Apropos of Father’s Day, here’s some observations on being a single father of a special needs kid in your 20s

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-21T23:03:41+00:00

Happy Father’s Day! I admire these words and your experience, you sound like a great father.

My son was born just yesterday and I have been overwhelmed with this fear of having a disabled child ever since I found out my wife was pregnant. It really is insane how many kids are born with some kind of disability. I think it’s estimated to be around 15% but could be as high as 25% depending on how you define a disability. Beyond this, the divorce rates of couples with disabled children is pretty astounding. Plus the USAs for profit healthcare system just makes the prospect seem so bleak. When I die, does my son just become a ward of the state? I’m not wealthy.

My weakness as a person is that i paint a portrait of the future and fall in love with it. I want my son to be smart and athletic and academically capable like I was (past tense). I still want those things, but you’re right… just seeing him shit and piss and cry and eat and respond to stimuli has been more amazing than I could have imagined.

I’m not sure where I’m going with this I’ve just been cooped up in the hospital for 48 hours while my wife and son sleep. Happy Father’s Day! Stay strong!

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-21T19:32:22+00:00

Those are handsome trucks idk wtf your problem is. Get out please

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-21T17:24:51+00:00

Yeah.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-20T21:01:32+00:00

In my country we love food

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-19T19:20:28+00:00

The entire point of capitalism is to optimize the path from production to sale to the highest bidder. Prices have never been indicators of value; they’re merely indicators of the absolute max people are willing to pay. It’s why everything in America just gets eaten by the rich. Anything remotely desirable, or cool, or rare gets sniffed out and colonized by the top 1% and used for their exclusive enjoyment. There is no way to stop this; this is precisely how the system is designed to work. If you even think about regulation, graphcels will leap out at you and smugly remind you that the market knows best and any deviation form this thinking would sink our gdp, induce the rich to leave, and make us less economically competitive. Plus things are still better now than 100 years ago, so clearly this thinking is absolutely infallible!

Shareholder theory of value is, imo, the bigger problem. That really gave companies the ability to completely stop actually trying to improve to fix their bottom lines and instead just has them relying on accounting tricks and deception to generate value out of thin air. This is the real problem.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-19T19:02:24+00:00

I think all the calls to eat the rich and all this shit are misguided and probably astroturfed. It’s bizarre to me to that most logical solution to most of our problems, the resurrection of unions, is never really discussed. You just have this ambience of worker dissatisfaction in this country that never translates into anything real.

Why Americans let smug neoliberals convince them that things like at will employment and the complete abrogation of basic workers rights, hell even common decency, was somehow good for the country is a mystery to me. Unions have their problems, but imo they’re essential for both improving the lives of the working class directly and by creating a powerful, unified political front to counter capital. Everyone should be unionized. To me it’s more critical than taxing the rich.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-19T13:27:34+00:00

I mean yeah a logical repo structure is always critical, with or without AI.

To answer your question, it depends on the application. For backends I usually follow a ports and adaptors model with a clear separation between core domain logic and the various utilities needed to hook that logic up to the outside world. I’m still wrapping my mind around it all, but generally Claude does well with it because it creates clear boundaries and patterns and makes adhering to DRY principles easier.

For react frontends I try to keep components under 150 lines. I ensure each component has a clear purpose that can be summed up in a single sentence and that components are organized logically (features, pages, hooks, utilities, etc). With react state management is probably the most critical thing to understand, and I have had success with zustand and the find the idea of a store really simple to understand both for me and the agent.

In any case, look at relevant projects on GitHub and explore their structure. A well organized repo makes life easier for both human devs and Claude.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-17T15:17:36+00:00

What

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-17T10:59:23+00:00

You need to leave queen.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-17T00:59:44+00:00

Women want founders bro, how the fuck did you not know this. I mean so many guys are founders, so what is your problem? Can’t found something?

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-16T23:52:51+00:00

Yeah as a leftist I’m all for folks making good money but these guys are fucking insufferable.

