King of England, beware!

Do you hear that? It sounds like the squeak of tank tracks, circa 1968 in Prague. Or maybe 1956 in Budapest.

The term includes those devs who carry water for the Silicon Valley vulture capitalist crowd as well.

You know, one of the things I resent the most about shits like Thiel and Andreessen and Altman going around with ideas like supervillains from a Saturday morning cartoon is that whenever I try to talk to other people that aren't familiar with them about their ideas, those ideas are so excessive and ridiculous that I end up looking like a crank and conspiracy theorist just talking about them.

I kind of feel like dating apps are sneer-worthy in another context anyway, but this comment does a decent job of summing everything up:

Wow, a new way to rip whatever joy was left in dating through the pursuit of profit!

As I've mentioned before, software "engineering" all too often produces the digital equivalent of the First Tay Bridge.

But then, I've had a reverse snobbery about the term "engineer" for several years and it still chagrins me that my job title includes the word when I'm really a technician.

James Bond vs. George Smiley

inb4 "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people"

In retrospect, maybe it's kind of a pity that Silicon Valley as a collective didn't struggle this much with an adequate answer to "what are customers :S", because it might have stopped some of the biggest bullshit that came from them.

also most useful jobs are more brain-dead than chess, i.e lawyering

This sounds like the rationale that myopic ancap arseholes had when they came up with the "smart contract".

Well, yeah. They're also partially responsible for the anti-choice movement in Ireland.

"LibsofTiktok" is clearly just a right wing actor making liberal viewpoints look stupid, yeah?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libs_of_TikTok