I feel like everywhere I work, we have this term, and it's become increasingly more common over the past decade as the USA becomes more and more hateful and aggressive towards the working class people... The offshore team. I really, really hate hearing about the offshore team. It's from a certain country in Asia that starts with I But I have nothing against those people that come from that country, it's simply out of concern for my well-being and my survival that it bothers me....
You look at a country like Germany, and how they have a workers council, and a country like France that has proper retirement, then you see the USA and how We have millions of computer science grads who struggle to find work, can't get a job, universities churning out new students in the tens of thousands per year... We shouldn't have an offshore team, at a company that makes billions of dollars, led by people that have so much money amassed up that they could survive for a thousand years spending millions.
It's just embarrassing, that as a society, we are so horrible to each other.
We need Reddit to quarantine the assholes
It's been proven echo chambers don't make for a better world to live in
Are you sure it’s not a you thing?
There's that reddit-esque toxicity, missed that /s why make gaslighting comments like this? As someone pointed out below, most subreddits have karma barriers, and top-level subreddits like 'gaming' also put into place ridiculous rules like no reddit auto-generated usernames, which isn't something that reddit tells you when you signup. So you make an account, have genuine interactions, then get permabanned from 90% of the community because of a rule meant to deter bots (that doesn't even work). My karma on reddit is generally positive, but that doesn't matter because moderator opinions over-rule the karma system, which makes no f*cking sense. If people genuinely like your post and appreciate it, but the mod of the subreddit doesn't like it, banned. Mod doesn't like you, banned. Mod doesn't like other communities you've commented on, ban. There was a whole debacle about unpopular opinion banning people for commenting on another subreddit so people made true unpopular opinion and true off my chest...and now both of those are just as exclusive and toxic.
So tl;dr: No it's not "just a me thing"
That's not what the dictionary definition of sanitary is. Seriously, go look it up. According to Merriam-Webster, it first says: Of or relating to health. Plastic leaching into stuff is not healthy. No one has ever proved that it's safe. The burden of proof is always proving that something is harmful, and then it's classified as harmful. The problem is, we don't know something is harmful for decades, or longer. People literally believed that it was safe to have cocaine in Coca-Cola and that cigarettes were completely harmless. We also believe that vaping is not harmful, and that marijuana isn't harmful either. Who knows if that'll be discovered as being extremely harmful to your health in 100 years or so.
So to me personally, I don't find it sanitary to involve something in the process that you have no idea whatsoever if it affects your health or not. I would call that unsanitary.
At McDonald's, I saw that their sweet tea comes from a plastic bag inside a metal container, which stays in there all day. That doesn’t seem sanitary. Then I found out some places, like Olive Garden, heat soup in plastic bags by putting them in hot water. Isn’t this like leaving a water bottle in a hot car, where plastic leaches into the liquid? How is this okay? Like, I feel like that would be so explicitly illegal in other countries. Taking a big plastic bag of soup and just throwing it in water for the plastic to obviously separate from the bag and be intermingled with the food...
It sounds a lot like poison, like it's literally poisonous. Like how is this okay in the USA?
genAI is currently very stupid, and each new version is having diminishing returns on what the models can provide.
Objectively false statement. You can dislike it (which I do too), but you're totally wrong. AI passed the bar, AI can identify cancer images, AI can do things which very intelligent people can't. Each new version has surpassed the previous, and companies have started layoffs to replace workers with skeleton crews armed with AI models.
The amount that something costs is negligible. When have you ever seen billionaires complain about costs? They can spend 1 million dollars for 1 thousand years straight and still not be broke. They are so spiteful and hateful they will do anything to hurt other people and make them jobless. That's the true meaning of business, too. Billionaires own the business, why do they want more money? It's meaningless. They don't want the money, they just hate people.
It seems like you might not realize, but much of White collar America works right through lunch. It's the standard. You will work your ass off your entire life, and you will be grateful for your job, they will not be grateful for you. That's the standard that has been set in the USA. Hell, at least once a week I'm on a call with some other team and there's someone calling in from a doctor's office. Had a guy say he had to step out of the doctor's office mid visit with his doctor just to take a call and I thought that was the most absurd and ridiculous thing I have heard in a really long time. You're literally in the chair talking to the doctor and you say hold on sorry I got to leave really quick for business. Like what the heck?
tbh I hate interacting with other men online especially on bsky because they're creeps, and I've always been a very not-creepy normal guy. I get along very well with other people irl and see other men just saying the creepiest stuff. like for example a guy gif reacts to a selfie a woman posts that says "step on me" like ew. Women seem to offer much more engaging and real conversations with dimension and depth
This probably comes from a life with no shortage of blokes trying to get their foot in the door under the guise of “friendship”.