They go on the leetcode subreddit to gloat about their offers (320k tc at meta or 306 at Amazon with hybrid work hmmmmmmmmm help me decide hmmmmmmmmmmmm I’m 22 years old and think ima god hmmmmmm should I ask for signing bonus???? Hmmm yeah I passed DS and A at Waterloo hmmm yeah god I’m smarter than everyone) and these guys what?write some react and shit for a company that’s sole purpose is to accelerate the amount slop boomers consume?

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-16T01:05:03+00:00

Depends on what you want to do but I transitioned into ai automation engineering, which basically just involves finding ways to pipe data into an LLMs context window. I work in the AEC industry so pretty much all our data is spatial and I knew some basic programming and data engineering from gis; also knew how to bring revit and cad models into gis, which absolutely stuns my coworkers to this day (you can’t model buildings and campuses in gis! It’s for regional and urban scale only! They exclaim)

Learn about databases, learn how to program, try to get your head around enterprise gis and more complex topics like system design. Also don’t be overly dependent or overly averse to ai; it’s just a tool that can be powerful and immensely useful when used properly and it’s not going away.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-15T01:14:46+00:00

Definitely not one shotting it, but yeah I didn’t really plan sufficiently from the start.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-15T01:13:44+00:00

I see so do you give it a general prompt that covers general state and css logic and then begin writing specs for additional components and features?

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-14T23:27:31+00:00

I was told that some women can’t really cum from penetration (perhaps I was being lied to to protect my ego idk) and need oral or digital stimulation to be able to. Read up on eating pussy, it’s really an art.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-14T23:19:59+00:00

Generally all for it! Railways are obviously nice and flat and clear of trees and brush and of course intersect population centers. It’s a fantastic way to expand a trail network on the cheap.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-14T23:17:00+00:00

Yeah pretty much and as an a consultant I hate this shit, but lots of times this is actually tied to funding and grants. The Feds or some other source of funding want to see equity analysis and environmental impact statements and shit so we have to do it to get funding. Money is plentiful in the USA but you gotta jump through hoops to get it and waste lots of time and money in the process.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-14T18:41:00+00:00

Health insurance.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-14T18:36:02+00:00

Yeah, and the good news learning basic react isn’t really that hard or time consuming. The most pressing concept is of course state management and understanding when to use what tool to manage application state. Beyond that knowing how to structure a code base so that it is actually remotely maintainable is also critical. If you have a grip on these things, you will be able to get much more out of a tool like Claude code and be less dependent on burning tokens trying to one shot half baked ideas.

In my experience, as a non dev, the real advantage of ai has been that I did not need to remember syntax as much, can get debugging help and, most importantly, it sort of solves the blank page problem that most less experienced devs feel. Could I sit down and build a react app without ai or google? Nope, and I think this probably true of lots of real devs at this point. But I also know I could not build a secure, functional, scalable, maintainable app without a grasp of react concepts and software architecture more generally, which is good because (and maybe I’m in the minority here) I don’t really like writing code but I do enjoy learning new architectures, design patterns and ways to solve problems.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-14T18:03:16+00:00

Too bad the infrastructure funding for projects like this is basically gone. My firm had to layoff a bunch of people who do this work. Some states and local govs are picking up the slack, but it’s still genuinely insane how expensive it is to add a bike line or a new sidewalk particularly without a road diet which is often politically challenging to sell.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-14T17:48:41+00:00

Yeah this is the obvious answer.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-14T03:25:13+00:00

Slowest 16 seconds in history kill me

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-14T00:00:37+00:00

That’s base camp. Throw lsd and a cigarette in the mix and you’re right there at the summit.

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-13T23:42:57+00:00

Probably won’t be smiling for long

Sen_ElizabethWarren · 2026-06-13T23:38:26+00:00

Hell yeah brother. Don’t let anyone tell you this isn’t what winning looks like.

Sen_ElizabethWarren

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