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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • This isn’t surprising. I was born long enough ago people still remembered a DNC that “tried” and “did things” as opposed to trying to be Rainbow Flag GOP for Her. If you were born in 2000, the DNC you’ve known your entire life has never DONE anything for you (or been caught trying) other than passing a further right version of Mitt Romney’s health plan. They’ve never SEEN anyone even make the left wing argument except AOC and Bernie, who have been kowtowed into neoliberal lapdogs, while the only group of people making any argument things CAN get better is the MAGA crowd with their Handmaiden’s Tale shit. If you never make a case, don’t be surprised when people vote for people who are at least making one.




  • The management culture emphasizes a workflow that’s heavy on low skill junior devs and cheap foreign labor of highly variable quality. You caaaaan do that well with infinite planning and QA and project management and test-driven design, but the reason you’re trying to do it that way to begin with is you’re an under qualified yes-man careerist dipshit trying to come in under budget and time, so you won’t. And these are the wages of low wages.














  • The backlash to this is going to be fun. Having lived through the .com boom/bust, which wasn’t a scam, the web was actually the future and was undersold if anything, no one with the stink of computer on them outside of a tiny elite could get decent fulltime work for like 5 years. AI is a scam, full stop. It has virtually no non-fraud real world applications that don’t reflect the underlying uselessness of the activity it can do. People are going to go full Butlerian Jihad from Dune when this blows up the economy, and it’s going to suck so much more for everyone in tech, scammer or no…