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So what I’m getting from you is:

“Do your own research on the bile I just vomited into existence because I formed it as a question.”

Fair point I guess. Solid reasoning… Definitely no holes in that.

Unrelated - Your name is, of course, a reference to that tribe that sodomizes children and wears skin suits?

Nice try RNDAscii().username

I’d recommend some xx(edgelord.dic)xx next time.

LTT unfortunately has gone the way of easy engagement via ragebait and low hanging fruit. I don’t blame them - they have a lot of staff and lovely people to keep employed… but they aren’t the scrappy diy because why not guys they were back before Linus media. It was the right business choice … but a lot of us just can’t stomach the change. It’s like a good friend gone alcoholic.

What you don’t want vista-fruitcake? Trash nobody wanted then so we repackaged it!

They’ve done the math. They know they can take lost in users because they know they’ll make up for it. That’s the sad part in all of this.

They really haven’t taken massive hits because we are creatures of habit: it’s more convenient to hang around even if we know we’re getting ripped off. There is a conversion rate - but it’s low enough where clearly they believe the market will bear more abuse.

Absolutely. I should have used the term productivity rather than service. Lack of caffeine had blunted my vocabulary. In essence: more output for less work. Output in this case is profit.

Enshitification is, in essence, the push beyond diminishing returns into the ‘lossy’ space … sacrificing a for b. The end result is an increasingly shitty experience.

It’s technically closer to Schrodinger’s truth. It goes both ways depending on “when” you look at it. Publicly traded companies are more or less expected to adopt AI as it is the next “cheap” labor… so long as it is the cheapest of any option. See the very related: slave labor and it’s variants, child labor, and “outsourcing” to “less developed” countries.

The problem is they need to dance between this experimental technology and … having a publicly “functional” company. The line demands you cut costs but also increase service. So basically overcorrection hell. Mass hirings into mass firings. Every quarter / two quarters depending on the company… until one of two things becomes true: ai works or ai no longer is the cheapest solution. I imagine that will rubberband for quite some time. (saas shit like oracle etc)

In short - I’d not expect this to be more than a brief reprieve from a rapidly drying well. Take advantage of it for now - but I’d recommend not expecting it to remain.

It’s like drugs and alcohol in that the urge is there just no easy and legal access to the same outlets. In the case of porn - I’d say it’s gonna get bad.

Will they fear monger? Have they wasted a single opportunity to do so yet? I’d be hard pressed to point at a time where we had stopped.

…or anything Christians don’t like into one big bin called illegal?

Not to lump everyone into the same boat but I’ll take the low hanging fruit for the obvious low blow:

I’ll tell you one thing that those churches seem to like that will definitely not see an uptick as we make legal outlets less accessible…

Prohibition and the war on drugs sure worked out well when they were implemented. Surely this time …

… I mean getting rid of standards and quality control … and testing can’t possibly have adverse effects here. Ah well. We’re speed running regression in just about everything else: what’s one more offering for the pyre?

Surely the children will thank us for … saving them … when they are older.

Military signups are dipping. This is an appeal to the young and stupid which is the lifeblood of the armed forces grunts. Need meat for the grinder.

It’s been done before and will be done again each generation.

“That’s bait”

Agreed here. Frequently people charge these near where they sleep and the failure mode is… sudden. Couches and beds tend to be really good kindling too.

Urgency in this case is probably warranted.

Gonna be a lot of issues that come from this. Legally speaking. It’s already on the books that an IP address doesn’t represent a single person… so I’m not terribly clear on how they plan to enforce this even if it were to pass.

That went well then… kinda like the problem never really went away.

Charge it in the morning and it’s dead when you go to use it. Good news is: your bag is nice and warm now. That’s what you wanted, right? … right?

This right here is why it’s so VERY important to read things before accepting what is presented as the unblemished truth. 🍻

Sorry, were you quoting someone? I can’t see that anywhere else… but perhaps I missed it.

I’ve had this discussion quite a bit, and it’s tough to break the 77 cents on the dollar and whatnot rhetoric, because those people are convinced that a man and a woman doing the same job with equal experience, the woman just automatically makes on average 23% less than a man. And it’s easy to prove that wrong, and entirely misses the point.

With the pervasiveness of social media, outrage culture, and, frankly, the steadily increasing difficulty to finding credible sources of information… it’s just far too easy to just revert to our baser “tribalistic” tendencies and blame someone and get mad. Toss into the mix the fact that a lot of these topics are sensitive issues and boy howdy EVERYTHING is a powderkeg and ONLY black and white despite evidence to the contrary.

[…] Now, I imagine a lot has changed in 23 years, so maybe that mentality has changed, but if all else is fixed and there is a “pay gap” based on choice like that… that’s not a problem that needs to be solved.

Agreed on this point. Different strokes for different folks.

So to recap, we need to stop talking about cents on the dollar and start talking about making rejoining the workforce more available and appealing after having babies, and giving dads more time with their kids to let their wives work.

I’d really like to see a world where it’d be possible for both parents to get leave, be able to work part time while not being put in a financially dire situation, and still have access to crucial things like affordable healthcare and insurance. A pipedream - without question… but one can hope.

Don’t be caught being evil…