Boomer Humor Doomergod

In the past the people who knew about tech were promoting new things and the people who didn’t were skeptical.

With AI the people with less technical knowledge are gung ho and the ones who understand are skeptical.

Which is why I threw up in my mouth a little when my boss said we all need to be more bullish on AI this morning.

I was at a tech conference in Raleigh right after the announcement and the Red Hat folks were bummed.

Maybe not eye tracking, but probably head tracking.

Yes I am dad

I’m a simple man.

I play Civ VI.

As Victoria (Age of Empire)

Continents and islands map.

I’m not here for surprises.

Good. I hate the global economy.

And maybe if the western countries had a lick of sense it wouldn’t end up this way. But we got addicted to cheap plastic crap and let the Chinese leapfrog us.

Because if we’d left decarbonization to the west it would never have happened.

I never wrote that.

But if a side effect of utterly dominating the west in decarbonizing has the side effect of saving the climate I’m not gonna complain.

What goalpost did I move? You said they’d be built with slave labor which means they’ll still be cheaper, right? And in the meantime we decarbonize huge segments of the global economy.

Don’t be mad just cause western countries wanted to take advantage of slave labor as usual and are getting bitten in the ass because of their greed, or that West Taiwan is doing it better.

So the Chinese tech will still be cheaper.

Gee, maybe sending almost all our manufacturing to another country was a stupid fucking idea

Then maybe western companies can finally compete with them despite being ruled by obligate capitalists.

Which sounds like a good idea for everybody. Maybe other countries should do the same thing.

I’m no fan of West Taiwan but they’re doing a lot more to decarbonize than most other major economies.

Chinese carbon emissions may have peaked this year and they’ve deployed more renewables than the rest of the world combined.

We are ruled by monsters.

Ban paper.

Kids could draw boobies on it.

Nah I’m good thanks. I don’t even want to talk to an AI.

Now going outside and befriending some small creature, or hugging a few trees? That sounds nice.

And a nightmare for an application developer told to make some app with a spreadsheet for a database scale

I’ve never had problem finding a WFH gig. The last five jobs I’ve had since 2011 have been at least partially WFH. And I’m a very schmoey Joe

The hardest part is really having a separate room for work, especially if other people live with you.

What sucks is that was the starting wage when I got into the tech industry back in the early ‘00s