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Comment Rewriting with AI Slop (Score 1, Interesting) 139

For the first time in history, the global senior demographic outnumbers young children, according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report. Between 2025 and 2060, the global population is projected to grow from 8 billion to 10 billion, with the 65-and-over demographic nearly doubling its share from 10.5% (roughly 1 in 10) to 19.6% (nearly 1 in 5).

This structural demographic shift is driven by two concurrent factors:

* Demographic Aging and Longevity: Of the projected 2 billion net population increase, 1.148 billion will reflect existing cohorts aging into the 65+ bracket alongside extended life expectancies, with individuals living healthier, more active lives longer.

* Persistent Sub-Replacement Fertility: The global youth population (ages 0–19) is projected to remain flat. Currently, 71% of countries have fertility rates below the 2.1 replacement threshold, highlighted by sharp declines such as China's fertility rate falling to 1.06 births per woman in 2023.

Comment the exact guy that wears these.. (Score 1) 39

by kalieaire (#66196040) Attached to: Snap's First Consumer AI Glasses Are Coming This Fall For $2,195
..are usually the same suspects.

they'll be a hit with the freckled-unkempt-hair-hawaiian-shirt-boardshort-wearing-clubgoer-with-drink-in-hand-talking-to-girls-with-big-arm-movements but they won't make it deep enough into mainstream adoption and garner snap a profit.  they lost all their innovation when they weren't able to move away from their "iconic" platform limitations and beat instagram at their own game.

Comment Visa requirements.. (Score 2, Interesting) 61

..are complicated in general.

If you were to consider visa requirements, the Philippines would probably be easiest because their income requirements are like $800/monthly income and $15,000 one time bank deposit, once approved it's permanent residency for life, no 90-day mandatory physical reporting requirements or annual visa renewals, making it super easy for someone with memory issues.  However, the care facilities aren't quite built to the same standard as Thailand and Malaysia for memory care.

On the other hand, to get into Thailand long term, you need $1,800-$1,900 a month in verified income or a $23,000 bank deposit, but it's not a permanent visa and requires annual extensions and mandatory reporting every 90 days, but fortunately you can hire an agent to do this for a grandparent, but if the reporting gets skipped for some reason it could cause issues like cancellation of a visa and subsequent deportation.

Thailand has other options but it's for high net worth individuals, but there aren't any permanent resident options.

If you were to rank by care alone, Thailand and Malaysia are probably tied.  Thailand is good in terms of care philosophy, Malaysia is great because everyone speaks English but is more expensive but has stringent visa requirements like needing $150k in a bank account that does nothing AND buy a $150k+ home.

Comment AI, Automation, and the future (Score 2, Insightful) 61

The reason this treatment development is so cheap is that in China, the biotech firm mentioned in this article, they're able to automate most of the process of the CAR-T therapy manufacturing to as little as one day.  The big cost though is the in-patient part of the treatment.

The process, assuming CAR-T is possible as a treatment, the patient gets their blood collected and the CAR-T cell therapy is manufactured, then they undergo Lymphodepletion Chemo, basically working to destroy your immune system for 3-4 days, then the CAR-T cell infusion happens followed by observation for 3-4 weeks.

During that time, the patient will experience really bad fevers and susceptible to infection and other complications that really really really suck, you have no energy and you feel like you're dying.  You can't even see your friends and family, everything has to be wiped down, and trained medical staff can only be around you.  Anyone that's done a bone marrow transplant for Leukemia, or similar, will know how this treatment works.  My friend had to go through it twice because his first transplant ended in rejection.  Fortunately the second one worked and he's been cancer free for almost 10 years now.

Then you're there for another 2-4 weeks locally just in case any complications occur like rejection, delayed hyper inflammatory reactions, neurotoxicity syndrome.

With highly targeted cell therapies, AI and manual automation save a lot of time and labor for that specific process, but there's no decoupling the true pain someone will experience going through this therapy.  Though the cool thing is that bone marrow treatments are also getting an upgrade, they're moving towards "Universal Donor Cells" or "Allogenic CAR-T" and Autologous Stem Cell Gene Editing.  Instead of trying in futility to find the "Perfect Match" 8 out 8 HLA markers, in the future tha'tll be a thing of the past.  In fact, you might even develop a bone marrow transplant that's even the same blood type that you had before radiation and chemo to zap your immune system.

