Hemingways_Shotgun @ Adderbox76 @lemmy.ca

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still entirely compromised of “nerds evangelizing about Linux”

"Winger decries the accusation as "A slanderous betrayal akin to 9/11." Later after the war, he would refer to the theory as "essentially accurate."

unless if one day they somehow develop a “soul” themselves and start to express an inner world of their own.

Gaius Baltar enters the chat.

All business have to care about profit or they won’t be in business for long

Businesses have always cared about profit; just reasonable profit. They would make a product, determine the cost of manufacture, apply a modest profit margin to it (usually about 30%) and factor in things like employee raises and benefits, expanding the business, and building up a financial safety net.

Businesses were run by humans, for humans.

Hedge fund managers and venture capitalists in the 80s changed that. Rather than assigning a fixed profit margin each year to try to maintain, the rule became "how much profit can we squeeze out by sales and (most damning) by systematically dismantling anything that we pay for that benefits our employees".

This is the end result of having taking human stakeholders out of the business decisions and replacing them with shareholders that are mostly other businesses, hedge funds, and venture capitalists. Profit becomes the ONLY motive, rather than one of many.

So he's basically telling the other billionaires to eat the cost of the tariff themselves and NOT pass them on to the consumer.

Trump really is stupid enough to start biting the hands that gave him his current position, all because Musk tells him to.

Apocryphally, CEOs have committed Seppuku for far less.

DJs use the tools to express THEIR talent. They don't just say "create a composition that sounds good". That's the difference between an artist and a fraud.

Everything you've mentioned are tools for an artist to use to express THEIR talent. A typewriter doesn't come up with the words. a Synthesiser doesn't compose the the music that its playing. Comparinging AI (which requires zero talent) is disingenuous.

To put it another way, if you're a carpenter using hammers and saws (tools), and then some engineer creates a robot that can be programmed to do that job and allows them to fire all the carpenters. Does that make the programmers carpenters even though not a single one has used a circular saw.

The line between "tool" and "crutch" is drawn by how much talent and training it takes to use it.

AI is NOT used as a tool in that traditional sense, its a shortcut to fake talent in ways that hammers, paintbrushes, typewriters and even just good old fashioned traditional Photoshop aren't..

You have to have the training and talent to get use out of a real tool. And AI certainly potential for use in that regard; proofreading, background removal, grammar checking etc...

AI art is fine being used as a tool. What I have a problem with is it's users calling themselves "artists".

A person who types a prompt into an AI is no different than a person who hires a painter and describes what he wants them to paint.

Just because that "painter" in the first case happens to be a computer, that doesn't mean that by default the title of "artist" defaults back to the person who wrote the prompt. That person is still just someone telling someone (or something) what to draw.

In other words, you don't become the artist just because you eschew paying an actual artist and instead have your computer do it for you.

If it was an actual artist rather than someone typing a prompt into an AI, they would have known that it's "Studio Ghibli" not "Ghibli Studio"....

No, your job is to represent your constituents, dick head.

Are they getting DOGE to look into whether the tickets were non-refundable?

hmmm...upvoted for being an idiot. My ego doesn't know which direction to go...

I don’t know what the solution is… But I feel like I’m watching America repeat in Canada.

I'm cautiously optimistic in the polls so far. We seem to be, almost universally, looking to the south with horror, and then watching Poppinfresh's polling drop every time someone compares him to Trump in public.

The reality is that most of the Maple MAGA are a very small subset of one or two particular provinces, with the majority of people even in THOSE provinces not having none of Trump's shit.

We always have to keep in the mind that the loudest person in the room isn't automatically the most poplular.

Defectors? Would they even admit it if it was?

edit - Absolutely responded to the wrong thread because I'm an idiot.

He's drowning. His political acuity begins and ends with mimicking Trump tactics and coming up with three word polemics. But literally everything he had a slogan for is no longer relevant and so the punchable-faced twerp can't find a good rhyme anymore.

I would make one hell of an ugly woman....

I was an archaeology major, hence the history thing. And I'm fascinated by the psychology of crime.

I was already starting to have problems a month or so ago. Ended up switching even though I had paid for no ads. Using Connect; same routine...pay for no ads. So far it's been great.

Jeez, really?

That then begs the question of why would anyone do that shit job if there wasn't the possibility of making fat stacks of commission. The earning potential (if you're good) is literally the only good part about a dealership sales job! Everything else is absolutely miserable.

Dealerships are commission environments. They don't pay their people until that rebate comes through.

At times they'll hold back one or two sales to apply for the rebate at the beginning of the next month. This happens when a dealership has had a particularly good month and has already hit its quota to get its incentive bonus from Ford/Chrysler/Etc... so they might as well bank them for the next month.

But never in a million years would they hold back $56000 in rebates. Their salesmen would riot.

Source: Slogged in that hellpit of a career for two years before getting out.