Ioper
18d ago
He posted on Elon main account Sending codes on Elons main account that I would understand
This sounds like a textbook case of schizophrenia, no? How old is she?
Bots don't leave comments
They leave shit loads of comments. There seems to be some kind of system for limiting these though since they never seen to go beyond a certain percentage of the overall comments.
Ioper
19d ago
And yet, this fake image (and the countless others in the replies below) elicits much stronger emotions and sympathy from me than the real video
So, I don't agree here and I'm curious as to which of our perspectives is the more common one.
Please answer the poll on which of the options elicits stronger emotions:
https://strawpoll.com/NoZrzw9oBZ3
Then there is the question of which of the two garners more engagement and there I don't really think it's a question of which is more engaging but rather which is easier to consume while still being reasonably engaging. An image is much easier to consume than a video and it fits much better in a text feed than a video does. You can glance at an image and then scroll right by, while a video breaks your engagement flow with the feed.
Ioper
19d ago
Jedi fallen order is the biggest game that Disney star wars has produced by far and that was released in 2019. That should only have been 1.2 billion in revenue though.
Ioper
19d ago
I think we should probably be more specific, its social media and algo driven content serving (especially short form) that's the issue, not watching movies on your phone or w/e.
There are plenty of studies that show this, its not some kind of new and unknown subject. The issue isn't that we don't know what's harmful, it's that there are powerful commercial interests opposing regulation. It's the same thing with online casinos, it's not the internet that's the issue, it's specifically the gambling sites.
Ioper
22d ago
Now I'll never spend another cent not just because its bad right now (it is), not just because it hates me for demographic reasons (it does), but because it's associated in my mind with all the extremities and terrors of shitty social justice and all that did. I've seen too much fucked up stuff, lost friends, etc and Disney dropped their flag on that behavior.
They would have to do something really extreme, like declaring all the Disney content non-canon and hiring George Lucas to oversee a new sequel trilogy (while not directing). I'm honestly not sure even Andor should be part of the canon despite how good it is. Even Lego star wars is more tonally consistent with the overall property than Andor is.
I'm not saying Lucas is some kind of genius but there needs to be a clean break and delineation between Disney star wars and the property going forward, things are that broken. Alternatively the quality of the content needs to be close to Andor level but that is obviously unrealistic and if you could guarantee that you wouldn't need to buy IPs in the first place.
Not an anime but have you guys heard the Japanese VA for FFX? I thought the very inconsistent VA for the English version was a due language barrier during production but apparently not..
Ioper
22d ago
Have you tried any roguelikes/lites? Easier to just get one to couple of runs in when you feel like it and then do something else. You don't have to stay super engaged for extended periods of time.
He is a teen and he is having tantrums and meltdowns in school? That doesn't sound like a case of a school overreacting to normal male behaviour.
Whether something like this is "normal to him" doesn't really matter. This is unacceptable behaviour and he will have a really hard time if he doesn't learn to manage this.
Ioper
25d ago
Anything that fits the chest/shoulders has a waist big enough for putting away a 12pack a day.
There are v-shaped slim fits. They have not been hard for me to find.
I guess It could be an issue if you're specifically looking for a form fitted but loose shirt.
This hasn't been a problem for me (6'6) for the last decade or so at least, there are so many brands with long t-shirts. What I do is go to some online retailer and look specifically for extralong shirts and order a bunch. With the generous return policies this easy and without any real cost. For dress shirts I just have them tailored and always have, there has never been a brand that fit me well. Furthermore, if you buy in bulk they're more or less the same price as decent quality standard sizes. There is not really a reason to not get them tailored.
While I'm big, strong and have naturally wide shoulders, I've never done steroids so perhaps we're talking about different things?
Ioper
26d ago
I have some books that i read when I'm trying to sleep that I've read more times than I can count. The reason is that i find them to be cosy and get me in the right headspace to sleep. That I've read them before and know everything that happens is a plus not a minus in this case because what I'm trying to do is relax, not have novel experiences. I enjoy the characters, description and the language used itself.
Let me ask you this, do you ever relisten to music or do you just experience each piece the one time?
Ioper
26d ago
They're probably going to replace several data analysis teams whose jobs have been building Power BI dashboard for the past 10 years.
I consulted for a massive multinational a couple of years ago and they had this massive operation in India that produced those BI dashboards every week, that the regional and national executives immediately threw in the trash.
The issue was that while those dashboards looked good and contained a ton of data they didn't really say anything meaningful and it was too hard to both communicate with and change the workflow of the Indian BI teams so the output became useless.
What people defaulted to instead was just fairly simple KPIs that were relevant for whatever issue at hand and people showing things in excel. The dashboards were occasionally used for official reports and external communication but not for internal decision-making.
I'm not sure which bucket AI would fall into here. Would it enable people to quickly do the work themselves (or some kind of local resource) or will it just be a cheaper version to shit out even more useless graphs and dashboards than the Indians resources?
Secretaries have barely existed for like 25 years at least and call centers aren't pink collar work. Pink collar work is overwhelmingly face to face service work, like nursing, teaching, childcare and social work.
I can believe people using AI for different things are having very different experiences and each reporting their impressions accurately.
Partially, but there is also a honeymoon phase and a phenomenon where people feel more productive but have mostly just shifted what they do, not increased their actual productivity.
