Convince a woman to reproduce with you and you'll know most people don't drive to avoid the homeless, they do so because it's unaffordable to raise kids anywhere served by public transportation on a 5 figure income (really even 6 figure). They have to go far out in the burbs and again...while you might be able to get to and from work in 3h via public transportation, you have kids and loved ones waiting for you...I know given your history you might not be able to relate to that...but...yeah, fuck off.

People are driving because it's a direct route to their home and public transportation doubles the commute time, which they don't have surplus time to begin with...because they're decent people who love their wives and kids. Most people enjoy taking public transportation and as someone who takes it all the time, the homeless are not a huge problem in the last 3 cities I've lived in. They're not going to be your top annoyance commuting.

Perhaps if you kept up on your Duolingo to keep your brain more limber, you might not have hallucinated an anti-immigrant rant. But hey...you can make baseless accusations if you like...does it make you feel powerful?...did you put me in my place?

This data is COMPLETELY useless unless you factor for income and education. Stress kills your brain and body like nothing else and little in life is more stressful than being poor. Is this just a proxy for wealth? If you speak 2 languages, you either have a comfortable life where you want to travel and/or explore other cultures or you're an immigrant and in most cases, the wealthier half of your society. The majority of immigrants, especially from Asia, come from middle-class to affluent households. I think it's safe to say none of your Asian coworkers grew up in the slums and realistically, relatively few of the Latin American immigrants you encounter grew up in the very worst parts of their country. They usually had the resources and motivation to buy a plane ticket.

I know a lot of DUMB AF immigrants, especially from India where they probably are exposed to multiple languages in addition to what they speak at work and at home. I know plenty of educated Americans who can't speak a 2nd language beyond the 4 years they had to take in high school or college and forgot everything but how to order breakfast immediately afterwards. I definitely don't notice any correlation in brain age. By this logic, everyone working in my local grocery store should have young and agile brains...moreso than the many American-born businesspeople, accountants, lawyers, and software engineers I've met. Sorry, my American monolingual accountant neighbor doesn't seem any worse off than my Ecuadorian grocery bagger.

My monolingual American/UK/Aus coworkers tend to perform just was well and typically better than their Asian-born counterparts....and among the older ones, I honestly notice more decline among the multi-lingual ones...which again, I'd attribute more to the stress of their lives than languages spoken. This is another annoying story that gives incomplete data.

In fairness, I started learning Spanish more seriously after the pandemic, mostly for brain health as well as some cultural ties. I don't really know if it's helping, but it's like my vitamin. I take a multivitamin every day...it PROBABLY does nothing, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. At the very least, I have a fallback plan if the USA collapses :)

You understand the XBox division has very little to do with the Windows division, right? It's like blaming Sony's full frame camera division because you don't like the new PlayStation update.

While the majority seem to prefer Nintendo or PS, MS has been very good to users. Games pass was a low monthly fee service to give you Netflix for games and you could pay slightly more and get them on PC. It was great. Their hardware is cheaper than PS. Their peripherals are cheaper. I fucking love my XBox. Fair disclosure, I've never owned a PlayStation, so maybe it's just as good or better, but it just fucking works. It's simple. It's a nice experience. I never have to troubleshoot it. My Nintendo switch is also nice, just not very powerful. But this is the problem, IMHO.

MS is giving it's customers what they want at the best prices in the industry. I love it, but yeah, I don't give them as much money as I would have to for a Nintendo. And you can't overpay your executive suite by giving the customers value for their money!!!!

Go is the worst language on the market. It's slower than Rust, C, Java, C#. It's a dogshit language, only slightly faster than JavaScript or Python. It has no reason to exist now that we have Rust. It's better at memory usage than Java/C#, but otherwise a LOT slower. Seriously...this shit is garbage. I've never been more disappointed with a language. It's not easy to use, like Python/JavaScript/Java. It's not fast, like Rust, C, or even Java. It's a legacy language that can't die fast enough. No one should start new projects with that garbage platform if there are any alternatives.

When every tech company laid off a ton of workers and claimed AI, they were committing fraud to their investors, nothing more. They needed to lay these people off due to overhiring, these employees underperforming and needing to be fired (but they didn't want to risk a lawsuit), or economic headwinds and thought it made them look like better leaders. Do you really think they wanted to do last year's business with 15% less cost? If they had actual useful AI, they'd repurpose all of these engineers, if not hire more so they can 10x their output and crush their competitors.

We've seen job loss to automation before. It typically is pretty slow. It typically results in reduced hiring before mass firing. Most people get repurposed. In most cases, the majority of people are retained and the company focuses on increasing output or expanding offerings. For example, if you're DeWalt tools, you use automation to make power tools with less humans and start expanding to hand tools and ladders and tool storage, like they did over the last 15 years. Your net hiring usually expands. As the automation gets deployed, you typically retain a huge portion of the staff during the transition, just in case. It's a process that unfolds over many months or years, not weeks, like Salesforce.com, Google, Facebook, etc did. And to repeat...if these were useful employees, they'd repurpose them to expand offerings.

I don't know if these AI CEOs were ignorant and believed their bullshit or were lying. However, we've all used these AIs. They're not dogshit, but they're not magic either. They're definitely not ready to actually replace human beings. I use Claude daily and it produces huge errors every day. I use Gemini frequently...with very simple product questions "Which $x has features $y?" It fails the majority of the time. For example, I asked it "What's the cheapest 10' USB4 cable with USB-IF certification?" It returned results that were 6'6" and cables more expensive than the ones in my Amazon cart...yet it provided links to Amazon. Pretty much every product search I've ever made failed. My point being...I can't imagine and easier question for AI. I gave a length, I gave a specific token and asked for the cheapest...it failed on all 3 fronts.

