So social media hurts kids so therefore we need to *checks notes here* ah yes destroy their childhoods by throwing them into a concrete box for an indefinite amount of time for the crime of *checks notes here* ah yes looking at pictures of cats.
Yea no one should listen to you about anything. Ever.
I've been building software for almost a quarter century. In that time I've specialized in very specific niches which has always made me a little sad because as a lone person I could only ever have made strides in specific areas and that's all my lifes work would ever amount to. Except now with AI I can apply my architectural knowledge to the tune of 10x compared to before.
The cries of the butthurt mediocres are delicious tears to me. Suddenly every little git dictator can be taken down a peg and I am here for it with champagne and cake.
Agreed. I don't even know why I bother to post on
Coming in here is like walking under the L in Kensington. Mental illness everywhere. Slashdot would do well to ban accounts like rsilvergun or just kill the comments section all together really.
Actually that's not really true. I come here to people watch.
He vibe coded the whole thing instead of wasting the entire budget paying some stubborn coder that was gonna do a worse job anyway. Obviously.
What is it with old
I'm following a Japanese farmer on Twitter that posts about how he uses AI around the farm. It's fascinating.
This number is only going to go up as technology turns us into an abundance economy. On average every year humanity does more with less effort.
If you're working in the tech industry and still struggling that's a you problem.
What is with you loser boomers and the 60s. The rest of the world only bought from the US because they had no industry at all. No one wants our shitty cars. You are the one that ruined all our free trade agreements meaning the world is pivoting away from our products. Your daddy Trump literally ripped up a big chunk of the defense contracts that Biden managed to get NATO to sign onto.
I'm not busting my ass doing menial blue collar work just so you can feel good about "pulling the country up by the bootstraps" (impossible). You are a fucking fossil at this point and don't know shit about the economy.
Seriously I'm over here working with frontier AI models knowing the rest of the world is paying us good money to use them to the order of hundreds of billions but here this guy is droning on and on about factory jobs. You literally can't be more out of touch if you tried.
The fact that we're even compiling the stats on that is why the life expectancy is going up.
You have the world view of a child.
Your interpretation is very boomer / 20th century. Of course someone who isn't "participating in the work force" is just unemployed and down on their luck. No it couldn't be that they saved their money and retired early or simply coasting. Nope that's totally not a thing.
I mean maybe it's just a millennial thing but a bunch of us had the 150-250k per year jobs in our 20s and now we can just coast. The only friends I have that are struggling are the ones that are straight up lazy or party too much and they admit it to me in private.
I like UBI but only if literally everyone gets it no matter their income level as soon as they hit 18. Maybe a slow ramp from 18 to 23. The smart ones will use it to invest, start a business, go to school, etc.
As far as "saving" people from themselves. That's a fantasy. You can't help someone who is mentally ill. Doesn't even necessarily need to be about drugs. I know plenty who are incapable of being "normal". I see this everyday on tech discussion boards like this. Pedantic nerds that will argue about how they are always right about everything but then fall for some dumb scam or end up working a dead end job for 20 years. These are the types that will blame everyone but themselves.
I've seen this mental illness in my family. One brother turns into a hoarder that is constantly going on and on about how to save $7 on sales tax by driving to a different state. Thinks he's saving money. Meanwhile the sister becomes a doctor. One is dead now. The other is watching her grand kids grow up.
I am quite happy with the tech industry in general and have found it has paid for my very comfortable lifestyle that is quite a bit better than what my parents and grandparents had back in Europe.
> Now, bringing back the era of blades hissing through aristocrats' necks might become possible
Honestly when I see stuff like on on
My interpretation of the data is that more people can retire early and that's what's actually happening. It's abundance economics and will continue to grow as people with means opt to retire in their 40s and 50s.
Further compounding this is an aging population with fewer young people entering the workforce which skews the statistics.
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
