I am genuinely embarrassed this got modded up.

Have any of you idiots put a kid through college recently? Workload is insane.

Take everything we had to do when you went to college, now add a shitload more classes and then on top of that at a ton of classes that are basically on the job training that you are paying for. That's college now.

In exchange for this you will get access to substantially more money than if you didn't go to college. Yeah I know there are plumbers out there running their own businesses but if you're not running your own business you top out at $20 an hour. The same goes for welders unless they are doing crazy dangerous shit.

It's like nobody here can Google anymore. Seriously go look up the median income for all those plumbers you keep saying are making millions. I'll wait.

College is orders of magnitude more work then when we were kids and you are expected to come out ready to go without any additional need for training.

As an added side bonus for that you basically can't work your way through college because they won't let you take your 300 level courses if they find out you're working even part-time. When my kid went they literally had a in person interview in order to be admitted to their 300 level courses. The fact that I was paying their way through college was a deciding factor that allowed them to finish. I knew at least one Ronin who was working at the game shop I was going to at the time because they were told there weren't enough slots.

It's so fucking annoying to watch old farts act like the kids don't have it worse than they did. Every generation of old farts likes to go on about how the kids these days which would be fine if we had left those kids a better world but we dump them into this shit show.

I think they're happy to do something about arsonists. But as for the power companies with the way the voters work they can't do shit about them. Every time anyone tries to regulate the power companies just spend a ton of money buying off politicians and people get distracted by moral panics and vote for those politicians instead of anyone that would actually take control of the power companies.

Remember it doesn't do any good for you to put up all those drones, what the power companies are doing isn't illegal. When we deregulated them and privatize them we allowed them to basically do whatever the hell they wanted as long as shareholder value was good.

I guarantee you he would have still bought the professional grade stuff because why would he waste his time on that week consumer shit when the pro grade is out there?

It's a lot easier to say sure go ahead and legalize fireworks when you are in New Hampshire as opposed to drought stricken California.

Never mind the fact that the stuff you're describing could just as easily start a large fire. I don't think he realized what the Southwest is like it really doesn't take much the whole bloody region is basically kindling

Only if they're here on an H1B...

I sometimes wonder what it must be like to be able to just go to a diploma Mill and instantly have access to all the jobs you could want. As an American if I go to a diploma mail and get a fake diploma every employer knows that and won't hire me. Do the same thing with an H1B visa and you're in like Flynn.

I understand the point is to bring in more labor in order to depress wages but it's still pisses me off. I'm also sick and fucking tired of neolib dipshits telling me I should be happy to see my job market flooded with cheap labor because it boosts the GDP as if my income is a linear function based on the GDP... Hell any kind of function based on the GDP.

Every now and then I see people online start to get pissed off about the H-1B visa program but they always get distracted by nonsense. Woke or trans or some other moral panic. Woke is always with us. It was sjw before that and PC before that but trans seems to be running its course and the Republican party here in America is trying to get people interested in furries for the next moral panic.

I would like to say it's not going to work but I watch them chip away at the trans panic for 10 years before they figured out that the combination of scaring people in the believing their sons were going to be turned to trans and trans girls in sports made the whole moral panic take off. That's the thing about these fake moral panics people pushing them keep trying until they figure out something that resonates with the public. Eventually they'll figure something out with the furries.

Or maybe the next one will be something else. Or maybe they'll figure out a new angle on the trans panic to keep it going for a few more elections.

If I knew what the next moral panic was going to be I could be a multi multi-millionaire working for the US Republican party as a consultant.

What I understand is the photo was obviously altered, to the extent that hundreds of laymen noticed it. That would have included whoever is running the cops' Facebook page.

I'm sure the PD is used to having employees fuck up. It's telling that their reaction isn't to get the facts and investigate, but reflexively start with the "We're going to tell you that you didn't see what you just saw" bit - that's S.O.P. for police departments in the US.

you're making a critical mistake.

You're mixing up matter transmutation with automation.

We can still have lots of scarcity and little or no work.

