I feel a bit of schadenfreude for this one. I was bullied harder in Boy Scouts than I ever was at school or church. None of the leaders ever noticed or did jack shit about it. There was an expectation of physical strength and ability that I was never able to meet. The uniforms were ridiculously expensive. And the higher levels of the local org were deeply cultish under the surface and intertwined with the Mormon church in bizarre ways (this was before the Mormon church stopped being an official sponsor of scouting).

I know things have gotten better lately, and the current administration is incapable of doing good things, but if Scouting goes bankrupt I will not shed a tear.

Saw a teacher mugshot, saw “high school teacher arrested,” assumed something much worse.

Weed? Yeah, make her pay a fine or something

“average new yorker harasses women” factoid actualy just statistical error. Sexual Harassment Georg, who used to be mayor and sexually harasses over 10,000 women each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

I first discovered this video after searching for “pregnant conan o’ brien milk,” which I swear I wasn’t doing for a weird reason, it’s just a kink I have

Microsoft Office: it’s not even good enough for international criminals anymore ™

I use whatever line completion is built into JetBrains out of the box. Other than that, no AI whatsoever.

Only about 10% of my time at work is actually spent writing code. At least double that time is spent reading code, and the rest is documentation, coordination, and communication work that depends on precise understanding of the code I’m responsible for. If I let AI write code, maybe (doubtfully) that would save a little time out of the 10%, but it would cost me dearly in the other two categories. The code I write by hand is minimal, clear, and easy to understand, and I understand it better because I wrote it myself. I understand all the code around it, too.

If you ask me, AI code generation is based entirely on non-programmers’ incorrect understanding of what programming is.