Nobody should be working for any government, givernment jobs should be stigmatized, people working for government should be stigmatized, gobernments shouldn't have employees. People working for governments should be scared that other normal people will find out.

Hack the EPA cuz I'd prefer the pollution regulators to be more occupied with being doxxed than with keeping an eye on my waste disposal practices...

Hack the IRS cuz I don't want my creative accounting to rise above the noise floor of all these new weird charges on the auditors' own credit cards...

Or hack the FBI cuz I *really* want to rob that bank across state lines *and* get away with it...

Would my friend (and not me) be a
-common criminal
-budding mafioso
-terrorist

Asking for a friend.

Individual workers make decisions. "Labor" makes decisions on workers' behalf while pocketing a portion of their paychecks. For their own good, of course.

Oh the way the plugins crash...
Pop-unders and games in Flash...

Those were the days!

Languages are neither safe nor unsafe. Particular implementations of runtimes and libraries, on the other hand, may be full of remote execution holes or so locked down they're unusable. Or something in between.

All labor activism is opportunistic Marxist radicalism until proved otherwise.

Sounds like more fun than retrieving shopping carts. No tax on tips too, so there's that incentive driving people away from fixed hourly to more gig-like service jobs.

Powerful...powerless...all meaningless categories in the context of voluntary employment arrangements.

The wife griped and groused about her employer pinching pennies and pawning off more work on her.

You know what she did? Get this: she found another job. Worse commute, more pay, less grunt work of one kind in exchange for more work of a different variety. We'll see how it works out.

You know what she didn't do? Collapse into a pool of self-pity about her own powerlessness or a pool of rage against her supposed oppressor.

Managed to refrain from imploring the workers of the world to unite, eat the rich, or abolish ice. Who knew a satisfying life could be achieved *without* regurgitating stale leftist propaganda as if it were an original thought of your own?

Is anyone forcing anyone to work there? Employing the force of the state to compel labor?

No?

You just want free shit for the lulz? Gotcha.

Went conspicuously overboard on wfh?

Made a point of attaching a class or political valence to it in the process?

Now enjoy the backlash to take it away from the abusers *and* the normies.

Universal answer to why we can't have nice things: morons who abuse it combined with a lack of adults in the room to police it.

More people do office work than ever before.

This story is so old it was the reason for Unix. Once the platform controls the essential business process, it owns the business. You work for them now, and all your aspirations are moot.

If X is well-defined (and examples abound in the training set) you get the correct thing out.

Maybe a little massaging is necessary around the edges.

Saves me a few hours here and there.

Overall a net gain. And oddly enough, nearly all the code I've written recently is ai generated this way.

But.

Most of these little one-prompt wonders exist to take as input something out of a massive code base I wrote by hand over many years and continue to tweak by hand.

ChatGPT says all of this is completely possible.

https://chatgpt.com/share/6add...

How likely is it that Flock is not already using its network this way?

Was the toddler named "Molly" by chance?