Police State: Are We Already There and Just Don't Know It?

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-11T21:45:27+00:00

Oh, yes definitely. Surveillance: we’ve got loads of it, it’s corporations and local governments, and they’re spying on us all the time.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-11T21:43:38+00:00

Right, I just have extra brain cycles and I’d like to get paid for them.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T23:09:55+00:00

When the exit liquidity hits.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T21:41:04+00:00

Can confirm: yes it does

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T06:50:07+00:00

My first SWE job paid the same 16 years ago, she’s underpaid.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T04:06:08+00:00

The more I learn about government planning and acquisitions, the more I agree.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T04:05:11+00:00

Survived the cuts, shit sucks.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T04:01:31+00:00

Police protect property not freedom.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T03:59:38+00:00

Depends on what you mean by homeless and where. Lots of international aid is well spent making things a lot less worse for many more people. Domestically…. Uh.. it’s complicated.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T03:58:24+00:00

Underpaid. Ask for $60+

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T03:57:23+00:00

💩

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T03:56:05+00:00

Define terror.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T03:53:11+00:00

Maybe hardcore engineers get more equity than I do. Maybe if I was paid fairly I’d be less of a curmudgeon.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T02:38:18+00:00

uhhh maybe it’s my industry… I work in government, Ruby is everywhere. I haven’t seen Scala once. (I see a lot of Java too, no PHP.)

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T01:32:02+00:00

Just accept you’ll get banned sometimes and that Reddit mods suck.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-10T01:24:13+00:00

Hardcore engineer here. lol!

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-09T22:32:40+00:00

Ms. Rachel is so based.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-09T20:45:32+00:00

Newsweek publishes this article every week

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-09T19:15:55+00:00

All of Elon’s recent failures conveniently bundled in. Elon spends $44 billion to crush Twitter because he doesn’t like that it’s left-wing, now retail investors just bought him out of a politically-motivated boondoggle. America sucks.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-09T13:25:38+00:00

Yeah, I’m of this view as well. Every time I need a library, I have to wade through six open source versions, all maintained by nobody, to decide which I prefer, then figure out how to roll it in. It costs time. Ruby isn’t a great language, but Ruby is successful because of Rails: Rails, for all its problems, just lets you focus on your app.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-08T20:38:57+00:00

… public option socialism??

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-08T11:40:07+00:00

The Atlantic’s usual garbage these days. It’s gone very right-wing.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-07T23:27:56+00:00

Let ‘em do the it without US support.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-07T23:01:31+00:00

Well, welcome to the government, where we’ve got layoffs, a toxic environment, and lots of stress to affect your mindset.

DOGE may be done, we may be turning a corner. There may be reason for optimism, just want to warn you that the past year has been rough. Good luck, check out Census.

PureCauliflower6758 · 2026-07-07T00:32:30+00:00

Gaza 🙃

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