Pretty much this.

The internet has been turned into a cesspool of rubbish. If anything, something that "changes the internet as we know it" can't really make it much worse anymore.

Or rather, if it does, maybe even the muggles finally realize it.

Google has access to one of the biggest data pools, if they're not the biggest aggregators of data altogether. They also have a bunch of incredibly talented statisticians and pattern recognition systems in place.

If there is a way to detect AI generated bullshit, they have the means to do it.

And another set of professions, this time astroturfers and SEO bullshitters, losing their job to AI.

This time around, though, it's hard to feel sorry.

Is this bad? Non-competes truly make sense only for high-value positions, like CTOs and VPs. And in this case you absolutely can afford to pay them during the non-compete period.

Either way, if your career is over by the time you turn 35, you have to make sure you made enough money by that time to exist on it for the rest of your life.

Care to point to a sensible use of them? I can't think of any that isn't about creating an indentured service situation for your employee.

Aka "you work for me or you won't work for anyone".

Also illegal in Europe.

Can you see why I laugh in the face of the US embassy employers whenever I renew my visitation visa when they tell me I can't work in the US? Who in his sane mind would want to work there when you have a cushy job in the EU?

I would gladly let them do it. It's time that indentured service clause practice stops.

They have been illegal in most of Europe for a long time now. The worst a company can try here is to get you to pay back training costs (if training was within the last 3 years) and some try to squeeze a "pay us big bucks if you dare to quit and work somewhere else" clause in, so far nobody dared to try to take this to court (to my knowledge at least).

The adhesive contracts that are possible in the US are a joke.

I prefer that Western Europe socialism. You know, the one where you get to do what you want and still have a social security net. Sure, taxes are bonkers, but hey, that's just money.

That's not my life and freedom.

Then I cannot work for such an employer in the first place.

Choose your battles. If you cannot support what your employer does, why do you support it? Just for the money? So in other words, your morals and standards are for sale.

Good to know.

I've now been on this planet for a fair amount of time. Personally, I haven't seen this before. And let's be honest here, weather in my country has always been chaotic in Spring.

But going 0 - 30 - 0 is pretty much unheard of.

That's what a one-child policy does to your country, in a country where having a male offspring is considered paramount.

I'm fairly sure that on both sides, there are plenty of people who just want to live there in peace. Whether their next door neighbor is a Jew, Muslim or a polka dotted alien, they couldn't care less.

They just want to do what almost all people (outside those with small dicks and power fantasies) want: Watching their kids grow up in peace and a chance for increased prosperity.

Friends don't let friends read, let alone edit, someone else's perl code.