Some countries are our allies and others are not.

Yeah kinda. I ask it to do something simple like create a a typescript interface for some JSON and it just gives me what I want… most of the time.

Other times it will explain to me what JSON is, what Typescript is, what interfaces are and how they’re used, blah blah, and somewhere in there there’s the code I actually wanted. Once it helpfully commented the code… in Korean. Even when it works and comments things in English the comments can be kinda useless since it doesn’t actually know what I’m doing.

It’s trying to give you what you want but can sometimes get confused about what you’re asking for and give a bunch of stuff you didn’t actually want. So yeah, the comic is accurate… on occasion. But many times LLMs will give good results, and it’s getting better, so it’ll mostly work ok for simple requests. But yeah, sometimes it’ll give you a lot more stuff than what you wanted.

Some days it will be but other days it won’t be. Most of the time it can save me typing because it’ll do what I want. Sometimes (for similar tasks in the same context) it’s just be completely off. Once it helpfully commented my code… in Korean.

LLMs are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.

Millions of people have been killed because of grievances from history books. It would be better to learn from history instead of using it as a source of grievance.

Humans sure are contentious people.

Since the Nazis were fighting the Soviets in cold conditions, they did a lot of research on hypothermia. Their methodology involved putting Jews out in the cold and measuring how long it took for them to get hypothermia.

There was a lot of debate over whether the results of their research should be used or just be destroyed because using it might encourage future scientists to use immoral methods in their research. They ultimately decided to use that research.

But when they looked at the data, there was no real science happening. They were just freezing people to death out of cruelty with no benefit to science.

A lot of “Nazi science” is very overrated. Turns out cruel and hateful people don’t make for good scientists. Science is done by people and people and if those people ignore morality, they become very warped. “Science at all costs, ignore morality” doesn’t actually result in useful research. It may feel like ignoring ethics in favour of scientific progress is a strong pro-science stance, but it’s just another fascist power fantasy.

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

The Treaty of Versailles was really unfair to the German people but that didn’t justify anything the Nazis did. The terrible things the Nazis did also didn’t justify the terrible things the Soviets did.

Every day thousands upon thousands of people were being killed. Why? Because they were wearing the uniform of an enemy country. Killing people for wearing the wrong clothes (or maybe just standing too close to someone wearing the wrong clothes) is what a war is.

It strikes me as odd to be super upset over internment when more Japanese people were killed when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked. Internment was obviously bad, but compared to other shit happening at the time? I guess the people killed in the war couldn’t tell their story afterwards, so we don’t care about that? Or maybe it’s because we’ve been indoctrinated to believe that killing someone for wearing the wrong clothes is good and honourable?

There was a Japanese insurgency in Hawaii, so some of the people held in internment camps were actually insurgents. Obviously most of them weren’t. But what’s the difference between that scenario and hitting a military target and a lot of civilians getting killed because they happened to live a little too close to a military target? Because that kind of shit was happening all the time in WWII.

So… straight up Hamas propaganda?

It may be shocking for you to learn this, but most people don’t want to be complicit in distributing propaganda from a terrorist organization whose goal is to promote violence. If someone gets “radicalized” by this propaganda and does something violent they may be held liable.

Media sources generally don’t believe what a terrorist organization says at face value. They work to confirm the reports and if they can’t there’s a high probability that a group that celebrates massacring people is lying.

Understand that sometimes terrorist groups that are willing to kill people to further their cause are also capable of lying to further their cause. It takes a lot of time and effort to decipher which of the things Hamas is saying are lies and which are the truth. Responsible media organizations do that, irresponsible click-baity scammy organizations don’t. So sometimes you’ll see things reported by “alternative media” before it’s reported by mainstream media (after it’s confirmed) and sometimes the things reported by “alternative media” is never reported by mainstream media because it can’t be confirmed and is likely not true.

Is it censorship when someone is just being careful not to spread lies?

This is unwise. Best case is people don’t laugh at a lame variation of a very old joke, worst case is you lose your job for expressing intolerance of people’s religion and/or for being demeaning towards women. Middle case is you get a lecture by HR.

Unless your workplace is a comedy club, maybe stick to dad jokes. You’re being paid to work, not be an edgy comedian. And your co-workers are most certainly not being paid to laugh at your jokes.

If your workplace was a comedy club, the audience is still not being paid to laugh at your jokes and a big part of your job would be to read the room.

I guess you haven’t learned the unwritten rule on the three things you don’t talk about in the workplace: sex, religion, and politics.

You got sex and religion in there, did you also try to work something in there about politics too?

Do you want democracy or do you want to impose your idea of a utopia onto others through authoritarianism?

If by “far right” and “far left” you mean people that prefer authoritarian forms of government over democracy, then yeah, it’s not all that much different. From my discussions with MAGAs and tankies I’ve concluded they’re the same kind of people, they just quote different talking points.

The biggest problem with Agile is bad managers fucking it up. But bad managers will fuck things up no matter which way you do things.

But they’re going to want to somehow see progress, and they’ll leave you alone if they see some cards moving on a board. Even if they have no idea what the cards mean.

Whatever, it’s better than having to do status update meetings.