This is America. We have no conscience left to shock.

Everyone is waiting for the aha moment where we’ll finally arouse the long dormant inner decency of the masses of this country and we’ll all rise up against the evil that has made its home here but it never comes.

War crimes (at best)

“Wanderfugl” is a name so bad it legitimately sounds like a Rick and Morty joke.

They should make a new chatbot called “healthy” that gives you pointers about how vaccines cause autism or tell you to enhance your immunity by swimming in super fund rivers and eating rotting, severed whale heads.

Just kidding, they should all go fuck themselves.

It’s bad when I watch pluribus and think about how great the Internet must be because all of the botnets would be shut down and there’s only like 12 people that would bother to use it.

I thought about buying a framework 12 for kicks but it’s Intel only and for that reason I’m oooout.

I read a margin breakdown on every big box store in consumer reports and Costco was the lowest margin store there was. They make most of their money on the subscriptions.

There are also some items (beer for instance) that are drastically lower in price versus the competition. So much so that you can make your membership fee back in a couple of trips.

But yes, admittedly they do not have 100% unbelievable deals.

If I saw that obvious issue, what is their fucking problem?

The engineer’s problem is that the marketing and sales department started running all of the companies two decades ago. So, they’re constantly overruled.

Same here. I didn’t understand why anyone would want a double thick (or now triple thick 🫨) phablet that folds out into a full tablet.

The razr I bought two years ago is the first phone that comfortably fits in my pocket in like a decade.

It’s just that capitalism rewards the worst actions taken by the worst people.

Um, unregulated garbage late stage capitalism sure. Maybe that’s all capitalism, because it does seem like it degenerates to that in every case. 🤷

The only way to build a better one is by fighting for it.

That’s exactly what democratic socialism is. It’s the fight for a better world.

It’s funny to me that folks can easily see the flaws in “the other side” but never their own side. Like, pretty obviously communism sucks in reality (the theory is well meaning) because you “have” to go through single-party socialism first, and once people get power they’re unlikely to ever give it up, but just as obviously capitalism sucks in reality because if a business has too much money and no government is enforcing antitrust it can buy up all of the competition.

That’s why you’re better off with a compromise. That compromise, IMO, is democratic socialism.

It’s fitting for 2025 that the center for disease control has the position that diseases should be out of control.

EVs have completely killed “the car guy” to me. Like you can just buy a run-of-the-mill EV and it can easily have better overall performance characteristics, better energy efficiency, and require less maintenance than a random “sports car”.

But hey, I guess it doesn’t go “vroom-vroom”, set off everyone’s car alarm on the street when it passes, and doesn’t function as a dead giveaway that you’re an asshole creep who is having trouble masking their psychopathy.

Go ahead and slant the CPI reports too you fucking stupid idiot. The only people that care about the fucking things are people on wall street. Most people shop for their own groceries and can see with their own two eyes that prices are increasing. All but the most devout of your cult members can tell you that you’re full of shit and inflation is still terrible.

Dude, I think you’re making up a guy to be mad at. People more often like AI because of vibes. There’s a fucking thing called vibe coding, and I’m supposed to take people seriously as software developers as they use the phrase.

So, then you are in favor of the disclosures?

Sounds absolutely fucking awful.

I mostly agree with this, but in corporate software the stuff mostly either doesn’t exist or is outdated to the point of basic inaccuracy.

I’m talking readmes that still have the template information in them or have stayed the same since the first commit.

IMO the best way to use this crap in software development for projects that already exist is to have the fucking things write up or amend docs.

Developers mostly hate writing docs, and in corporate software I’ve found that the docs are usually added once and then never verified again.

Writing up profuse gibberish that contains some amount of useful information is what these bullshit machines were made to do. Have it write up some docs, read them and make sure they aren’t completely insane and get a pat on the back from your boss for working with “agentic AI”.

Doubt