Comment Re: What if you don't have one? (Score 1) 167
Good.
Then rsilverguns stalky bullshit would end.
Comment I must have the wrong site (Score 1) 161
I typed slashdot but somehow ended up apparently on bluesky?
Comment Re:Are we there yet? (Score 1) 31
Is 2025 the Year of Linux on the Desktop then?
More likely 2026, when Valve releases Steam OS for desktop PCs.
Comment Re: Publicity (Score 1) 130
Lol.
This is the heatwave that climatologists EXPLICITLY said has nothing to do with climate change?
You know, Oregon Public Broadcasting, that BASTION of right wing agitprop?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.opb.org%2Farticle%2F20...
"Supreme Court is hopelessly corrupt" yes, when your sole yardstick is "doesn't do what I want it to".
Comment Re:No worries! (Score 0) 38
Idiots getting what they voted for.
They voted for AI and automation to wipe out office work?
Comment Re:You can thank Trump (Score 0) 187
Couldn't you just save everyone's time by having some sort of automated 'rsilvergun' comment bot that simply blames everything on Trump and Republicans?
You wouldn't have to waste time writing the same bullshit in every comment. Think how much time it would save you!
Comment Insurers just want more $$ for insurance (Score 2) 66
It's curious that they are talking about all the risks of extreme heat when the general consensus is that cold kills vastly more people.
Nearly all scientific surveys show that anywhere from 7x-20x people die from COLD than from HEAT.
Lancet:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjour...
Cold : Heat 15:1 in US; 20:1 averaged across 13 countries.
SBN
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sustainabilitybynu...
Cold:Heat 9:1
To be fair, NOAA's report had it at 1:4...but was based on MEDIA & WEB reports
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.ametsoc.org%2Fv...
Aren't we #followthescience on this one?
Why do you suppose the article and the insurers claims are about HEAT? It wouldn't be ideological ambulance chasing, would it?
Comment Re:Oh that's going to be expensive (Score 1) 72
TDS.
QED.
Comment I'd be more impressed with 'copilot' (Score 2) 49
If it simply let me do a decent fucking search in outlook.
How can they 'roll out' AI to 'assist' us with 'everyday' tasks but you still can't do a goddamn boolean search? And don't even get me STARTED on the asswipe shitshow of Outlook for Android. I'd support Israel OR Iran if they would just include whoever designed that abortion in one of their strike packages.
Comment Re:Marvel (Score 2, Informative) 179
Deadpool & Wolverine was pretty great, and that's Marvel.
That's legacy Fox, with the Marvel label slapped on. The original Deadpool would never have gotten made inside of Disney proper.
Comment Re:You can thank Trump (Score 5, Insightful) 187
You can thank Trump
From the article:
"U.S. public companies have cut their white-collar workforces by 3.5% over the past three years"
I'm sorry, who was President during that time?
These are permanent structural changes, a long time in coming. Predicted by many and blown off by many more.
Comment Re:Structural Unemployment Death Spiral (Score 1) 187
I started predicting a near future of software-induced permanent structural unemployment ~15 years ago on this and other discussion platforms, only to be deluged with "but, but... buggy whip manufacturers!!!!!!"
It's inevitable. It's not that there won't be any work. It's that there won't be enough work 8 billion humans are capable of doing or reskilling to within their lifespan, and the wages for the remaining unskilled labor will collapse below survivability.
The problem with a "knowledge economy" is that automation can basically take over 95 percent of it. You need a balance of services and manufacturing and agriculture, and the first world knowledge economies have been outsourcing the later two to cheaper third world countries and teaching their youth that getting their hands dirty is beneath them. Anytime someone brings up plumbing or welding or some construction work, there's a group here that always responds with "Back-breaking! No! Undignified!".
Fine. So starve then. You're not getting your UBI or a lifetime welfare state. So I suggest you learn a skill that can't be replaced with a glorified Google script, or hope your parents have saved enough money to support you on their couch while you protest the indignities of spreading drywall or operating a backhoe.
Comment Re:Also. (Score 1) 134
Amazing to see that soulless ghoul Blake Lively use this issue as an opportunity to sneak in unsolicited commentary about her false accusation case
She's not going to date you dude, give up already
Shut up, Ryan.
Comment Re:shocker (Score 1) 169
On most news sites these days it's difficult to claw your way through all the ads to get to the paywall, and on the off chance you make it through that it's literally just the same blurb that every other site has.
Just about any newspaper or news network site now is either paywalled, or a defacto browser hijacker that floods you with pop-ups, videos, and subscription requests as soon as you enter.
Comment Oh that's going to be expensive (Score 1) 72
hahahaahahahahhahaha
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