It’s the dream. Imagine the reliable power & internet connections. Plus you could hang a sign on your door like:

"No Soliciting

Violators will be shot for reasons of national security"

Yeah! If there’s ONE thing lame-ass nuclear plants and their spicy rocks suck at, it’s making heat!

Yeah exactly. It’s all part of the known existing machinations of the system that the candidate is trying to be a part of. The media will sideline you for corrupt reasons and millions of voters who agree with you will blow you off for dumb reasons.

I need you to understand that I’ve tried AI for ONE task recently, just a few weeks ago to see how it did, and your comment so perfectly encapsulates my experience.

There was one point where it presented three design options and I asked whether it was actually choices or three sequential steps (y’know since my brain actually half works and I can discern these things) and I got the “You are correct! 😄” response almost to the letter.

I expect that US politicians who actually want to serve the public find themselves in the same predicament as voters who want to support good things for humanity.

The two-party situation is not only an emergent property of our voting system, but it is entrenched culturally as well.

So if you want to do good things in a government position, do you take up the label of a coalition that has plenty of shitty members and bad policies, or do you wear your independent badge with honor in obscurity?

Oh and the other party is WAY WAY FUCKING WORSE in every conceivable way and is not an option. Even the worst aspects of your potential party pale in comparison to what those other guys do on those same policies.

And the best part is that those way way fucking worse evil guys consistently get half the votes!

So many comments about the power settings thing, but this isn’t about working effectively and efficiently.

You can take AI out of this article and it would be just as sad, but it wouldn’t get the clicks.

This article is either helping push, or documenting the push, that if YOU are a higher tier of worker bee that wants to prove your superior worth to your bound legal entity, AND you want to virtue signal having your head on straight to all the lazy selfish people around you actually being present in the moment, then YOU need ShinyTechBroProduct!

Ohhh all the cool parents are into ShinyTechBroProduct! All the other lame asses who PaId AtTeNtiOn To tHeiR KiDs aren’t going to be the next Elon Jobs now are they!

Yeah, I don’t do web stuff, but I use the browser every day for all the microsoft stuff my employer uses and it’s 99% LibreWolf and then 1% switching to Firefox ESR that cane preinstalled on debian.

If something didn’t work at that point, I’d probably fire up my Windows VM I use for testing before I’d install even chromium. I’ve installed it before but there’s just no need now.

intergenerational prosperity

If I know my rich sociopath talk, this means “generations of MY descendants being old money rich and saluting the giant portrait of ME over their comically large fireplaces.”

I have a pretty old lifetime Plex pass that I got on sale.

I’m still 100% a Jellyfin convert. Keeping my Plex server while trying out Jellyfin myself lasted even less time than my Windows partition after I had linux installed.

It’s really great to see one of our politicians answer questions as if they were actually a public servant concerned with the good of the country. I mean, obviously.

But it’s equally tragic how unique it is for a politician to answer like that, and how many people in her own party (in addition to 99% of Republicans) will assume it is BS political talking points to suggest that somebody is serving a high profile political position for any reason other than blind personal ambition.

Absolutely.

It’s almost funny, like they are going through a checklist to retcon everything they ever said about their opponents to be projection.

Of course, a lot of it was genuine projection because that’s how they think.

Plus obviously it’s not funny to watch a cult of personality take hold so easily and wreck so much for so many.

When I did my taxes this year it asked if I wanted to open a Trump Account for my kid, so that it would receive any future deposits the government gave out.

It was so disturbing and disgusting to see something that gross in writing in a real-world context.

No fucking thanks.

Better use the self-checkout while you still can!

https://www.gs1us.org/industries-and-insights/by-topic/sunrise-2027

Pfft. I’m in my 40s with an established engineering career and a small home that I’ve owned for 18 years now.

I am also not paying for any streaming services I can avoid, not buying many games, sailing the high seas, and our cars are like 13/14 years old.

Because shit is crazy, especially being in the US. I am keeping my world small and focusing on my family and my community.

Alarming, but not surprising.

The setup that works for me is LibreWolf as primary browser and Firefox ESR if a site doesn’t work.

I don’t do web development or anything, but I haven’t run into anything that hasn’t worked recently. Librewolf works for almost everything, but if some stupid login page doesn’t like some privacy thing that librewolf is doing, I’ll try one more time with some more loose permissions, then it’s over to normal firefox.

Oh it was a long time ago, but not so long ago that it’s suspicious.

I’m imagining Microsoft taking it all the way and when you buy a Win13 license key, it basically installs a custom theme in KDE Plasma or maybe Cinnamon.

It might be worse for their profits long term than sticking with their locked down bullshit, but it’s kind of funny to think that they would first make billions of dollars of sales on their linux distro.

I could imagine us mounting a huge effort to get the fediverse jet and even have an instance based on the thing. We would always have a bird in the air, so that the fediverse would belong to no nation and would survive any conflicts.

But then somebody would mention how bad flying the plane is for the environment, and calculate that it breaks down to multiple kg of CO2 per post, and we’d all be like “shit, you’re right” and shut it down.

AI will replace workers. AI will replace people who make art and music, and write things.

This part made me think how I’ve commented recently that AI does the thing it was designed to do, but that the thing it was designed to do is generate something you could believe somebody wrote on the internet.

That doesn’t mean the answer is correct, of course. It’s often confidently wrong, just like real people online!

But when it comes to artistic expression, there is no clear right or wrong. Music, art, and the written word are some of the most human things we have, but you are absolutely right that they will be replaced. If a marketing director can pay Google a few dollars to generate a hundred concept drawings so they can do “I’ll know it when I see it” design, that’s a human artist job they won’t budget for.

Maybe the kids ARE alright!