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Yeah work from home, but all the jobs for the less well off require driving.

I'll bite.

For say a random individual ... they may be unsure about their own writing skills and want to say something but unsure of the words to use.


In such case it's okay to not write the thing.

Or to write it crudely- with errors and naivete, bursting with emotion and letting whatever it is inside you to flow on paper, like kids do. It's okay too.

Or to painstakingly work on the letter, stumbling and rewriting and reading, and then rewriting again and again until what you read matches how you feel.

Most people are very forgiving of poor writing skills when facing something sincere. Instead of suffering through some shallow word soup that could have been a mediocre press release, a reader will see a soul behind the stream ot utf-8


It's the writers call on how to try to write it.

I think the "you should painstakingly work on my thank you letter" is a bit of a rude ask / expectation.

Some folks struggle with wordsmithing and want to get better.


Outsourcing your writing to an llm is not the way to get better (at writing)

Getting tips and opinions might be.

I doubt the fuckwits who are shepherding that bot are even aware of Rob Pike, they just told the bot to find a list of names of great people in the software industry and write them a thank you note.

Having a machine lie to people that it is "deeply grateful" (it's a word-generating machine, it's not capable of gratitude) is a lot more insulting than using whatever writing skills a human might possess.


I do wonder about how we as individuals influence this stuff.

We want free services and stuff, complain about advertising / sign up for the google's of the world like crazy.

Bitch about data-centers while consuming every meme possible ...


The laws exist, SCOTUS majority just doesn’t want to enforce them because their guy is in power.

Maybe but I think it’s more about they think in terms of unitary executive. So if there’s any discretion given the agencies - I don’t know in this case - SCOTUS lets the president decide.

In many ways this is more how a parliamentary democracy exists that a republic.


POTUS power has already extended well beyond even congress.

How? Congress has given tremendous discretion to POTUS. This President is actually using it.

Congress assumed

- it had a legislative veto (any committee could override an agency)

- independent agencies existed.

So it gave broad authority with those assumed checks.

SCOTUS declared legislative veto unconstitutional in 1982. And administrative state is actively going away.

So POTUS can do a lot of damage using the law itself.

This is the new system. Dems need to use it too.


So we had this creeping loss of power to the president over time in the last 20 or 50 years, including investigations in the 1970s or dealing with Nixon. But Congress never really decided this in one big step, it just happened slowly by pushes from the heritage foundation and others. Congress can take back its power. There's a reason why the Republicans are trying to gerrymander the house so the Democrats don't get a majority. It wouldn't just fix it but it would be a start towards starting to block overreach

Tariffs is the obvious example.


I know getting folks onboard is not easy for any social media site.

But I'd pay for a social media site that respected my preferences / content choices and had everyone using real names / validated and so on.


I'm not sure how much is outsmarting, as much as it is that the Trump administration is happy to make a big show and then sell out the US as long as he and his cronies get their cut.

Hard to call it outsmarting when your opponent is a toddler

And inexpen$ive for other governments to lease

For chips, Trump literally said "we need to get our cut".

Well, Trump is a showman after all.

I recall a story about how clothes laundry machines were introduced and while it made people "more productive" ... many people just did laundry more often, cleaned other things more often, and thus it didn't reduce the workload.

I'm just glad it can run async of my main thread now, so I can spawn other agents for more interesting things

That's been the case with hardware at several companies I was at.

I was convinced that the process was encouraged by folks who used it as a sort of weird gatekeeping by folks who only used the magic code names.

Even better I worked at a place where they swapped code names between two products at one time... it wasn't without any reason, but it mean that a lot of product documentation suddenly conflicted.

I eventually only refereed to exact part numbers and model numbers and refused to play the code name game. This turned into an amusing situation where some managers who only used code names were suddenly silent as they clearly didn't know the product / part to code name convention.


It would fit the "nothing is my fault" process.

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