as alive as you need me to be
I mean, in practical terms, yes, but they will argue amongst themselves as to exactly the specifics, or if they go full libertarian and axe as much of that as possible.
See the current situation of US Farmers.
Basically all their direct subsidies have been decimated, SNAP got decimated and that was a huge indirect subsidy for farmers.
They will probably keep subsidizing the fuck out of oil and gas, but when you get to full fascism, it becomes much less formal and much more arbitrary, impulsive, less well defined, more 'what have you done for me lately' style corruption.
Did....did Hegseth even make it to NCO?
Christ.
No.
He was a Princeton ROTC brat and made it all the way to Major, O-4, in twenty fucking years.
Throw that level of 'career development' onto an enlisted track, and no, he would not have even gotten to an NCO rank, which typically start around E-5, Sergeant.
Yeah thats called you realizing your CEO is scamming the entire business and running it as a franchise that he somehow is both in charge of and also not fully legally / financially responsible for.
That reminds me of how a huge part of why SEARS went out of business was because they broke each building up into the floor space sections per department that each ran as their own mini psuedo businesses and effectively had to pay footage based rent to that building's GM...
As opposed to, you know, a business leveraging synergies, fostering teamwork and having a solid central leadership... nah, fuck all that, each SEARS location is now its own marketplace of competing fiefdoms, all the departments hate all the other departments, central command is now just Pontius Pilate washing his hands over all the bloodshed he oversees.
IMO that kind of set up should just be illegal, its fraud with extra steps.
Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of President Reagan, declared in 2001: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333
They are ideologically opposed to the government doing basically anything other than police and military duties, and having the bare minimum legal system required to facilitate criminal convictions for the poor, and the contract emforcement of private business.
Basically, they want the level of government that exists in Night City from Cyberpunk 2077, but probably without mass transit or even public roads.
This is what Rush Limbaugh's ditto hesds have been told they want for about 40 years, and now they are just doing it.
You can prosecute people for thought crimes snd not being the right sexuality or religion or skin color with this, so, that's all good with them.
Almost like its a desperate bid to blow another stock/asset bubble to keep 'the economy' going, from C suite, who all knew the housing bubble was going to pop when this all started, and now is.
Funniest thing in the world to me is high and mid level execs and managers who believe their own internal and external marketing.
The smarter people in the room realize their propoganda is in fact propogands, and are rolling their eyes internally that their henchmen are so stupid as to be true believers.
Either that or they know that a walk out is hilariously less effective than sitting there and taking it, and then beginning to plan a coup after they speech is over.
In military tactics, telegraphing your next move to your enemy is generally inadvisable.
I mean yes, but we already knew that Trump is barely literate, hates reading, and just watched TV all the time in his first admin.
In that sense... yes, duh, this is nothing new at all, why do we think he literally just appointed a bunch of Fox News show hosts into his cabinet?
Oh, so its actually, factually, Johnson who shut down the government.
Good to know as trivia I guess, not like right wingers are on speaking terms with reality.
Oh you mean literally steal the source code?
Unfortunately I regret to inform you that this thing called IP Law exists and that definitely is 'stealing'.
Heck, even reverse engineering from stolen, but ultimately not directly used source code... generally also 'stealing'.
But uh yeah, Excel definitely does not have a publically available repo that can be forked.
Sure, you could I guess hack into MSFT and leak the source code, but if you live anywhere that has an extradition treaty with the US, you are going to jail forever.
... LibreOffice Calc provides a less risky alternative to this.
Like, sure, I generally agrer with your opinions, but our opinions are not the actual state of how the world works.
Hrm ok so your model is less of a defined space a point can exist in, and is instead a topology that a point must exist on.
For people who don't read the actual article:
One of the owners of this massive holding company of other defunct companies...
... Is Tai Lopez.
The "Knowledge" guy, from the infamous youtube scam/ad, with the lambo and... bookshelves he apparently had installed... in his garage... for that shot... the OG of modern video platform based 'listen to me and you'll become a millionaire' grifting.
I hear what you are saying, but you can't ignore the disruption vs traditional axis of 'brand new shit' vs 'archaic shit that is still the basis of everything for probably a lot of good reasons.'
Thats the y axis.
The x axis is basically full corpo on the right, full foss/anarchist on the left.
So, the vibe coder is a soydev who works for cogdevs, or people somewhere between cogdev and soydev.
Here's how I look at this.
