@mynameistillian @lokeloski

The machines can deal with the rules and the humans will always be better at handling the exceptions.

@benroyce @NatureMC @isotope239

The FDNY Wall

@benroyce @NatureMC @isotope239

I lost a team of six coders on a gig at Cantor Fitz.

@NatureMC @isotope239 @benroyce

Since 9/11 the USA is somehow broken.

Why do so many people lose faith in government? It's like religion, if all those people stop believing, they go to the ancient history department.

@Huntn00 @benroyce

What's your explanation for the alienated Democratic voter - and there are a lot of us.

@benroyce

So stipulated. What happened to the Rule of Law? The sniggering of SCOTUS, allowing Trump to issue sweeping pardons for Jan 5 - surrounded by rogues and the ghost of Epstein.

@benroyce

That's entirely correct. The USA hasn't seen a leftist party in a long time. The sentiment is there.

@paninid @benroyce

"Inspiration move me brightly
Light the song with sense and color
Hold away despair
More than this I will not ask
Faced with mysteries dark and vast
Statements just seem vain at last
Some rise, some fall, some climb
To get to Terrapin"

Truth is, Ben, I'll be glad to be gone.

@benroyce

Y'know what might make a difference, roust out our gerontocratic Democratic leadership - now those folks have no grasp of reality. How about not-voting for them?

@benroyce

No, it's policy. We decide to tell people not to come here, don't do business here - how will that get more people to vote for reasonable candidates?

It won't and we both know it.

@benroyce

I sure wish I was as similarly convinced of the evil of the American public. Yeah, when our leaders run amok, the thing which will convince those rogue elephants of their evil ways is to damage ordinary people who didn't do anything to anyone, just trying to run a business.

That's "reality"

@benroyce

Consequences for whom? Sure does make ethics a lot simpler when you can just throw us all in your Hefty Bag.

@benroyce

When I see this sort of thing:

"As an American: don't come here
Don't do business with the #USA"

I'm thinking about the people around me, here in Wisconsin, dependent on tourist business - it's pretty terrible up here just now.

Not a milligram of nuance to anything said around here.