"TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer shutting down its loss-making app rather than sell it"

Yes, that's because its purpose is not profit, as it's a PsyOp. If the goal were profit, they would prefer to sell it. If they sell it, there is a risk that documents which prove its purpose will be transferred, and blow the whole operation even worse than being shut down.

"It's probably because you're asserting that the mod down process validates your "facts"."

If you want to claim what I'm saying isn't factual, the onus is on you to provide some counter evidence, or at minimum, counter arguments. When people mod down an opinion because they don't agree with it they have surrendered the point.

I am disabled too but I still go out. It's strange but... I'm missing a few body parts, and the small degree of functional augmentation my implants provide my partially-failed biological body feels like fighting back disability through technology, if that makes sense.

It's hard to explain and most people don't understand, but my implants give me a degree of feeling like I can do something more than just endure the loss of amputation. It's entirely psycholofical, I know, but if you're disabled too, you understand.

There's stuff popping up in my lawn that no one has ever seen before.

Some is. And some is spot on. Quite a few Indian professionals came here (or Britain) because they couldn't put up with the racist caste system back home. Perhaps they were not Brahmins and therefore destined for a career of mediocraty. Or they didn't want to spent their lives pushing past the Paperwork Wallahs that are the remains of an ex-Socialist system.

Others came because they _were_ the big shots in Indian society. And they looked over here and saw that many Americans were squandering excellent opportunities. They figured that we are the Dalits, in need of leadership. I see a lot of immigrants from cultures like this. The motivated people that got out of their shithole countries because they figured they were better than their neighbors. And also better than us.

Indeed. QEMM was something of a hero in that department, but even memmaker was enormously helpful...

Every major shift WAS different from the one before.

What's DOUBLY different about this time is that this time we are not moving from skill to skill, we are moving from unskilled to something.

I truly despise the idea that there are no unskilled jobs because it is not just false, it's a counterproductive argument. All of us who have worked a variety of jobs know that some jobs require both talent and education, and others require mostly just a pulse and respiration. But people who work both kinds of jobs have essentially the same needs.

Which word did you find unclear? I don't remember stuttering.

Hiding from the truth doesn't change it.

This is different in that the software will take the service jobs, and it's the same in that the people profiting from the switch don't give a fuck about you.

It's also true that those people have names and addresses, and we have lumber.

That was the joke alright, he doesn't think any of the action against Apple makes sense because he's in favor of anticompetitive behavior at the expense of customers for some sick reason, probably cognitive dissonance.

That's fine if you have an embarrassingly parallel problem which doesn't require a lot of data transfer between processors. There are jobs like that, of course, but those mac minis have pretty poor connectivity and having that many nodes means doing a lot of extra work to set up and maintain them. The EPYC processor (and to a lesser extent the Xeon) also offers very good price:performance. The minis come with a lot of extra case material that you have to pay for (including making it pretty) but don't really want.

Most people half-ass parenting. I see it every time I go out into the world, and not just from the results (but that too.)

Having children later increases the risk of defects and complications, and it's not just because of older genetic material so freezing it isn't a complete solution. And it's true for both men and women, for their respective parts. If we want more people to have more kids (which is something I question at a time when jobs are being eliminated by automation) and we want those children to be as health as possible, then we need to make it more feasible for young people to be able to afford to do it.

That is not only generally false, but this time IS different. Since there is NOT always more work to be done, we have moved over to a service economy, where we CREATE more work to be done. BUT the software is now able to do many of those service jobs, and there's no other sector to move to. ALSO, every major technological advance HAS destroyed jobs, and some of those workers were left behind at every step. A lot of people DID become destitute, starve and even die due to the economic upheaval of the industrial revolution. If you want to invoke history and be taken seriously, you have to account for the parts you don't like, not just the parts you remember fondly.

Those service jobs were only viable because people had money, so as the percentage of service jobs has increased (it's now about 80%) the system has become more unbalanced because those jobs don't pay as well as more skilled jobs. (There may or may not be "unskilled" labor depending on who you ask, but there are definitely jobs which require more skill[s] than others.)

What industry do YOU think the low-talent service job employees are going to move into when there are no longer jobs for humans to read scripts on phones? When there are 10% or fewer jobs in fast food compared to now, because the work truly can be done by a bunch of robots plus one guy who knows how to clear jams in the burger printer and replace parts occasionally?

Haha no. But I don't shy away from going all the way on solutions that I deem worth it to improve my quality of life.

Implants aren't fun to put in, they're not cheap, and the devices you use them with - like RFID or NFC locks and such - aren't cheap either. But if you have the money and you're willing to grit your teeth for a few minutes, they're totally worth it. At least that's my opinion.

There is, again if you have the money. I use this stupidly expensive padlock with an equally thick chain.

I hate having stuff on me. Worse: I hate having to remember that I need to take stuff with me, and then realize I need something and I forgot it. To each his own I guess.