not millennials. there was a whole disney movie about big foreign birds back before the age of slop. george c scott was in it.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang says it's a good time to be a plumber — and not just because it's an AI-proof job
https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia- … wtab-en-us
we cannot complete a fiscal year without some living avatar of mammon telling the public everyman to go be a poop jockey. gee, thanks. i feel like i'm back watching that one matrix scene where the cat loops.
https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia- … wtab-en-us
we cannot complete a fiscal year without some living avatar of mammon telling the public everyman to go be a poop jockey. gee, thanks. i feel like i'm back watching that one matrix scene where the cat loops.
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ChatGPT helped me fix a cabinet door, a vape, setup my modem, and fix the garage opener. It did it all with polite encouragement. Some trade workers will loss revenue when more Americans realize they can do a lot more things with AI's help.
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I think the "go into trades" stuff is partially pandering to blue collar people. Get the proles on your side by making them upset at their white collar neighbors. I understand this attitude though. I was jealous of the car salesman back when I was a tech.
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Electricity and wiring. That is the one red line I will not even attempt to do. Ladders too. Whenever I look at a ladder I see death or a lifetime of back pain. I worked way too hard at life to just die falling off of a ladder.
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I think the "go into trades" stuff is partially pandering to blue collar people. Get the proles on your side by making them upset at their white collar neighbors. I understand this attitude though. I was jealous of the car salesman back when I was a tech.
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Electricity and wiring. That is the one red line I will not even attempt to do. Ladders too. Whenever I look at a ladder I see death or a lifetime of back pain. I worked way too hard at life to just die falling off of a ladder.
Which is funny when they have small eagles.
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Not really been scared of either, although I have electrocuted myself twice and had near-misses with ladders.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Electricity and wiring. That is the one red line I will not even attempt to do. Ladders too. Whenever I look at a ladder I see death or a lifetime of back pain. I worked way too hard at life to just die falling off of a ladder.
Nearly broke my ankle missing the bottom step of a step ladder, then had to drive 200 miles - in a manual like a savage.
Just last week cut through the power cable of the angle grinder, with the angle grinder, while standing on metal scaffolding.
Did the RCD trip? No.
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Big endurance race last weekend, people are posting pics, one guy is posting ai generated images of the race..
silver lining would ideally be that nobody believes anything anymore unless exhaustively corroborated.
reality is telling people that the video they just got emotional over was ai-generated.
reality is telling people that the video they just got emotional over was ai-generated.
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Eventually the bill will come for all of the "AI investment."
I expect it will go like:
(1) premium features like image and video generation will be more paywalled than they are now. LeGaL ReAsOnS and woke will be blamed but the fact of the matter is the infrastructure is even more expensive than crypto shit a generation ago.
(2) Sketchy things like your AI girlfriend will be supported but also paywall. Porn sites verify with credit cards. Same thing can be done if you want to sext your AI.
(3) AI tools will mature and become more useful than they are now. "AI in your toaster" is going to no longer be a thing but I noticed Google, Amazon, NYT and some other integrating AI very well into their services.
Google has started to give AI summaries of long email chains. It is a godsend to open an email and the Zoom link is at the top because Google AI pulled it to the top for you.
Amazon is using AI to better summarize reviews so you get a broad understanding of the product without having to read every single one.
Samsung, Google, and Apple's image editing tools are great. Being able to just remove a person is great.
ChatGPT is still great for copy editing and planning. It is more useful as a search engine than Google at this point.
I expect it will go like:
(1) premium features like image and video generation will be more paywalled than they are now. LeGaL ReAsOnS and woke will be blamed but the fact of the matter is the infrastructure is even more expensive than crypto shit a generation ago.
(2) Sketchy things like your AI girlfriend will be supported but also paywall. Porn sites verify with credit cards. Same thing can be done if you want to sext your AI.
(3) AI tools will mature and become more useful than they are now. "AI in your toaster" is going to no longer be a thing but I noticed Google, Amazon, NYT and some other integrating AI very well into their services.
Google has started to give AI summaries of long email chains. It is a godsend to open an email and the Zoom link is at the top because Google AI pulled it to the top for you.
Amazon is using AI to better summarize reviews so you get a broad understanding of the product without having to read every single one.
Samsung, Google, and Apple's image editing tools are great. Being able to just remove a person is great.
