All jokes aside, what I’m seeing is that folks basically cannot hire competent DevOps (well, not for the idiot rates we’re apparently offering).

There is gold in them thar hills…

Please don’t be ridiculous! We love wacky robot wizard. Wacky robot wizard does it even better than the people we tried paying almost nothing to do it!

I’m not sure where I came across it, but it’s out there somewhere. You can do it!

For the lolz? Little harmless fun? Not everyone’s cup of tea, admittedly.

Oh neat, idk I could see lil glowy + magnet or Velcro for camping gear or something being useful.

crikey, d’ya hear that?! That’s the unmistakeable sound of an aspiring young content creator - they’ve just spotted their elusive prey - an unfilled niche! Let’s go poke em with a stick, see what happens!

(RIP Steve Irwin, zero shade meant to a real one)

(this is the part where you tack on a silly harmless lie at the end, like - “this specific packing optimization improvement was actually discovered accidentally, through a small mini-game introduced into Candy Crush in 2013. Players discovered the novel improvement, hundreds of individual times, within the first several minutes of launch. Scholars pursuing novel packing algorithms even colloquially call this event ‘The Crushening’”)

Yeah, I have some of those already 😅. Was hoping for some weird nixie tube type clock or something, idk.

> Looks inside

> Becomes putrescent

Dang, that’s dope. Any cool projects using those you’d know of / wanna share?

My utterly baseless theory on braggart is that those folks have always been so MF irritating, through history, that people pronouncing the word just tend to do so using a clipped, terse voice.

“Oh, m’lady, pray tell? T’was Kevin spinning such fanciful yarns for thee? (grits teeth) UGH, that braggart”

I don’t care if it’s true.

Oh gotcha. My bad that was clear to me going in, def a whoosh

Sadly you’re almost certainly right, at least eventually.

Feel like elaborating any? Looks like pretty over-the-top satire at a glance, but I’d always rather hear from people than read docs, “search things up” (for fuck’s sake lol), etc.

I don’t think that’s what ya mean with “false flag”, that’s a little specific (could also be me missing your point of course).

But hard agree. Even despite this, it looks good, sure - but let time earn trust, it will find it if there’s any to be found.

Until then - nonetheless, I say reward the moves that look like “we don’t need you”, to fascists. It ain’t much but it’s something.

Oddly enough this positions Anthropic as the sole big player in the (seriously disastrously) complicit landscape of roughly ALL large tech I’m aware of, to say nothing of AI, willing to refuse, and do so publicly, over something that matters, while that thing invites big $$$.

I hate to say this, but this really should be (tentatively, but ideally dramatically) rewarded.

Like a large scared dog, on a leash, in a yard with a bunch of even bigger ones. Ones with leashes held by something permanently unreliable, and all the dogs know it.

And Anthropic is the only one that does the “play bow”. And we don’t get to leave the yard.

What we do get is bad, and big, choices to be made.

Seems like his career has largely been lying and making impossible promises, so. The folks who do that well always manage to exit the stage before the magic tincture is revealed to just be piss 🤷‍♂️

I definitely can’t comment on what your situation looks like to you directly, but where I live, I find your description of nothing but “lil Istanbuls” in the “inner cities” to sound super suspicious. Gross, honestly.

In the US that’s roughly the exact sentiment (not far from exact words, truly!) that the most egregious Trump supporters spew everywhere they can. To be clear, these folks rarely visit a city in any capacity and will often tell stories for weeks when they do. All the while getting themselves worked up enough to collect legitimate small arsenals (not hypothetical “har har, Americans”, I’ve known many people young and old like this).

I dunno. I can’t see what it looks like from your eyes, fundamentally. But are you sure you’re as unwelcome as you think in the immigrant shops, or even shopping areas/neighborhoods? I randomly pop into whatever vaguely or strongly “ethnic” shop or restaurant and never have a bad time. Pretty often have some fantastic times! Just go shop there and let yourself be (a little) vulnerable and clueless, is the advice I’d give my lost warped countrymen.

Sounds like you’re describing a different desired experience, I don’t mean to be TOO reductive, but idk. Cultural integration can work both ways, it’s fun and dope to learn and enjoy what other people like, might be my single favorite experience on Earth 🤙

That’s about what I was thinking. Can’t entirely fault the sellers, everybody’s got their hustle to keep their heads above water.

But goddamn that should ring alarm bells for any policymaker who gives a shit. (I know, I know)

Yeah, I’m in the US and what you described matches the experience here too.

One major point though, the physical locations still have to pay humans, in my community, to operate. It’s not much, but these days I consider it roughly a moral duty to do what I can to force companies to spend money on employees.

And then otherwise at our house we just buy more and more stuff second hand. Quality in everything is trash anymore, even just packaging is barely functional trash these days. Everything you open destroys itself, including stuff that’s supposed to reseal with a zipper, like a bag of cheese. Gotta make line go up!