The future is bright, but the path is still gonna hurt.

Comment it was active asf and leading into 2011. (Score 1) 50

by kalieaire (#66169036) Attached to: Something Made Earth's Molten Core Reverse Direction In 2010
while we may not know what caused it, we can see what the turbulence manifest itself in these resulting incidences:

haiti earthquake magnitude 7
chile earthquake magnitude 8.8
mentawai tsunami earthquake 7.8
baja california 7.2
guatemala sinkhole
iceland eruption, massive ash cloud, grounding 100,000 flights
mt merapi indonesia eruption
pakistan flood
zhouqu mudslide in china
russian heat wave
tropical storm agatha

Comment Why is it a Extremely Dangerous Concept? (Score 1) 162

This is for new builds only at this phase.

This means the entire build's design accounts for the entire power envelope including data infra to support the units.

Houses receive a SPAN smart electrical panel, the SPAN XFRA module, and solar if the builder or home owner options it out.  As far as the grid is concerned, it's not going to notice a thing if Solar is installed.

Comment Yes. (Score 1) 141

by kalieaire (#65915212) Attached to: America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza
My dominos sells a Large 14-inch $25.99 for a wisconsin 6-cheese for PICKUP.

I can understand it if you're an hour or two around NYC, but the rest of the United States, pizza is expensive ASF.  These corporate companies look at market prices and they try to undercut only a little bit to make them attractive.  If all the pizza in your area costs $40 bucks for a large pie delivered by private car, then everyone else is going to cost the same.

If you have some fool slinging pizzas in the back of a BF Newark pizzeria for minimum wage making 150-200 pizzas, they can afford to sell you the pies for less.

But if it's in California where health code is exceedingly strict, you need to pay for a $2000 dollar stainless steel microwave when a $200 dollar on will do.  Or a full ventilation hood system over the pizza ovens that cost $100k easy. Or you need to make sure there's a restroom that's code and is gender neutral.  All that sh** adds up.  Add that to the fact that people just charge more for pizza because people are gonna pay for it anyway.  But when you have a sub-par pizza option like pieology charging for the price but not given any benefit back to the customers, nobody's gonna show up.

Buy 4 Pizzas, get 1 free.  That'll bring folks in.

Comment THE "DEATH OF PIZZA" IS A MYTH (Score 1) 141

by kalieaire (#65915188) Attached to: America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza
It's simply a litty artisanal takeover.

The constructed narrative that pizza is "losing popularity" is a corporate delulu. Pizza ain't fking dying; it’s reaching a fever pitch in the artisanal variety across the farthest reaches of the USA.

The true culprits? Ooni, Gozney, and Ninja (and a bunch of other copypastas)

THE PRICE GAP
* People are tired of paying "gourmet" prices - $30-$40 for a single XL chain pie after fees and tips .. for a lukewarm, mass-produced product (PLZZZZ)
* For that same $40, a home pizzaiolo can churn out eight to ten bussin' artisanal 12-inchers for $4–$5 a pie.
* A can of San Marzano style tomatoes, fresh basil and mozz, and a $2 grocery store dough ball makes a better product than any franchise.

THE COLLAPSE OF THE BARRIER TO ENTRY
* The residential pizza oven market hit $372 frickin' million in 2025. That represents millions of units in American backyards (EVERY gdam yr)
* Price disruption: You no longer need a $5,000 brick oven to hit 900 degrees. low end portable units now are like two fiddy on a holiday/BF deal.
* The secondary market, after a wholeass decade Oonis being available, used units are hitting Marketplace and Craigslist for as low as $50, making the hobby fking accessible to everyone.

THE CULTURAL SHIFT
* Pizza has moved from "convenience food" to "social currency."
* Discords, Instagram, and dinner parties are filled with people egging each other on to buy these contraptions and perfect their "leopard spotting."
* It’s a hobbyist culture where the amateur can now out-cook the local franchise for a fraction of the cost.

THE VERDICT
Pizza hasn't lost its soul, it has literally just moved home. The "soggy middle" chains aren't losing to new food trends—they’re losing to their own customers who realized they can do it better themselves 1000000000 percent.

I'm tired of these money grubbing corps trying to pay off investors.

Papa John's pays out nearly 5% dividends annually, compare that to Coca Cola.  They're seriously making money for both the owners and executive staff. Instead of complaining they should pay workers and work out a deal to make delivery drivers cost less and paid more through uber eats, doordash, and stuff.

