Overzeetop @ overzeetop @lemmy.world

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It's the march of progress, but it's coming for previously "safe" jobs. I make a good living as a consultant, but about 80-90% of my job could be automated by AI. I just went to a conference in my field and everyone in the room was convinced that they couldn't be replaced by AI - and they're dead wrong. By the time my small corner of industry gets fully automated I'll be retired or, at the least, in a position where I'm the human gathering the field data and backchecking the automated workflows before it goes out the door.

political capital to implement a UBI

I applaud your optimism, and genuinely hope you're right.

presumably a human who works has some intention ... to succeed at work

Which is the one in ten who really love what they do and want to go into management or oversee the process for professional fulfillment. Of the other nine, three are waiting to move to a company that pays better, two will decide they don't like it and change careers entirely, and four really are terrible at it but HR decided they met the minimum requirements and would work for entry level wages so they'll be in that job for the foreseeable future with zero upward growth, eventually getting bitter and doing a worse and worse job while complaining about their lack of promotion.

And make another one just like you

Better than you, in fact.

The ability to make someone believe they have to go to the bathroom really bad but when they get there, nothing was really there.

So, business as usual for men over 60? (Or so I'm told)

Likewise - 11,500 hits on google

Which is a dick move, but I can see that as a workaround. However, my account shows no posts, and a search of my u/name shows no posts, so they must be tagged with a fake/shadow username that is disconnected from my account. Maybe I can find myself by searching from an alt account (self-shadow-banned?)

Edit: nope, I don't show up in searches from my alt, either.

Get me out after a couple of decades of the torture and this is the tragic backstory I need to turn evil and plot the end of humanity. Make my savior a nerdy but hot chick (Gal Gadot will work - just put some horn rimmed glasses on her) and have her die while escaping. I think we can get two sequels out of it.

We’re all here think of good things; you’re plotting nefarious powers.

Phone, flashlight, gaming system, headphones, laptop, jump start cars, watch (though the Apple Watch wouldn’t be compatible with my super power…same as in real life with all normal chargers).

The real question is if it would transfer energy magically, or would I experience a calorie deficit. That could go both ways in my book.

Is breathing underwater too exceptional? I’d settle for charging batteries by holding them, or the ability to revive/kill plants that I touch (my choice, not some random thing or King Midas curse)

Wait, Apple is getting a Bixby button?

If this were so important it could be solved several ways, the easiest with registration recesses or, better yet, a mountable interface. I’m not buying the line that Apple is beholden to 3rd party bolt-on lenses as the core reason for not producing a flat-backed phone.

They’re scared shitless of wireless / 5G/LTE providers offering service. I’ve never seen so many scare ads about how three old ladies watching YouTube will yank your home wifi or that you’ll have to cut down every tree so you can see the cell tower to get service.

The only places they were installing faster service is where they have competition from fiber and with viable wireless competitors they’re running scared.

I’m still figuring out the controls for Lemmy. How do you delete someone else’s post?

By logical extension, community members could take it in turns to act as a sort of top mod for the week. But all the decisions of that mod would have to be approved in a special biweekly poll post. It could be By a simple majority in the case of purely community-based affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more important changes.

These people have real and legitimate grievances. Their government has failed them.

Yes, they do and yes, they think it has. The problem is that they have been in the business of voting for people who campaign on the "Government is bad, vote for us and we'll show you just how bad we can make it." It's their own fucking fault that the government doesn't work as well as it could. And despite their best efforts we still manage to have rural internet to connect them to the world in places where they would never be able to afford it, interstate roads to send their crops to market and bring every modern amenity to their local stores, a national air transport system to bring them a new liver or kidney after they've destroyed theirs, working ports to bring their tractors and 4 wheelers and snowmobiles, billions upon billions of dollars in (otherwise unaffordable) crop insurance and price supports for their products, and an army of adjusters with stacks of cash to rebuild after every tornado, flood, heatwave, snowstorm, hurricane, and forest fire.

The government has not failed them, they have failed their government. Their hand is out whenever they have a bad day, but their memory is wiped out every time they see that all those benefits might cost money.

If you went high tier, did you leave enough coin for a Quest 2 headset? With a cheap, dedicated router you can stream wirelessly and the experience is mind blowing. Games like HL:Alyx are ridiculous; I just wish there were more native ports to VR.

And they’ll blame the price increase on the need to redesign around the USB connector.

Roses are red Groot is neat His suit too big For his got dam feet

Big target. Either that or the butt wipe that was denied his Reddit username and started creating random long manned communities.

I just sort of assumed we’d all get accounts in 2-3 instances so if one goes down we can still participate elsewhere.