So…bio-neural gel packs?

“Full self driving”

“Which side did you choose when authoritarianism came to your doorstep?”

Looks like Tim Apple has chosen.

It’d make a great song name too.

Wait is this theonion or nottheonion? I’m not even sure anymore.

It’s gotta be nefarious time travelers. I mean, there’s no other logical explanation that we could be in such a shitty timeline.

Maybe America could learn something from more advanced, mature democracies like Brazil and Korea. They apparently know how to deal with traitorous insurrectionist authoritarian trash.

It’s already shite, but why stop there!

Watching tech bros clumsily hawk their “revolutionary society changing tech!” while they look like fools is hysterical.

Fun fact: Americans benefited from Nazi technology after World War II as well.

Cool It finally gets Google docs core functionality after only 20 years. How innovative.

It’s a game to them that doesn’t take into consideration any human element.

It’s like the sociopathic villains in Trading Places betting a dollar on whether or not Valentine would succeed. They don’t really give a shit. It’s all for the game that might result in throwing more money on their pile.

“Ruh-roh, Raggy!”

It’s okay. All the people that you laid off to replace with AI are only going to charge 3x their previous rate to fix your arrogant fuck up so it shouldn’t be too bad!

Star Trek branded clothing excluded.

I can’t believe people actually pay for branded clothing. I avoid branded clothing like the plague. If companies like Nike actually want someone to walk around plastered with their brand on them they should be paying them.

But companies have convinced people to pay enormous amounts of money to wear their brand as a “style” or as “self-expression”. Just wow.

Nazi showing his true colors.

I don’t doubt that that’s a problem either in some of those small businesses.

I have a great electrician that I call all the time. He’s probably in his late 60s. It’s definitely more of a rough and tumble work environment than IT work, for sure, but he’s a good guy and he pays his people well and he charges me an arm and a leg.

But we talk about it and he tells me about how the same work he would have charged a quarter the price just 10 years ago. And honestly, he’s one of the more affordable ones.

So it definitely seems like the trades is the place to be these days with so few good ones around. But yeah you have to pick and choose who’s mentoring you.

Exactly this.

Absolutely. This is a huge problem and I’ve read about this very problem from a number of sources. This will have a huge impact on engineering and information work.

Interestingly enough, A similar shortage occurred in the trades when information work was up and coming and the trades were shunned as a career path for many. Now we don’t have enough plumbers and electricians. Trades are now finding their the skills in high demand and charging very high rates.

Yeah I’ve seen that before and it’s basically what I’m talking about. Again, that’s not “printing a 3D house” as hype would lead one to believe. Is it extruding cement to build the walls around very carefully placed framing and heavily managed and coordinated by people and finished with plumbing, electrical, etc.

It’s cool that they can bring this huge piece of equipment to extrude cement to form some kind of wall. It’s a neat proof of concept. I personally wouldn’t want to live in a house that looked anything like or was constructed that way. Would you?