Well, it's not really AI in any sense of the honest term; it's not a self aware machine. AI has become a marketing term for servers running a bunch of fancy scripts that produce dialogue that can pass for human speech fairly well. BUT... AI is a game changer economically because those fancy scripts are already killing jobs, jobs that won't be replaced by something else. So in that sense, AI isn't "bullshit". It's an extinction level event for entire classes of formerly human work. And the economic and social and political crisis that it will create has clearly already began.

This presupposes that they don't get plenty of "real world" while they're homeschooling. As if they're in some hermetically sealed environment where bad things never touch them. When we homeschooled ours, one of my wife's single friends objected, asking us "what about socialization?". Well, what about it? There's still plenty of it with friends and family, church, and play. And when they're young adults, they're better able to deal with the scum of the world than a pre-teen or teenager thrown into the cage match that is modern public schools where you can't get to them. School is supposed to be about education, not be a Thunderdome where the weak are weeded out for the coming apocalypse. Whatever my sons missed in public schools, they're far better off not being in a concrete box where some hulking delinquent 3 to 4 years older than all his class peers is punching teachers or pulling a gun on students.

SAS has been dead for 15y; it started with R and then Python absolutely destroyed it. No one teaches SAS in universities any longer, why would they? It's terribly expensive and absolutely fucking dead.

We migrated away from SAS back in 2017 and never looked back. The only verticals still using it are heavily regulated and running long-standing legacy code that they're slowly migrating to Python.

I remember absolutely dying when they tried to renegotiate our contract UP back in 2015. I flat out told them they were dead and we were moving away from them and they told me, "good luck managing your data without us!"

Two companies and 10 years later, we're doing just fine and they are not.

China IS bad! Tiananmen Square massacre. Enslavement of Tibet. Uighur genocide. Constantly threatening to invade Taiwan. One-party rule, just like in California. Check out the youtube channel Laowhy86, he gives constant updates of just how bad it is over there.

We don't want to be associated with a fascist regime when the wind changes.

It's the Christmas season. Everybody loves a two-for-one deal.

I trust Windows Server 2003 more than I trust Windows 11. It's less stable, but Microsoft isn't in control of your machine.

Sure, but you had to sideload it, which made it essentially nonexistent. And Android would still throw up the, "Beware! There be dragons here!" warning. All of that is now gone.

They didn't undo it. It was a localized feature before. Now it's global.

The AI bubble bursting can't possibly make things worse for the world. It will continue damaging the world until the bubble pops, then recovery will be swift, painless, and glorious for most of us.

That will be a HUGE improvement. Thank you, Epic!

Just got email yesterday from Belkin, to tell me Wemo devices including their hugely popular Wemo mini plug and Wemo wall switch, outdoor switch and 3-way switch were on a list to be shut down in January, 2026. They're yanking the cloud server support required to make them work, and saying the only thing they'll still do after that is work on a LOCAL network via HomeKit.

It's not just Apple. Any of these vendors of "smart" devices get to dictate when they kill off the functionality. If it requires cloud servers, then all you did was buy some hardware that works with THEIR systems, on THEIR terms and conditions.

I use an Arlo video doorbell on my front door, and initially? I was fine with not paying for their optional monthly subscription that allowed uploading video to the cloud. I was content to use it so I could view live video when someone rang the bell, and to get push notifications when people walked within range of it. Well? After some relatively recent update they did, it seems I lost the ability to configure the zone the camera monitors for motion. They just monitor the whole darn thing if you don't pay for their subscription to "unlock" that capability. Worse yet? There's nowhere in their software to configure it to just stop alerting for motion. I had to suppress it on my iPhone app via the phone's own application settings.

It sucks but I don't see any alternative except buying only devices that give YOU full control over them on your home network. And a lot of those reduce the usability and convenience vs ones utilizing the "big cloud" offered by players like Apple, Google or Amazon.

Oregon isn't Nigeria. All of the worker creature comforts aren't being flown in at great expense because local infrastructure and services are shit. Houses and restaurants are being built. Stores are being built. That means employing the locals for the most part, raising their wages and improving their infrastructure.

There are downsides to big companies coming into small towns. I live in one, and the increased traffic and general hassle of more people annoys the fuck out of me. But our standard of living has most definitely gone up, not down.

No, just only to federations such as Canada, Russia, Switserland, the USA, India, the UAE, etc.

I knew the hard left would be along to take a gigantic diarrhea dump in the mouths of the AmeriKKKan working class, and the rsilvergun account does not disappoint.

It's not the book learnin', it's a class issue. University graduates want to work with other university graduates. Working with high schoolers weirds them out and makes them feel uncomfortable, especially when they make less.

. The wife in the story is a great example. Women are getting all the degrees, and a woman wants a husband with higher status than her. But women won't accept lowly men who spend their time bending over with buttcracks showing and come home dirty and hairy, demanding dinner made from scratch and then later sex, no matter if the woman consents or not. And if she refuses either, she gets a black eye. The highly educated have very low rates of DV, but for working class? We all saw the old TV show C.O.P.S. DV call after DV call, trailer park after trailer park, and it's always an uneducated man who attacked a defenselesss woman. This is why women won't marry them, or if they do the marriages won't last.

Here's a "joke" that I learned way back when I worked as a clerk at Sears Automotive, from the wrench-turners: "Whaddaya say to a woman with two black eyes? Nuthin'! You already done told the bitch twice!"

These low IQ men who can't run a business without the wife's business administration degree doing the heavy lifting are a danger to women, and educated women are fools to choose them. Wild bears are literally less dangerous. They kill fewer women every year than working class (or unemployed and on government benefits) men. This is why women choose the bear.