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"there's toxic, radioactive, sludge all over the front yard! What the fuck this is terrible! We need to get rid of that"

"There's a huge pile of old tires in the back yard, too."

"Yeah that's no good. At least my kids can play on it like a jungle gym. The sludge though, we need to fix asap"

"So you love tires and garbage??"

The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It's just vibes and rich man hubris.

They're bad people and too many folks are pretending they're not.

Is this happening on android, too?

Not in any way I can discern! She's in the planning meetings but her entire role seems to be sharing her screen so people can tell her what to click on. (This is excruciating to witness. It is so slow.)

Sometimes she'll say "remember to check your capacity!", but two other people on the team say that too.

She seems to be entirely non-technical, too, so she doesn't have much input on any of the discussion. The inter-team stuff is handled by two other people. (A lady of importance whose title I don't know, and some sort of business analyst)

Sure, "brightness" or "intelligence" might not be innate and immutable. But at a given time, some people are more or less various things that get called intelligence. Maybe they're just having a bad day. Maybe they're more routinely making bad decisions because of poor peer examples and nutrition. It's not always their fault.

But if you go to the gym with a machine that lifts the weights for you, you don't get any stronger. The point is not that the weights get lifted.

I think a lot of people really struggle to understand this.

People straight faced say things like "why would i read a book when and write an analysis when i can just have a tool do it for me?". The teacher doesn't really want to know your personal analysis of Dracula. They want you to practice doing analysis.

I think there's some sort of unfortunate synergy where the people who are less bright are more likely to go for AI, and by virtue of being less bright they're less likely, less capable, of dealing with and recognizing the hazards.

The place I work at I wouldn't say is "over staffed" but it is maybe "wrong-staffed".

They have a full time "scrum master" and from what I can tell all she does it share her screen so people can awkwardly tell her which tickets to click on, and she calls on people in order during the morning meeting. That's a whole-ass job. Meanwhile, devops is like crying blood because there's like 2 of them managing decades of systems, and no senior engineering roles have been backfilled after people left for years.

That doesn't sound so bad

The problem is clearly that management is stupid. Futurama meme: why does the working class, the largest class, not simply eat the owning class?

That aside, even if Dave worked as intended, and doubled productivity, who's keeping all the extra profit? Some dudes who aren't doing any work. Fuck them.

If fines scaled with wealth that might create an incentive for the police to harass rich people instead of poor people. It won't, because the police serve the wealthy, but it's a nice day fantasy.

I hope I never become so befuddled that pushing one chat bubble icon instead of the other is confounding.

I don't understand how some people who are ordinarily reasonably smart just turn into subhuman intelligence when faced with a new computer thing.

My dad is quite elderly and he manages to run ubuntu fine. My mother, on the other hand, gets confused and angry if anything changes at all on her phone or laptop.