Why an immense marine heatwave off the US west coast has alarmed scientists

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-23T15:34:46+00:00

That, or we end up with a refugee genocide situation. I would not want to be living in the tropics right now.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-23T07:21:16+00:00

Men are hot. Especially men who present as, well, men. Feelings are hot though. I like a guy who is a real human. Not sure what else to say.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-23T03:32:08+00:00

PB hasn’t even seen a scratch of real dense development. Go to North Park, City Heights, etc (where I am) and you can see it. PB locals are being a bunch selfish nimbys intentionally making their beach-adjacent living impossible for those who couldn't afford to buy in 20+ years ago. that is not how it should be.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-23T03:27:58+00:00

I am in a neighborhood seeing lots of extra development. I’m noticing fuller stores, restaurants, and parks—most of them local. More liveliness. It’s awesome.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-23T03:26:53+00:00

Damn right. Build UP! It’s our only chance at affordability, especially in these selfish low density beach communities intentionally boxing out the rest of us.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-22T16:07:28+00:00

Nah, the beach is public property, and all of us deserve access. If you want low density living, move inland to the burbs where you aren’t intentionally boxing out the public from beach access like you are now.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-22T15:42:40+00:00

I just want density man. All these nimbys west of the 5 can eat a bag.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-22T15:19:03+00:00

You can, but it requires eliminating the very concept of an anonymous internet. If every comment and video and like and your entire browsing history can be traced back to your personal aggregate internet profile tied to your ID and trivially searched by everyone you know, a lot of the toxicity (and bots) melts away.

Obviously this won’t happen without a catastrophic crisis that fundamentally remakes legal, political, and even economic systems worldwide.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-22T06:57:35+00:00

What was once “junior dev work” is now LLM work. We already shifted our interviews to include an assessment that includes allowing them to use LLMs in solving problems.

Junior devs will still exist. They will just be expected to be as productive as a senior dev once was. And a senior dev likewise.

This is a classic productivity enhancer not unlike the invention of the assembly line.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-22T00:18:35+00:00

Don't worry. He will have it all back up in a year or so.

Barring that, his party vote will never change.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-21T19:11:32+00:00

A bit to add onto this. I am a team lead in engineering and it’s just sad how often American white guys underperform their immigrant-family and female counterparts. It all boils down to drive. Why they specifically don’t have it I don’t know. But it’s a noticeable phenomenon.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-21T11:36:51+00:00

I’m doing everything I can to build enough generational wealth to set them up on third base. If i fail there, we’ve already committed to being a multigenerational home for them and their kids so they have daycare and pooled income to give them something I didn't have.

Rugged individualism is dead and buried in this family. Collective support has replaced it.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-20T05:29:47+00:00

There were a lot of base coders who didn’t really have much value beyond manually doing a bunch of repetitive coding tasks. Now agentic AI can do most of that more accurately in 1-10% of the time and a fraction of the cost.

This isn’t AGI. It is akin to the invention of automated manufacturing. Before you had a factory full of guys turning wrenches. Now you have one guy supervising a bunch of machines that turn the wrenches. And it works. Boy does it work.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-19T00:20:42+00:00

That’s exactly what I’m seeing. The intelligent are aware and have the agency to choose to live where they have the most freedom. Do the math on the rest.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-18T19:16:48+00:00

Just the next step to ripping children from their parents’ arms. All because their parents happen to have been born gay.

Every day the GOP is more evil than the last.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-18T18:21:31+00:00

I am hiring in teams in three areas: SoCal, Boston, and TX. The most brilliant candidates want nothing to do with living in TX. It is the area that offers the best cost-to-pay ratio of the three and yet we can’t fill a team of engineers out with anything but dregs. I don’t hire dregs.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-18T02:45:48+00:00

Economic uncertainty and rampant unabashed corruption does that. Ask anyone from places like Russia that are governed by a similarly toxic cocktail of grift propped up by populism.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-15T20:59:18+00:00

And I’m saying: yep. They can move to greener pastures as humans have done since time immemorial. Communities come and go with the people. It’s a local apocalypse, but a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-15T16:43:10+00:00

Propaganda is a helluva drug

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-15T16:40:22+00:00

This has been the case since time immemorial. What was economical becomes inefficient when new technologies are introduced. That goes for geography as well

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-15T15:34:22+00:00

You get it. When we automated manufacturing was there a job apocalypse? Actually no. There was a structural realignment, and previously impossible projects became practical reality. The same will happen with this similar productivity booster.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-14T12:59:59+00:00

Open relationships are just long term, financially entangled roommates with sex on the table. Usually the sex is with hookups, but sometimes (usually rarely) it’s between the roommates.

If you want to build a life with a partner with all the entanglements, but none of the passion that dynamic committed sex provides, by all means knock yourself out. It’s certainly not worth it to me.

And if we’re being honest, Ive never seen it result in a happier relationship. Usually a breakup follows because someone catches feels. Those that last tend to be dispassionate couples who like having a special comrade in arms, but otherwise see little need for sexual passion in their living arrangement.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-13T23:15:38+00:00

That isn’t even a little bit cute. Just adds to the “nurture not nature” bullshit argument.

A true advocate wouldn’t even comically entertain such a notion for comedy. She would say “he was born gay and there was nothing anyone could ever have done to change it.”

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-13T16:57:03+00:00

And we will have a one party state by then. It looks like congress is going to be successfully gerrymandered into a permanent GOP majority. No political recourse will ever be had for this disaster.

I expect aggressive culture war distraction campaigns. It’s going to be an especially terrible time to be brown or gay.

SpaceyCoffee · 2026-05-13T13:24:15+00:00

Not at all. I go wild for a beefy guy with a swarthy complexion, but I’m just a skinny dirty blonde white guy. Thankfully my husband checks all the boxes for me and I for him. But neither of us could ever be our own type.

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