Studies still clearly show that you will earn more money and have a more stable career regardless of the major you pick.

Everything is going to shit so there are no guarantees like there was for the boomers. Nobody is going to build you a house with government money like they did for the boomers.

But if we are talking about probabilities you should still go to school.

A whole bunch of very rich assholes want you to think that you don't have any use for an education because they are tired of paying for it and because they don't want you to learn critical thinking skills. That's why you get at least two stories a week attacking education in your feed.

Keep in mind those wealthy elites think you're too stupid to figure that out. It's up to you whether you want to prove them right or not.

I don't do anything that sophisticated and I have to admit even I noticed the performance difference between OpenOffice calc and Excel...

I suspect that is because Microsoft is withholding software libraries and techniques from the open Office team which would very much be in antitrust violation but we don't enforce those laws so that's kind of a moot point.

I cannot imagine what it would be like using OpenOffice for one of those really really huge spreadsheets that are basically poorly implemented databases. And I know we all just want to say don't do that but it fills a need that a lot of businesses have.

As it's actively killed its competitors. Antitrust violations are a bitch.

Want better software? Vote for politicians who will enforce antitrust law.

But hey, the girl who hands you your coffee can say Merry Christmas now so I guess Windows 11 was worth the trade.

As to VisiCalk being the real OG that started from nothing, there's an interesting comment on a VisiCalc youtube:

In 1969, we had to develop the world's true first electronic spreadsheet (LANPAR) within the limitation of 32k of memory - and we included forward referencing which didn't appear in Visicalc, TKSolver, Supercalc or even Multiplan I. Only in Lotus 13 years later. We even included the ability for sophisticated logic calculations, access to external data base data, and input of data in real time. Timesharing in those days was very similar to "cloud" computing now, except that you knew exactly which remote computer was doing the processing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also at that scale who knows how much they are paying for each seat, I'm sure it's a bespoke deal. No doubt MS is making money, but I wouldn't just take the retail price and multiply it by 2 million.

At least they are installing renewables as fast as they can.

With the fact that arrests have dropped from 44,000 per year to about 11,000 per year because so many federal law enforcement agents have been taken off other beats and put on immigration enforcement....

Seriously look it up. If we had a functional media it would be much bigger news. Most of the Democrats sucks so hard in messaging...

Bold proclamation, but 25 years ago, Sony publicly predicted on their press tour that CGI would replace actors...it never did. Will AI be integrated into entertainment?...absolutely....will anyone want to see that slop?...I doubt it. Sony was proud of Final Fantasy Spirits Within and back in 2000, I thought it looked really rad...now it looks like a PS4 game. But even in 2000, I knew it wouldn't replace the real thing. I honestly didn't like it very much. It was tolerable, but not an upgrade to live action, even in 2000, when we weren't spoiled by good CGI.

I think CGI is a better indicator of the future of AI. Sure, Star Wars prequels and Sin City, tried to make everything green screen...and it sucked. Audiences didn't like them. The only box office draw was due to them being popular existing properties, so yeah, Star Wars fans lined up...same with Frank Miller fans. However, we got bored of it. Few bothered again.

No one wants to pay top dollar for CGI and the same applies for AI slop. Someone will make a movie in AI...it will suck...people will stop...AI footage will get mixed in with CGI and live action, but the future of movies will have VFX look just like today, only better, and maybe cheaper, but the most talented CGI artists can't replicate the look/feel of a set with practical effects. It's doubtful AI will do so much better to put everyone out of business.

25 years ago, everyone said what you said about CGI...that it would replace sets and drastically cut costs...everything will be filmed in front of a green screen. Today, we see that that's not true. It augments old-fashioned filmmaking...never replaced it...and looking at today's LLMs and how they've progressed, I see no indication they can replace anyone...augment? absolutely...replace?...well...if ChatGPT can actually replace your job, you weren't very useful. I use Claude daily...it can't write Java with correct syntax reliably...and that's easy!!!!...neither can ChatGPT or CoPilot. It shows little progress from generation to generation...seriously, it has no idea where to put commas or semi-colons. That's a MUCH MUCH MUCH easier problem to solve than created a fucking movie!!!

Maybe but the corporate greed machine is never satisfied. After the first few shipments, they may cry foul.

Nah dude, difference country.

What if, and I'm just spitballing here, the news media barely covered this and certainly didn't cover the corruption angle at all because the news media is now completely owned by billionaires like something like literally 90% of the news media is owned by billionaires.

So almost nobody hears about this and then the news cycle eats the attention of anyone who does and we all just move on and forget about it. Does that work for you?

In project 2025 they call it shock and awe. Everything is a distraction from the previous terrible thing Trump did and everything Trump does next is a distraction from whatever he's doing at the time. Meanwhile the economy is continuously collapsing due to mismanagement so you're too busy trying to keep your head above water to care about anything else.

Then you mix in a little voter suppression and the fact that a billionaire Trump sycophant just bought the company that controls all of our voting machines and maybe do a few hundred billion dollars of propaganda right before the election and Bob's your uncle Trump gets a third term or at least JD Vance gets his term.

Then we had 25% unemployment, world war III takes off and goes nuclear and we Fermi paradox ourselves. I don't think the billionaires are planning on that last one but I don't think they are thinking any of this through either. They're just too busy trying to set themselves up as feudal Kings.

I'm no lawyer but this sounds suspiciously like an export tax. I think Nvidia now has a solid case that A) it's illegal (only congress can tax stuff, right?) and that B) a ban is unwarranted because of the attempted illegal export tax.

Kinda seems like the grifter just shot himself in the foot again.

It's not the Taiwanese that are crying censorship, it's the Chinese. The KMT are just wannabe CCP members who are just as truthful as the real CCP. Actual Taiwanese people don't want something that China controls.

This is conservative/right wing agitprop clickbait bullshit of the absolute lowest quality.

no, social media is not creating debt laden people low wages and monopolies raising prices is.

Fuck what a particularly nasty piece of clickbait. But you got me I clicked it and I commented so you win I guess.

When the species of super intelligent raccoons or beavers take over from us after we drive ourselves to Extinction through sheer stupidity I wonder what they will think of this crap.

LLMs are far less useful than promised, but they're a great bargaining chip...oh, you want a raise? I can replace you with AI and pay you nothing...how does that sound? Is it true?...no, but you're probably not going to call their bluff and find out as either way, you're out of a job. We saw this with offshore outsourcing 20-25 years ago. I'm more scared of what people think AI can do than what it can actually do.