mhoye6d ago

This Claude code dump is sincerely embarrassing. Acres and acres of pure waste, begging the machine to burn hours of gpu time doing work that someone with basic computer knowledge could do with basic arithmetic.

“Claude code is written by Claude code” turns out to mean “pleading with the software to make more software I can plead with harder forever”. This is a humiliation engine, it’s no wonder the Gastown/agentic crowd end up hollowed out like some psychological vampire’s empty juicebox.

matte1d ago
Show threadmhoye
My new argument for high and progressively higher wealth tax rates has nothing to do with social justice or progressive values or functioning democracy at all, now it’s just “these people are gullible, easily manipulated rubes and letting gullible rubes hoard too much money is the socioeconomic equivalent of storing your gun collection in a daycare.”
Apr 1 at 1:13pmWeb
Show threadmhoye6d ago
Marginal and corporate tax rates should be high enough that turning gasoline into madlibs that use more gasoline to make more madlibs doesn't become the only growth sector of the economy.
Show threadpunIssuer1d ago
@mhoye but AFAIK to pay corporate tax those companies would have to make a profit, right?
Show threadwb x646d ago
@mhoye moreover, for about two decades the most efficient way to make money in America has been to con a millionaire out of their ("investment") money. That changes a society.
Show threadBrian "bex" Exelbierd1d ago

@wilbr @mhoye but it works so well it’s what the Billionaires do too.

“Elon put 100 million in this, it must be great. I’m all in.”

My brother in insanity, Elon is baiting you. His bet is <1.2% but you’re in for 90% and he gets paid first!

Show threadGoiterzan/Amygdalai Lama4d ago
@mhoye
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brilliant 👍
Show threadWellsiteGeo1d ago

@mhoye I may have got this wrong, but aren't "daycare" businesses meant to have some sort of security against penetration by unauthorised adults, so storing your guns there would be safer and more responsible than storing them at home.

"Can I collect little Bobby Tables and three machine guns?"
- "Sign here for the guns."

Show threadStargeezer Smith1d ago
@mhoye
Your post is more detailed than my simple summary. I just said that wealth and brains have only a casual acquaintance at best.
Show threadHarald K.1d ago
@mhoye If I would have a Timothy Snyder-style list of lessons, the first should be "Powerful people believe all the stupid things regular people believe." But since they're powerful, they have little need of convincing you. On the contrary, they often think their stupid beliefs are their secret edge.
Show threadHal Aetus23h ago
@mhoye One would hope that redistributed wealth would lead to more education, healthcare (including mental care), hence more tolerance and compassion, and less social chaos. It seems to work that way in other places. We should give it a try because clearly the opposite isn't working.