Perhaps this is something that will pass with increased experience with the tools but it has not been my experience with the people i manage nor for my friends in similar managerial roles. It could of course be a combination of the above as well. Maybe the models just need to get a bit better and people need experience with those models. Who knows?
To me it seems highly specific where AI actually is a meaningful productivity booster for programming. It should be clear though that for these things it is very valuable.
I would be more worried for areas where things don't actually have to be "correct" (for quality or legal reasons), like visual art generation. Even there I imagine things will mostly affect the things liable to be (or already has been) outsourced.
Ioper
27d ago
There was not even a proposed vector for value with Blockchain most of the time. AI is very different.
Ioper
27d ago
Why would it decrease pink collar work? Or do you mean the administrative overhang? But why would that hit pink collar stuff more than anything else?
Have you traveled for work to any great extent? If not, what you're yearning for likely isn't travel as much as vacation, lack of responsibility and limited adherence to social rules.
Most people who have to travel for work, even those who specifically sought it out for that reason, bounce off hard.
Ioper
1mo ago
To be more accurate, a lot of patients talked about wanting to die, some asked me at some point if I could help out (I'm not sure how serious those requests were) and one lady pleaded with me to kill her every time I was there, which was almost every day. 1/5 was an approximation on my part. I was regularly asked by patients to "help them die", but I wasn't really regularly asked by the same person except by the one patient. Some other people phrased things like that "it would have been good if I was allowed to help them die", which isn't really asking but is kind of in the same neighborhood.
Most of these people could probably have killed themselves if they had really wanted to, and for all I know some might have. They could have overdosed on the medications they already had in their homes. Perhaps this was too complex and scary for them though, I don't know. I imagine people want a solution that is painless and guaranteed to work, possibly under the supervision of a medical professional, not something where they can fail and die alone painfully over a longer period of time.
These things dont necessarily correlate with how poorly someone is either. My grandfather for instance who died last year at 100 desperately wanted to live even at the end when he was in horrific pain, had terrifying hallucinations and had not been able to move from his bed for months. The last thing he said to my mother was to ask her when he was going to get better again.
His wife (my grandmother), who died 40 years prior from ALS, wanted to be killed and started refusing food etc almost as soon as she became hospital bound in order to speed things up.
It sound tiny to me. The median lifespan is like 83, presumably some percent of these people want help dying at the end.
Ioper
1mo ago
Maybe things are different in America (you certainly seem to abuse your residents far more), I only really know and have experience with doctors from the Nordics and Germany.
Most doctors here absolutely do not have research, teaching and administrative duties that take place outside of work hours. Some do, like those pursuing MDs, but those a fairly small minority. Most attendings are "just" working and for most of them this work overwhelmingly takes place during office hours, including things like teaching.
The specific stressors they face are different, like the very long shifts, working nights and ethical stress.
Ioper
1mo ago
If I had a dollar for every dementia patient who has straight up asked me to kill the, well, I wouldn't quite retire (and I'd ask why I'm being given dollars), but it would be enough for a decent meal. Enough for a fancy French dinner, were I to include family pleading on their behalf
When i was young i occasionally worked as a home care assistant. I would travel around and help infirm elderly people with daily activities like showers, cooking, cleaning, giving them meds etc. Due to where this happened almost all our patients were relatively well off and most had contact with their families. They weren't bed bound and could do some things on their own.
Despite all of this about 1/5 of the patients regularly asked me to help kill them. They were in more or less constant pain despite pain management, increasingly felt that the help the got was degrading and their minds were rapidly slipping.
I didn't mind much when people passed away but being begged on a daily basis to kill the people you're interacting with wasn't fun.
The median quality of the people becoming doctors compared to lawyers is generally a fair bit higher, so one would expect them to do better. The comparison shouldn't be between the median lawyer and the median doctor, but between a fairly successful lawyer or judge and a doctor.
I have another observation though, and this of course varies by country and specialization, but my impression is that doctors work life is comparatively (in relation to other similar high status white collar professions) "relaxed" a few years after residency, which coincidentally is the same age people usually start gaining weight. If I'm comparing my friends and acquaintances, the ones in private industry seem to work more, harder and with far less stability than the doctors.
A lot of the stressors that exist in other comparable careers don't exist and things are far more stable, for good and ill. Very high salary, ironclad employment security, lifelong employment, clear delineation between work and rest, etc. To me the biggest issue among my doctor friends seems to increasingly be boredom/under stimulation rather than stress.
I also imagine that a lot of the people unsuited to the medicine specific stressors wash out before they actually become doctors due to how the education is structured. You're much more removed from the actual reality of your future career as a law student for example which can lead to nasty surprises.
Ioper
1mo ago
What's any large company (say, over 10,000 people), in any other field than tech, that you positively like? If you're like me, you'd struggle to name one.
They're mostly large manufacturers and some resource extraction companies. If we look at smaller companies there are a lot more.
What makes big tech vile is the same bad impulses that exist in other industries dialled up to eleven due to scalability, network effect driven lack of competition, cultish customer behaviour and finance driven lies. For example, everyone hates rent seekers and tech are just currently the best and most visible ones at it.
Not really. Most go directly for the rich countries and almost no-one anchors in the real EE shit holes. Some do "anchor" in Italy or Spain before heading north though.
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