ChatGPT is still great for copy editing and planning. It is more useful as a search engine than Google at this point.
apple did AI summaries of email over a year ago. it's alright. there's even a toggle-able option to have the default mail view give you a summary of the emails in your inbox rather than previewing the first few lines or whatever. i know the full tool is there but i seldom ever use it. there's a whole contextual menu that helps you read and compose emails that is accessible in OSX native apps.
useful if you're in a hurry or doing lots of rote emails per day. kind of midwit otherwise.
claude is better than chatgpt for text-heavy things, i think, particularly analysing large amounts of text. chat-GPT has a weird goldfish effect where it quickly forgets the context of the 'chat' you've opened. you can tell it to apply a style point and then 4 further messages later it has forgotten that style point. extremely bad, worse than a forgetful editorial assistant.
i have no problem with generative AI being paywalled. preferably fenced off from regular apps too. i don't want to suffer through oodles of AI shit when i want to use photoshop or adobe reader for a very specific purpose. and the world needs some respite from this infinitely self-replicating black ooze of generative slop.
useful if you're in a hurry or doing lots of rote emails per day. kind of midwit otherwise.
claude is better than chatgpt for text-heavy things, i think, particularly analysing large amounts of text. chat-GPT has a weird goldfish effect where it quickly forgets the context of the 'chat' you've opened. you can tell it to apply a style point and then 4 further messages later it has forgotten that style point. extremely bad, worse than a forgetful editorial assistant.
i have no problem with generative AI being paywalled. preferably fenced off from regular apps too. i don't want to suffer through oodles of AI shit when i want to use photoshop or adobe reader for a very specific purpose. and the world needs some respite from this infinitely self-replicating black ooze of generative slop.
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I appreciate I got to experience liberal arts courses taught by old Jewish professors before AI final week'd them.
The first Asian girl I nailed was a Filipino girl I met on the first day of Psychology 101 my first spring semester.
"The good life" for me is still the whole college town coffee date with liberal millennial white girl.
I am going to co sign my kid's student loans with the hope they spend a lot of time just sitting around coffee shops with or as a girl.
I don't care if my kid is trans or gay. I will only bully them if they can't make it into Rutgers.
But realistically dorming was too expensive for me. By 2044 room and board at state Universities will be like $100,000. I would still pay it like one of those boomers wanting to live through their kids.
My Son would probably be a dummy who knocks a girl up at 18 while his dad had to wait until he was 45 to have one with a lady teacher nearing 40.
The first Asian girl I nailed was a Filipino girl I met on the first day of Psychology 101 my first spring semester.
"The good life" for me is still the whole college town coffee date with liberal millennial white girl.
I am going to co sign my kid's student loans with the hope they spend a lot of time just sitting around coffee shops with or as a girl.
I don't care if my kid is trans or gay. I will only bully them if they can't make it into Rutgers.
But realistically dorming was too expensive for me. By 2044 room and board at state Universities will be like $100,000. I would still pay it like one of those boomers wanting to live through their kids.
My Son would probably be a dummy who knocks a girl up at 18 while his dad had to wait until he was 45 to have one with a lady teacher nearing 40.
the size of the graduate job market in the UK has shrunk to beneath 10,000 jobs for the first time.
this year, the (much expanded) UK university sector will graduate 900,000 undergraduates and 350,000 postgraduates. 1.2 million recent graduates are unemployed.
a debate is currently raging about the funding system. students are charged £9000 a year and expected to repay it when they earn over a certain amount. however, that formerly public govt debt has recently been sold as private debt to big finance, who proceeded to hike the interest rates above general hikes from central banks. the result? graduates who earn $50k+ are now effectively paying an extra flat-rate 9% tax for the rest of their lives.
there's junior doctors in the UK who have finished 7+ years of training and are on a fast-track in the NHS, making a very good salary. and after 4-5 years of early-career contributions, their loans have actually increased. they've not even scratched the principal. and these are upper-middle class types in one of the strongest graduate careers, historically. god help the rest of them trying to scrape by in bullshit corporate jobs.
no graduate jobs, and whatever you earn 9% goes to service a loan that only increases every year because of predatory interest.
someone should study what happens when a society shits on its young and robs them of the first 25 years of their adult lives, and consequently all the usual rites of passage (home ownership, starting families, building pensions and retirement funds; not to mention fulfilling hobbies and life-experiences, etc.) it's almost as if history has some examples ...
i'm sure all the manosphere roman avatar nazi eugenicist RETVRN kodachrome-postcard-from-the-1930s nostalgia posters online have nothing to do with it.
i don't know what this post has to do with AI, but it sure as hell ain't making the picture any rosier in the short-term for white collar types.
this year, the (much expanded) UK university sector will graduate 900,000 undergraduates and 350,000 postgraduates. 1.2 million recent graduates are unemployed.
a debate is currently raging about the funding system. students are charged £9000 a year and expected to repay it when they earn over a certain amount. however, that formerly public govt debt has recently been sold as private debt to big finance, who proceeded to hike the interest rates above general hikes from central banks. the result? graduates who earn $50k+ are now effectively paying an extra flat-rate 9% tax for the rest of their lives.
there's junior doctors in the UK who have finished 7+ years of training and are on a fast-track in the NHS, making a very good salary. and after 4-5 years of early-career contributions, their loans have actually increased. they've not even scratched the principal. and these are upper-middle class types in one of the strongest graduate careers, historically. god help the rest of them trying to scrape by in bullshit corporate jobs.
no graduate jobs, and whatever you earn 9% goes to service a loan that only increases every year because of predatory interest.
someone should study what happens when a society shits on its young and robs them of the first 25 years of their adult lives, and consequently all the usual rites of passage (home ownership, starting families, building pensions and retirement funds; not to mention fulfilling hobbies and life-experiences, etc.) it's almost as if history has some examples ...
i'm sure all the manosphere roman avatar nazi eugenicist RETVRN kodachrome-postcard-from-the-1930s nostalgia posters online have nothing to do with it.
i don't know what this post has to do with AI, but it sure as hell ain't making the picture any rosier in the short-term for white collar types.
