Do you realize you just made that up in your own mind?

And then wrote it down?

Or do you not realize that?

This is textbook Trump Derangement Syndrome.

You are arguing with yourself. And losing.

You did it again! You just invented something in your own brain! You're arguing against yourself - and losing.

Do you realize that you are having an argument with intrusive voices in your own brain? Or not?

I notice this all the time with TDS sufferers: they invent something and rage against it.

Epstein ran a child rape ring against Americans for Israel. If the truth ewere known, the existence of Isreal would be threatened. Isreal requires an external sponsor to exist. That sponsor is the USA, and if it weren't us, it would be Russia.

Israel has a right to exist!

Don't drive them into the hands of Putin, antisemite.

Besides according to the Left, MAPs are just a sexual orientation like gay. Oppressing them is fascism.

The internet is more than just the web, and this is just a bizarre proposal. If you think bandwidth caps are bad, just wait until you can get charged per-connection fees.

Hydrogen does not make a good fuel, tor a tonne of reasons, but nitrogen fuel would be less prone to nasty reactions and fewer problems. Could N6 combustion be controlled at levels suitable for heavy road vehicles or trains?

(Electric trains have their own problems, due to the fact that the junction needs to be poor and the cost of copper is so great that lines need to use far worse conductors to reduce theft.)

Wow is strange.

I left after CAT as WOTLK was it's height before activation started ruining things after the Ulder patch in WOTLK by nerfing and adding raid finder. But Classic anneversary has its users including myself. I came back after 13 years.

Use the right tool for the job. Linus Torvalds himself said he liked Office and PowerPoint and it makes sense to use the OS which your software was designed for.

Personally I am considering buying a console for the first time ever. Nvidia greed and games running better on $499 PS5 suboptimal RDNA 2 with Unreal 5 than $4000 PCs mean there is some serious issues with Windows :-/.

BlackMyth Wukong beats my 5080 hands on a playstation. I got into so many flamewars over this from PCMR fanboys saying I am retarded and cite my hardware specs but it i just is not as smooth or optimal at 4k. Yes I know about upscaling and the PS5 is doing this but it has less issues.

But ... Linux has the same issues. A 3% 4% fps boost you will receive if you are lucky due to DirectX emulation and all the win32 bug to bug compatiblity added in god knows how many lawyers. Sorry wine is an emulator in the software sense of crappy code.

My point is Linux sucks for games. Steamdeck is it's own thing and my guess is consoles next generation will start winning again because they OS is tuned for the hardware and so are the APIs and frameworks.

Since we're not taking about infinitesimals, I fail to see the relevance.

Also, the reporting type news still needs someone to go out and get the news. Where do we think the news comes from? Sports reports, sure. 90% of it can just be pooped out by some LLM (the really good stuff will always belong to humans with insight into the sports; I don't even want to hear non-cyclists report on the Tour de France, let alone a device that's never actually played any sports at all). Some kinds of weather and financial reporting, maybe. Also some political reporting as well. But reporting involves people going places and asking questions.

And particularly as LLMs lower the difficulty of FAKING news, I think we'll want MORE people that were verifiably AT places. I've been floating the idea for years that Fox, NBC and CNN (or whomever) should be sending reporters to major events together to confirm that they actually happened. They can still report on them with whatever bias suits them, but together they can all confirm that all the things that were said on tape were actually heard by several different humans. It would be a selling point for all of them.

Yes, the Sears catalogue type of model will almost certainly disappear. And some types of conventional model will disappear.

But have you ever heard of the OKCupid study that said that people that have more polarizing looks tended to get more messages than people that everyone agrees are hot? It's not that I don't think that AI can replicate whoever is considered attractive at the time, it's that I think AI is a *trailing indicator* of attractiveness.

So AI has a good sense of what's attractive right now, but new people will crop up now and then and dazzle us with novelty--something different from everything we've been inundated with, and AI will move to that spot, but our quest for novelty won't be easily satisfied. I think just the existence of internet porn is evidence of that. Surely by this time, the permutations are mostly covered, but there's still a market for a new face doing all the things you saw the last person do.

I would say that most hotels ALREADY don't have a concierge is the point. I agree that they'll put a kiosk or robot there, but there was nothing there before.

14. Concierges

To the extent that these jobs exist at all, I don't think they're going away any time soon. Part of the benefit of a concierge is the prestige of having one, or to have a real person coordinate and organize things for you. I think more people might have access to a facsimile of a concierge now. No longer for fancy hotels and rich people only.

15. Political Scientists
16. News Analysts, Reporters, Journalists

Um, no. To be good at any of these things, you need to have lived in this world as a human and have real human concerns. AI can't show up at press conferences or do investigative journalism by itself, so I think these ones are majorly overblown. Will the big newspapers and cable news networks survive? Totally different question. I myself support a few independent journalists that do good work because they're more local and more specialized than the big Canadian newspapers are.

20. Hosts and Hostesses

What? Like, am I misunderstanding what they think these are? Someone that greets you at a restaurant or similar? That takes you to your table? You certainly don't need an AI to coordinate table assignment, the host(ess) is there to give a human touch to it rather than let you seat yourself.

29. Data Scientists

Anything with science in the name is off the table. At the very least, they need to be there to supervise the AI. But again, human concerns are what lead to human analysis. Generative AI still can't do new things or ask meaningful questions.

35. Geographers

Spoken like someone that thinks geography is just about maps. I have a friend that did a geography PhD on the sounds of a geographic region. Not just the ambient sounds of a forest or a city, but about the music and the culture. She recorded military planes landing with killed soldiers on them--obviously you can't tell that from the sound, but as part of the context, it's something that she felt was worth considering. Why would an AI ever think about that? Again: human concerns.

36. Models

Sort of. I think we're seeing this already, but I think there's always going to be a place for beautiful people that we know are real, beautiful people. Fashion and attractiveness move in cycles (see the cycles of something like jeans, or moustaches)--people love novelty. AI will only ever be able to respond to those things, because by the very nature of trying to make a thing happen, the counter-culture moves into the position of novelty and becomes the new hotness. AI generated perfection will become a dominant aesthetic for a while but then some other weird thing will pop up and they'll have to move to cover that after.

Anyway, some of these are probably sadly dead professions, they're not wrong. Translation is like the origination of LLMs, that's only going to get better and better. I can teach myself the basics of almost anything now with ChatGPT as long as I'm diligent and skeptical. Nobody likes telemarketers and nobody will be sad to see that go or switch over to AI, honestly.

I was pretty sure you were joking, but man, you can never really tell on the internet. :D

Trump took the EU to the woodshed. They had to drop all of their protectionist tariffs they have against AmeriKKKan goods(I thought protectionism was ad?) and in return America puts a 15% tariff on all of theirs. Moreover they had to write a check to us for hundreds of billions. The tariffs will bring in a shit-ton of money. We can use this to replace the income tax and repeal it entirely.

The usual TDS sufferers are screaming it's a tax on AmeriKKKans but it's not. When's the last time an American bought anything made in Europe? I mean one of us, not the CA/NY American passport holders who write the media articles describing what happened.

Hey, I've got an idea - make things in America and there are no tariffs. It's weird but worth a shot, it could work.

Almost certainly not. Buying Apple certified parts is indeed INSANELY expensive, but they're probably not taking much of a profit on it. While they obviously do break and need to be fixed now and then, iPhones tend to be relatively durable and people just like buying them. iOS 26 is still going to run on the iPhone 11, so I think it would be hard to make a case that this is just planned obsolescence or whatever. (I still have a working iPhone 11, in fact. Kept a decent case on it and it was great for years.)