Hopefully the homicide rate against ICE staff goes up soon though.

True story. I started studying for a final basically the night before the final, but quickly realized I just wanted to play video games instead.

So I spent an hour and a half pulling up all my previous scores in the class, including two copies of the syllabus from two places just to be sure. I made a spreadsheet (in OpenOffice at the time, haha) laying out the scores and weighting them a few different ways per interpretation of the syllabi.

All models basically indicated I could skip the final and sleep in and, worst case, still pass the class by something like 1.2%. I checked, double checked, triple checked my figures.

…and then I spent the night playing video games and purposely didn’t set an alarm the next day.

I was very relieved to have passed the class by the 1.2%.

I was not a good student. I do not advise this. I think I graduated by like 0.1 above the minimum required GPA.

I don’t disagree with the necessity of a class war.

But when people like this inhibit progress towards a class war, they will be removed as a hurdle and I will absolutely be happy about it. There is nothing wrong with that.

It isn’t about disagreeing politically, I disagree with friends of mine politically. It’s about the fact that they go out of their way to hurt others and cause suffering, and they think it’s fine.

I’m not OK with that because I’m a human being that cares - sorry you don’t understand that.

I grew up with people saying, “happy as a frog on a log” or something.

Ah, yes, let’s go with that.

No, it isn’t.

As someone who games banks as best I can this would absolutely not work.

Dang, that timeline sounds great

Afraid of quitting not so much, but they are underpaid for their skills. At least for what they need the person was more skilled than me, but being paid ~$40k less. So…yeah…

Yeah, but just think, the wife’s various MLMs she keeps trying really help the community…

And the husband’s BBQ skills really help the neighborhood…

Improved efficiencies should mean we all benefit across all sectors and ways of life.

But improved efficiencies actually mean none of us benefit except those at the top. We should all of us be paid more, have more time off, and have more excess - but at a high level we are all paid no extra, we get no extra time off, we get no excess - that all gets enjoyed by those at the top.

This is one of many reasons this should be a class war, not a culture war.

A recent job I had, Product kept saying this over 2ish years…

…at the end of the stint and with ~2 weeks until launch, they laid off all but one person on the team (some 12 engineers or so, myself included).

I often wonder how much shit that person is wading through leading up to launch and post-launch fighting fires.

I really hope these people I knew of who purposely moved to Texas to support Texas politics lost their home. 🤞

Is that mean of me? No, these people constantly voted for things that hurt or even killed people around me. They pushed beliefs that actively harm other people. I would have zero remorse if my wishful thinking came true.

As for what we do next, I wish my state would stop paying federal taxes.

The problem is LLM use will become de facto standard to get by, and then the corporations that own them will cater output to drive sociopolitical change (for the worse).

It isn’t the focus of the movie and as such, wasn’t the focus of the movie. So, yeah, I guess?

Feel free to message me, maybe I can help. I create web apps and other tools for companies as a career, so the only caveat is that I’m pretty booked right now so my ability to take it on would really depend on the complexity.

I know this is the case in Oregon (where I live), but is it true in every state?

let it rip

Yeah I mean if we’re going to be framed as doing the things we aren’t doing…

…let’s just do them.