Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
I’m only shocked that the “euphoria” hasn’t collided with the disappointing reality yet. At least not catastrophically.
It seems the more abstracted the financial systems are, the more the finance industry can bullshit its way through. And at this point, money is just whatever numbers they type into their computers. Just completely made up and detached from reality.
Hold on, let me just solder together several billion MOSFETs and I’ll sell you some homemade RAM on the cheap!
a floor price the company says comes with “a very robust gross margin for Micron, well above our peak quarterly margins in any past cycle.”
Fucking robber-barons.
“strategic customer agreements”
Quick question: what consumer is agreeing to this?
Yeah the explanation was fine but the “What? That’s a very different situation” seemed unnecessarily hostile. But maybe it just have my panties in a bunch today, it could be me
Okay, so the argument does not apply to that situation. A simple “no” would have sufficed…
Does the same argument apply to calling janitors custodians “sanitation engineers”? I’ve seen that some places.
Like, if the word “custodian” is too offensive, then maybe it’s just because the job sucks and comes with stigma, and anything you call it is going to sound derogatory after a few years…
I get that it’s a critical job, and the people in those roles should be treated with dignity and respect like everyone else. The social stigma is wrong, for sure. But simply changing the title doesn’t solve anything…
It’s on a bunch of reading lists. In my early twenties I had a libertarian phase (cringe, I know, but I’ve evolved into a democratic socialist), and I saw it recommended several times on lists like “books every sovereign citizen should read” or shit like that.
I bought a copy but I got bored in the first twenty pages. Probably because I could already tell that the guy was a piece of shit but the book was trying to make him sound cunning, and that didn’t jive with me. I’ve always hated big corporations, even before I realized socialism is actually good.
human adverts become the new low rent influencers, with people professionally walking around sticking adverts everywhere
People have already been doing that for decades…
It starts to prickle your skin, “watch this short 30 second ad to disable the itch for 30 minutes!”
Five minutes later, starts to prickle again.
Or:
You’re talking with your mother about such-and-such, suddenly your shirt starts blaring an obnoxious influencer screaming “HEY LOSER! DOES YOUR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR RELATIONSHIPS?!?”
You’d think with all the trans programmers out there we would have more tech companies built by leftists…
But I suppose the leftists are the ones building the platforms for a pittance while the generationally wealthy right-wingers are the ones paying people to do all that work…
Is it gonna sing me a song?
It sounds like you were just watching 2001: A Space Odyssey
Antidepressants don’t fix existential dread. They manage serotonin deficiencies. That’s a hardware issue, whereas existential dread is a software issue with no possible solutions.
When you realize that nothing objectively ‘matters’, to ‘the universe’… you are now free, to decide what matters to you, instead.
That’s great, but… what if nothing matters to me either?
Some buildings trap heat and can actually be hotter than outside, with no airflow and often the humidity of dozens of sweating humans.
Yes, outdoor labor is strenuous and working in the sun is draining. But at least the air moves (usually)
Be careful what you wish for.
Aren’t you always out posing as a leftist? And now you’re saying workers should have to pay for the tooling that their employers force them to use?
You’re no friend of the working class.
Oh, my bad. I didn’t really need to take offense to it, I was probably just grumpy and didn’t know what else to say. It wasn’t that big a deal.
But no, I wasn’t trying to be dismissive of your argument qua software engineering, but I see how it came off that way. I think it was a good argument, I was just bringing up something tangentially related out of nothing more than free-association style banter. In hindsight it wasn’t really that relevant to the conversation anyway…