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Who could have imagined that giving power (back) to psychopathic blue-bloods and bankers would have turned everything to shit?
I think the last 100 years have been a pretence of democracy, equality etc. Before was crap, after will be worse.
Boomers had it good, borrowing from the future. Their kids had it OK, borrowing more to stave off the interest, everyone else is fucked.
But don't worry, Farage will fix everything, just like Thatcher.
I think the last 100 years have been a pretence of democracy, equality etc. Before was crap, after will be worse.
Boomers had it good, borrowing from the future. Their kids had it OK, borrowing more to stave off the interest, everyone else is fucked.
But don't worry, Farage will fix everything, just like Thatcher.
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a certain materialist (not to say marxisant) view of history would have it that the ruling class and elites threw some democratic sops to the masses following the collective cataclysms of the great and second world wars. a measure of largesse and some public goods had to be thrown out to stop the shattered populace from swinging to socialism in response to the imperial-fascist meat-grinders.Dilbert_X wrote:
Boomers had it good, borrowing from the future. Their kids had it OK, borrowing more to stave off the interest, everyone else is fucked.
however, collective memory is too fallible and all too short – witness the rise of neo-nazis everywhere today – and the elites simply feel less of a need to play along with that charade today. that is, until the next coming global conflict, in which i have no doubt that large state-directed funds and efforts will eventually be diverted to working people once again. if only downstream of military-industrial spending and the spinning up of plant and materiel.
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Well the last 100 years have been spent trying to stave of the revolution of the proles by any means.
Bribing them with their own debt has worked well but was going to come due one day.
Now the MAGA-ites have realised the proles can be brainwashed into believing they are upwardly mobile as they pay their taxes and die prematurely in their trailers the govt can take on debt and pay the oligarchs without it having to pass through the proles at all.
What a time to be alive.
Bribing them with their own debt has worked well but was going to come due one day.
Now the MAGA-ites have realised the proles can be brainwashed into believing they are upwardly mobile as they pay their taxes and die prematurely in their trailers the govt can take on debt and pay the oligarchs without it having to pass through the proles at all.
What a time to be alive.
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i don't think any MAGA people, architects or followers, are really selling a line about paying taxes and becoming upwardly mobile. it's about reducing government, draining the swamp, etc. part of its DNA is the tea party, after all, who were 'small government, zero taxes' libertarians through-and-through. all the trade wars and protectionism seem to be more about stemming the flow of blood due to globalisation and trying to stymy china's growth.
i think your average trump voter is aware that the middle-class vision of upward social mobility and material plenty is basically a sham. that's the conventional dream as sold by modern democrats. go to school, learn a trade, pay your taxes: the system is good, we know what we're dooing, etc. MAGA seems to be more about the resentment of the little guy against the slick suits and big business who sold that dream out. but you're right that it's pretty canny how they've convinced the trailer park dwellers that their ressentiment is 'making america great again' as opposed to just lining the pockets of an even shabbier and more shameless class of billionaires - and one with questionable international loyalties, at that.
i think your average trump voter is aware that the middle-class vision of upward social mobility and material plenty is basically a sham. that's the conventional dream as sold by modern democrats. go to school, learn a trade, pay your taxes: the system is good, we know what we're dooing, etc. MAGA seems to be more about the resentment of the little guy against the slick suits and big business who sold that dream out. but you're right that it's pretty canny how they've convinced the trailer park dwellers that their ressentiment is 'making america great again' as opposed to just lining the pockets of an even shabbier and more shameless class of billionaires - and one with questionable international loyalties, at that.
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I think a lot of MAGA people in their hearts know Trump can't turn back the clock. Especially now since "the resistance" has reassembled to oppose him. People were afraid of saying anything bad about him but now in my blue area in a blue state the Trump supporters are either saying "this isn't what I voted for," "I made a mistake" or are keeping quiet.
NJ jerking back to blue so hard cowed a lot of the MAGA types here. The kids are much more likely to make connections between Trump and some of the stuff I talk about. I don't participate in clowning on Trump but we no longer feel under pressure to sound patriotic when it comes up.
NJ jerking back to blue so hard cowed a lot of the MAGA types here. The kids are much more likely to make connections between Trump and some of the stuff I talk about. I don't participate in clowning on Trump but we no longer feel under pressure to sound patriotic when it comes up.