This shit ain't ready to replace anyone. If you're paying a human being to do it today, you need more accuracy than today's models can provide. If you can tolerate their level of errors, you weren't paying anyone before. Sure...it can replace your old automated chat bots...maybe reduce your offshore outsourcing spend slightly...but no...it's not that they're humanitarians. It's that their technology doesn't work well enough to be evil.

AI is a lot more impressive and fearful in our minds than in reality.

90% of my meetings are 60 min. Probably 10% go for like 2h or more. A 30 minute meeting is rare at EVERY tech company I've worked at. In fact, in the vast majority of cases if it's 30 min or less, that means someone messed up and we ended it early to rescheduled it when someone is prepared to present properly. For about half the teams I've worked on, even our scrums are over 30 minutes.

No white collar worker really has the option of moving ever 30 minutes or less. Tradespeople are on their feet all the time. I'll wager their life expectancy isn't that much higher. Is this because sitting 30 min or more causes cancer?....or just that everyone who has a more active life typically falls into the high stress group (people in the trades/retail/service who live much tougher lives) that dies younger from a more traditional killer like heart disease or diabetes...or maybe a few niche jobs like personal trainers or a select subset of unstressed-out health care workers (nurses for a plastic surgeon or wellness clinic) who will outlive a software engineer, manager, or accountant?

For an interest or hobby subreddit, it's safe to assume most go on there because they LIKE the topic of the subreddit. What did you think would happen? Taylor Swift isn't my taste in music. However, I think everyone would agree I am a huge asshole if I go onto her subreddit and criticize her. Even if my criticism was well thought out and factual and insightful...why do you want that negativity? I go to reddit for fun. I want to enjoy life...not hear reasoned criticism about how something that brings me joy sucks to you. Yeah...you go onto a Linux subreddit and shit on Linux...you suck...it's like going to a Sox game in Boston and jeering them when they score...no one is going to like you. It's your right...but yeah...we'll tell you you suck and we don't want your negativity. We're here to have a good time. That's the whole point of voting and karma. It's instant feedback on what the room thinks of you.

But criticizing the greatest resource for porn and hobbies and joy that has ever existed because you can't be a contrarian asshole without people telling you that you're one is just weird to me. It's like complaining about the fuel efficiency and towing capacity of a Ferrari. Your points may be valid, but it's just weird...no one would buy a Ferrari to save money on gas or haul a trailer. There are vehicles better designed for your needs. Why do you go onto the Linux subreddit to bitch about Linux? Surely there are better forums if you really need to get that out of your system.

Sorry, buddy, I was upset because I posted something on a hobby site saying a manufacturer didn't have anything that would fit his needs, had out of date information not realizing the manufacturer released a new model, and my answer was completely wrong...so I deleted it to not muddy the discussion. I didn't want to confuse people finding that post.

But hey, jump to conclusions and shit on random people on /. Feel better? Do you feel like a bigger man now? You put me in my place!!!!

So...exactly why would we choose Meta over all the more experienced and established players?...champions of the slogan "move fast and break things." (which sounds like a shitty Limp Bizkit song) Is it that halo effect from Facebook?....it's such a beloved and well run site afterall?

Isn't this akin to Bill Cosby launching a line of coffee makers? Woody Allen and Roman Polansky launching a daycare?

OK...ask for your money back! Moderators are unpaid and if someone told me that, I would think they are a huge asshole. You're not guaranteed a full trial and due process. However, you did more than "disagree" with someone...you told them to go die. I wouldn't call that "inciting violence"...but frankly, the subreddit is a lot better off without you if you behave that way. No one will miss you if you behave like that.

So think of it from their perspective...they're unpaid and doing it for love. They get shit all the time. I know a few moderators for some of my favorite porn subreddits. You go tell someone to jump into their ass and die....are you making the subreddit a better place? The moderator got 100 reports that day...are they going to carefully consider every fucking thing you say and give you a jury trial? No...you're being an asshole...and they agreed....and you got banned.

Cry me a fucking river...your ego was hurt because you were a huge prick. Go create a new account and learn from your behavior and act like a nice human being for a change. You lost no money. You're owed nothing.

View it this way...can I go into your home and tell you to "jump up their own ass and die" and expect you to politely put up with it while you serve me dinner?

What about your office? Would you put up with that?

What about your favorite bar? Would you just say nothing and let me insult you that way? Would the bartender keep serving me drinks?

You did something that is shitty and would get you punched in the face in many circumstances as well as evicted from the premises. But hey...reddit is the bad guy, right?

Reddit offers a service for free. In exchange, you get targeted ads. That's how the world works. LLMs ensure their content and communities than many worked so hard to build deliver content to other services without paying reddit a cent. It's a legit and reasonable step to ensure you're correctly compensated for your content. Also, I consented for reddit to host my posts as I am consenting for /. to have my comment. I didn't consent for Grok to serve it and monetize it.

If you're talking about reddit monetizing content...it's posted by a redditor....if it's illegal or against copyright, moderators will take it down. You can also request content be removed if you're a copyright holder. Inappropriate monetization is a bug, not a feature and reddit makes attempts to correct it.

The 3rd party reddit aggregator search engines? They don't care one bit what they post or if it should be removed.

A redditor posts child porn? death threats? suicide notes? It's deleted as soon as the moderators find it. These 3rd party aggregators hold on to it and serve it. They have no procedure for removal.

Also, I consented to post content on reddit and allow them to monetize what I posted. 3rd party sites?...I didn't consent to that. So what you're asking is basically...."why is it OK for a woman to fuck her husband?...but not a stranger to fuck the same woman without her consent?"