Also trying to claim “they’re not employees if US. They’re contractors” should mean you forfeit all your wealth and get banned from leadership positions for life.

I’d like to see more spaces converted into like “15 minute loading/unloading”. There’s a lot of double parking that’s just people trying to do something quick.

I think it was on coney Island avenue the other day that the whole right lane was taken up by people double parking. That’s absurd. Not sure why so many people needed to drive someplace so close to several subways and bus stops, but there’s a lot of ways to discourage that space.

Conservatives don’t say things because they’re true. They say things because they think it will get them what they want.

Right. For someone in an unstable environment, having a good now is a better choice since it probably won’t be there later.

I do wonder what you’d find if you controlled for wealth and stability. I feel like some people have really poor impulse control and delayed gratification despite coming from a stable home life

I remember this joke from three panel soul in 2007 https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-man-law

I’m sure they want the data for money and other nefarious purposes. But as the other person said, I think the way they try to sell people on it reveals they’re out of touch. And maybe a little that AI’s offerings aren’t actually that good.

But a commercial that’s like “it can write a birthday note for your daughter!” is a bleak reflection of someone’s world. That’s not going to resonate with most people. That’s the kind of thing a soulless husk with no real bond with their child would think is good.

Part of being conservative (ie: authoritarian) is being extra loyal to the in-group. I think it’s like in their brain chemistry and structure. They will almost always yield to the authority figure for their in group.

I can’t imagine why you would want any of that. There’s nothing in my life or nearby imagined lives that’s so arduous I need an AI “agent” to take care of it.

This supports the hypothesis that it’s driven by out of touch rich people who are used to having an executive assistant. They can’t imagine doing daily tasks because they don’t. “Making a dinner reservation? Myself?? How gauche. Get Amanda to do it.”

They then think everyone is like them.

It’s hard for me to justify buying anything since my job is so crap. I have the money, I just feel spiteful and angry at capitalism.

Tim Sweeney should go away and never come back.

Isaac is fantastic. With all the expansions, it’s hundreds of hours of goodness.

Grim Dawn didn’t really click with me. None of the classes I tried felt good, and the constellations stuff is hard to work with. There’s a lot of options scattered around, and I feel like I have to read and dozens of things to plan out a coherent build. Or use a guide, which is un-fun.

Path of Exile 2 is my current arpg

as should anyone living in the area while demanding lower taxes.

If conservatives had shame about reasonable things, a lot of problems would go away.

It faces the problem where even if people like the policy, they’re emotionally invested in being Republicans. Also many of them don’t want social programs if it means non-whites benefit. I think those people need to be dragged into the future. Find a way to let them be decent and save their stupid face.

I would consider medical facilities at entry points so people can get vaccines and treated for contagious things on entry. Maybe it’s the top of a slippery slope but if someone actively has measles I don’t want them to just walk into a major city. I wouldn’t charge them for health stuff, because that’s monstrous.

Maybe some sort of placement service, too? Help people get settled. Language classes.

The book “Dying of Whiteness” is fascinating and depressing look into this. Many people would rather personally suffer and die than let the out-group have something nice. They don’t want healthcare for all because that means black people get it.

That is not enough of a penalty.

Leadership are mostly idiots. They don’t know how work gets done. They think like “wow it produced so many lines of code!” and don’t know that’s not a useful metric.

My job had Microsoft do a four hour copilot demo for the entire team last week. (Surely an immense expense. They won’t pay for most people to be full time with benefits). The guy used copilot to make a regex to parse html. A little surprised zalgo didn’t show up.

He shouldn’t be able to retire to a peaceful life. He should be ruined.

Things like this feed the idea that the justice system won’t produce justice, so if you want it you better get it yourself.

I forgot how much I hated working in an office. Our desks were directly under the vent, so we’d get blasted with cold air. Sales was off in a corner, where it was too warm for them. No amount of adjusting the thermostat would change their local temperature, but they’d try anyway.

In addition to being climate criminals who should all be stripped of their nice things, people who mandate in-office are often causing personal, physical, suffering.

None of the fines for these things are enough. It should be, like, the company is nationalized. The leadership is sentenced to years of community service and barred from working in the industry for life.