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I'd recommend some xx(edgelord.dic)xx next time.

They've done the math. They know they can take lost in users because they know they'll make up for it. That's the sad part in all of this.

They really haven't taken massive hits because we are creatures of habit: it's more convenient to hang around even if we know we're getting ripped off. There is a conversion rate - but it's low enough where clearly they believe the market will bear more abuse.

Absolutely. I should have used the term productivity rather than service. Lack of caffeine had blunted my vocabulary. In essence: more output for less work. Output in this case is profit.

Enshitification is, in essence, the push beyond diminishing returns into the 'lossy' space ... sacrificing a for b. The end result is an increasingly shitty experience.

It's technically closer to Schrodinger's truth. It goes both ways depending on "when" you look at it. Publicly traded companies are more or less expected to adopt AI as it is the next "cheap" labor... so long as it is the cheapest of any option. See the very related: slave labor and it's variants, child labor, and "outsourcing" to "less developed" countries.

The problem is they need to dance between this experimental technology and ... having a publicly "functional" company. The line demands you cut costs but also increase service. So basically overcorrection hell. Mass hirings into mass firings. Every quarter / two quarters depending on the company... until one of two things becomes true: ai works or ai no longer is the cheapest solution. I imagine that will rubberband for quite some time. (saas shit like oracle etc)

In short - I'd not expect this to be more than a brief reprieve from a rapidly drying well. Take advantage of it for now - but I'd recommend not expecting it to remain.

It's like drugs and alcohol in that the urge is there just no easy and legal access to the same outlets. In the case of porn - I'd say it's gonna get bad.

Will they fear monger? Have they wasted a single opportunity to do so yet? I'd be hard pressed to point at a time where we had stopped.

...or anything Christians don't like into one big bin called illegal?

Not to lump everyone into the same boat but I'll take the low hanging fruit for the obvious low blow:

I'll tell you one thing that those churches seem to like that will definitely not see an uptick as we make legal outlets less accessible....

Prohibition and the war on drugs sure worked out well when they were implemented. Surely this time ...

... I mean getting rid of standards and quality control ... and testing can't possibly have adverse effects here. Ah well. We're speed running regression in just about everything else: what's one more offering for the pyre?

Surely the children will thank us for ... saving them ... when they are older.

I always loved the simple statement that:

Death is inevitably caused by swallowing tiny bits of saliva over time.

It illustrated the utter senseless linking of observed events to results with dubious research. Is it technically wrong? No. Is it correct? Of course not. (I hope.)

We are constantly being sold something. Sometimes it's obvious - other times it's not. Frequently its a bent truth to just nudge us in the direction the advertiser wants. Health is extraordinarily complicated. We know we should be healthy - but there is so much noise potential profit in the space... that it becomes hard to determine the correct path to take.

Shit like the above is effectively tabloid journalism. If it is sensationalist - and urging you to act without thought ... you absolutely should give it as much credence as an article about bat boy in the checkout line. Until these pseudo journalism "half-truth" adverts get degraded to tabloid levels they will continue to pollute our information channels with their snake oil.

It is possible to distill correct - or at least better information from questionable sources: we play the overlapping circle game. If you compare multiple sources of partial truth... each source added can begin to define the boundaries of what is true (or at least accepted as truth.) Now this isn't perfect and certainly doesn't replace real research - but this method in combination with learning to identify masked advertising is a way to protect yourself from falling prey to their trash.

What's to be done about this shoddy reporting? When you see it - call it out for what it is. Shame the publisher. Trash the poster. Openly mock them. Do what you can to tarnish the perceived reputation of that outlet. If they sell sewage then make sure the stink sticks to them. Enough people doing this will start a positive feedback loop and eventually lead to visible improvements.

Military signups are dipping. This is an appeal to the young and stupid which is the lifeblood of the armed forces grunts. Need meat for the grinder.

It's been done before and will be done again each generation.

"That's bait"

Agreed here. Frequently people charge these near where they sleep and the failure mode is... sudden. Couches and beds tend to be really good kindling too.

Urgency in this case is probably warranted.

Gonna be a lot of issues that come from this. Legally speaking. It's already on the books that an IP address doesn't represent a single person... so I'm not terribly clear on how they plan to enforce this even if it were to pass.

That went well then... kinda like the problem never really went away.

Charge it in the morning and it's dead when you go to use it. Good news is: your bag is nice and warm now. That's what you wanted, right? .... right?

The initial release was a bit rough but holy shit that OS was basically magic when it was dialed in. 100% my favorite.

Next to no resource usage. Reasonably secure (for its time - especially compared to other offerings) ... and all settings were right in reach.

No bullshit, no fluff. It played the os role perfectly. Run your shit and get the hell out of your way. I still believe they killed it off early to force people to switch. It was murdering the new os in performance benchmarks.

And nothing of value was lost.

This right here is why it's so VERY important to read things before accepting what is presented as the unblemished truth. 🍻

Sorry, were you quoting someone? I can't see that anywhere else... but perhaps I missed it.

I've had this discussion quite a bit, and it's tough to break the 77 cents on the dollar and whatnot rhetoric, because those people are convinced that a man and a woman doing the same job with equal experience, the woman just automatically makes on average 23% less than a man. And it's easy to prove that wrong, and entirely misses the point.

With the pervasiveness of social media, outrage culture, and, frankly, the steadily increasing difficulty to finding credible sources of information... it's just far too easy to just revert to our baser "tribalistic" tendencies and blame someone and get mad. Toss into the mix the fact that a lot of these topics are sensitive issues and boy howdy EVERYTHING is a powderkeg and ONLY black and white despite evidence to the contrary.

[...] Now, I imagine a lot has changed in 23 years, so maybe that mentality has changed, but if all else is fixed and there is a "pay gap" based on choice like that... that's not a problem that needs to be solved.

Agreed on this point. Different strokes for different folks.

So to recap, we need to stop talking about cents on the dollar and start talking about making rejoining the workforce more available and appealing after having babies, and giving dads more time with their kids to let their wives work.

I'd really like to see a world where it'd be possible for both parents to get leave, be able to work part time while not being put in a financially dire situation, and still have access to crucial things like affordable healthcare and insurance. A pipedream - without question... but one can hope.

This was my thought. It could be done with reinforced materials and then have a wood veneer or facade placed over it... but if someone was going to actually do that - they'd definitely have finished the buildings before assembly.