Maybe if you went with... not the corners of the quadrants, but the tips of the axes, you'd get:
top:
ancient wizard of languages that aren't even really taught anymore (COBOL, for example), but which everything actually runs on if you dig deep enough.
bottom:
hyper early adopter / innovator / formal researcher who does things because they can, asking about "should we do this?" is for cowards, yolo, etc
left:
open source radical anarchist, money is a disgusting thing that is unfortunately somewhat necessary to fund development
right:
full corpo bastard, code doesn't actually matter, making money from code matters.
Further down in this thread, under another comment, I basically tried to do a 'personality test' or maybe 'ttrpg archetype description' style write up of the corners of the quadrants... at least my way of trying to make sense out of what I think whoever made this image is going for.
Ah, so your idea is that they exist at a location with an imaginary component, they exist in an unvisualized, complex plane?
teeheehee
Here is the way I am interpreting the names for the extreme stereotypes of quadrants/corners:
Cogdev:
cog in the machine, you are fully subsumed into 'the process', you have abandoned the shackles of humanity as you once knew them, and view an org flow chart of people and teams producing some software nearly identically to how you would look at a process flow chart for actual software systems.
souls are not only superfluous, but due to be patched out entirely in the next semi-annual release, you don't see why anyone would need one or miss them.
Soydev:
you are cogdev, but you are also delusional and think you are not; you think what you are doing is some kind of 'good' in some way, some way that will achieve some nebulous concept of making 'things' 'better' for some kind of group of people.
you aren't, and you won't, but delusion is your superpower; your ego has an actually physically measurable mass.
until, that is, you finally have your cognitive dissonance either totally erode or violently shatter, and then you realize you are are no different from cogdev in anyway other than branding and marketing... which are at least practical skills for you to better serve your corporate masters.
fake it till you make, or else fake it till you break it and then crash out like an unpotty trained billionaire.
Hypedev:
you are actually fucking around with novel shit that may potentially yield an actual paradigm shift, but you also probably know that almost no one will notice this paradigm shift... and it could all just be a giant waste of time anyway.
you probably either don't really care, or care way, way, waaaay too much.
doesn't really matter either way, not like you're gonna get rich from this, you're not in it to win it, you're in it to find every possible way to fail untill all that remains is probably an actual good idea. ... maybe?
decent chance you have anger issues, intermittent explosive disorder, bidpolar disorder, some kind of dysphoria, hyper-autism, etc.
Libredev:
you are good, probably quite good, at what you do, but this means you can tend to view anything other than the way you do things as unreliable or unproven.
on the one hand, people like you disappear completely? utter catastrophe with maybe a 3 to 9 month fuse.
on the other hand... people like you largely in fact are disappearing, so... maybe it would be a good idea to dial down the 'get-off-my-lawn-o-meter' such that you could at least maybe teach someone how to follow in your footsteps...
... or, god forbid, go through all your own code and actually document and comment it such that someone other than literally only you may have a chance at understanding any of it.
Orly?
I've only had one once, and I'd like to try them again.
... please invite me to your soy grill please ...
I mean, all my responses in this thread have been hip shooting as well lol.
And its not a personal attack to say if you're a soydev, you're grillin' soy burgers.
I mean sure, maybe they're not quite the same taste as beef, but uh, nothin' really wrong with a less than totally conventional burger, imo.
Its just a joke lol, didn't mean to offend, just word/concept association = joke/pun, thats roughly how my autistic ass formulates 'zingers' lol.
So what you're saying is that... he is either from, belongs to, or should be placed on...
... another plane of existence?
lololololollool
Exquisite.
I absolutely love everything and anything that can make music out of something that isn't intended to make music.
Nah, vibe coders are definitionally reliant on highy disruptive, literally economy destabilizing 'AIs', that are made by the most gigantic of megacorps and foundations.
That would make them so far into soydev they are off the chart to the bottom right, and it would also mean you'd be grilling Impossible Burgers.
As best I can tell, ICE / DHS considers 93% of its employees to be essentially personnel and has said themselves almost all of them will still be paid.
Because they are 'critical law enforcement.'
Beyond that, the Trump admin has already proven they have no problem illegally withholding and redirecting funds.
So... regardless of who is actually responsible for a shutdown, we are existing in a de facto dictatorship unless some other element of the government actually does something to stop this.
They literally do not care about laws.
Coincidentally, I'll just here note that one of the monikers of the AntiChrist is 'the lawless one'.
Not that I am religious anymore, nor do I think most Republicans actually read their Bibles, but it is kind of funny.
But uh yes, it is obviously a bluff, they will blame everything on Dems and illegal immigrants and the queer no matter what actually happens, because they are literally psychotically delusional.