Do people forget 2016?

Yes. That’s how Trump wins in 2024.

Millions of us are losing basic human rights for a while now.

The eugenists insisting that humanity is failed and we need a grand culling to fix it are at the forefront of that effort.

Americans after one bad election: “Everyone in the whole history of the world is trash and we should all be exterminated”

When are people going to learn to stop trusting the Americans? You only ever get stabbed in the back.

Meta will still influence people, because a lot of the influence is through news aggregators automatically ingesting what Facebook shows as “Trending” and regurgitates it elsewhere.

So much of Facebook is just automated accounts responding to automated accounts in order to milk gullible advertisers. If everyone logged off tomorrow, I don’t know if Zuckerberg would notice.

t makes me sound old but, kids these days have no idea the kind of hell we went through

I mean, whose motherboard still needs a sound card in this day and age? But then I could tell you about fiddling with the settings of an old dot matrix printer. I don’t think that qualifies me to set up a Kubernetes cluster or administer a data lake.

The “you kids today” rants seen to miss how hyper specialized computer hardware and software has become. No, Gen A is going to magically intuit an Azure DevOps Pipeline from first principles. Setting that up feels like I’m working through a Master’s Thesis on arcane file types. People need to stop pretending that knowing a bit of Regex from middle school entitled them to talk shit to a guy ten years their junior struggling with a customized .yaml file.

Gen Z/A are good at using tech, but they don’t really know anything about how it works.

Millennials don’t, either. A tiny fraction of a fraction had technical literacy 20 years ago and now they think they’re top shit because they can write simple CMD commands.

All this jerking one another off is crazy. I work in the industry and I’m surrounded by people my own age who don’t know what Active Directory is much less Linux.

Imagine a raspberry pi hooked to a cheap LCD for a 100x mark up

A bunch of government agencies are being told to do business exclusively on X, The Everything App.

Musk’s also trying to build out a financials tool within his ecosystem and to incentivize more people to do business in his preferred basket of shitcoins.

He’s a monopolist, working with other monopolists to corner the Internet as a marketplace. He’s not looking to give people a choice to use other tools.

China Sets Up ‘Planetary Defense’ Unit Over 2032 Asteroid Threat

This is just the plot to Don’t Look Up.

Vic3 hack where you hover your finger over the “Tariff” button and scream “I’m going to do it! I swear to fucking god!”

Then you turn off all the outflows from your National Treasury to save money and win instantly.

Attempting to integrate OpenAI with monitoring and launch systems that haven’t been updated since the late-80s is going to be a trip.

I will, however, be excited to see how we put the nuclear launch codes on the blockchain.

Building my entire data model around the Tienanmen Square copypasta. I can run this thing on a Raspberry Pi plugged into a particularly starchy potato and it reliably returns the only answer I’ve thought to ask it.

This is Whataboutism and you are clearly a Wumao agent sent here to destroy democracy.

The economics of the country is fundamentally fucked. Migrants aren’t “paying their way”, they’re “being exploited for profit and then disposed of”. Legal status is used as a qualifier for the right to minimum wage, to organize, and access to permanent property. When you can criminalize an employee for their place of birth, you can drastically renegotiate the terms and conditions of employment.

Add to the math how Mexico’s current national government has taken a hard left term. The AMLO government dramatically reformed labor relations, boosted domestic income, and improved housing and mass transit in the poorer states. His successor is going full New Deal on the Mexican economy, boosting employment and raising the standards of living with international trade across the Pacific.

Increasingly, people just south of the border don’t want to come to the US, which means we’ve had to turn to nations like Haiti and Venezuela and El Salvador to offset or demand for dirt cheap “illegal” migrant labor. Because these migrants can’t legally afford to travel, they’re being moved under financial schemes that treat them as indentured servants.

Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States

From 2013, but the conditions have only grown more extreme. In my home town of Houston, you’ll meet people who have effectively been trafficked working in restaurants and as part of cleaning services in hotels and out in the fields or deep within warehouses doing “the work Americans don’t want to do”. People who have their documentation seized and held as condition for repayment of debts. People who have loved ones effectively held hostage by their employers. People who recognize ICE as a tool of the employer to break up labor revolts and trap employees in jobs they want to quit.

Migrants aren’t paying anything. They’re being robbed at gunpoint.

Or just get shoved into an internment camp, forced onto a plantation farm, or shot and shoved into a ditch.

Look at how our private prisons already operate. So much of this feels like its moving towards state sanctioned kidnapping, forced labor, and mass executions.

They’ve had a cessation of hostilities since 1953.

The Panmunjom Declaration, signed in 2018 by Kim Jung Un and Moon Jae-in even began the process of reunification.

If only every war was this peaceful.

NK is some sort of paradise

The bar for “paradise” is so low. Just living in a country where you don’t have chronic homelessness, endless war, and rampant medical bankruptcy seems to qualify.