So if a guy talks plainly and non-aggressively, like a normal and rational person with no insensitive comments or uncomfortable flirting... They can't be friends? I guess that's my confusion. I remember the world when I grew up being a bit more simple.
Garbage is very expensive that's why you want to build a society that doesn't create unnecessary garbage
I feel like you in many others blame the insurance companies for basically everything which is fair, but what you are excluding conveniently is the fact that it's not just the insurance companies that are doing this extortion, it's also the leaders and people in charge. Hospital administration, pharmacy managers, and so many others. If everyone started saying no and stopped allowing this, it would never happen. If they cut out the insurance companies entirely and started making their own decisions on treatments and if the insurance doesn't cover it, so be it, we'll eat the cost, That's kind of the way the world worked before insurance became so big and massive. We take care of people in our hospitals and health care system and figure out the payment and insurance later. Would that be costly, probably. But it's not as bad as the fear mongers want people to think it would be, that's what I feel. They want us to think that healthcare is so expensive without insurance that no one would ever possibly be able to afford it in a thousand years so we have to have insurance, when that's not really the case, there were times when people simply did not have health insurance widely, and they still went to the doctor or went to the hospital. I mean hell look at other countries?
Health insurance at its core is very simple. You put money in, you go to doctor, insurance pay doctor. But in the USA, the insurance denies everything they possibly can. Money put in doesn't ever see a doctor or your health costs, it goes right to the stockholders....
So why doesn't someone just make a non-profit health insurance company where there's no stock, no executives, just public servants and aggressive price negotiation where your medical bills are actually paid with the money put in?
Funny, how much hand wringing is going on in the sweaty mainstream media about a guy who merely put down a vicious oligarchy-loving killer. You'd get the impression that media moguls are worried that they're next.
It's a sign of the time that we're living in. When people find joy in the death of others in a society, the quality of living is exceptionally bad. It's reminiscent of Rome too where the last years of their society were filled with chaos
Yo ho ho, There is no sailing on the high seas when we are talking about multiplayer games! Alive service game, it be!
Thanks for the advice. I'm thinking next is my best option. There's no telling who is going to get picked, and the severance seems like it's pretty generous. Three or four months pay.
Nothing more disappointing to me than seeing a game I might enjoy... and then it's only available on PC on Epic Games store. Why can't it be available on Epic, Xbox game store and Steam? It's so annoying, like you have no choice but to use Epic... which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.
I know how APIs on reddit work, but you can block people who misuse the API if they're doing something nefarious. Some of these AI are in my honest opinion very taxing on hardware. Having to retrieve millions of posts, comments, pictures, text, on demand... and send that to who knows where for AI scraping.... Sounds very costly.
A toy like that is easy to create and not that expensive to offer.
Right, and the developers of Bsky didn't think to maybe block something that scrapes all that personal information?
I feel like every day I come across 15-20 "AI-powered tool"s that "analyze" something, and none of them clearly state how they use data. This one seems harmless enough, put a profile in, it will scrape everything about them, all their personal information, their location, every post they ever made... Nothing can possibly go wrong aggregating all that personal info, right? No idea where this data is sent, where it's stored, who it's sold to. Kinda alarming
You'd think the game is fun but people on wow are so miserable. They're always upset, DOTA2 energy tbh kicking each other from groups and harassing each other, hating on their own game
Any games you recommend playing? I'm very bored lately
Used to spend most of my days playing live service games that required a huge amount of time, or big AAA titles that are critically acclaimed. For example, Fallout 4/76, Battlefield 2042, rainbow six, World of Warcraft, RuneScape, Skyrim, Destiny 2, OverWatch.... Basically any really big game that you would find on the top 20 of steam or by player count, I would spend a huge amount of time playing that. But I got pretty bored of all these really big games having overplayed them so much, and now I have no idea what to play anymore...
So I'll spend a few hours playing something, and then jump to another game and then another game and none of them give me any Joy. For example, playing 3 hours of 7 Days to Die, 10 hours of No Man's Sky, 5 hours of stardew Valley, play fortnite with a friend for 2 hours, login to World of Warcraft and get bored Within a day or two. Tried going back to Battlefield 2042 because it saw a small uptick of players....
Honestly have no idea what to play anymore. So I just bounce around trying to look for something that'll bring me some joy and don't get much luck
Honestly, it's because we are experiencing a massive, unprecedented trash crisis like never before. People cannot find places to throw away trash because there's so much of it everywhere. It's a lot of fast food packing materials, disposable silverware, plates, napkins, stuff like that. The fact that trash cans are full everywhere, constantly, and people are trying to clean out their cars all the time anywhere they can... It's simply screams trash crisis. People just cannot get rid of all the trash that they have, there's too much coming in and not enough ways to throw it away. We need to stop using disposable crap that goes into the garbage
I really wanted to try Starfield but can't justify the price. Like I want to buy it, but I also don't have that kind of money to spend. Might start asking around my local friends to see if any of them have it so I can library share with them
Then... Why not just price it correctly to begin with? Huh.... I'd buy some of these newer games if they cost a reasonable amount. Starfield out here charging $70 for a 5.5/10 game
It's beyond insane to me that a $70 "AAAA" game (kidding, it's AAA) dips down to the absurd price of $5. I've never seen anything like it. Wish the entire Sims 4 "collection" if you can call it that was $5 total, would be incredible, or Starfield.
