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Self-driving cars were never a good investment. It's a really hard problem that doesn't really get us to a better world. All that money could have been spent on public transit, which has a whole lot of benefits.

I think one of my friends is a member there, and said it's been pretty wild. Some very long emails were sent around.

I don't know how anyone can still support Israel but here we are.

In the US, we don't have healthy institutions that can do that. They're all corrupted by racism, lack of funding, lack of accountability, and insane religious people.

Maybe the post wasn't in the US, but also other places may have similar problems.

Unfortunately, most of the maga hats are idiots. They'd rather lose all their money if it meant they could be more racist

I'm reminded of "a libertarian walks into a bear". Right wing folks have a poor model of the world

Capitalism is giving bad outcomes. Labor is divorced from the results of their work, and people who contribute little to nothing (or less than nothing) grow wealthy.

We don't need to go all the way to full communism in one shot, but I'd like to think most of us can agree the current system is unacceptable

Right? This keeps happening when people try to sell me on LLMs. We already had better solutions for some of this stuff.

I think it's a sharp contrast with the cops that let a school shooting happen while they were outside, for example

Yes, we should expect people to do their jobs. In an ideal world, that is. This world is far from ideal where we have ICE, trump, shit cops, etc.

You don't understand small talk if you think it has no functional purpose. Small talk has several purposes.

One, it sends a bunch of signals. I see you. You see me. Neither of us are threats. We have a shared language.

Two, it's how you find deeper topics to talk about. "What did you get up to this weekend?" "Oh, hung out with my friend. We saw a band I like - All Dogs - do a surprise anniversary show. You do anything big?"

Three, it lets people choose their level of engagement. "Cool, sounds fun. I stayed in, watched some TV" signals minimal interest vs "All dogs? Never heard of them but I love live music. What's their genre?" signals interest, and now you can a little deeper on music.

If you just plunge directly into deep stuff that's like skipping foreplay and lube. It's probably going to make people uncomfortable.

I feel like just walking up to the base and shooting at fascists wasn't a well thought out plan, but points for effort.

Maybe someone will use a bomb or find out where they sleep next time.

Sure, it wouldn't be an easy live starting with $500k, but I think with strict budgeting and low costs you could stay in the black and grow your principle. And if you get any job at all on top of it, it's even easier.

Anyway, yeah, was just spit balling how much a difference the money could make.

A lot of bosses think developers’ entire job is just churning out code when it’s actually like 50% coding and 50% listening to stakeholders, planning, collaborating with designers, etc.

A lot of leadership is incompetent. In a reasonable, just, world they would not be in these decision making positions.

Verbose blogger Ed Zitron wrote about this. He called them "Business Idiots": https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/