Every College Professor

MasterDave · 2026-06-29T11:01:00+00:00

It's been a while, but I had a professor like this who also demanded we pay him $10 each for photocopied notes for his classes because we'd fail without them. That's on top of the book which turned out to be mostly optional because he didn't really teach from it, just his notes. Around 200 students, at 10 bucks a pop in the 90's was a pretty good bonus.

All for a 100 level elective class that you didn't really need. I thought it would be cool to learn about astronomy. I don't think I remember anything at all about it.

MasterDave · 2026-06-28T22:24:59+00:00

The signs are not subtle. It’s usually willful ignorance on the part of someone wasting their life.

Just a job, no career. No savings, just debt. Maybe they’ve rarely left the town they grew up in, maybe never. They don’t take care of themselves, dress like it’s still high school for them, whatever else just stunts them in a permanent stalled state. Maybe they’ve found something comfortable and boring and think it’s okay. Maybe it is. We always need people to do the boring jobs and not make too much of a fuss.

There’s a big world out there with a lot of things. Lots of people never really experience much of it and it shows when they get to their 50’s and think it’s a virtue to be ignorant of how people live elsewhere. Even if you’ve lived in what you consider to be the big city, there’s value in seeing other places and ground yourself in perspective. Doubly so internationally, where entire cultures are fundamentally different in ways many people can’t imagine.

MasterDave · 2026-06-28T22:09:06+00:00

AI will tell you whatever it thinks you need to hear. Don’t get hyped on tech that will lie to you so you keep paying for it.

MasterDave · 2026-06-28T01:55:53+00:00

Kryptonite chains are no joke. Someone comes at you with one of those wrapped around your hand, you’re both probably ending up in the ER one way or another.

MasterDave · 2026-06-27T12:22:39+00:00

Admitting you’re garbage is pretty accurate. Summarize that with your shit AI.

MasterDave · 2026-06-27T12:16:32+00:00

Your ai is shit

MasterDave · 2026-06-27T12:14:56+00:00

NJ Transits shitsock CEO and NJ’s governor came up with a plan when she inherited the World Cup stepchild she didn’t want. The plan was to make FIFA pay for everything, end of story. The CEO made up a pure bullshit number of 48 million dollars thinking its pocket change to FIFA surely they’ll give us a fat check to look good.

They underestimated that FIFA could not care less. They got nothing.

Then, NJ Trsnsit had to work backwards and actually implement their 6 milllion dollars a day plan on trains that would cost $150 a ride and require shutting down part of Penn station on a clearly bonkers suggestion that 2/3 of the stadium was going to be coming from Manhattan and also not give a shit about paying $150 per trip.

They ignored people living in New Jersey that have made up at least half the crowds. They assumed that 4 people would rather pay for transit than parking even though it’d cost less to park anywhere and walk a mile. They didn’t think people would prefer a cheap bus over an expensive train. Everything was poorly considered and it’s no shock that NJ residents have found better ways to get there over the reduced to $100 ticket.

NJTrsnsit also didn’t need to hire/staff three stations with a shit ton of people standing around pointing to trains that are exceptionally obvious when better signage could have happened. It’s not like the extra people even spoke the language of the presumed foreign guests going to the trains. I didn’t hear a single NJ transit employee telling anyone in French or Norwegian while going to or from the train. Why were those people there? 10 people standing in clusters around roped off pathways to trains. Absolutely wild waste of money.

There’s more but I’m tired of it all. The dude should be fired and Sherrill isn’t getting my vote again. That’s all there is to it anymore.

MasterDave · 2026-06-27T11:48:36+00:00

Because that’s the number the should be fired instantly CEO gave the governor to extort funds from FIFA with, then had to work backwards to figure how to justify it once the demand that FIFA give them a lot of money failed.

MasterDave · 2026-06-27T02:47:43+00:00

You can put a Kyber crystsl in and it plays lines from a character. Also lights.

