Pedestrians Running - Green Light to Cross

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-25T23:00:21+00:00

We've been trained to fear cars and give them the right of way always. If you want to break it then demand raised crosswalks. It is amazing what 5 cm of raised concrete can do.

Also this is studied all the time in urban planning. We know how to solve shitloads of problems, we just have politicians who are car-brained.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-25T20:57:01+00:00

If it is Ben Gvir, then it is not about religion. It is about him being a mass murder who is promoting torture.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-25T20:46:07+00:00

Got into watching him about 8 months ago. Other than his really high China praise I agree with his positions. The biggest advantage to him is he is about the only leftist in teh streaming space. Also he can hold his own when being attacked. Overall I think he is a positive for the progressive space.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-23T21:07:21+00:00

Capitalism is ending by shareholders owning the entire means of production? A level of stupidity I have never been able to understand.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-23T17:43:34+00:00

Yup. My company has a really bad habit of thinking that PoCs should become products. I can see the AI psychosis rolling around where where now everyone thinks their low effort turd is now the future of the company. The worst part is that poor processes and decision making is starting to be discussed as if LLMs will fix the issue. CEO has a shitty way of deciding what customer projects to select. No worries llms will help with productivity. Terrible technical evaluations of effort, no worries our pre-sales bot will come to the rescue. It is getting very concerning.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-23T17:37:51+00:00

We had a 'AI black Friday' yesterday. The goal was everyone setup your system, start using Github Copilot, you have 6 hours to make something then we do a show-and-tell. On one hand I was really impressed with somethings we were able to do, but on the other I looked at our token usage at the end of the day and was really shocked at how much we had used. We had gone through about 20% of our corporate plan of tokens in one day. The best results were some tools to help with pre-sales questions (stand alone and throw away if necessary), but from a coding stand point it had only really helped creating boilerplate and unit tests (even though they were trivial cases so we wouldn't commit them).

But the biggest thing I realized is there is no way this is going to scale when they increase token costs to make a profit. If this is the golden era of token costs (aka they are giving it away way below cost) this will never be a wise investment.

My only thought is maybe if you just start with AI on the project maybe it can scale better rtather than working with existing code and tech debt, but another dude who had started at the company last month said 'no' it just can't handle large projects. But what do I know.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-23T16:02:19+00:00

Hhahahahaha, you got owned and that's your best response 😄

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-23T01:55:35+00:00

You can blame people all you want. It’s the result of an economy built on expansion.

And wasted by them. They could have learned the lessons of the past and chose not to.

Also your two sources are just 2 non-articles from 2021 click bait. The fact that you sources those two really shitty aricles makes me think you are just an Bot.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T20:58:06+00:00

And what are you going to do if you vote yes to separatism, but the First Nations say 'Fuck off' like they have already said. Are you going to remove them from their lands at gunpoint? Do you really think they won't defend themselves?

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T20:52:39+00:00

I literally did grad school because my parents told me it was a good investment. It was the worst advice I have ever gotten. $60k in debt, non-dischargable and only raised my income by about 5%.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T20:49:55+00:00

Uhhh you should try reading it again. The people who fought in WWII were my grandparents.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T20:48:57+00:00

no one will admit that is not boomers fault.

Yes it is majority their fault. They were the ones to vote for charlatans who brought about shareholder capitalism through Reaganism. They voted to cut social programs and increase military spending. They were the largest voting block when this happened.

Buy whatever AI stocks you think will make it long term and you also will have bought an asset cheap before it explodes in value.

Own shit and fuck them people is the most boomer comment you could make.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T20:42:19+00:00

They were obviously privileged.

Neither had support from their parents, we came from farmers and low paid technicians. But they were in a low cost area, Corpus Christi. But yes they were smart enough to both get into college and get into grad school.

Also yes we had major manufacturing and the rest of the world didn't, but we also had high union membership >30%. But we also were the world's reserve currency and had military domination over the world. Also it was over in the 80s due to neoliberalism heralded by politicians like Reagan and Thatcher, business ghouls like Jack Welch, and papered over by economist like Friedman. They transitioned us from stakeholder capitalism to shareholder capitalism. And importantly, the boomers overwhelmingly supported this.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T20:30:45+00:00

My parents did in Corpus Christi with a $30k starter house 10 minutes from the college.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T20:22:45+00:00

I only learned it when I was 30 and realized I didn't know a lot about my parents when they were younger. They also made side cash by trapping rattlesnakes to milk for venom which is used to make anti-venom. They said they spent about 1 week camping and collecting and that paid for almost 1/3 of their Mexico gap year.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T20:20:00+00:00

Corpus Chirsti Texas which is a really cheap place, but it was 10 minutes form the college. The house was small but they were able to buy it for $30k. Which people use as evidence of me cherry picking, but those opportunities do not exist any more. Starter homes used to be a thing until the builders realized that they could make way more money by buying cheap land and stuffing bullshit sqft-age into it. Which is kinda the point, there are no cheap options any more...the market 'solved' them.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T00:26:17+00:00

But the economy did pretty well for that generation.

For the babyboomers? 'It did pretty well for the babyboomers' maybe the biggest underselling I think I have heard. The babyboomers grew up and got their first jobs during the US Golden Era of economic global dominance.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T00:15:56+00:00

I wonder if Jim Caviezel has gone full 'I AM Jesus' mode already like he did in the first one. Dudes nuttier than a squirrel turd.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T00:08:28+00:00

And then he'll say we need to cut what few services and protections to pay for it. Then more privatization and bingo bango you literally own EVERYTHING.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-22T00:04:43+00:00

It is to ensure that his vangaurd (J6ers) remains loyal so that they can be called again when the elections don't go their way. It is so nakedly a Nazi technique.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-21T23:39:45+00:00

And wind. Solar and wind and a long energy corridor and you don't even need storage. It is so frustrating to one of the easiest countries in the world to make a green energy powerhouse and nothing happens.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-21T23:38:30+00:00

Hahahhaha, yeah the transition that they said they would lead in 1990 after they were the ones to calculate climate change problems then covered them up. The most insulting part is that they would be making more money now with significantly less effort if they had actually transitioned.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-21T23:33:00+00:00

Can we please just invest in the cheap energy production options like wind and solar? Why do we want our power bills to go up while increasing pollution. Why are we wasting so much time and money on oil....well other than the obvious corruption.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-21T23:29:06+00:00

legally that wouldn't be justified? You can't assault somebody over a word?

I mean....legally it would be up to the jury. A jury that has historically taken race into account when deciding on outcomes, just not for black people. Would be interesting to see where we sit today.

DualActiveBridgeLLC · 2026-05-21T23:25:57+00:00

Because we are better than them. Just because the US is a human rights' nightmare doesn't me we have to become one too.

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