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Alternate Title: Two sentences explaining why I will never own a self driving car.

Seriously, I'll only trust trains on rails with autonomous operation, and it's profoundly stupid of any country to let autonomous machines operate freely on open roads.

The political implications of autonomous machinery with nigh-unbounded geographic reach are deeply hazardous.

So, interpreting a wide variety of character arrays as corresponding boolean values, is a bad idea?

I am not freaking kidding you.

So, when unsolicited advertisements are delivered to a physical mailbox, generally, most people refer to those parcels as:

  "Junk Mail"

The electronic corollary for this "junk mail" is often referred to as "spam."

Marketing strategies, carried out by e-mail, especially when the conversation is not initiated by the recipient DO fit the description of unsolicited advertising. Thus: spam.

How confusing was that?

I rate the following "skills" as dubious...

-SEO : No actual control over outcomes, basing results on third party platforms subject to arbitrary change.

-SEM : No actual control over outcomes, basing results on third party platforms subject to arbitrary change.

-Social Advertising : No actual control over outcomes, basing results on third party platforms subject to arbitrary change.

-Analytics : Statistics usually skewed in favor of only the most brainless users, that do not understand how to block scripts or manage their cookies and sessions.

-Email/Push Notifications : Spam.

This kind of stuff is fluff and busy-work at best.

I'm sure there are plenty of graphs charting direct relationships between "x" and "y", in the land of "more is always better", but how many people does anyone know who's decision making has ever directly turned on one of these bullet points?

The interpretation is left open to the reader. It could be a negative and cynical nod to the idea that we're doomed, and digging our way straight to hell, or possibly a coy wink at an absurd paradox of conflicting goals among participants.

It's a joke, that's the punchline.

The corollary being the axiom:

  "If your problem is that you're stuck in a hole, the 
   first part of fixing that is: do not make the hole 
   deeper by digging, since that makes the problem worse."

As opposed to the mindset of developers being akin to a coal miner, where the goal is to dig, and a bottomless pit is not a problem, it's the goal. (in other words you stay employed)

Consider the lyrics from the song Trust Your Mechanic by Dead Kennedys.

  Trust your mechanic to mend your car.
  Bring it in to his garage.
  He tightens and loosens a few spare parts.
  One thing's fixed, another falls apart.

  Trust your mechanic to make you well.
  You're seeing an awful lot of him now.
  The quicker he makes your life fall apart,
  The more money you put in his pockets.

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Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream?

I would say there's a degree of distinction between paint-by-numbers, versus coloring with magic markers or crayons. As with any craft or skill, including visual arts, there's opportunities for advancement.

But yeah, nothing wrong with relaxing pastimes, and aimless meandering. Not everything has to be a mad rush toward some greater goal or executed in the edification of some grand and auspicious endeavor.