If you think paying labor leads to stagnation you’re in the wrong community

I remember in high school I was starting to get into music. “Classic rock” from my parents, metal from my cousins, pop punk from other places. Nothing too esoteric. When I was talking about music one day, one of my friends was like “You wanna see my music collection??” I went sure, and he opened it up. All video game soundtracks. Final Fantasy, mostly.

I’m sorry to say that was a young teenager I was a shit and made fun. I wouldn’t do that now, but I still feel a little bad about it. I very rarely would pick a video game soundtrack to listen to, but it’s such a harmless joy I should’ve been nicer.

Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don’t care about other people very much.

But these people get off on being jerks. There’s something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn’t work right.

You’re missing the point, so yes you do seem stumped.

I only saw them once, so my memory might be foggy. I remember thinking Force Awakens was pretty okay. The Last Jedi was pretty okay. Rise of skywalker was a steaming pile of shit.

There was a build-up towards “it doesn’t matter who your parents are - anybody can be important” that got completely reversed in the last film.

What does that have to do with the ownership class extracting value from labor?

And you think that costs more than the productivity gains from having the computer?

If that was true, if it was a wash to get the new tool for the owner, they wouldn’t do it. That’d be silly.

Upgrading someone from pen and paper to a laptop with LibreOffice is probably going to dramatically (let’s say 4x) increase their productivity, without a corresponding 4x increase in maintenance cost.

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.

I want more people to think though

“If this tool makes me produce double, and I get paid the same, who’s keeping all that new value?”

It’s a good game, especially with mods. I don’t really like DND very much, but it’s still worth playing.

That doesn’t sound so bad

Hahaha! They don’t write tests. They are unfamiliar with the concept of unit testing.

I had to explain to them the concept of “you import your function and call it with different arguments to make sure it returns what you expect”. It took a couple tries.

Meanwhile, the head of the “quality” team keeps telling me that I should stay in my lane and not tell the developers how to do their work.

I mean if I had a wheelchair with a camera attached so it, I expect people might not let me in certain places, and that’s kind of on me for buying that wheelchair

I was trying to convince my boss that buying skills (ie: learning) is better than renting them forever from the AI, but I don’t think I convinced him

Every conservative accusation is a confession

Fuck cars. Fuck big private tech.

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.

Maybe! On the other hand, he would read whole books on the clock so that’s pretty anti-management. People are complicated.