Three separate places I went to at 8 in the morning. Gas station, dunkin' donuts, and then a convenience store. All of them, trash is full. People wonder why they litter in the USA, there's nowhere to throw away trash when you're out. It's unbelievable People can just go to work and choose not to do their job anymore. That people see this and they don't have any problem with it, no interest at all to keep things neat and tidy and clean. Nope.
Company on TikTok got ROASTED for posting this incredibly cringe and honestly infuriating TikTok about how there's two people working in office during Thanksgiving in the USA, and it's just the two of them, no one else is there, but they still have to come to the office. They thought they were really doing something here and going to make people laugh. But they are so out of touch with reality. Almost every other company I've heard of let's people work from home during this time, but not these truly soulless corporate shills, of course. And they had the audacity to say that they enjoy working in the office, and it's not even a good office with cubicles, mind you. It's one of the open concept ones where there's no privacy and you have to hear everyone fully....
I don't know why so many companies decide to use Windows these days when there's Unix/Linux But it seems like a lot of companies still choose to use Windows over anything else. It runs like crap, and the latest version, Windows 11, is shockingly bad. There are so many frustrating things that come standard with Windows 11 that have no place in a business context. For example, Microsoft shopping. This comes loaded on your Windows 11 browser, edge. I couldn't find a way to turn it off, so it's just there. Why in the world would I need that on my work computer? Also, Microsoft start news or MSN is heavily embedded into the edge browser. Lots of trackers and personalization features which again, should not be included in a business computer. It tracks every website I go to, recommends ads and personalizations to me, I can't download any other browser because this is the standard one that comes on the computer
The operating system itself is also incredibly frustrating. There's a context menu when you right click things that you cannot get rid of because your company sets policy, and now you have to have a stupid show more options menu every time you click something, so try and imagine a few hundred to a few thousand clicks a day having to navigate with that, very frustrating. Also, Windows start menu search. You can disable it on a personal PC but on a business computer without admin rights, You can't disable the start menu web search. So it searches the web anytime you type anything in and makes it extremely difficult to find your files.. Everything requires a workaround. Turning off copilot, turning off context menu, turning off web search, turning off user account control which is not possible on business PC but on personal PC it is, still really frustrating though. Turning off copilot, turning off Cortana, getting rid of the search box on your taskbar.
Like, I don't know why any serious company would use Windows with this in mind
Here in the USA, you have to be afraid for your job these days. Layoffs are rampant everywhere due to outsourcing, and now we have AI on the horizon promising to make things more efficient, but we really know what it is actually going to be used for. They want automate out everything. People packaging up goods for shipping, white collar jobs like analytics, business intelligence, customer service, chat support. Any sort of job that takes a low or moderate amount of effort or intellectual ability is threatened by AI. But once AI takes all these jobs away and shrinks the amount of labor required, what are all these people going to do for work? It's not like you can train someone who's a business intelligence engineer easily to go do something else like HVAC, or be a nurse. So you have the entire tech industry basically folding in on itself trying to win the rat race and get the few remaining jobs left over.....
But it should be pretty obvious that you can't run an entire society with no jobs. Because then people can't buy groceries, groceries don't sell so grocery stores start hurting and then they can't afford to employ cashiers and stockers, and the entire thing starts crumbling. This is the future of AI, basically. The more we automate, the less people can do, so they don't have jobs and no income, not able to survive...
Like, how long until we realize how detrimental AI is to society? 10 years? 15?
I've looked at several data points and statistics for the past like two decades, and the problem is not that technology is not advancing, or that it is somehow getting worse. No, in fact, it's slowly progressing at a snail's pace but it's definitely advancing. The problem though is that leaders in tech are squandering the opportunities available to them, and hindering those that once made technology great.
The biggest threat is definitely outsourcing. You have an entire country of 50 huge ass states. What do you do with that, exactly? You strip the jobs from those states and transfer them to another country overseas, Philippines, Malaysia Thailand, India probably gets the most of them. Any way to cheapen the product that you're providing in the USA, while simultaneously stealing from those who live in the USA by removing their jobs from them. Long-term, this is not sustainable. Because if you look at layoffs and job shrinkage in the USA and where jobs are actually going, they are not meaningful places. Jobs are being created in lower paying industries, outsourced from higher paying industry is, and the highest paying industries like managerial positions, are not moving at all. It's embarrassing to say the least.
