The Misanthropist

Another day, another school shooting. I don’t give a fuck. To be more precise, I stopped giving a fuck after the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. Twenty children were gunned down and nothing happened. Even worse: a whole bunch of assholes decided that it was all staged and that those alleged “parents” were really “crisis…

I’m watching a video of someone I know who became a priest and who by all accounts was a stellar student and an exceptional mind… and goddamn, what a fucking waste of a brilliant mind. He could have been a great doctor, biologist, engineer, astronomer… and there he is talking about the big wizard in…

Last month an email came out from my working place’s leadership announcing a US dollars bonus well into the five digits for whoever closed an AI related sale. I’m not gonna tell who it is, but that’s irrelevant. Everyone and their mother that sells AI is doing the same thing. Why? Because it’s all a…

Do you want to be a software architect? You must feel intimidated at the thought. Let me assuage those fears. It’s not that hard. Just steal lines from capable software engineers and call yourself an architect. There. Done. Like magic. I do speak from experience but not as a perpetrator. I would never claim to…

More than half the people in this country elected Donald Trump as President again. They are thrilled people will be deported and that anti-vaxxers are in charge of health policy. They think Donald Trump will fix an economy that they see as broken even as it is already the envy of the world. They are…

I was out this evening having a nice drink when I got a text in my phone. “Hey, it’s me, the project manager who has a well established reputation for not respecting people’s personal time. Do you have time to get on a team call?” I looked at my Old Fashioned between amused and annoyed,…

Misanthrope – noun: a person who hates or distrusts humankind – Merriam-Webster This is the whole point of this site. I distrust people. Why? Mostly because I find other people horribly misinformed. Take for instance all the undecided voters in the 2024 United States election. I’m of the opinion that if they’re undecided at this point…