalist conspiracy which has infested western academia. This is as ridiculous as it is ignorant and seems to betray their underlying motivation not as one which seeks to uplift workers, but one which seems obsessed with some long defunct geopolitical rivalry. It’s exhausting, and frequently very stupid, despite these people believing that they are some collective political ubermensch.

This is why it’s so frustrating, because tankies being overrepresented in online leftist spaces is one of the things which harms the acceptance of leftist ideals more than most of their imperialist windmills.

People aren’t scared away from socialism by economic democracy, egalitarianism or radical direct action. They are scared away by confrontational and aggressive tankies defending tyrants, who seem to care more about relitigating random cold war drama than lifting up workers.

Honestly I think the .ml folks have shown themselves to be such zealots that they should be considered a potential security threat to the broader fediverse.

The more places defederate from them, the more opportunity and initiative there will be for alternatives to their largest communities to grow.

I actually hire engineers and I do notice that the zoomers seem to have less general computing and IT skills, though I think some of that has to do with how the curriculum has changed. Software engineering and CS is just way more specialized than it used to be and isn’t just a slow evolution from computer engineering these days. So you don’t get that broad computing background which starts with electrodynamics and works up through digital design, comms, networking, and ultimately software.

For my purposes, this knowledge is a big part of what differentiates a developer from an engineer (and proper computer science is a different thing entirely) which has made it really difficult to figure out what to expect from a software engineering degree.

Hobbyist communities are often built and maintained by a handful of hardcore power users who end up dragging a bunch of their bad, wrong and occasionally dangerous ideas into the mainstream. If they are questioned on these ideas they react ferociously, because they have spent a long time defending them and now they are ego issues.

It’s a real double edged sword because on one hand these people really do keep hobby communities alive, but their stubbornness often ends up putting the community at odds with actual expertise.

The annoying part is if you are actually an expert, but you want to contribute to the hobby community, and you get run off for gently questioning the bizarre hobbyist dogma which inevitably forms around a handful of power users.

Based on the picture, I think he is subtley communicating his problems with impotence.

Yeah, currently every politics thread on the fediverse which gets any traction is hijacked by the same few trolls. Last year they were doing “DNC corruption” and “Blue MAGA.” This year they are all “Genocide Joe.” It’s insanely transparent. I get people have different opinions, but these few individuals do literally nothing on the fediverse but drop the exact same comments in every single thread which has the word “Democrats” or “Biden” or “Harris” in the title.

To be fair, corporate logos are specifically designed to take advantage of quirks in human cognition to make them distinct and memorable. Most plants pre-date human cognition, and the ones which don’t tend to be the ones people recognize instantly.

He’s not the Messiah! He’s a very naughty boy!

I legitimately do not understand how people can spend that much time at home and not go stir crazy. That doesn’t mean I want to force people into a situation because of my preferences, but gaddamn, having no context switch between work and home feels way more dystopian to me.

The problem is that this opens the door to far right bootlickers who a salivating at the idea of turning reddit into an even farther right shithole.

Heil piss baby Spez

This is why we only hire competent engineers.

The last time I bought a SIM in the UK I was told specifically I could not buy it with cash.

Reliable and fast delivery services also means less space devoted to parking lots and can generally be a really good way to transition communities away from car centric infrastructure. People just hate because cynicism is way easier than thinking critically.