Someone I know just entered protected status (12 months to retirement) after two years of their employer threatening to replace them with AI. Originally they thought about giving a fuck but are now just watching the clock. They’re a senior accountant that among other super powers has memorized massive sections of the US tax code. According them, when their employer switches over to AI, its is going to be an incomprehensible disaster while being equally hilarious to have a front row seat to watch as it plays.

I am not sure it’s that easy.

Me too

Anyone know of a jail break for Tesla’s PowerWall?

My understanding is the battery/inverter will go into something like safe mode after a certain number of days of not being able to call home. I haven’t been able to confirm or deny this but I do know Tesla doesn’t like you interacting with the battery directly.

… with a flannel like that, the first guy could be Canadian for all we know though the symbols in the back ground make we wonder if perhaps Pakistani-Canadian?

Why? I am guessing you were in your 20’s? As I understand it, we’re a bunch of dumbasses until we hit our mid-30s. At least for me that’s when my personal level of fuckery was dialed down. Goddamn miracle how many of us make it to our 50’s :)

There is a premade meal delivery service with possibly the best product right now on the market. Unfortunately after I did a deep dive on them to figure out why their customer service sucked so much, I found the head of their “customer experience” had liked/heart emoji’d these two AI companies.

After telling my experience to another dev, they noticed an advert by an AI company boasting how they provided an service for them.

For tech savy people, the heart of the problem is because they used the user email address as the primary key in multiple places. So not only a varchar primary key but a natural one to boot! Not even a drop in the bucket but they lost ~10K USD of revenue for what should have been a 1 minute begin; update... SQL command by the DBA. Though the large amounts of AI makes me think they fucked themselves on that too. Another reason I suspect that; they had a data breach at the start of the month but haven’t made a public statement or warned their customers. Might not even know, might not know how it happened, and how much was stolen.

My original thought in the actual shower was tilted more toward the absurd. All the elequent monologues and comments being washed out with “what?!” and “did you say something?!”

on my phone so terse response

Chemical residues in the air are super toxic, yelling will cause you to take a deep breath of that. Explosives made to kill don’t have many health & safety restrictions besides what’s on the Geneva convention checklist (joke about Canadian soldiers)

Also you may have injured your lungs but are not aware of that just yet. A lot of extremely injured people will understandably try to get away but are oblivious because of severe shock.

Never happened to me but another sadder response are veterans that post deployment find themselves on the verge of tears when presented with totally benign normal locations like being in a grocery store. Only becomes a concern if this response continually happens or increases in severity.

Remembering seeing this happen to other veterans and partially experiencing it with myself is making me a bit more conscious of the people with some level of PTSD that is debilitating and resistant to treatment.

It’s well known that males, especially American, are to put it mildly not so great at managing their emotions. after a long period of extreme stress, one sign they are having problems is with something called “cute aggression”

Been over 20 years since I got out but I remember mentioning it in passing to the woman I was dating at the time who was a licensed therapist. She was insistent that a noticeable amount of post service and recently deployed men (and some women) experienced this for a time.

After a year or so it stopped happening without needing treatment which is why I am guessing it doesn’t get much if any attention. Personally I find it funny remembering having this shockingly visceral hate response to seeing the dough boy or that fucking fabric softener animated teddy bear.

Nope, you and the rest are just a bunch of mutants with actually useful mild super powers.

ah so they’re indeed a bunch of mutants 😀

Nah, do your 20 and be able to retire in your early 40’s. I mean sure your back is fucked, probably need a couple knee surgeries, weird things like the Pillsbury doughboy commercials may trigger you into a murderous rage, and there’s a possibility your anus is going to fall out at some point because of the anthrax vaccine… but all so worth it so that you get to retire in your 40’s!

and lots of chairforce vets who worked the flight line.

Reminds me of a time where I was stuck in one of the extra shitty versions of the humvee for about half an hour because I parked just outside of a command post that was directly adjacent to the flight line where half a squadron of F-22’s were just spooling up to leave. All of these fucking things were parked with their jets pointed in my direction, so absolute maximum noise levels. I had no hearing protection because I didn’t know I was going to this spot until someone told me to “just stop by” over the radio and grab something for my squadron’s commander (LtC). If I tried opening the door it was just pure auditory pain and I couldn’t just cover my ears because I had been issued a shotgun (I was a tech and this was a punishment prank) plus a satchel of stuff I was given strict orders to keep 100% control over. Tried to go park somewhere quieter but then the airmen on the flight line were signalling I couldn’t leave.

Anyway, I was told the reason the USAF’s slogan is “Aim high!” is to make sure they don’t shoot themselves in the feet.

Just made me think of it. In the movie Atomic Blonde, I appreciated how Charlize Theron’s bruises and cuts accumulated as the movie progressed versus the normal brutal beatdown followed by the immediately following glamour guy/gal scene. Otherwise the movie is over the top but not enough to be detracting.

Near the bottom of the list of the saddest things I saw last year was a video clip of an “every day” major Musk fanboy coming to terms that their hero was a wackjob drug addict. It looked like Musk had taken a bit too much MDMA, Ketamine, or some amount of both as he was having these spastic episodes of body shakes and eye rolls during the middle of the interview. Mysteriously difficult to find the video clip now.

One piece of advice I never see, perhaps because its not practical for civilians. Immediately after an explosion where you are close to the epicenter, do everything possible to avoid gasping or yelling. Next, quickly but carefully check if you have been hurt or not.

By the end of my time in service the most I might do is have an eye twitch but for normal people, being in proximity to an explosion is an unprecedented experience that’s like opening a hot stove oven, flipping a flood light on in your face, having a party balloon pop behind you, and being hit hard by an ocean wave from an awkward angle, all at the same time. Totally normal reaction is to want to get the fuck away but first you want to make sure everything is still attached, nothing new is now attached to you, and there are no major holes anywhere.

I guess the problem with that advice is that unfortunately its only useful to those expecting to be near an explosion.

Anti-Trust is some bullshit invented by damn socialist commies to keep the money from trickling down. \s

The soundtrack was one banger after the next.