Comment High beams and Car accidents -- A Perspective (Score 2) 153

by kalieaire (#65911161) Attached to: How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation
It's a matter of perspective.

In my area where we have a lot of ride share drivers and recent immigrants working in tech, I've asked a fair amount of them:

* during the summer months when folks have their windows open when we're side by side at a light
* waiting at the cellphone waiting area at airports
* my own uber or lyft driver when I noticed their highbeams were on (7 out of the last 11 rides to and from the airport have had their high beams on)

During the 30 seconds to few minutes of conversation of the folks I've talked to, a large majority say they use high beams because it's brighter on the road.

They're all only looking at it from their own perspective and dgaf about anyone else since they're just trying to get through the day.  Literally working w/ blinders on.

Also, none of them were aware that it was considered bad behavior on the road.

A very small percentage are folks with either old headlights where it's fogged over the front so it scatters light everywhere or misaligned headlights after a car accident when it wasn't repaired to a professional level.

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If you shift things back a couple decades to the late 90s and early 2000s, the common excuse then (so sue me, i'm a chatter box) was that they have a headlight out and they're just trying to get home before they get to it the next day (for a year).

My main point being is that maybe it's not the headlights themselves being the issue, but it's people are using high beams when they shouldn't be.  For a lot of readers, and even people in general, it's a difference people don't care to distinguish they just want to blame someone or something. Headlight manufacturers using projector and LED matrix technology give really good cutoffs to prevent from deliberately blinding people, and they work well.  The only thing people think is "I'm blind".  Also complainers that answer these surveys where market research specialists get their data are typically older with poorer night vision and really bad cataracts so light scattering is at an order of magnitude greater than what young people see.

Younger people don't have time to answer surveys. lmfao. They really just have better things to do.

Comment Who's fault? Big Tech or the Graduates? (Score 2) 125

Whenever I've been asked to mentor acquaintance's kids in school underway on their last year, basically any industry, I've hammered in the point that as a student, nobody wants to hire them fresh out of college without relevant experience.  Folks in tech typically will hire almost anyone w/ an internship under their belt as well as a number of applicable personal projects that demonstrate skill and the ability to complete projects.

The irony is tech jobs just out of the market aren't exceptionally glamorous and typically focus on a single feature and a very menial task to boot that basically any college graduate in the relevant degree could perform, but candidates with internship experience easily edge out those with prestigious degrees sans any relevant work experience.

The internship is commonly the free or low cost method of determining whether or not a new grad has the ability to sit down, shut up, and do the work, eg work as a team.

Team work in any business is incredibly important.

Being able to listen to your peers or those just above you in terms of experience (not only expertise) and simply submit to the process that is professional work.  Then there's also the part about learning how to talk to one another w/o unintentionally undermine one another's work because you might not know all the background to a situation.  Oftentimes at work there're forums, opportunities, to learn the lore on why things are the way they are, but new students w/o previous work experience might be missing out on social etiquette or simply not have the awareness needed from those who actually go out of their way to pursue an internship.

The thing is, this isn't a new problem.  Students, even from my day, always thought that they could just get a job w/ a college degree.  With assumption, a lot of them ended up getting jobs where they could and ended up sticking in those industries.  Sometimes in Finance/Accounting, some in Admin, some just working in service industry labor.  The assertive bunch always found a way to network, make their name known, and get a decent job.

Comment Competing apps in other markets, the true insult (Score 1) 208

by kalieaire (#65864767) Attached to: Uber and DoorDash Try To Halt NYC Law That Encourages Tipping
In countries like Thailand where Grab, a formerly competing ride-sharing platform, actually bought Uber's South East Asian (SEA) presence and basically took over is the true insult to injury where Uber and Lyft exist as primary rideshare platforms.

They have a cohesive app that works great and margins (for the platform provider) are far lower, but they still remain profitable.  They're just not paying for a bunch of unnecessary overhead like software developers, product managers, and redundant data scientists working on projects that don't actually benefit the platform.  Instead they're redirecting their effort into vendor sales to find alternative ways to use their platform like delivering goods (food and local shopping supplies).

Deliveries services are also available across a variety of transportation modes including bicycles, scooters, and cars.

In the United States, outside of major metropolitan areas, cars are the primary delivery system and that's just insane for a burrito or a box of qtips.

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