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Comment I'm just glad we gave up all our rights (Score 1) 6

To kick out a bunch of Farm workers doing jobs that pay so little and are so crappy you can't find Americans to do it without resorting to slave labor...

I get frustration with the highest skilled visas and the h2b visas and I'm not going to pretend that Americans won't do roofing if they're paid well let alone framing houses and putting up drywall.

But the focus is always on the farm workers because they are easy pickings for ice. It makes the numbers look good.

And like everything Trump does this is about a show not about your income and your job.

Comment That doesn't work either (Score 1) 36

Because it's the same goes reality has a left-wing bias.

If you start trying to take out the left wingers you start taking out a lot of popular content because most people lean left without realizing they're doing it. It's probably only about 30% of the population that want everything to be shit for everyone but them and their family.

So what you're doing there is the connections you need to make your algorithm work You're actively breaking them and your whole algorithm breaks down and the content just sucks.

Comment I have been occasionally asked (Score 1) 23

To write documentation that I know nobody is ever going to read or use. I have to admit if I had had AI back then I absolutely would have used it to write that nonsense.

Also and this is somewhat terrifying but I have encountered people incapable of reading at the director level. I don't mean that as an insult I mean literally they are functionally illiterate. I figured it out when I had one of them and I kept emailing a basic explanation of something to them and they didn't understand but the moments I told them on a phone call they got it.

If you are trying to hide functional illiteracy I could see AI being extremely useful for that.

Now a proper civilization would not have let somebody get out of school functionally illiterate, and I don't mean we failed them so you right wingers can take your dicks out of your hands. We know how to take someone who is functionally illiterate and make them literate it's just a hell of a lot of work and it costs a bit of money. It's well worth doing but there's a bunch of people who get off on the idea that there are people out there who can't read.

It's always about the totem pole. The hierarchy. There has to be somebody beneath me no matter what. So keeping a handful of people unable to read when you yourself can read becomes highly desirable to a certain type of jerkwad.

Comment Fix your modems (Score 1) 2

I switched from a mediatek chipset to a Qualcomm chipset because the modems suck. The difference was immediate and obvious. It sucked because it was a difference between a really nice $300 phone and a mediocre $500 phone but the modem made it worth it.

I really hate how everyone focuses on nonsense AI and not on whether or not I can receive texts and make calls.

Comment So they don't need revenue (Score 1) 30

They have the potential to replace a large percentage of white collar workers. Even if it's not everyone just replacing some of them would cause wages to plummet.

The combination of replacing workers with plummeting wages because of those workers competing for jobs is worth trillions.

One of the major problems people have is they think like an employee and not like an employer.

Your boss is thinking about the entire labor market and how it affects how much he spends on labor.

It's like how when you go buy eggs in the back of your mind you're thinking about the supply of eggs and how that will affect the price.

In this analogy you are the egg and you are going to be cracked to do an omelet and eating.

Comment Europe should probably do something (Score 0, Troll) 18

About the Russian propaganda targeting American citizens. God knows my country can't do anything about it anymore.

I say this because I believe there are people in Europe that think they can let Russia run roughshod over us and weaken us and that they can take over our place on the global stage.

The problem is that while the current administration is basically destroying our economic prosperity and our ability to project soft power (that means getting shit done without bombs) they are not however cutting back on all those bombs.

I think Europe might be under the mistaken impression that their nuclear weapons will prevent us from acting.

I don't think they realize just how deeply fucking crazy we are. You know how people worry about religious lunatics getting a hold of nuclear weapons? That's us and we have those nuclear weapons.

We are about to put those religious lunatics in charge of our nuclear arsenal so that we can dream of cheap eggs and maybe say the n-word in public from time to time. Usually after a few too many drinks while we're really laying into a customer service rep...

Seriously world war III is definitely on the table. The way big wars start is that multiple stupid mistakes get made and before you know it everybody's killing everyone. America is putting the stupidest of the stupid in charge.

I'm just saying that would be a good time to help diffuse the situation.

Comment Look I think the one thing we can both agree on (Score 1) 96

Is that Trump fucks kids and you voted for a kid fucker.

So while it's true that Trump fucks kids it's also true that you voted for a kitty fucker. Which is weird because most people wouldn't do that. Well I mean I guess 77 million people would but half of them were stupid.

And you don't strike me as the stupid half you strike me as the willingly voting for a kid fucker half.

Comment The fact that this only has 37 comments (Score 3, Insightful) 139

As of this writing is the problem with this country.

This is an overturning of 90 plus years of precedence for no particularly good reason. Is a clear violation of law. We should all be freaking the fuck out right now. The thread should have at least 500 comments on it.

The problem is I don't think people understand how bad this is. And that's how Trump got to be president twice. People do not understand the systems that protect them let alone that those systems have completely broken down

Comment Re:I think I see the problem with the job market (Score 0) 96

By all means please explain what in my post I don't actually believe or adhere to.

Being harsh to assholes does not a troll make. A troll is just trying to stir up trouble.

News flash genius we already have trouble I'm just pointing it out and I'm not being nice about it.

But it looks like I hurt your precious little right-wing fee fees. What's funny is you're just aching for the day when you can shoot and kill me on a whim. Every one of you right wing son of a bitches is. It's your one and only dream to get to randomly murder somebody with that gun you bought at the gun show. And of course not go to prison for it.

You think we haven't figured out what your end game is?

Thing is violence is just more violence and sooner or later, and I mean sooner than later, you'll be on the receiving end from another right wing extremist lunatic who's just out to try out the gun they bought.

Because you're not Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson you're a pasty little weirdo. And I'm fucking tired of being nice to you fuck sticks

Comment Holy fucking shit (Score 5, Informative) 139

This is just flat out illegal. This is literally not what the law says. This is a flat-out constitutional crisis people. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

I don't have anything funny or insightful to say here just fuck.

This isn't reversing a precedent this is a fundamental breakdown in the rule of law. Barring a miracle our Republic is dead and Trump voters killed it.

I hope whatever the fuck you think you got from Trump was worth it.

Comment You know I would think that (Score 1) 96

But I've known people who aren't assholes that gravitate towards right wing media. I mean it's only knew them as friends I hung out with not like really close friends or family but still I knew them well enough and usually the asshole right wingers revealed themselves pretty quickly because sooner or later they're going to say something mildly racist.

I don't think they are that kind of jerk I think it's just there's something a certain class of people find entertaining about right-wing media that I don't understand.

It's how they can pipeline people from just being regular apolitical folk into extremism. Like that movie The brainwashing of my dad.

Comment You are once again responding to a bot (Score 1) 96

That chops up bits and pieces of my old posts adding usually little bits of nastiness in there to try and... Honestly I don't know what they're doing I think they're just training in llm the poison the well.

What it looks like they are doing is they are trying to build a chatbot that will impersonate people and get them in trouble with mods. The thing I don't understand is this isn't the kind of website where that happens. Thinking about it they are probably doing it for other websites and this is just where they are training the bot.

Facebook for example has a real problem with impersonation.

Comment Re:Let me translate for everyone (Score 1, Interesting) 96

Jesus Christ I didn't think the people around here were that young.

Lots of people. I don't know how to explain this to you but there's this thing called the passage of time... I think Einstein invented it. Or maybe it was Newton.

Go look up when the Atari 800 computer was first released. Christ there were people writing mainframe code back then. Computers aren't really new. Yeah somebody with that much experiences getting ready to retire. Why the fuck do you think I said getting ready to retire in my post.

Also there are other forms of employment that require experience besides computers. Do try to keep up old chap

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