phughes @ phughes @lemmy.ca Posts 0Comments 98Joined 4 mo. ago
My brother, a right winger, brought his kids up to visit me last summer.
It was at the end of the week that he told me that I hardly work at all. I'm like: Yeah, I have fucking guests in my house. I was still at my desk when I wasn't trying to keep 2 teenaged girls entertained.
He moved his family 1000 miles away and 20 years later is lamenting that they have no relationship with the people he moved away from. (I'm sure it's just a coincidence that this lines up with the rise of "Family" talk from right wingers.) This same guy calls other people "Sheeple".
Lower, dumbass.
I didn't know William Hurt had died. I'm now relived that Disney aren't just being assholes about casting and sad to know why they recast Ross.
Agreed.
The people who apply for permits are the ones who'll obey the law.
I guess that means that permits are not an effective deterrent and that we should just ban guns altogether.
As a person near the great lakes: No, they shouldn't.
The number of 18-year-olds is about to drop sharply, packing a wallop for colleges — and the economy
Sometimes I see comments/headlines and I think: "Is this AI?" And then I think: "Or is this person just stupid?"
I've always assumed it was AI, but maybe "the kids" today can't write a coherent lemmy comment.
I don't think of it in terms of the action being virtuous, but that they are signaling what they think is virtuous.
I interviewed a bunch of years ago with a company called "xmode social" (I was in desperate need of a job. I fortunately did not get that one.) They had a framework that they paid app publishers in to include in their apps. That framework collected your location data and sent it to xmode who sold that data. That was their entire business AFAIK.
There don't need to be any shared features for companies to include shit like that in their apps. They just need a way to make the line go up.
What I love most about the phrase "virtue signaling" is that when people accuse you of it they are themselves virtue signaling.
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About five years ago the exhaust fan on my furnace started making noise. It sounded like a bearing issue, so I figured out the correct replacement part, ordered it and installed it myself.
It cost a little under $200 all told. I know that the service call would have been at least $500.
So many of the things we own are made of generic parts that you can buy off of amazon for less than the cost of getting a guy to come look at it.
This thread is full of people comparing OPs hypothetical about 10 years from now with last year's capability.
Will AI progress that fast? ¯(ツ)/¯ It probably won't get that good, but it doesn't matter. If it gets as good as your average junior that's going to mean something like 100% increase in productivity, which means 50% as many jobs and that's going to be a BIG FUCKING DEAL.
Especially when it's going to be replacing a lot of other types of office workers. What kind of job is your average software dev going to transition to? Tech support? Not anymore. UI Designer? LOL. Manager? And who are you going to be managing?
If the US doesn't hit 15-20% unemployment in the next 10 years I'll eat my hat. I'll be eating it either way because I'll be starving to death.
People who were 10 when Self Esteem came out probably think that, yeah.
I'm sorry but if someone is pretending to be a Republican
to gain favor with Trump, skirt antitrust laws, and ultimately 'rip off consumers and crush competitors'
doesn't that just make them… a Republican?
The problem is the inability to be attracted to “regular looking” people.
The problem is that you're shallow. That's a personality problem. Improve your personality until you see the people around you as more than objects.
I'm not sure what your point is. Union leaders are elected by union members to represent them as… a union. Of course press releases are written by the leaders. They're the leaders. That's part of the job. The fact that not everyone in the union agrees with the path the leaders have decided to take is neither surprising nor an invalidation of their leadership.
I realized I'd inadvertently crossed into Switzerland due to a wrong turn when my rental car's navigation system alerted me to the fact. Whoops.
The subject then engaged with local law enforcement and is now deceased
It makes it sound like the cops wouldn't have done anything if the guy hadn't brought the fight to them.
Trump: Ok, how about Ukraine declares unconditional surrender and Zelensky is hung in Red Square.
Putin: No, not got good enough.