I literally refuse to look at our bank balance. The moment I look and think “oh, that’s better than I expected” then the AC dies, or our roof starts leaking and needs replacement, or some other bullshit happens to consume every last penny we have.
Trump? Huh, what do you know, I guess he is old enough to fit the part. It also might explain his pee fetish. And the Roman’s were also known for being pedos… Oh yeah, then there’s the whole homosexual “blowing Bubba” thing.
Wow it would be hard to argue against you on that one.
Sadly, it’s not the original build. This is part of the grift. They just reset the loop of enshitification back to somewhere that was noticeably “better” than it is now, but never back to the original. Because if they take you too far, you will be able to directly compare and realize just how truly shit it has gotten.
The US elected him twice, so I guess so.
Well, she was cremated, so it is entirely possible.
I don’t know if it was intentional, but I like how your riddle option feels like you are so disappointed that nobody ever gets all 3 riddles from “answer these riddles three” and in your loneliness you have just dropped 2 of the riddles and the last remaining riddle is so basic that you can take just about any response as a correct answer.
Anything’s possible when you make shit up
Repeated exposure and normalization are basic psychology that would be introduced in even the most rudimentary Intro to Psychiatry text book. They are basic tools used by therapists, advertisers, politicians, ect, ect to do everything from good to bad like convince you that spiders aren’t horrifying, black people = white people, being gay is ok, ADHD doesn’t mean you’re defective, that you just should buy certain items because they match the lifestyle you think you deserve, and more recently that being a racist pedo rapist is acceptable as President.
You can claim that you are fighting for gay rights by tossing all the children to the pedos, but that is bullshit. If you are actually gay, then you are purposely equating homosexuality with pedophilia. The only way your argument wouldn’t automatically make you one of the dumbest people on the planet is if you were purposely throwing on the “gay” mantle to reinforce the association of “gay” with “pedo” (like some political huckster), or if you were a pedo trying to deflect people from calling you out as the pedo that obviously are.
Oh wow. You seem to be awfully enraged about this. You must have some personal investment in people being allowed to view specific types of “pornographic material”. Well, don’t let something like facts or common sense get in the way of your crusade.
Evidence? You mean other than the extensive research, clinical tests, personal stories and confessions of offenders?
Everywhere online is getting this way for me. I realized that it’s intentional. The fascist take over of Twitter was a real tipping point. The fascist realized that anti-fascists congregated and connected online, so they started a full out assault on any place that has anything other than hardcore fascist ideology.
Also, the introduction of LLMs has enabled them to really slather on the insanity while making it more difficult to filter or ban.
It will be a congestion charge. Prices will go up and down based upon the time of day and how many people are in the store.
Independent bookstores all across Europe are seeing a trend like this, where they receive random, relatively large orders that are shipped to local addresses. While orders like these still come through in the digital age, especially from institutional buyers looking to fill out new libraries, they say that most “legitimate” orders often come with coordination and negotiation, not just a straight purchase order.
They are literally searching for rare books, paying premium costs for them, then cutting off their spines because it is faster to scan them that way.
Not only do they not need to destroy the books to scan them, but Google already did this 2 decades ago, and they did it non-destructively.
If it’s 120 men, well, it’s going to take a while.
Instructions unclear, now my tray of rice crispy treats are all salty and smell like fish . On the other hand I have made note of all the employees at the potluck who went back for seconds, and you know what I think this is going to be a good year.
Look up Google and Project Ocean. Google already did this 2 decades ago. They even went to great lengths to build machines that would very slowly and gently turn pages and non-destructively scan books.
They already have a digital library of 25 million books just sitting there, ready to be instantly and non-destructively copied infinitely.
Textbooks are not “rare”, nor are they something that universities and libraries would be price sensitive about. The books are being bought from booksellers who make a living buying and selling rare books. So, while I doubt that they are all going to “masterpieces”, they are going to be books valuable enough to support an industry of people and expensive enough that universities and libraries would be price sensitive about them.
On the plus side, I have been in the biz long enough to have heard the “developers are a thing of the past” speech often enough to realize it’s bullshit. Unfortunately, I have also been around long enough to know that the idiots in the C suite will use any excuses to cut people loose if they think it can get them even $1 more on their next bonus. I also have never ever seen a dev let go because something came along that made them more efficient, quicker, and able to do more work in the same amount of time. What happens instead is that the already “overly optimistic” time lines get even shorter and more unrealistic.
The short of it is, if they let you go, it wasn’t because of AI, it’s something that they were planning on doing anyway.
I know that doesn’t really help the anxiety, but understanding that can change how you react. For instance, rather than being upset with being forced to use AI. Lean into it. Learn what it can do and what it can’t. Fucking abuse the credits that they are paying for. When you run out, ask to be moved up to the next AI tier/usage allowance, and then do it all over again. Do shit like running 2 AIs on the same job and seeing who gets closer. Set up tests that have AI run these comparisons for you. Have AIs run subagents that rubber duck, review, test, verify, ect., the entire work ticket from end to end. Work on augmenting those skills that AI fails at, and add AI expert to your resume (because that is the next bullshit thing that companies will expect on resumes). But the big difference between you and everyone else will be that you have some real insight and experience to talk about with confidence.
And if your learning curve happens to cost them so much $$ that the AI vs employee cost difference begins to rapidly shrink, well that’s not really a bad thing for you either.