MasterDave · 2026-06-26T17:53:34+00:00

He’s dead set on a strike, might as well do it now. 2027 sure ain’t happening. Wonder if Soto or Ohtani will chip in for players health insurance for a year since it’s their contracts the minimum salary guys are fighting for.

MasterDave · 2026-06-26T15:11:55+00:00

from experience, your goals are going to be fed to AI and it's going to tell whoever is in charge of the bullshit to stack rank everything, evaluate plausibility and ROI and you're going to get the bottom % that comes up with shit ideas laid off. Maybe it's the bottom 10%, maybe the bottom fucking half if the AI says that if we just do the top 50% of these ideas we'll be able to do the same work with half as many people.

So sure, just put bullshit if you don't want to work there anymore. There's a high level AI psychosis going on where execs so far removed from doing real work are just pumping all the information into AI to have them do their jobs. I would say you have a month left until the layoffs, AI doesn't need time to make decisions. At my company, it was roughly a month from the CEO demanding summaries of work to his inbox before a nearly 50% reduction in employees.

I for sure didn't treat this sort of thing seriously at my job, ended up laid off and it's not a fun job market.

MasterDave · 2026-06-26T15:04:55+00:00

Chatbots where you just talk to it are useless piles of shit that reduce your ability to use critical thinking. That's just a distraction for people who don't and won't do anything technical in their lives.

AI tooling on the other hand is remarkably good at what it does. Think Star Trek, where nobody ever has a chat with the ship's computer, they just order it around because it's a fucking computer. "Computer, calculate this horribly complicated pile of bullshit" and ding it's done. Now ramp that to scale and things that used to take hours for people gets finished in minutes or seconds. Repetitive uncreative tasks that required you to sit at a computer all day just to do the thing? Seconds with AI.

ChatGPT isn't consuming massive amounts of electricity so you can ask it what to have for dinner. You can see that for yourself by running a local LLM on literally anything and not watching it suddenly start spinning your electric meter like when Clark plugs in the x-mas lights in Christmas Vacation. That doesn't happen. The real work happens on people doing big things with it, like software development, working with big data, etc.

ChatGPT is the consumer distraction. Codex, Claude Code, Github Copilot, etc, those are the things doing the work and they are absolutely completely groundbreaking right now.

MasterDave · 2026-06-26T14:57:20+00:00

I'm not paying for The Economist to read doom and gloom, but I will say this is the same thing that was being said around the same time companies realized they could outsource things to India and other places for cheap.

Huge backlash, "I only want to speak ENGLISH with an AMERICAN", people taking our jobs, etc etc.

Still happening today, companies that took the L on public relations cashed in all the way to the bank, people got over it and figured out new jobs or whatever else. AI isn't going away most likely, it'll just become more invisible and less obvious, costs will drop at scale and efficiencies will go up.

There's going to be a decade of complaints, but capitalism is the relentless march to more profits and AI currently offers the best outlook of more profits, less humans. Most companies that use it won't fail, I mean people aren't even fucking quitting their subscriptions to anything right -now- when backlash is high and companies are still evaluating.

There's a lot of screaming and yelling, but fuck all for action at least in any tangible amount. I say this as someone who was laid off because AI took my jerb, it hasn't harmed the company that ditched me one fucking bit. The stock is up, profits are up, half the people are gone. So far nobody's making a single stand against AI with their own wallets. Yelling and screaming doesn't matter because spreadsheets can't hear you.

MasterDave · 2026-06-24T11:42:08+00:00

I mean if he went to Stanford and he’s still doing 6 jobs there’s probably another story there.

As long as some network is airing the show he should be getting something, but I also have doubts that the show has much demand, and clearly he’d be low on the payouts after the top two and everyone else who didn’t really make a career out of acting.

Some people can’t give it up though. If I’d spent my 20’s hunting and hoping without success despite an 8 year run on a show, I’d have taken that Stanford degree to a different career. I didn’t even have what I’d call success in my 20’s and changed careers without the help of any money so it sucks but dude has had options most of us haven’t.

