warpfork

I tried to do something in bash today* "for the portability" and Well * - starting several days ago I've I've got regrets about how I've spent my time.

Think a lot of reason that {vibecoding obviously empowers some devs between 10x and 1000x} and yet {software industry as a whole not moving faster} is that as soon as there's two devs... It's real easy to sling "features" that cancel each other out. Fast. Without coordinating on goals.

i don't *want* to write a harness but the one that's been satisficing me so far has shipped so many mindbendingly (imo) poor choices and regressions that... i'm kinda at a threshhold.

Thinkng back to 2015 when my meta-analysis of all social media was "it's all amp and no damp...and that does not a healthy social structure make". It's now 2026, and my meta-analysis of all social media is: "it's all amp and no damp...and that does not a healthy social structure make".

The reason almost no sane discussion about how to govern and how to tax exists is because when you wade in without numbers, people go "wah where's your numbers" and when you do wade in with numbers, people completely ignore you, zero likes, zero reposts, zero engagement, zero comments, nothing. 🤷

Desperately want people to stop confusing "actually doing progressive income tax" and "wealth tax". One of them works. The other makes a statistically insignificant dent in either the wealthest people nor the state budget, while creating mindboggling paperwork that has poor association to reality.

I am a big fan of a large and well-funded state. I am a huge advocate for strong, well-funded, all-inclusive social safety nets. I am a staunch supporter of aggressively progressive income tax, and more corporate tax. And I oppose wealth tax, completely. It's dumb, bad at its job, and sucks.

Desperately want people to stop confusing "actually doing progressive income tax" and "wealth tax". One of them works. The other makes a statistically insignificant dent in either the wealthest people nor the state budget, while creating mindboggling paperwork that has poor association to reality.

Wealth Tax is deeply stupid because it requires you to do accounting on a level that *no one does* While simultaneously being *deeply gameable* by the ultra wealthy who can just disguise wealth by moving it into assets that are difficult to report on. It's a regressive tax due to sheer admin faff.

Desperately want people to stop confusing "actually doing progressive income tax" and "wealth tax". One of them works. The other makes a statistically insignificant dent in either the wealthest people nor the state budget, while creating mindboggling paperwork that has poor association to reality.

Something beautiful just happened on the internet: a position was posted; discussion followed; the position was updated. Communication: 🎉 ...We need our communication and sensemaking platforms to start helping disseminate the result, though. Reach of the update: unrelated to the original -> BAD.