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Americans are just stupid, and it’s easy to whip us into a moral panic.

I'm having a thought. It's easy to write them off as stupid, and they may be, but there's also like... If they have really bad information, the decisions they make given that info as true make more sense. If you really believed that Harris was eating babies, or "she's a communist that's going to put the christians in a labor camp", it would make sense to vote for the "lesser" evil.

Just need to figure out why they believe such falsehoods. it's probably fox news et al.

Related:

"ai will make you twice as productive!'

"Cool. So I'll be paid twice as much, or work half the hours?"

"Lol no. I'm keeping the profits"

Yes, I am very aggressive about turning off notifications. The use case I had in mind is texts from friends, and I don't want to turn those off. Like someone texts me something that requires thought or online connectivity, but I'm on the subway or at a concert. I want to snooze the message so it'll remind me in a couple hours.

Sometimes for really important stuff I'll set a timer myself, but that's more steps than if the OS just had a "remind me later" built in.

Mostly backend for web development (django most recently), though I'm moderately proficient at react and JavaScript for frontend. Also testing and QA.

I've been applying to all of full stack, backend web dev, and test/QA. No bites. Learning more languages might help, but I feel like having 0 years experience in (say) Rust won't get a lot of traction.

Maybe it's imposter syndrome but I feel like I've always been a sort of middle of the road engineer. Good at some things , bad at others. It feels like with all the layoffs and AI, there's less room for broadly competent people. There's just going to be the top tier, fighting and getting paid less.

If you own the company (or a lot of shares), you gain wealth by doing literally nothing if the company's value increases. On top of probably just keeping the profits. Plus the "use my stock as collateral, give me a low interest personal loan, that's not taxed as income lol" wealth back.

I'm not talking so much about the petit bourgeoisie that's working hard every day making donuts to sell. I'm talking about big C Capital that buys something and just takes the profits.

The CEO at my old job can't code. He can't do UI design. He doesn't do sales or customer service. He sometimes talks to other rich assholes to fundraise, but mostly he makes questionable decisions and hurts morale. But if the company goes big, he'll get filthy rich and the people who actually built the thing will not.

That said, higher taxes on the wealthy (plus closing loopholes like the loan thing) would help. So would universal basic income.

It's funny because conservatives cry about "welfare queens" that just take money for nothing, but it's the rich who can do that. If you have a few million, you can just coast on investments. Little to no risk. Once again, projection.

You could also have salaries 🤷

The problem to solve is a handful of people who aren't really doing much work get most of the profits. There may be other solutions.

so what will be the point of failure

It feels like a lot of the maga hats will die cheering and waving trump flags. I don't know if that's historically precedented.

It's going to be hard to make any fixes when like 30-50% of the country wants hell on earth.

Job market is brutal, at least for tech. Every job gets 100s of applicants. There's a lot of AI slop. Offered salaries are down. For some reason, management wants people to go into the office (which is among other problems a pay cut compared to WFH).

I've been unemployed since the winter. Had a handful of phone screens. Haven't made it to a technical round yet.

My old job laid off all but one guy and a contractor.

Honestly, I kind of want to get out of tech but I don't know what I can do that doesn't require like a degree or is terrible.

Unemployment runs out soon. Not that the pittance the state gives is enough to live on. I asked what I should do when it runs out and they were like, awkward shrug.

Meanwhile there are billionaires living content lives of luxury.

How would you quantify ongoing projects where workers come and go and each of their specific contribution might not be easy to measure?

Probably some sort of collective ownership, profit sharing, with negotiation and consensus building. Other people more well read than me have spent a lot of time thinking about this. My starting position is that the standard capitalist model of "I pay you $10 to make a widget, and I sell it for $1000 and keep all the profits" is not okay.

Do they all also assume financial responsibility for any failures or lawsuits?

Do the owners assume financial responsibility now? I think that's what LLCs and other corporate structures are for- to shield individuals from liability and responsibility.

Taking things too seriously, don't most plants benefit from their fruit being eaten as part of their lifecycle?

Also it's not like the workers typically get the long tail of profits. Most labor is only paid a salary, and the "owners" get to keep profiting. Workers should be entitled to the profits of their labor.

I found a setting that alleged to enable snoozing, but it doesn't seem to work. This is an older android phone though.

It would be helpful if my phone had a built in snooze function. Sometimes I get a text and I want to snooze it for an hour. Just dismiss the notification and remind me later.

mostly I avoid a lot of the big drains (social media, other than lemmy) and tell people I'll get back to them within 24 hours.

I tell people I have a 24 hour response window. Barring exceptional circumstances, I'll get back to a message within 24 hours. Often faster, but that's not guaranteed.

Make sure you speak clearly with minimal slang, or they might willfully misinterpret what you're saying to deny your rights. Like to think you want a lawyer dog.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/suspect-asks-for-a-lawyer-dawg-judge-says-he-asked-for-a-lawyer-dog.html

AI is a mistake and we would be better off if the leadership of OpenAI was sealed in an underground tomb. Actually, that's probably true of most big org's leadership.

This is an interesting point. They're going to get the final search string though, so does it matter much if when I search "baked potato recipe" they also get requests for [baked, baked potato, baked potato recipe] (assuming they denounce/split on space/etc) ?

I think Mage: The Awakening 2nd edition was a cleaner version of the game, but yeah no version is something you can just phone in.

I ran a game of it a year or so back, and one player just refused to read the book in any detail. She was always frustrated by not knowing what she could do, or how to do it effectively.

He's spiteful and stupid.

At family gatherings for holidays and birthdays inevitably someone would bop a balloon around, and this game would naturally emerge. Perhaps my family were secretly scientists.