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Well, America, here we are again. It has been nine months now since the village idiot/dictator came back into power. For those reading this in the future, it is November 8, 2025, and he is even worse than the history books` portray.

We are not in the longest shutdown in US government history, now into day 38. As much as they want to blame the Democrats, we all know who is to blame. The idiot, non-deal maker “deal maker” who is starving children for the sake cruelty. The house has not been in session in over 45 days, all to prevent the release of the Epstein files. We are not fools, the whole government is shut down to protect the felon in chief.

This week they wend before the supreme court to argue a president can magically raise taxes, aka tariffs on the American people. This is explicitly a power of congress. If the executive branch can raise taxes, what is the point of congress? I hope the supreme court has some sense of sanity and ends these moronic tariffs. We also need a working government again, such as it is.

This is feeling a whole lot like the French revolution, while children are cut off from food assistance, medical insurance will double or triple, or more, the ruling King wants a grand, gilded ballroom paid for by…who the hell knows? While the government is shutdown, we see a party with the King with showgirls and opulence, a Great Gatsby party. I swear, have any of these people ever read a book?

Here we are, just eight days into Trump’s second term (gag) and he is running down the Project 2025 playbook. If it’s in Project 2025, it will surface in next few weeks. All of the campaign lies are already forgotten, like reducing grocery prices, removing government waste, all gone.

All we have is the endless tariff threats, mass deportations, trying to eliminate birthright citizenship, politicizing the whole civil servant system, needed programs, like food stamps…gone. Trans people are no longer humans. They are not even like slaves, they are not even 3/5 of a person. He lied, all he cares about is racism, classism, establishing a oligarchy and signing any piece of paper placed in front of him from the evil people who wrote Project 2025, aka Trump’s outsourced Mein Kampf.

Looking back at history, I have no idea why people were surprised just how bad Nazi Germany got. He wrote it all down. The book was passed out to every single student. He outlined all the atrocities Hitler and Nazi regime were going to do. Same thing with Project 2025. The only real difference is that Hitler wrote his own manifesto, Trump is an illiterate fool that could never create such a detailed document. I am sure in decades we will look back at authors of Project 2025 like we look at Himmler, Goebles, and more. This country deserves all suffering we will face. We are racist, trans phobic, bigots who voted for a monster who is lawless. Enjoy America!

An open letter to Elon Musk re: Twitter

A month or so ago you completed your acquisition of Twitter, a social media platform. Not a software company, not an engineering company, a SOCIAL MEDIA platform. You have laid off over half your staff and with your ill worded ultimatum, the remaining half of your staff left as well.

In the meantime you have been holding ‘code reviews’ which are pointless in terms of fixing what is wrong with twitter. You then add a cherry to the top of the crap cake and allow a known traitor, Trump, back on your platform. I have been an engineer, a real, degree engineer, for 24 years and I can tell you are not facing a technological issue, you are facing a psychological issue.

I am part of your target audience, a late 40’s, white male, and I abandoned the platform even before you announced your acquisition earlier this year. Why did I leave? It was boring and there are better alternatives out there. Too right wing, too full of stupid, and just too boring to top it all off. The major technological gripe was how difficult it was to engage with others. In fact, this loops back to the social, psychological issue with Twitter. It is not compelling. The content is not unique, the whole microblogging idea has been done to death and no amount of software engineering will fix that.

I honestly don’t know how you can fix Twitter. It may just be an idea that has played out, like America Online, Myspace, Geocities and Angellfire. Websites and social media come and gone and it may be time for Twitter to go. When a traditional message board like Reddit or social media like Facebook exist, what’s the point of Twitter? With ad free alternatives like Mastodon, what compels me to use Twitter? All of these points are psychological, not technical. Forget code reviews and hire a team of psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists.

I would wish you luck, but to be honest, I, like millions of people will not miss Twitter one bit.

Back to my old self.

After losing a job that I had for 7 years, it has taken a while to really get back to my self, or, a better way to put it is my new self. Getting laid off is very disappointing, but looking back, and looking forward, I am truly in a better place now. My new position is more intellectually challenging, the highest level position I have ever had, and I get paid more.

For those of you out there who have lost a job of no fault of your own, it does get better. In the beginning, you thing, what could I of done better? Why was I chosen? To be honest, I think it was a short sited dollars and cents decision. We were all late on our annual review/raise, and with new owners, I guess they figured it was easier to just cut all the higher paid employees and hope the lower experience/cheaper workers can take up the slack. There is really nothing you could do better. All of my reviews were great, even though the average raises were inflation level, at best.

With hindsight, it really was a good thing I was laid off. Even with great reviews, they were late and the raises sucked. I was getting bored working on the same project for years with no end in sight. Now that I am working again, I saw just how far my skills were wasting away. So far I have completed several tests that have been waiting in the wings for month, repaired broken test equipment, and participated in a new program from the very start, helping with specifications and adding standards. For the first time in a long time I finally feel like I am making a difference with my efforts.

For those of you that have lost your position of no fault of your own, don’t despair, it will get better. In fact, this may a time to start that small business you always wanted. Take some time off, regroup, and whatever path you are going to take will almost certainly be better than the one you were on. Remember, a business that has to make layoffs is, odds wise, more likely to fail in the next few years. This is not to be confused with selective terminations for ‘dead weight’, this is your classic someone drew a line in ledger and decided this is who is getting let go.

I’ll try to keep up the blogging, it is a good way to finish processing what has happened and I have more happy news to report as spring turns into summer.