I also listen to a lot of politics and it amazes me to this day the consensus is not he’s a fucking idiot but in the context of he is Putin’s puppet and the goal is to destroy America and the Western Alliance he’s doing what he’s meant to do.

The problem is very smart people like Dr. Janice Stein are quick to say there’s sure as shit smoke but we don’t factually know what the deal is with Trump and Putin but we all know something is there

God it still pisses me off what they did to my boy Opera. All of us left when they diverted after v12. We all saw this coming.

Then Vivaldi came which I have tried in quite a while but it sucked. Firefox it is.

And cars were worse for physical health yet here we are.

I suspect you may be part of the crowd I’m addressing this to but progress is progress and you can’t uninvent shit and you can’t predict adoption.

As it stands “AI” is here to stay and no movement of luddites is going to change that. Globally “we” are saying it’s valuable.

What we are lacking right now is control over the speed and direction.

Going back to the car analogy this is why licenses exist, and registration, and laws. This too will come with AI only when the problem becomes so big or so dangerous to necessitate it. I suspect we will be there soon. Youth unemployment is fucked everywhere and only getting worse.

It’s really funny as an outsider. It’s been decades of “Texas is going to go blue” lol

That’s future CEOs problem

From everyone regardless of race, social status or net worth and doesn’t matter if you have been in the country for 50 years or 1 year.

You know how taxes are supposed to work right?

Reminder that Glenn Beck may have raped and murdered someone back in the 90’s. He’s never disavowed it.

You do understand it’s not about you the individual paying the reparations. It’s about the system that profited and profits from all that bad history. Hence the government pays for the reparations.

It’s acknowledging the system is at fault and yes, if you’re white you have benefitted and your parents and relatives have all benefitted from that system.

You could be a poor as shit white person and there are still examples that can be raised on you being in a position of privilege. I find this is the largest struggle for many white people. “Well I’ve never benefitted from the systemic racism in place.” Yeah you have, repeatedly.

Ok for arguments sake then how much is actually tied to a person’s ability to self-respect and grow? I imagine it’s far less common than we may think?

How much of this do you think can be tied back to good parents?

Because as humans we are insanely stupid. I think we all know the answer. Money is why Arizona. We don’t do what’s right. We do what is cheap and effective. It just happens that sometimes that is right too.

I’m taking none of it with me. Let it all burn.

Yup. Now are we going to learn this time or is it just a cycle we are doomed to repeat?

It’s going to be akin to death by cummulative poisoning.

Agree and despite what it may seem like it really is gradual right now. What people are avoiding (god the C level discussions I have been witness to is mindblowing) is the long term damage of their choices today.

The amount of times I have heard executive talks with “you know we both have kids around the same age what do you see this doing?” And they always wrap it with something positive. These fuckers most likely have their kids in private schools, not to mention their kids have all the connections these fucking parents can afford them.

In short the execs making the decisions have their heads equally shoved so far up their own asses they are ignoring the problems on the horizon.

My only complaint here is that there is a lot of very, very valid use cases for “AI” specifically “Agentic AI”.

We (including myself) may not like a lot of those uses because it devalues my fellow workers but it does not change the fact that it works.

The problem is everyone needs to be so goddamn polarizing and god forbid we have a mature honest discussion about the tools being built and how they are changing society as we know it.

We should be discussing and pushing for UBI across the world for decades now as youth unemployment is already at dangerous levels in continents like Africa (lol of course we don’t care because black people) but no instead we have asshats pushing a narrative of “AI bad”. It’s not. It has many purposes. Smarter people know this and it’s why it isn’t going away and the train is not going to stop if you don’t pull your head out of your ass.

/rant

I can’t wait to dip out of society and find somewhere in the middle of nowhere to live a quiet life with minimal technology in my life. I’m done with all of you. I stand by what I’ve said to my mum many times over the years. I hate people. I love persons.

Nothing changes until the government reprioritizes which system is in play and then it becomes a global problem. I think we both want the same thing, but the reality is we aren’t getting it until it gets much worse and/or blood spills and I have neither the capacity nor the appetite for either.

Being blunt. I am 48 and have 3 kids to feed and 2 have disabilities. I have no interest in the risk that comes with doing something pro bono on the hopes it will work especially when everyone else is doing it pro bono. There’s no immediate individual incentive.

I may want socialism but I live in a capitalist world. I can’t have me and my family survive on good feelings.

Therein lies the problem. When I was a kid all I wanted to be was spider-man so I could help people.

Notice the difference?

Batman/Iron Man/ et. al are ok as heroes but really their super power realistically should be the number of people they could lift out of poverty with that money. The fact that they haven’t speaks volumes.

I don’t blame the writers per se. They exist in a world same as ours so God forbid a billionaire give away all their money because no one needs all that money.

It’s absolutely baffling how the gig-economy had been normalized.

I am a news junkie. Just this week they were talking to a business expert about youth unemployment (note it’s bad everywhere but it’s starting to get bad in 1st world now so we are caring finally) and his response was yeah it’s bad but basically we have to get used to a future of hustling doing multiple gigs with no health benefits because that’s where things are going.

Fucking government is bent over the barrel letting industry define the workers terms of engagement it’s disgusting.

That you know of!

Yeah!