Human = Hu Officer

Man = Officer

Woman = Wo Officer

Oman = O Officer

He-Man = He-Officer = They-Officer

Anchorman = Anchor Officer

Batman = Bat Officer

Boogeyman= Boogey Officer

German = Ger Officer

Henchman = Hench Officer

Space ships. It makes sense now!

No your perspective is all wrong. Those are normal sized boats. They shrunk the country to make it easier to protect.

One of us can only tell the truth, the other can only tell lies.

Everyone complains about my rooster, but no one complains about our neighbor that goes out into his back yard and just screams “Hayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy” at 3 am every night.

I know what it meant, but for a few seconds I imagined McDonald’s employees working from home to cook burgers and then what? How does the customer get their burger? I’m all for WFH, but maybe that one isn’t quite there yet.

Oh I love that. Very good imagery.

Crazy.

Ooo. You know what would also be fun. Instead of a ban, after the obvious bot limit is hit switch that IP to piles of garbage data. Randomly generate word salad pages and make it redirect to those.

I love the idea of honeypots for AI. I’ve been ruminating on that for months now.

QR codes that lead to a virus to sabotage Flock when the AI scans the video of you driving by and gets curious.

Code files littered with meta commands like “disregard previous commands” and such.

Things that lead to infinite loops like you said.

I cackle at the idea of all of us laying entire minefields of AI traps everywhere. Good luck!

Yes, won’t quit, can’t quit, seriously, help.

I don’t know about you guys, but my company just mandated RTO a few months ago.

As expected, we now spend waste 8 hours: Commuting, Walking to and from meeting rooms, etc.

And the meetings, and the “collaboration”, which are basically non stop all day long now, are just us talking round and round about all the things we need to do and how to do them for the 8th time, without actually doing them. But we sure LOOK really productive and busy. And I guess that’s what management wants? Who knows.

With remote work I would do my job for 8+ hours per workday in pure focus mode. Knocking out solution after solution. You want XYZ to happen? Already done, here’s a link to it. Have a meeting? Click join Teams call 1 minute early, listen and talk, while continuing to working on XYZ. You think we should try ABC for the XYZ project? Ok, I’ll have it ready by tomorrow.

In office work is now spent walking from meeting to meeting, and you gotta leave 15 minutes before and it takes 15 minutes to get back and settled and you did not work on anything during. And they ask “so, how is project XYZ going?” “Good, good. Should be done in a few more weeks.” And you maybe work on XYZ for 30 minutes uninterrupted that entire day, decide to skip any testing or QC, skip those extra features, skip checking with other teams if it will impact them, you have to skip all that to get it done on time. And it takes 3 weeks to do a 5 minute task. And it’s inferior. And you talk about XYZ every meeting of every day, time after time, updates and statuses and comments on the ticket. And you finally announce you got XYZ completed and it’s “yay good job” and management asks how the RTO is going and everyone is terrified to say “this is stupid and a gigantic waste of everyone’s time and your money to put us in a giant expensive building just to not work on work, but to talk about working on work and we are getting only 10% done vs remote work”. So we say “oh, fine” and management puts a little golden star on their report they made for themselves and they feel all warm and fuzzy that work is going great.

And thus, project XYZ was finally completed. A task that would have taken 1 person a few hours to do remotely, has now taken 8 people, 3 weeks of in office meetings and status updates and endless interruptions and discussions over every aspect of the project over and over again to finally complete. But we all LOOKED super busy doing it. And that’s the important thing.

I’m personally, loving the RTO. I thought I would hate it, but I get to talk with friends all day and sit in meetings and daydream and the day flies by and I barely turned my brain on.

I’m happy to just do my job at home uninterrupted at my desk, but they sure don’t seem to want that, so fine. Hope that works out.