...I didn't support Trump (ever), but I am actually happy about this.

1. I am spending about 70% less on Amazon. I cancelled Prime already, after so many years.
2. I am decluttering what I do own. We found some unopened boxes of Amazon orders from years ago, in the basement. Sold that NIB stuff on FB Marketplace.
3. I am paying more attention to how I can buy in bulk for the items I do want (whey protein, nitrile gloves, etc). Amazon is too expensive on EVERYTHING, but the convenience seemed "worth it".
4. I don't know what else I might ever actually need from buying online, really.

I used my Ai agent to analyze my Amazon spend over 15 years, and it's ridiculous. I want to cut that spend by 90% in 2026, and put the 10% to relationship vendors I can buy bulk from.

Open AI's censorship is insane. I can't get ANYTHING done without it first warning me I am hitting a limit, and then telling me it can't even discuss "that" anymore.

It doesn't even matter WHAT I am working on, I hit censor walls DAILY across pretty much all of the topics I came to work on.

...I make bad bad bad quality films. 3/10 usually. If we get 6/10, we screwed up.

Our goal is simple: create films for people to watch in the background of their doom scrolling, so we get the ad revenue share. That's IT.

Hollywood is dead. I release most of my low quality films in theaters. I stand in the front of the theater and watch the audience and they all doom scroll. So I went to a few huge name actor films this year, and did the same.

Guess what? Audiences doom scroll in the theater, too.

No.

Take the 4 years of college you wasted, and the 4 years of high school you wasted to prep for college and instead look at what you could have done financially and learning skills and saving those incomes while living at home for free.

College is a net and gross loss compared to any skill building job at 15-22, along with zero cost of living and 8 years of stacking in any high yield ETF.

I knew in 87 that college was consumerism and debt and dropped out of high school to pursue a career with skill building baked in.

There is no way folks 40 years later still see value in this insanity.

You people deserve what youâ(TM)ve earned if you think education is worth paying for.

I cruise a lot, and the on board app is amazing for messaging others on my sailing.

Unless they are under 13 in the US. Then they canâ(TM)t use the app because of Federal law.

You voting types are apes. I can not wait to depopulate you.

I am capitalist and I support all of this.

Depopulate the consumer class.

End the ridiculously poorly received middle class.

Let skilled labor become the modern serf caste.

I loved society during quarantine. Empty roads, empty planes, empty beaches. We discovered we donâ(TM)t need about 8.6 billion people at all. Anyone who stayed home for more than 2 weeks is disposable.

Letâ(TM)s.

I signed up for DoorDash to get a ton of airline miles after making one delivery.

Holy cow they treat drivers horribly. $8 offer for a 10 mile run sounded fine. The restaurant said the order was already picked up. So I had to cancel. Which DoorDash threatened to ban me over for cancelling a stolen order.

Then my second order was $4 for 8 miles. I snagged it annoyed because I wanted the miles.

Restaurant order wasnâ(TM)t ready. I pressed âoeorder not readyâ button. Nothing changed. 15 minutes of waiting. Restaurant told me I could cancel (and get dinged).

Finally got the order. The 8 miles drive was as the crow flies, ended up being 11.5 miles. To an apartment complex. With NO parking and tow signs everywhere. And no elevator.

And I originally drove 3 miles to the restaurant and whatever miles home.

Also, the $4 included a $2 tip so it was a $2 delivery for 20 miles and 1 hour.

Wow.

My right to pretend to be you is more important than your right to prevent me.

The 26% are a hate group, in that poll, you racist piece of shit.

Are you a dumb fuck or is it slashdot?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a....

I'm a film producer who makes low quality garbage for audiences, and the income from channels dedicated to kids under 13 is magnificent.

It's garbage vertical story "art" but it's a constant stream of income.

I ran a server, paid for it, also banned for TOS. Senseless garbage.

And?

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.