Axel Buzz retweeted
Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
Axel Buzz retweeted
Leute, vergesst "links" oder "rechts" und den ganzen anderen Quatsch.
Am Ende geht es immer um Menschen, die in Ruhe gelassen werden wollen und Menschen, die andere nicht in Ruhe lassen.
Axel Buzz retweeted
The most important economic statistic is not GDP.
It’s how many 30-year-old men are married and own their home.
Axel Buzz retweeted
The only solution to AI slop is Formal Verification, improved specification, and human testing + review.
There is no automated product machines, no good product will be designed and produced solely with AI
Being more rigorous is difficult.
Axel Buzz retweeted
One exercise I'd recommend to any experienced developer skeptical that working without reading the code is the present and future of software development: ask an agent to optimize a non-trivial system written in a language you don't know.
When you know the language and platform inside out, your own biases creep in. Removing that familiarity can be eye-opening.
If I don't read the code, how I do I know X, Y or Z? Precisely! Answering that is the new job.
Axel Buzz retweeted
Die #Deutschen Behörden blieben von der PHP Attacke weitgehend verschont. War ja auch klar wieso:
Axel Buzz retweeted
I'm going to say something the food industry has kept quiet for fifty years, and if this account goes dark you'll know why. The answer to nearly every question about what to eat is four beef patties with butter on top.
What's a quick, healthy breakfast?
Four patties and butter.
What should I eat after the gym?
Four patties and butter.
What can I cook in ten minutes after work?
Four patties and butter.
What's a high-protein lunch that isn't a sad chicken salad?
Four patties and butter.
What can I afford this week?
Four patties and butter.
What will keep me full until dinner?
Four patties and butter. That was dinner.
What do I feed a teenager who is permanently starving?
Six. And more butter.
What about the bun?
The bun was there to hold it while you walked. Sit down.
What about vegetables?
Put the butter where the vegetables were going to go.
Isn't that a bit basic?
It's ground steak and cream fat. People pay £30 for that under a French name.
You can see why this has been suppressed. There's no cookbook in it, because it would be one page long. There's no app, no powder, no 12-week plan and no sequel. An entire industry of meal kits, protein bars and nutritionists with ring lights rests on you never finding out.
I've said it now. If anyone asks, you heard it from a man who was last seen near a frying pan.
Axel Buzz retweeted
Shipping Omadesign 0.5.0 on Product Hunt today — a native Linux creative suite with a real Layout persona (frames, auto-layout, constraints), not another browser tab.
@dhh energy: local-first software that runs on your machine. Install once, design offline, opt into cloud when you want.
We're in the GPT-6 Astra Challenge. If that pitch lands, an upvote helps:
producthunt.com/products/oma…
#ProductHunt #Linux #DesignTools #IndieHackers #BuildInPublic #AstraChallenge
Axel Buzz retweeted
Full credit to @harrybrundage for coining the term Slop Grenade. Let’s make it a thing.
Lazy work used to mean too little output.
Now, with AI, it often means too much and more work for everyone else.
@tobi call it "slop grenades."
A "Slop Grenade" is when you let AI produce the work and pass it on without adding any value (including checking it).
Someone else has to wade through it, catch the mistakes, and clean up the mess.
You save time and look productive but someone else pays for it.
Axel Buzz retweeted
Wieso „Gefühl“?
Genau so ist es ja auch, nachzulesen beim kommunistischen Erfinder der „Zivilgesellschaft“, Antonio Gramsci.
Die „Zivilgesellschaft“ ist eine von der Regierung geführte Organisation, deren Aufgabe es – nach Gramsci – ist, der Bevölkerung den Eindruck zu vermitteln, dass das, was die Regierung und der Kommunismus wollen, eigentlich ein Wunsch der Bevölkerung sei, der Wunsch aus dem Volk komme, und die gütige Regierung ja nur den Wünschen des Volkes nachkomme, „demokratisch“ sei, und keine eigenen politischen Interessen verfolge, dass also alle Politik dem Volke selbst entspringe.