And that's before we talk about shit like the male loneliness epidemic and 20% of straight men completely unable to get female companionship

The world is going to eat you alive now. But I guess your neck will be OK, since you've got that stuck in the ground.

You do know ostriches don't really do that right?

Well, an LLM clearly wrote your post, because I didn't mention anything you're responding to.

Crazy that a dying little website like /. still has bots trying to shape the narrative here.

I notice you're not trying to debunk anything, just tossing out a random insult.

Was "TDS" not working for you anymore?

that I can die before the worst of it.

Components are just as crazily marked up in the U.S. I wouldn't be at all surprised that the Chinese manufacturers can get even better pricing then an individual could from a Chinese supplier due to volume.

The primary use case for AI is to eliminate White collar jobs. Let China have it. It'll be a few more years before America's economy collapses and it's only going to benefit America if China's economy collapses first.

It's going to be fun to see communist China with 20 or 30% unemployment. I mean I know they will just kill anyone that steps out of line, and I'm not so naive to believe that America won't be doing the same and 10 or 15 years, but it'll be fun to see the contradiction all the same.

>" LLMs doing crawling? That might be ill-behaved, bot not an "attack".

Some of us will think of it as an attack when the bots ignore robots.txt (or honor changes very slowly), masquerade intentionally as something they are not, and use tons of different addresses hitting the same site, especially when it is continuous. I discovered this, myself, on a small internet-connected club server later last year. The mediawiki site was becoming unresponsive and throwing errors. On investigation, we were having dozens of http requests per second, from Amazon and Bytedance. Every one of them was coming from a different IP address. Only our main page was allowed in robots.txt, so SOMETHING would end up on search sites, but the bots didn't care. I changed it to ignore everything on the site, instead of just the main page, but that apparently isn't checked very often. It took me hours of manually banning over a thousand IP addresses before the server could reasonably respond to web requests again.

Example hit:

47.128.50.93 - - [22/Sep/2024:15:03:05 -0400] "GET /mediawiki/index.php?days=30&from=20240920012115&title=Special%3ARecentChanges HTTP/1.1" 200 10111 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; spider-feedback@bytedance.com)"

Eventually, the overwhelming majority of the "robots" (web scrapers) did honor robots.txt disallowing everything, some just did so very lazily and took days of attempted hammering us before stopping. I still haven't removed the IP blocks nor put robots.txt back to allowing just the main page.

Rand Paul was selected among three other right wing Republican voting senators to vote against the bill because they are the most vulnerable. He did not take a principled stand it was a cynical strategy and trick..

I'm not sure I'm explaining this simply and clearly enough for you to grasp.

The Republicans all get together in a room and figure out which of them can safely vote against the bill and which of them can safely vote for the bill. They don't want to lose elections because they have not fully consolidated their power and we are still nominally a democracy. Propaganda and voter suppression are powerful but they can only do so much

So the guy who is running the Senate right now figures out from polling data which Republicans are the most vulnerable to losing their elections and tells them hey you, you over there, you go vote against this unpopular bill so that when you campaign you can tell your voters you try to save them.

Every single one of them is lying including and especially Rand Paul. But libertarians love him because he says the things libertarians want to hear while he always does the things they don't want done.

Pay attention to how he votes when the margins are closer and you will find it's 110% Republican platform / project 2025. He is a heritage foundation's bitch. They all are.

Frankly so are you. At the end of the day you do basically whatever the heritage foundation wants you to. Different reasons but the result is the same.

Of cops showing off their hauls was when they busted a shoplifting ring focused on a drug store and it was something like $5,000 worth of merchandise and it was a couple of tables worth because it was a bunch of machines used to treat diabetes and those are ludicrously expensive.

It's another one of those pictures that wouldn't exist in any other civilized country. Then again we shouldn't be criminalizing drugs in the first place. Only reason we did it was so that Richard Nixon could attack his political enemies on the left.

I do not understand what you are trying to convey. English is not my native language, some may have been lost in translation.