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- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 days ago:
It’s really interesting that I agree with you, but so many people insist that they’re new and fancy tools are somehow making their lives significantly better. And obviously it’s an opinion question, it’s not like they’re lying, but I just don’t see the value that many of them do.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 4 days ago:
Guess that means we should tax them more, right? They said they’d be good for the economy, got those tax breaks, and now they’re cutting jobs. Screw 'em.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 5 days ago:
The almost equivalent claim is that going to work sucks. This second claim is perhaps more instructive.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 5 days ago:
Right, and we should protect them by passing laws penalizing companies from such shitty software. Cuz the average person can’t access the source code.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 5 days ago:
Might wanna get that return shipment prepped, my insomniac friends out there.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 days ago:
Of course a massive stock market collapse would affect regular non-investing Americans. When companies go out of business, when inflation kicks into high gear, that affects entire communities.
But exactly how, that’s the question. If you know the answer to how, then you can easily prepare for it. Still, pretending that it won’t hurt you because you’re poor seems to be at odds with the past.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 days ago:
I would say Japan never recovered. The yen is weak, the cost of living is skyrocketing, and Japanese people have said in large-scale national polls that they struggle more to make ends meet than they ever have. Also, the rich are getting richer, and there are far fewer permanent jobs than there were two decades ago.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 5 days ago:
Here, OP is asking about their situation even if they have almost no investments. In other words, they’re asking about the downturn on the national and global economy, and how that could make their life bad. Since it obviously can (through, for example, job loss or difficulty obtaining groceries), then some amount of preparation might be reasonable.
Another good question is what to do if you have medium-size investments and you don’t want to see them tank. That’s what you are talking about.
“That was never real money anyway.” Rich people sometimes say that, but everyone else knows you’re wrong. We save a percent of our paycheck every month to make sure we have money for retirement. We all wish we had guaranteed benefits, but that system was scrapped by greedy rich assholes decades ago, so now we are gambling that our savings will increase, because if they don’t, we’ll be working until the day we die… So if we feel like that money is real, maybe we’re right.
And if you feel like the money isn’t real, can you give it to us? Couldn’t hurt, after all, because it’s all fake.
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 1 week ago:
Nobody cares what the UK thinks. The company has no presence over there. Down with the British. :-)
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
Unclear if this would impact any app store that has no Texas or U.S. presence. Is Texas planning on blocking websites? It would be entertaining to see.
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 2 weeks ago:
That’s basically untrue. If a building is rotten and full of mold, then it might have to be torn down before anything new could be created. Then it might have negative value, but the property itself could still have a lot of value.
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 2 weeks ago:
So it sounds like your insurance company is trying to game the system. This isn’t necessarily a problem with insurance as a concept, it’s just something that happens because private companies are greedy m************.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 2 weeks ago:
So look. That’s like asking why people are not Libertarians. A name is just a name. Everyone knows this. Actions matter a lot more.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
All of the examples are commercial products. The author doesn’t know or doesn’t realize that this is a capitalist problem. Of course, there is bloat in some open source projects. But nothing like what is described in those examples.
And I don’t think you can avoid that if you’re a capitalist. You make money by adding features that maybe nobody wants. And you need to keep doing something new. Maintenance doesn’t make you any money.
So this looks like AI plus capitalism.
- Comment on New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs 2 weeks ago:
The job market in the US? Trump explains that.
- Comment on Phones may come without bundled USB cables in the future, if OEMs have their way 2 weeks ago:
I disagree. Standards exist so you don’t waste money on things you already own. As long as the package is clear about what it contains.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 3 weeks ago:
Ask them for evidence. Rather, ask your union rep to ask them for evidence.
But don’t get all “brutal honesty” on me. You can always truthfully talk about wanting to earn your paycheck or get through each day in a smooth and productive fashion.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
That is a myth. The law is actually far more complicated, at least in the U.S., and presumably elsewhere too.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
Get thee to The Pirate Bay and send your direct donations on the side.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
You’re not fucked if you have The Pirate Bay. :-)
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 3 weeks ago:
Well, they’ve also been maintaining the software since 2005. They said why they’re closing shop, so why not take their words at face value? They have no obvious reason to lie.
Many of us have started and maintained projects and then moved on when our lives changed. That is just normal.
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 3 weeks ago:
No, it isn’t the whole point. The point is to curate our own news. And a separate question is how to browse the results. If you use two devices, you might want a server side solution. Maybe. There are many reasonable setups.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 3 weeks ago:
Except we do, in so many ways. I think one simple example is RSS.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think you can avoid it in a capitalist system, though. The capitalists are greedy, that being the whole point of their position, so they will always want more.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
Exceptt that case is not nearly as clear-cut as people pretend it is. Actually a company boss has a ton of flexibility in how they run their company and spend money because nobody knows the future.
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 3 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m not understand what you’re asking. You want to build a list of feeds to follow, right? To avoid single point failure or censorship, right?
So stop asking for one link, and start telling us what topics you care about. There is no point in a non-custom list of RSS feeds. You need to start the process yourself.
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 3 weeks ago:
It’s not ironic, is it? The creators of RSS knew exactly what they were trying to create, as did RSS users, and what the bad alternatives would be like. If you are new to the show, welcome!
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 weeks ago:
I say get it while you can, you don’t turn your back on love, no no no. -Janis Joplin
- Comment on YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them. 3 weeks ago:
That depends on the contract, of course.
- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 3 weeks ago:
That’s only partly true. Even if Trump had been locked up, and the courts hadn’t said he can do whatever he wants, there could still be someone almost the same as him doing a ton of bad stuff right now.
Of course it is a disaster when the judicial branch fails, but we need to keep that in context of the complete lack of limits on campaign financing, of money coming from corporations and billionaires getting into politics, and how that guarantees the system will be corrupt in short order. In other words, Citizens United was one of the big steps towards the present disaster in the US. You simply cannot have a stable government when the ultra-rich have all of the power. And that, pushes us back to the destruction of anti-monopoly legislation in the '80s and '90s. Which is to say, the bad shit happening now was predicted by many, involves many aspects of government, and took a long time to unfold.