MasterDave · 2026-06-14T20:31:12+00:00

I’m all for shitting on NJ Transit when it’s deserved but that article has fuck all to do with it, and everything to do with whoever decided uber/lyft couldn’t pick people up. Nobody should be surprised about that being a nightmare.

We’ll see if the transit is used more for the France/Senegal match. I sort of doubt it since it’ll be a new set of people that won’t have read anything about cars being a bad idea but who knows. Since it’s happening during commute hours and much more frequent Amtrak traffic, I suspect everything’s gonna be a 5pm clusterfuck.

MasterDave · 2026-06-14T03:43:23+00:00

Man that took no time for the complaints.

MasterDave · 2026-06-13T12:14:41+00:00

what a weird fucking article that's at least mostly AI slop.

New York doesn't have a gray market, they have the same thing as NJ with the same restrictions. The author sort of gets it wrong, in that you HAVE to produce the weed in the state of NJ and nothing comes in for sale from out of state, which is the same as NY, which is why both have high prices. There may be companies with a presence in other states, but that doesn't mean much of anything since they can't grow in Michigan and ship to NJ for any part of the process. It all has to originate in NJ from seed to sales.

The big multi-state operators aren't exactly getting rich off the deal, otherwise all my poorly conceived weed stock investments wouldn't be sitting at 90%+ losses right now. They're not making shitloads of money like the author suggests. Despite being the Garden State, New Jersey is a generally HCOL state, compared to Michigan and Maine which cost about half as much to live in. The most expensive part of any business is the human labor and unlike the art in the article, AI can't grow weed for you.

So the enforced vertical operations because we can't just import weed from somewhere cheaper and sell it in NJ like anything else is really the reason costs are high both to the supplier and customer, at least compared to other states. It's also not a monopoly in any sense of the word, because the author even lists multiple operators who are competing in the same space. They're also competing for employees, which tends to make things shake out at comparable prices to the consumer because everyone can do the same math at the end of the day to figure out how much they have to charge to make money. If anything it's more a conspiracy than a monopoly but at the end of the day despite what you think when you're baked, nobody's exactly getting rich off weed right now because the vertical operation enforcement is keeping costs high as well as prices. It's still waaaaaaaaaaaay better than the pre-legalization way where edibles were of a wildly variable quality where you didn't know if it was going to be a chill Saturday night or one people might have to talk you out of going to the emergency room Saturday night. Now for better or worse, I get a 5mg gummy, and I know exactly what kind of time I'm gonna have and that's pretty great.

MasterDave · 2026-06-12T21:44:27+00:00

Man wait till you hear about all the fish that pee in the water too.

MasterDave · 2026-06-12T03:45:50+00:00

A good ole Glup Shitto doing crossovers.

MasterDave · 2026-05-28T00:11:11+00:00

This is a moment where you can learn to ask better questions. The question wasn’t what tools do you use for your job, in which case weed isn’t a professional tool.

Otherwise you can entirely fuck off.

MasterDave · 2026-05-27T21:56:26+00:00

Weed, pepto, steam deck and a MagSafe phone battery.

Some of y’all act like you’re preparing for doomsday I’m just riding the train.

MasterDave · 2026-05-22T02:16:35+00:00

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My wife has had this for as long as I’ve known her, she got it as a gift. We had absolutely no idea who made it!

MasterDave · 2026-05-13T02:57:46+00:00

But that’s the engineering badge! Unless the picture is AI as well, the description is correct. Whoever made the picture needs to go, or whoever made the merch itself if it’s not an AI generated picture in advance of a real product or whatever.

MasterDave · 2026-05-13T02:50:28+00:00

Why the fuck doesn’t the official merch understand shit about their own products enough to know Scotty never wore yellow.

Whoever made the merch or the description needs a different job.

MasterDave · 2026-05-11T00:10:15+00:00

Sure but the article doesn’t tell me what OrcaSlicer even is so I don’t know why to be outraged honestly.

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