I remember a couple being interviewed before the 2016 election. They owned a construction business that was hired by Trump. He screwed them over, never paid, and completely destroyed their business and their lives.
They still said they were voting for him.
I bet you could have added “raped their 13-year-old daughter” to the list without him losing their vote.
“Yeah, I won’t let him stay over at the house again, but we need a businessman in the White House.”
I’m going to play devil’s advocate and say it’s not like there’s a big switch that is going to switch us from the barely decent Internet we’ve had to a complete shit show.
The time to talk about looming disaster is before it’s too late to do anything.
However, from my point of view, the Internet has been steadily turning to garbage for a long time. We’ve reached the point where it’s starting to take human society down with it. LLMs are just the latest turd in the pile of shit.
Of course, my point of view is from someone who’s been online since the early 90’s. It’s more a “get off my lawn” attitude. Some of the younger whippersnappers might not realize how far it had fallen by the time they got online.
It isn’t LLMs destroying it, it’s capitalism. LLMs and the hype surrounding them are just the latest symptom.
It’s nonsense.
Alcohol interferes with neurological function. It doesn’t reveal the truth about who you are any more than a head injury would.
They think we’re useful to get power, but don’t give a shit about us otherwise, so they don’t think we’re babies.
They think we’re fetuses.
I get that it was a typo, and you meant to say “disciples”, but I like it better this way.
Like Jesus was studying for a career in sex work.
For Vance, this is simply unacceptable. “I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War,” he said, “have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don’t belong.”
How’s this for a radical point of view:
I think people whose ancestors fought for the wrong side in the Civil War have a lot less claim over America than the people who become citizens after the Civil War.
You can still sue if you find a lawyer who is willing to do it.
Pennsylvania is an “At Will” state, so in theory my wife could have fired any employee just because she felt like it. However, the steps laid out by our lawyer for firing someone were quite extensive.
We needed to have extensive documentation of failures and performance issues on file before we could consider it.
That’s also why my employer has such an extensive coaching and documentation process for poorly performing employees. The policy documents describe it as a way to ensure all employees have the opportunity and support they need to improve, but the real reason is definitely to protect against lawsuits.
Of course, if anyone in the US is thinking of moving to another state, this might be useful:
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/economic-justice/workers-rights/best-states-to-work/
I was going to suggest that you’d want to cross-reference other details as well, such as if the state allows doctors to refuse to treat you because they think their magic sky-daddy doesn’t want them to.
At the beginning of COVID, when our CEO decided all non-essential staff should immediately begin working from home wherever possible, our CIO declared all of IT to be essential on-site. Shortly after the meeting when the CIO made that announcement, people at my level (bottom-level manager) essentially all announced to our supervisors that we were going to refuse to abide by that directive.
My direct supervisor told us to relax and essentially said that the entire management team was going to sit the CIO down and have a come to Jesus meeting. Shortly after that the directive was reversed, and it was left up to managers to decide if their team could be WFH, hybrid, or fully on-site. It’s hard to stay CIO if the entire IT group is in revolt.
For many months after that, in the regular management meetings, the CIO would talk about how difficult it was and how everyone was suffering due to the requirement to work from home. He would talk about how many people told him they were longing for the day when we could all be on-site again. I have no idea who those people were, because everyone I spoke to thought WFH was fantastic.
I have heard that when productivity didn’t drop, the CEO asked, “Why are we paying all these high rents for office space if everyone is just as productive and happier working from home?” It was around that time that the CIO started to talk about WFH like it was a good thing.
At this point, there’s no sign it will ever end. We are allowed to hire people from out-of-state and most people are WFH full time. They’ve reduced office space to the point where we all couldn’t work on-site even if we wanted to.
If it helps, fatherly love tends to be annoying and cringe worthy.
At least, that’s what we’re going for.
I want to see this made into a 5 minute short.
I think it still depends on the intent and the setting.
If the intent is to end the conversation, then it’s very rude. If it is just being used as an exclamation, then it wouldn’t bother me in a casual setting.
In a chat during an online game as an exclamation: no big deal.
In a response to a personal story shared during a church service: not a good look.
I think we’d need to know the complete context to judge.
I could say someone like, “my doctor says I’ve got stage 4 cancer”, and a friend’s reaction might be STFU, and that could be totally reasonable.
The only way it’s unreasonable is if the intent is to tell you to actually stop talking.
improving mobility increases production
Can you restate that in a way that makes it clear that the billionaire class will be able to utilize the project to rape and pillage society and increase income inequity? Otherwise, I don’t see how anyone can support it.
Well, I wouldn’t want to be square, daddio!
That’s a good one.
The only people who would agree are already convinced, and the people who need to be convinced would discount it as the mindless ravings of a dying man.
I had for a long time, but I had to try again when it was looking like my immune system was going to cooperate.
I’ve often thought I should have a stack of letters for my kids for after I’m gone.
I haven’t done it yet.
I’m honestly expecting my wife or kids to just throw everything off mine out when I’m gone, so the letters would probably end up in a landfill.
Good Lord, is he so desperate to get people to forget that he raped children that he might actually do something right?
Great!
I won’t stop reminding people that he raped children, but maybe we can get him to do some good in the process.