You mean walks like a goose

I don’t think you understand.

Socialism isn’t on the table. We’re so incredibly far from that. Let me know when the revolution is coming and I’ll be there for it… Until then we very real issues that we can make a bit better. Not good - we’re totally fucked - but we can make things less horrible

There’s a genocide in progress. We’re going to go through a depression. We can tea party the Democrats to be more progressive… There’s no time to build up something new

I can’t impress on you enough how many people are going to die

You spelled “take” wrong

It matters because the party isn’t the people, it’s infrastructure. It’s buildings, it’s support staff, it’s mailing lists and payment processors

It’s getting a special (often unfair) place on the ballot in all 50 states. It’s 50 (often flawed) primary processes that follow local laws

And it’s a banner. Not one people like, but it’s one banner. A banner that theoretically stands for democracy and the common man

The left is not organized. Do we rally behind a fresh, ideologically pure banner? Which one? How long to work out which group is the best? How long until we can build up that infrastructure?

Fuck that. Winning is what matters.

The people are on our side for now, there’s so much anger and energy. How long until they adjust to the new normal and go back to refusing to believe in a better world?

We have a chance right now. The next 18 months. In one sweep we can take a tattered banner and get in control - before people get cold feet. While they’re still just screaming for someone to stop Trump.

We can use the momentum to unfuck our democracy once we take control, but we can’t get distracted. There’s no room for purity or lofty ideals. We have to take what is offered and exploit every opportunity. We have to use the system against itself.

We have to win. Now. Or we all die

Why? The party is dead. They’re just holding onto their seats

Take the seats, you take it all. Keep the infrastructure of the party, keep the name recognition and the data they have, and replace the members

It’s happening already - Hoggs funneled money into Mumdani’s primary even as they try to ratfuck him out…

Fuck that, I want more Zohrans. I don’t care what color or flavor, I want socialists with charisma and honest eyes

You don’t understand. They never stopped, they aren’t distracting from Gaza… They needed another war to keep Netanyahu in power

No, the doctors hesitated because the law is not sufficiently clear (and because we’ve entirely destroyed healthcare) the doctors are accountable to the legal department of the healthcare system first. They’ll fire them for not following hospital policy, regardless of if the doctor is following the law or not

And being soulless monstrosities, healthcare systems would rather let you die than risk legal exposure

Thank you, I appreciate that… Fuck, now I’m doing it!

Thank you for your apology… Wait, you’re doing it again!!!

What a healthy conversation. I’m not used to it, it’s making me uncomfortable.

Fuck you no reason in particular!

I have no idea what you’re talking about, but I think you dropped this: .com.ru

Ignore it all you like, sadly it will affect you too

I got a temp ban on that subreddit once for saying that while the man in the story was clearly the asshole, the woman (op) was overly confrontational and made the situation so much worse than it had to be

It’s an anti-dating simulator… Kind of like an anti-joke or an anti-game, they’re subcategories of jokes and games

If you invert the game mechanic, you’re still using the mechanic. That’s very different from not using the mechanic

I think they’re trying to explain how this works in a dating sim.

This isn’t the first game to do it… Instead of trying to weave through the choices to date a character or characters, you weave through the options to avoid dating without getting a game over (or whatever game mechanic they use)

No way. If anything, that kind of thing just supresses people from expressing themselves honestly in a way that might help them.

Real human connection and compassion might make a difference. A cookie cutter template message is (genuinely) a “we don’t want you to talk about this here” response

We aren’t beholden to advertisers, we don’t need this

So I should suffer just to suffer? You listed a whole lot of things that they hire people to do just about as soon as they can so they can. And offloading that let’s them do their actual job better

I work with black boxes all the time. When I have a black box, I poke and prod it until I understand how to make it do what I want. And this particular black box was interesting, so I decided to open it up and learn how it works

That’s the essence of software development. My job is not typing or data entry, my job is to trick a rock into doing things humans don’t want to do

I’ve been doing it for more than a decade without help, I’m not any better at spelling or misclicks

And to be clear, I can do it - I just really, really don’t want to. I hate it so much, my eyes glaze over and I have to force myself every second of the way. It’s not interesting, there’s no puzzles involved… It’s basically data entry

No, it’s all different - like a normal use case is “write me a stored procedure to optionally update all fields on a row on this table” or “given the following json response, build a class to parse it into”

We have a ridiculous database and multiple new api’s to integrate with every year, so this comes up a lot

I use it so much. All my Google searches for syntax or snippets? Web searches are unuseable at this point, AI can spit it out faster. But the real savings? Repetitive code. I suck at it, I always make typos and it’s draining. I just toss in a table or an api response and tell it what I want and boom

It probably does write 75% of my code by lines, but maybe 5% of the business logic is AI (sometimes I just let it take a crack at a problem, but usually if I have to type it out I might as well code it)

What it’s good at drains my concentration, so doing the grunt work for me is a real force multiplier. I don’t even use it every day, but it might be a 3x multiplier for me and could improve

But here’s the thing - programmers are not replaceable. Not by other humans, not by AI - you learn hyper specific things about what you work on