Because as humans we are insanely stupid. I think we all know the answer. Money is why Arizona. We don’t do what’s right. We do what is cheap and effective. It just happens that sometimes that is right too.

I’m taking none of it with me. Let it all burn.

Yup. Now are we going to learn this time or is it just a cycle we are doomed to repeat?

It’s going to be akin to death by cummulative poisoning.

Agree and despite what it may seem like it really is gradual right now. What people are avoiding (god the C level discussions I have been witness to is mindblowing) is the long term damage of their choices today.

The amount of times I have heard executive talks with “you know we both have kids around the same age what do you see this doing?” And they always wrap it with something positive. These fuckers most likely have their kids in private schools, not to mention their kids have all the connections these fucking parents can afford them.

In short the execs making the decisions have their heads equally shoved so far up their own asses they are ignoring the problems on the horizon.

My only complaint here is that there is a lot of very, very valid use cases for “AI” specifically “Agentic AI”.

We (including myself) may not like a lot of those uses because it devalues my fellow workers but it does not change the fact that it works.

The problem is everyone needs to be so goddamn polarizing and god forbid we have a mature honest discussion about the tools being built and how they are changing society as we know it.

We should be discussing and pushing for UBI across the world for decades now as youth unemployment is already at dangerous levels in continents like Africa (lol of course we don’t care because black people) but no instead we have asshats pushing a narrative of “AI bad”. It’s not. It has many purposes. Smarter people know this and it’s why it isn’t going away and the train is not going to stop if you don’t pull your head out of your ass.

/rant

I can’t wait to dip out of society and find somewhere in the middle of nowhere to live a quiet life with minimal technology in my life. I’m done with all of you. I stand by what I’ve said to my mum many times over the years. I hate people. I love persons.

Nothing changes until the government reprioritizes which system is in play and then it becomes a global problem. I think we both want the same thing, but the reality is we aren’t getting it until it gets much worse and/or blood spills and I have neither the capacity nor the appetite for either.

Being blunt. I am 48 and have 3 kids to feed and 2 have disabilities. I have no interest in the risk that comes with doing something pro bono on the hopes it will work especially when everyone else is doing it pro bono. There’s no immediate individual incentive.

I may want socialism but I live in a capitalist world. I can’t have me and my family survive on good feelings.

Couple of tagents.

I miss the Popeyes of my youth.

“Louisiana fast” because it was a jab at “black people time”. Plus the food was made by black people now in Toronto every fast food joint is run by South Asians.

Also they took away my Po boys and shrimp.

Biscuits still slap though.

Just an FYI many immigrants are racist if not more racist. There’s a lot at play there including but not limited to their cultural and religious background.

That you know of!

Yeah!

something stupid.

Say no more.

CI/CD If right should be including a try: AI except: no AI

It never existed who are you delusional people?! Lol

The inconsistent and incorrect capitalization is tweaking me.

Yes

I’m in the GTA. Asians here. They fucking love Tesla’s.

It’s interesting because I was talking to my psychologist about this last week.

Mental illness runs in my extended family specifically my best friend is a functional alcoholic. He grew up the son of a functional alcoholic.

We all agree that alcoholism is an addiction, just like gambling, social media, etc.

The problem is that as a society we are addressing the specific addiction. AA for alcoholics. For gambling the government has programs you can admit yourself to.

What I was postulating to my psychologist is the real problem is some people have un underlying susceptibility to addiction. My experience with addicted people is regardless of good or bad if you remove an addiction they will replace with an unhealthy obsession on something else. Alcohol will be replaced with something else because the problem is the person has an imbalance they can’t do something in moderation. I’ve seen this time and time again.

Plus factor in comorbidities like ADHD and you have a stew going.

My point being, yes you’re correct tech is a problem, but it’s 100% the people too in some cases it’s just without the social media their addiction may have been benign so not visible. “Oh look at Mary with her beanie baby collection.” Or “oh look at Jack he really is a go getter running his 10k rain or shine every day.”

They don’t have good engineers because Oracle is a law firm pretending to be a tech company.

We call this the IBM business plan.

I mean drive through my neighbourhood (Newmarket, Ontario) it’s pretty much little Iran as it is.

Much love to my Iranians my kids are friends with their kids. I love my Iranian peeps.

About tree fiddy

Say what you will but that fucker loves them OLD lol