Use a computer, or a web site. Or a bank.

Why would you ever carry your entire life’s worth in your pocket. Ever?

They would just overcharge for the oil change anyway and claim the $8 cabin air filter needs changing for $120.

AI and Flock are bringing the union back together.

“I now have 2 homes, a wife and kids, a dog, a boat, 3 cars, all on my 1920s programming union salary! Wife doesn’t even need to have a job! Just remember to show confidence, it’s easy!”

The auto industry is dead it seems (in so many ways), it just hasn’t been told this fact yet.

Interviews right now in software:

• Apply to job
• 1.5 months later receive email to take an AI-“proctored” code interview where you have to show your ID, share screen, cam, mic like some Orwellian njghtmare
• Maybe get a soft-interview with employees where they are just asking you about local weather while seemingly personable, but actually just trying to find out if you live where you say you live
• Possible technical interview with humans where it’s “pair programming” but actually just a human-proctored coding puzzle irrelevant to the job description and the “interviewer” is looking at another monitor surfing reddit
• Contemplate if homelessness isn’t that bad versus all this bullshit
• Maybe retail? Construction? Farming?
• Work at CostCo?

All to get a job to be a condom between Claude and source control as that other recent lemmy post shared.

Remember, it was going to be privately-funded….

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And railroads still screw up the nation to this day.

Like, random fun fact, to this day, the mineral rights under many homes in the west were owned by the railroads and owned by….someone to this day. Buy your house, the land underneath it is owned by someone else and if they want to mine or frack they can.

Welcome to America, always.

Is there a browser plugin to constantly query their AI in the background? Wasting their power might send a message.

Remember. Waymo is Google.

That’s called variables in memory.

Next time you start it up, it has no idea and random guesses again.

So you save variables to disk.

It starts up and has the variables.

Still random guessing.

High speed random guessing is still random guessing.

Your lock code is 1234.

I can type 4 digit numbers all day until I find it.

Software can do the same faster.

Doesn’t mean it can think.

Statistical guessing machine guessed its way into a network. That’s not a singularity. It’s just more complex than a script.

And even the losers will end up with datacenter sized space all over kingdom come with access to massive amounts of electricity and water to begin the next phase of evil.

And can be ignored by the very same government whenever it chooses to do so.

When the market has no options while people still need to replace old or broken things, people are forced to buy that stuff. Then the market says people want that stuff. They’re controlling the whole thing.

Best way to combat it is buy as little as possible. Which thanks to economic collapse, it is happening organically.

Good ANC cancels everything. It’s active for a reason.

I’ve replaced the save battery on NES carts before and save keeps working. Gaming used to be cool. Now it’s just a momentary money grab the company hopes you forget about.

At the time, liked it out of pure desperation for good sci-fi to exist again. As a whole, just a mediocre money-grab with the classic attempt to “appease all audiences” while abandoning the franchise with a parallel universe loophole.