Requiring public servants to publicly disclose health issues creates more problems than it solves and is not realistically enforceable. In a perfect world, a public servant would want to act in the public’s best interests and would step down if they were unable to do their job effectively.

In reality, that’s not what usually happens but requiring public disclosure of health issues is not going to solve that.

Wells Fargo committed mass fraud and identity theft and got a slap on the wrist.

Wells Fargo is a crime syndicate masquerading as a bank. They should have been penalized out of existence. But there is a double standard of “justice” when it comes to corporations vs individuals. When you’re a corporation, you can get away with just about anything as long as you dont piss away all the shareholders money.

In a society driven almost entirely by greed, the love of money trumps justice and the people in power will gladly look the other way if it means they can avoid even a small financial hit. The penalties become nothing more than a formality. A cost of doing business. And the crime spree continues unabated.

This dad joke is just “burying the lead.”

At least Wisconsin learned something from the Foxconn scam.

You’ll get a one time $1,200 check and 5 years of your employer using it as an excuse to not give you a raise while they rake in record profits.

If anything, this will expedite the mass migration to web apps. For better or worse.

“We walked to school and saved Prince Håkon from the Baglers up hill both ways in the snow.”

Trying to keep from rolling on my back so my obstructive sleep apnea doesn’t decide it’s time suffocate me awake at 2:00 AM.

Also, wages are depressed.

Oh, those horrible Somalians. Out here trying to checks notes earn a living and afford food like the rest of us. How fucking dare they.

“OMG. Our product is so ‘smart’ that it ‘escaped’ containment and hacked other orgs completely on its own.” – OpenAI

“We made version for your kids. It’s totally safe.” – Also OpenAI.

Hmmm…

“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you." – Lindsey Graham

and tbh for actual engineers, that part isn’t new. that’s basically the job. you get a repo, you get a ticket, you find the relevant code, make the change, test it, etc.

That’s the easy part of the job. The hard part is getting the business to make a god damned decision without three months of fucking around and executives asking if we can “do ‘it’ with AI”, long before anyone has established what “it” is.

That whole interview would be fucking hilarious if it weren’t with the President of the United States.

We all have an inner basic white girl.

One time I was chatting with an old neighbor and he asked me if I wanted to see pictures of his kids when they were born. I said “yes” because who wouldn’t say yes to that.

What he actually meant was, "Do you want to see pictures of my kids while they were in the process of being born. That was quite the surprise.

Since then, I’ve witnessed the births of my own children and at no point in that process was I thinking, “Oh, I better get some pictures of this.”

On one hand, this will backfire spectacularly as outsourcing IT nearly always does. On the other hand, it’s emblematic of the current state of rural healthcare in the US, which is collectively on the brink of collapse.

“We’re concentrating our resources on the areas that will drive results for our most pressing needs, improving the core product, making Reddit a go-to search engine, and expanding internationally.” --Steve Huffman

“Wait. No! Not like that!” --Also Steve Huffman

Help! I can no longer code. It feels like there’s an anvil on my chest.