They're in luck, Slashdot is hiring more dupe-makers

...in a bot because of his failing health, and run another 50 terms as a cyborg: Darth Vapor.

It's hard to know if China's factory bots are practical, CEO's tell Xi what Xi wants to hear because if the bot plans later fail, the CEO won't be alone in fails and not look as bad.

Musk tried using lots of bots to make Teslas, but found they were not flexible enough, and required too much tech staff babysitting that was better spent solving car problems. Xi might not care because the recent high unemployment of Chinese engineers means bot repair is a make-work program for them. The crazy things dictators can do.

That's what it looks to boomers. Who knows what it looks like to zoomers?
Between 60 and 99 - I only want to see green faded-ass anchors aways and mermaids with titties out.
Between 50 and 60 - Chinese Symbols are ok, Anchors or titty mermaids are "Oh god, Dad!"
Between 40 and 50 - Full sleeves or blackouts are cool, Chinese Symbols are trying too hard
Between 30 and 40 - Full sleeves and blackouts are eww, gross. Full body snakes are TDF
Between 20 and 30 - I'm guessing the only acceptable tats are skibidi toiilets and minecraft.

For being a Bad Mother Fucker.

People are modding me flamebait for this comment, which is interesting. Maybe rightfully so, maybe pointing out death tolls is inconsiderate to people who would prefer to ignore them. Whether you're pro USAID cuts or against them though, you are simply lying to yourselves if you think there isn't a real human cost to this issue that's being measured in the millions of lives that are being lost and the even more that are being projected to be lost.

And Elon is the beating heart of that entire operation. It *will* reach 15M lives by 2050. Elon is the Anti-Bill Gates. He's seeking to do active harm.

And I cannot lie.

I post every now and then, but there isn't much to talk about with the old folks 'round here these days. Eventually every comments section looks like a Thanksgiving dinner! Most of my rambles are now on Reddit now.

Keep sharp!

The USAID cut related death toll is already up to 500k+, mostly children. If Elon isn't losing sleep already then I can't even imagine what would give him pause.

As if anyone here isn't old enough to know about Eliza...

It's simple economics.

Degrees, undergrad or grad, have to be measured in terms of:

1. Raw cost
2. Opportunity cost during the time you go for the degree
3. Time left in your working life in order to recoup #1 and #2.

Once upon a time, for the cost of a few summers working, and a part time job during the school year, you could afford to get a college degree at a public university. The cost was reasonable, and the boost in career opportunities outweighed the lost income during the 4(ish) years you spent in school. If school suited you, this was a slam dunk.

Then at a certain point you needed loans in addition to working to get through undergrad. Rather expensive ones too. However, if you were in state, you'd get a discount. The cost went up, but the boost in career opportunities outweighed the higher cost and the lost income during the time you spent in school. Again, if school suited you, it would take longer for the benefit to show in your life, but if you expected to work for a few decades, the difference in earning power and job opportunity (especially during an era where the US was hollowing out alternatives to white collar jobs), would pay off.

At some point, the raw cost and the opportunity cost reached an equilibrium point with your ability to recoup the cost over your working life... and people started noticing that the bet that they were taking - that they'd remain employed long enough post-higher education, at a rate of pay better than what they would have had without the degree, was not as solid as they would have liked.

One wonders if during this time period, if there had been a competitive alternative to higher education tracked in US schools, such as apprenticeships (normally starting at the start of high school), whether we would have hit this "crisis" of higher education. I think with viable non-college career paths, which would have paid from the onset, and provided an applied pathway for schooling (you still need an education even as a plumber or welder, it's just not credentialed as a college degree), there would have been checks against runaway college costs. The lack of competition, coupled with railroading students K-12 onto a college track, allowed colleges and universities to respond to increased demand by... raising prices.

Looked up details on the wording, and it may not be just a logistical nightmare but a legal impossibility. The law appears to only apply to specific platforms, and no Mastodon servers appear on the list. New instances wouldn't either, so there'd be no legal basis for trying to force them to ban teens.

I bet a large enough number of those kids know enough to know about Fediverse-based services like Mastodon to start spreading the word. Instead of a dozen large social media platforms, the government will be faced with thousands of bulletin-board-sized "services" networked together into a platform that has no single place you can go to deactivate accounts. Controlling that would be a logistical nightmare.

...will spring up and brake windows ... twice!

Most devs at Amazon are probably not working on AI engines.