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by guzfip 7mo ago
So are disingenuous or just stupid? Of course society exists still, but what society? Only the very dumbest think “doom” is some apocalyptic scene from a Hollywood film in which humans are nearly wiped out. “Doom” is instead when swaths of
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> The really valuable CRUD monkeys are already domain experts as well Sure but that’s a minority I’d argue. There wouldn’t be such a volume of shitty business software otherwise. I will be interested to see if there are any economic effe
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> But you'd be very stupid to take Hitler's words at face value, especially with the benefit of hindsight! Well there are a lot of very stupid people in this world.
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> How was this group vindicated? It absolutely has caused problems at orgs and in the industry. I think you misread. In fairness, I arranged the sentence awkwardly, as I do often. I think my mind was conjuring the various dooms and then
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> You will still be able to walk down the street and grab a Big Mac pretty much any day of the week. Yeah while you’re on your shift break there.
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> Name a single time doomers were right about anything. - NFTs - Surveillance schizos - Global Pedophile Cabal schizos - Anyone who didn’t believe we were a year out from Star Trek living when LLMs first started picking up steam - People
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> I want to move on from bullshit jobs. So are you aiming for death poverty? Once those bullshit jobs go, we’re going to find a lot of people incapable of producing anything of value while still costing quite a bit to upkeep. These peopl
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> The level of arrogance some western-hemisphere Spanish speakers have It’s almost exclusively Western Europeans doing this IME
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by guzfip 7mo ago
I’ve always wondered how the hell things like vacuum repair shops and other niche stores I still see around from time to time are still around. It’s not that I don’t think anyone would choose to repair their vacuum. It’s more that I can’t i
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> how can you handle all that complexity?... You don’t. Someone else smarter than you handled it already and you just need to integrate their solution.
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> They put him in a cubicle where he wrote Visual Basic CRUDs on an 8-5 schedule. No weird deadlines, no sleeping under the desk. He called it his paid vacation. That was all nice and good for a while, but the times are ending. I suspect
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> As a Christian, I feel compelled to point out that much of what passes for "Christianity" today does not align very well with the recorded teachings and actions of Jesus. > As a Marxist, I feel compelled to point out that
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by guzfip 7mo ago
Most of them fried their brains with stimulants long ago. Thankfully for them, they no longer have to think. An LLM does it for them. But it’s just the same idiots were rabidly cheering the latest JavaScript framework a decade ago, NFT’s an
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by guzfip 7mo ago
I think these schizophrenics are stuck in a loop.
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Everybody’s lying to me. Haven’t you heard: lying is a virtue now.
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> Elect a Democrat in 2028 who will nominate a strong AG Impossible. Democratic Party power is concentrated into a gerontocracy mostly interested in preserving their own wealth/power. Appeasement and encouragement of status quo wil
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by guzfip 7mo ago
The geezers in power have been grooming them for the peasantry. The signaling is explicit. You will own nothing and you will be happy. And you will only be happy of course because it’s above you status to worry about the upsetting things.
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by guzfip 7mo ago
Nah thats petty nobility that will get wiped out for taking the wrong side in the first dick measuring war lmao.
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by guzfip 7mo ago
Rome will never fall! How can it? It has only ever grown more powerful.
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> american taxpayers will be left with the bill. If the country isn’t on fire afterwards, I’m giving up on it.
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by guzfip 7mo ago
The CIA is definitely scary. I’m not sure why people reach for old medieval guilds or Ancient desert pantheons to describe an evil unaccountable shadow government when we have the very tangible CIA already there.
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> This is especially true in the Southern US. You can be the best carpenter, electrician, plumber, etc in town, but you won't have healthcare, retirement PTO, you won't be treated like a human unless you join a union (good luck
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by guzfip 7mo ago
Lmao the one hope I have for this country is that I know for sure that the American people will rise up to put a violent end to techbros once they try to “ ban non self driving cars”
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> You probably won't be paid well, if you can even find anything, because you're starting from ground zero and competing with all the other people flooding the job market. You won’t be paid well because rent is due next week, b
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by guzfip 7mo ago
> who could then use AI agents to provide the top quality customer service I’m actually ROFL. Are you brain damaged? Or have you simply been in a coma over the past decade when businesses have outsourced their support to automation. Hint
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by guzfip 7mo ago
No you don’t get the hedonistic life. The turkey gets a hedonistic life because its value is in its consumption. It’s worth more to its owner fattened up as much as possible. You on the other hand, are not bred to be consumed. And in fact t
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by guzfip 7mo ago
Cool, I can make that working at Walmart many places nowadays.
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I am just absolutely flabbergasted that people seem to ignore your first point so consistently on this site. Then again, these were the people who ten years ago were constantly bleating that Software was invincible and that flooding that ma