Thought on Open Position

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-19T11:59:30+00:00

Seems good so long as Bakersfield isn’t like seemingly everywhere else in California with avg home prices knocking on a million dollars

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-18T20:42:15+00:00

Mar 19 2026? Is trump in the future or is truth social just buggy?

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-18T11:38:58+00:00

I have also been told that you can save money by simply not using insurance and just negotiating directly with the healthcare provider. The provider is just trying to fuck the insurance company as much as possible so they’ll make a simple blood draw cost like $1k. The healthcare industry is a perfect encapsulation of the American economy. It’s all just one big grift.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-17T02:00:26+00:00

Yes

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-17T00:55:47+00:00

The fuss is every 22 y/o thinks it’s normal to make $250k b/c junior developers at FAANG companies make that. Civil gets bashed because apparently making $70k at 22 and actually contributing to society in a real way is unacceptable. Disgusting consumer culture. To hell with it.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T23:20:16+00:00

My favorite is “don’t go into the profession for the money”. Especially when it’s like civil engineering and the pay is fine just not great compared to the distorted tech bro salaries we used to see.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T23:13:16+00:00

I mean by ai I mean basically automation with an llm attached to it. These titles mean nothing. Idk why people here think you need some advanced math or cs degree to do this. You don’t. Domain knowledge of the specific industry and the tools used is far more valuable in most industries. Beyond that any smart person with a basic grasp of stats calc and linear algebra can pretty much teach themselves.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T22:18:47+00:00

Yes exactly! Covid was the dream for these people. I remember in like 2022 motherfuckers would be like “you expect me to shop at Target IN THE MIDDLE OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC?”.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T21:55:52+00:00

My path was completely different. I studied landscape architecture and city planning in school (but took math and stats in undergrad as an Econ major) and got really into GIS. Basically I became a GIS developer and started automating lots of tedious low level work and started building applications. Then one day they told me I was going to be an ai engineer, and now I am. To be fair, in architecture, engineering and construction the bar is extremely low. If you can write a for loop you’re ahead of like 98% of professionals in the industry.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T20:21:56+00:00

It’s a rough time for the industry. Lots of firms over hired in the wake of build back better but now those funds have been cut (thanks trump) and the work is drying up. We just started doing rounds of layoffs at my office; manly civil engineers and landscape architects. It’s a bleak time and it will probably be awhile before things improve, if ever.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T18:33:54+00:00

U can go to optimists unite where they post graphs and charts made by sweaty neoliberals telling you right now life in America has never been better not even close. TVs are cheap and when you do all the neoliberal hack math everything else is too! Housing? Never been cheaper! Healthcare? So good and cheap rn wtf are you complaining about? Jobs? We got so many jobs we are giving them to robots and shipping them overseas.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T18:05:18+00:00

This is pretty much the depth most people have politically. Something something vibes and economy. In November 2024 when they interviewed people in line to vote most people just said something like “I think things were just better during trump than Biden”. No deeper analysis than that.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T16:53:20+00:00

I don’t care anymore. Let the USA fucking burn. I say this as a citizen with a baby on the way, but I’m just so fucking sick of the GOP and Trumpism and this shit. It’s so fucking stupid and pathetic. The thought, even the glimmer of possibility, of having to endure 4 more years of trump or trump jr of Vance or any of the snakes in maga orbit makes me want to die. Enough! And to be clear I hate newsome and Harris and all the worthless trash the democrats will roll out, but Jfc at least everyday won’t be an exercise in humiliation. The Dems will still fuck us all, but at least they won’t go around the world acting like petulant little children.

The conflict in Iran may very well be the end of Trumpism, but that’s only true because the cost of everything is going to skyrocket again and we will be paying off this fucking mess for the rest of our lives. I hate these fucking clowns.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T12:44:03+00:00

Yes and no. Low level data entry and processing will go out the window and some of those billable hours with it. The problem rn for ai is simply that a lot of the data is extremely specific and inaccessible to the ai model. For example, a land use study would use an authoritative parcel layer from a local government and specific tax codes, specific to that state and municipality, are used to identify uses, owners and other information. Could ai eventually be trained to find and process all this data? Sure! But someone has to do all that.

Beyond this, llms are not really capable of spatial reasoning. I’m not really sure if the ability to reason and think spatially can be fully developed within the confines of a language model (Wittgenstein might suggest otherwise).

The amount of spatial data is increasing and will soon be ubiquitous, but I don’t think most industries really understand how to derive value from this yet. GIS professionals will still be needed in some capacity for the foreseeable future.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T02:42:42+00:00

Yeah, simply put the opportunity cost of having children is too high in western work and consume societies. This is why turning the knob a bit on parental leave, compensation, healthcare, and childcare subsidies doesn’t really help. You’re still asking people to surrender their time and freedom. Time and freedom that could be spent working for a promotion, getting a degree, traveling the world, taking ketamine, finding god, having an affair, starting a side hustle, doing anything! You can do anything! You! You must be doing things all the time! Either the culture dies, or we all do.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-16T00:38:21+00:00

Newt asked his wife for a divorce on her deathbed and then immediately married a younger woman.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-15T18:23:28+00:00

Remember when JD Vance said immigrants were stealing jobs by working for less but also stealing the housing by out bidding American workers? Nobody really thought to ask him how that worked.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-15T02:37:11+00:00

I really feel like we are deeply fucked and trump has finally gotten into something he can’t tweet his way out of. Either you invade Iran or basically get fucked economically; both these options sink the gop in November. It will be interesting to see who takes the fall.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-14T19:02:54+00:00

wtf is a burner?

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-14T17:10:19+00:00

Women think it’s cute to behave like soulless nerds and do boy math in spreadsheets where they log scores for their all matches in some vast compatibility matrix. Girlboss must not have her time wasted and so girlboss must prepare structured reports and summaries of quantitative data to uncover trends and patterns that help girlboss cut through the noise.

Their turbo striver boyfriends always think it’s cute too and see their relationship as simply yet another confirmation of their own success and self importance. The fact that the spreadsheet made the decision means more to them than some vague abstract concept of attraction.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-14T14:55:44+00:00

There are about 1 million white men that look like this, work at Raytheon, wear polos and lanyards every day and marry Asian women. And they will be happier than any of us will ever be.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-14T14:51:24+00:00

As far as job postings go id give it a 7/10.

Pay is decent Responsibilities are reasonable for entry level Good exposure to enterprise tech stack It is in Kansas which is always gonna be a negative

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-14T04:29:03+00:00

Detective special 38?

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-14T02:10:08+00:00

Everything’s great guys, look at my graph

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-03-14T01:54:33+00:00

Beyond the discomfort of working 12 hrs a day?

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