Multiple Clown Levels

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Evil

As usual, the person in the post below exhibits several different layers of clownishness.

Which pilot do you think will perform better, will take more risks, will be more likely to get the mission done?

1) The one who knows he or she, when shot down, will be abandoned and left to be tortured or killed by thugs?

2) The one who knows that thousands of people will put in every effort to get you back, to save you from that fate?

Hmm, I wonder. I mean, to me it doesn’t take a genius to determine which pilot is likely to do a far superior job, to have much better performance as a pilot. But most people can’t think, and those who can rarely do. Like a lot of the idiot left worldwide, of course, the doof below is not even attempting thought. He’s just anti-American.

Git Away

Chill Annoying, Tech

Do sysadmins need git?

I think we need something like Git, but just not something so horrible and complex to use.

Git is great — if you’re a full-time developer. Ok, not great, as even among devs only about 10% can use it competently. But it does some things they need while being way over-complex.

But it does almost nothing I need. I’d use something like Git all the time if it were about 100x easier to use.

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Lack Of

Chill Political Economy, Tech

It’s AI. My company has canceled at least one hire due to no longer needing the role since AI is doing 100% of the job.

And that’s how it’ll happen. Despite flashy layoffs (Oracle, Microsoft), most of the results of AI will be people who are not hired: junior and even mid-level people in various tech fields just aren’t obligatory to bring on board any longer. And that is only going to get worse.

So, in other words, the problem is not and won’t be firing. It’ll be lack of hiring.

And yes, this will soon happen to other fields1, as it always does. As usual, tech just gets hit first.

  1. Already is, really, but harder to see in the numbers just yet.

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Never Start Always Stopping

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Good. That start/stop feature was such an annoying, worthless piece of crap. Especially growing up with cars that often would just shut off randomly, it increased my aggravation level higher beyond all reason whenever I was cursed with a rental that had that execrable feature.

It truly sucked so much to drive one of those cars.

No one will miss it. No one should.

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Fake Imm

Chill Regular-ass Post

All of the rich nations who are being overwhelmed by Islamic terrorists and parasites should band together to buy land in Africa or somewhere else to house them. Any “refugees,” economic migrants or asylees go there. That’s their new home. Provide enough troops to safeguard it and send some food (enough to survive), but that’s it. Then after a series of years-long evaluations, education, and tests, you can move to a real country.

I bet that would cut fake immigration 99%+.