A bunch of my friends were made redundant. Some had visas dependent on their work, employer sponsored and had to leave Australia. Heck, we call it the gfc as an acronym. We just didn’t have a general recession.

My favourite great hunger joke:

How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?

None.

There are “no weapons” signs at libraries?

Every forced update is 5 minutes of hassle for each login. If you work from multiple PCs, it’s a nightmare.

A seal walks into a club.

Being pushed there or going there naturally, it’s still moving that direction.

If ai allows the improvements hoped for, it’s likely to increase productivity for humanity just like all other major advances did.

It’s politics and laws that decide who benefits from it. Under our current systems, wealthy people and corporations benefit, but likey we’ll see increasing taxes on ai output and increases in ubi type schemes for people.

AI is a bubble currently but it is an advancement in tech that provides benefit. Just nowhere near the benefit to be actual intelligence.

Human jobs get eliminated by new tech all the time. This just has and will be rapid, which leads to upheaval. Unfortunately, it’s precisely at a time when the world is already moving towards war and authoritarianism, so it’s particularly bad timing.

Or even any foss projects with social parts that are kid safe.

I’d love to let my kid play daily Scrabble with his grandma overseas with chat. However, .ost games seem to be open to all or closes to chat completely. There is no middle ground.

Well, I think everything so far that we know about them point to them not being the sharpest tack in the box.

Gosh, someone should tell the Microsoft teams team that Microsoft teams for business and Microsoft teams for personal and Microsoft teams for students are also using the same names and make communication difficult. They should get a copilot team on it

Haha, I was also wondering if I had typos somewhere as I posted.

Haha, it also leads to odd quirks of English shining though. Although media is plural and “are” would be used, as you did, most would use it as a collective noin and say" media is". It’s one the rules to break as a native speaker.

Yep, tax digital services and sell off some dollar bonds.

Start tariffing their digital services. That should do the trick.

Wales has to be Jones.

Yes, I suspect this is a chas flow thing. Their sales are dropping. The feature is there, sonit costs nothing to give it. See if they can milk a few dollars. Even if it makes less money on the long term, it might stop the share price crashing in the medium or short term.

Roblox is banned in our house. Not due to o/s concerns, but child grooming concerns. Snapchat, also banned.

For roast potatoes, it’s amazing. Fondant potatoes, I’d imagine it is similarly better than butter or oil. However, it would be wasted on a regular stir fry, for instance.

No superpower has ever beaten guerrilla tactics. Just like Vietnam, if lots of soldiers are coming home in body bags for a war people don’t see the benefit to them for, the pressure to stop will mount. It’s unfortunate that it will kill so many people before it gets to that point.

Even more sad is that it seems like most of the oil companies aren’t interested in Venezuela as the oil price is too low to take on the risk. The risk of bombs to their infrastructure after costly installations. Risk their investment is removed as soon as trump is gone.

Yes. I was making a joke. Consultants often are inexperienced and just make cuts, not improvements. Most of the work is done by cheap grads, who compete for few roles in the hope they make it. Most don’t. The customers get overcharged for poor advice.

Usually, they are just a way for management to have someone to point to for the decisions they make that negatively impact people or the business.