theneverfox

Who gives a fuck about that, it's tied to making the executive branch immune to contempt charges for ignoring the courts, retroactively no less

And it has a soft abortion ban (and maybe birth control too?) by banning any health plan that gets government assistance from providing it

And then there's weird shit... Like indoor tanning is getting a tax cut, as well as gun silencers

Also, there's the stuff on the label... Stripping food and medical care from the most vulnerable people. Which also fucks over farmers, because food stamps are a farming subsidy

This whole bill is really, really bad

So I should suffer just to suffer? You listed a whole lot of things that they hire people to do just about as soon as they can so they can. And offloading that let's them do their actual job better

I work with black boxes all the time. When I have a black box, I poke and prod it until I understand how to make it do what I want. And this particular black box was interesting, so I decided to open it up and learn how it works

That's the essence of software development. My job is not typing or data entry, my job is to trick a rock into doing things humans don't want to do

Of course - they certainly have to be replaced.

That's what the struggle over the dnc vice chair position is about - someone won who wants to use funds to primary representatives "asleep at the wheel", so they're pulling out procedural reasons to redo it

There's a plan... It's not a sure thing, but it's building a lot of momentum

People don't know what socialism is...Most people's understanding of socialism includes the government doing basically anything

What people want is free healthcare, affordable housing, tax the rich. We just need to double down on that populist messaging - and when they cry out "that's socialism" we have to stop trying to run from it

Tax the rich. How are we going to pay back our deficit? Tax the rich. Why does everything suck? Because we haven't taxed the rich. What are we going to do in office? Tax the rich. Isn't that socialism? Who cares, tax the rich.

Harris lost by a razor thin margin, and there's legitimate concerns that they cheated (more directly than usual). They lost because they tried to ease up her messaging to avoid alienating the people who were always going to vote for Trump

We need to rally around what everyone wants - free healthcare, affordable housing, tax the rich to do it. Just chant that over and over. Anyone who does that is going to win

No, we don't have time for that. We just have to do a tea party on the Democratic party... Which is what she's been doing

They do have to go, but we're keeping the house and the dog

Well... Yeah, that's why we're taking it over. What do you think all the tours and rallies are for? The fight is on, actual progressives and opportunity chasers are positioning themselves for it... It's happening

It's tea party time

I've been doing it for more than a decade without help, I'm not any better at spelling or misclicks

And to be clear, I can do it - I just really, really don't want to. I hate it so much, my eyes glaze over and I have to force myself every second of the way. It's not interesting, there's no puzzles involved... It's basically data entry

You say what project they'll be transitioning to as less and less bug fixes are necessary. Could even be dlc

I use it so much. All my Google searches for syntax or snippets? Web searches are unuseable at this point, AI can spit it out faster. But the real savings? Repetitive code. I suck at it, I always make typos and it's draining. I just toss in a table or an api response and tell it what I want and boom

It probably does write 75% of my code by lines, but maybe 5% of the business logic is AI (sometimes I just let it take a crack at a problem, but usually if I have to type it out I might as well code it)

What it's good at drains my concentration, so doing the grunt work for me is a real force multiplier. I don't even use it every day, but it might be a 3x multiplier for me and could improve

But here's the thing - programmers are not replaceable. Not by other humans, not by AI - you learn hyper specific things about what you work on

Yeah, it takes longer

I always tell people "I need something to ignore"

And it's mostly true...I need background sound. And not just white noise - I need something with meaning

Put me in nature, and I'm fine. Bird tweets, rustling of the leaves - I'm at peace. I'll hear even a squirrel hundreds of yards away, but I know what's going on. I just need to know what's going on around me in a way that makes sense. The creaking of the building, distant cars, muffled footsteps... Just the unnatural silence

That's what freaks me out