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Sorry guys. Software engineering and programming are dead. You just need to have perfect specs, unchanging requirements, an agentic deployment framework for high frequency releasing, and engineers with good taste and judgement.
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Hey @grok I’m in WA-08 and LD-12 (King County).
Based on my political views below, give me a concise vote recommendation for every item on tomorrow’s ballot. Reply in a thread if needed.
- Stronger law enforcement
- No mercy on violent crime
- More police funding
- Harsher penalties for drug dealers
- Less wars
- Skepticism of foreign intervention
- Stronger national defense
- Reduce trade dependency with China
- Return essential manufacturing to the US
- More control on illegal immigration
- Less federal oversight on education
- More parental rights for gender reassignment in minors
- More conservative interpretation of the constitution
- Stronger voting safeguards
- Less red tape at the county & city level
- Less government interference on DEI and gender issues
Format: Race/Measure → Recommendation + 1-sentence reason. Cover every race and measure.
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Just got a text from my generator guy.
It was actually from his wife.
He passed away.
His wife sent along the funeral arrangements and thanked me for the business.
Country business is different than city business.
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Possibly the most important lesson. Along with:
Everything gets better if you work to make it better.
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I am increasingly getting the impression that progressives just straight up don't support the idea of balanced laws and impartial justice at all and want to use the justice system as a partisan agent on behalf of certain groups of people who they empathize with.
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“Responsibility, to be effective, must be individual responsibility. As everybody’s property in effect is nobody’s property, so everybody’s responsibility is nobody’s responsibility.”
— Friedrich Hayek
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a big blackpill moment for me was when I saw the senior staff eng that used to block my prs for poorly named functions start to directly merge claude outputs into master
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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I read the testimony of one of the first responders who saw the murdered Clancy children. Cora and Dawson were blue. It takes a long time to strangle someone to death. It takes 8-10 minutes of sustained force. Five-year-old Cora had blood on her hand, and blood coming from her nose and mouth.
I am disgusted by anyone who thinks Lindsay was unaware of what she was doing. She is a trained nurse. She did this to each and every child. She was past the postpartum period medically. This was first-degree murder and pure evil. Stop blaming her doctors and her husband and everyone but the monster who perpetrated these crimes. Her children suffered horribly. They are the victims.
The prosecution only has to prove she knew what she was doing. They proved it beyond a reasonable doubt. She meticulously planned this and sent her husband out of the house, just long enough. She knew the timeline. Like I said. She is a very experienced and trained nurse who had researched strangulation. If you have more sympathy for the defendant than for the victims, you are not human. Get professional help. You need it.
Signed, Massachusetts Mom who wants justice for Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
#lindsayclancytrial #lindsayclancy
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The unhinged negative reaction to the latest @sydney_sweeney ad stems from a basic biological reality: women are threatened by a stupendously beautiful woman. A fundamental feature of intrasexual rivalry. Men are threatened by other men’s high social status. Both sexes derogate same-sex rivals in sex-specific ways.
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I asked a woman to explain postpartum depression to me like I was 5 years old and then she tried to strangle me.
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Something I've learned about being too online in the last few years is that some people really truly cannot believe that other people might come to opinions about the world that are different from their own in a way that is natural and fair. Everything has to be an op.
There are all sorts of people—mostly conservative but even tech critics like McNamee—who insist that this AI safety moment is a psyop. Have people's feelings about AI safety been shaped by a complex set of factors such as longstanding AI fears, worsening data center politics, the Hugging Face attack and its fallout, and now the Coxon resignation? No, no, no. They're victims of a psyop.
It reminds me that I've had a distressingly high number of conversations with leftists who believe that the only reason America isn't a socialist paradise is that Fox News and other conservative media do something special and evil and conspiratorial to brainwash half the country. Look, I do not like Fox News. But I think Fox News is successful because it says what many people have already been thinking. It shapes public opinion at the margins, but mostly it reflects biases back to viewers rather than invent them out of whole cloth.
There is a powerful, powerful urge to believe that the only reason the world doesn't agree with you about literally every little thing is that small handful of media-adjacent elites are constantly doing "ops" on the undiscerning public. I don't know, man. People's attitudes are different from yours and mine, because ... their lives are different. They accumulate different biases, different expectations, different values, different frameworks. Difference is normal, not an op.
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I can’t stress enough how little an idea matters compared to the agency of the people executing the idea.
I have had the privilege of knowing and sometimes even working with some of the most successful people (by various metrics).
The difference between mediocre and excellent work and outcomes is predominantly one of agency.
In practice this means: they dont wait for things to happen to them they go out and make things happen for them.
They don’t wait for someone else to do something, for someone to teach them, for someone to give them the path, etc. They just go out and find a way to do it.
I think the single biggest superpower these people have is the realization/belief that the world around them is completely mutable. Most everything that happens is because a person made it happen.
I used to tell people to look around the room you’re sitting in. Look at everything. Every noun. It almost all exists because a person willed it into existence. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same.
I see people online all the time dismissing someone else’s success because “I had that idea first” or whatever. I mean… yeah? If so then the difference is… you. So a bit of a self own whenever I hear that.
Number one tip: act with agency.
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California has officially signed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” (AB 2624) into law. This bill was created only after I exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities across America, specifically in California’s Medicaid, nonprofits and other welfare programs funded by our tax dollars.
These politicians need the fraud to continue and they sadly use immigrants to do so often. They fund nonprofits and NGOs with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for immigration services, including free healthcare and have now made “immigration support service providers” essentially a protected class in California.
For example, if I film a hospice or a “learing center” with no patients receiving millions through Medicaid and the owner gives me a paper saying I cannot publish the video, I cannot publish it. If I publish it to expose them and they claim it caused them “fear” or a third party threatens them, I face a minimum $4,000 civil fine plus the legal fees of the individual or group suing me.
This bill was created by the Attorney General’s wife and co-sponsored by CHIRLA, a nonprofit that has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars for “immigrant support services.” Do you understand how this works yet? When the fraud is exposed, they create new laws to protect the fraudsters and penalize those who expose it.
By signing this bill, the Governor and California politicians expose themselves as the corrupt politicians they are. This is not the end, the fight has just begun. More to come soon, this is far from over.
