Heh, yeah. The young'ns don't often conform to normal human sleep schedules. Mine were 4 before they figured out proper sleep schedules. It was a little rough on me, but it was brutal on my wife. We tried just about everything. 15 minutes of that baby einstein crap provided a valuable 10 minute nap twice a day for the wife.

In public class action lawsuits, the DOJ can only enter a statement of opinion, they can't dismiss it. They can challenge the settlement amount afterwards, but they won't necessarily win that either. However, they can cancel litigation that was started by their own division or subdivision. When you cancel litigation from your own doj civil rights division, you have to expect people are going to be very unhappy... but that isn't what you mentioned, so... maybe you can give a good example to prove your point?

I swear you live in a parallel universe sometimes. During the previous election cycle, the democrat party did just fine with fund raising. Trump edged Kamala in outside money donations, but dancing Kammi still out raised Trump overall. By ignoring that the policies of the democrat party were the problem, you'll just keep running normal people away from the party. The democrat party has a major problem with extremists. Talk to some of your elected democrats privately and they'll tell you the same thing they've told me. It's extremely hard for them right now because they're afraid of the extremists that hijacked the party message. They want to take the party back and I really hope they do. They don't want the nuts in their party pointing the guns at them now.

You left out mind control!

Based on my statistics, 48 billion (give or take 48 billion)

It does kind of matter that electricity is more expensive in California. If you spend less on electricity, you don't need a refund.

Thanks for the opinion pope. Now for an equally important opinion on tech, let's see what Homer Simpson thinks about AI...

This exactly! I eventually got most of them to not bother me on a weekly basis by sending them a status report of the previous day's work the next morning. It still sucked having to do that. It also pissed one of them off. Something about him needing unique input that the other managers wouldn't understand. I guess I didn't understand either because he never asked anything "unique" that I was aware of.

The year 3000 was a different time. We can't compare it to our current morals.

I had that problem at a previous job. It was the main reason I left. I don't need 5 insecure managers trying to prove their worth by giving subordinates more busywork. Especially when most of those managers have no expertise in the areas they're managing.

My bet is that they had the proper tools and resources but lacked either the knowledge or motivation to implement it.

Golf courses are going to be hit hard by the lack of middle managers showing up during work days.

Every data point is welcome. It gives you information to look into. If you take their word for it without verification, that's on you.

Thanks for sharing that. I had never looked at diagnosing mental disorders through the lens of bias. I feel kind of silly about that now. My youngest is autistic. When talking with his various SPED teachers over the years, it's become clear that they are in a constant "monitor/diagnose" (the SPED teachers aren't supposed to diagnose anything, but human nature seems to push most of them towards doing it anyway) frame of mind. Maybe it has something to do with the quality of teacher a public school SPED position attracts, but looking at it the way you presented the whole "mental health" profession, the problem could be with the way mental health is diagnosed and classified from the beginning.

Anyway, my point was to thank you for sharing what you did. It's very much appreciated.

Heh, yep. I think its pretty funny that one of the first traits adopted by LLM AI is narcissism. That AI had a very high opinion of itself.