People think that they are doing a good thing by raising the stock price and jacking it up as high as they can go. Sure, your investments are increasing slowly over time. But the pool of investors becomes smaller because less people can afford to invest, and now you don't have an educated group of investors, you have a smaller and smaller list of elites that keeps growing, and isn't wholly owned by everyone in society because the majority of stock owners for big companies are the rich. People who can throw any amount of money they want into a company. So you don't have good decision making for tech companies.
Bad decision making is what we have come to today, big companies making horrible decisions because they are poorly led by elites who don't know what they're doing. Just look at Microsoft if you need any example of this, which of their products is actually well built today? Every one of them functions like crap, their gaming division is collapsing, computers are moving towards copilot which is the worst AI model and platform I have ever seen in my life which is crazy because they I just came out and they are already the worst. But still, they are ruining computing with that, windows 11 is terrible in every single way I can imagine. It is bad decision making every single step of the way.
Then, we have the collapse of industry, the final stage which we are approaching soon. As you can see, big tech in the USA has started to fold in on itself in a way that has never happened before. Microsoft bought out Activision Blizzard and is basically for all intents and purposes, now a monopoly in the tech industry for gaming. Activision Blizzard barely has any competitors, other than maybe EA games which owns so many different smaller gaming companies that it has swallowed up and basically deleted to own the IP for. So tech industry is basically collapsing in on itself, we haven't seen the worst of it yet but soon, there will be very few tech companies left, only big ones, no choices available and if you want to play games or enjoy any sort of technology you'll have very few options.
Bonus: alternative market is growing rapidly which is really concerning. The alternative market is what I call Amazon's scam products. They don't have any logical name to them, each of them has a different name entirely, they're mostly just Chinese gibberish, but you can find watches, tablets, any sort of technology on there, there is an off-brand made in Asia or elsewhere cheaply, that has no reviews other than bot generated reviews to make it seem like a real product, and these are not actually tested for anything, I would assume. Not tested for safety, not tested for dangerous materials chemicals or any of that. This is a symptom of widespread poverty, especially among the middle class. People simply can't afford to buy name brand products anymore. It's not possible to buy a Samsung or Apple watch every 2 years, so what do they do? Go on Amazon and find 'Ufolgewits' brand.
I live in the USA, and our future seems more bleak than it ever has. Is not about politics, although politicians do have an impact on it. It's really about our quality of life, and cost of living, which has not changed for the better, it seems, in a really long time. The cost of living keeps going up higher and higher, and much of our country still believes that even with increased cost of living, there is never any reason whatsoever to pay people more. So for instance, a job that paid 10 bucks an hour in the year 2002, that same job might still pay $10 an hour now. But I think we all know that the cost of living has dramatically gone up from 2002 to now.
Even White collar jobs though seem to be threatened to now, which is not something I've ever seen before. Positions like analyst, engineer, business intelligence, revenue management, whatever you want to think of. Any corporate office job, people are suffering. The cost of living is absurd, buying a house is simply out of reach unless you have dual income and it better be nearly six figure dual income....
I just don't see how Americans at large are going to survive the next 30 years?
Back in the medieval ages when a woman was married to a man, they were basically considered property for my understanding and treated like an extension of the man's person and family. So it was customary for women to take the man's last name since they were being joined to his family. But now here in the 21st century women are fully independent and last names don't really seem to mean much of anything. I mean what is Smith or McGregor or any last name really mean anymore? Especially in the digital age, lots of people have digital usernames like SarahSmith1727373. So the last name clearly doesn't mean much anymore.... Which leads me to wonder, why do the majority of women still take the man's last name? Especially when some of them have a horrible last name? I have seen some butt ass ugly last names recently, like Fink, Weimer, Slotsky/Slotsky, Hiscock (no joke this is a last name), Hardman.... And then you hear the woman's name and it's like something way more reasonable and less stupid sounding like Kingman, or Harrison, Walls, etc.
One thing I have struggled with lately is finding good games to play. I bounce around from game to game trying to enjoy it but it just doesn't scratch the itch like it used to. For example, one of my favorites was old school RuneScape, but it hasn't really been giving me the same enjoyment that it used to. So then I would open up World of Warcraft, Destiny 2, just playing a little bit of each game. Think maybe I need some new games to play but it's tough to find them these days.
So what are your favorite 1000+ hour games?
I have been really tempted to jump into VR for a little while now, I tried it when the quest first came out, the very first one but it was too blurry and made me dizzy. I've considered getting back into it again, but the thing that has made me really hesitant is I've heard that VR is not in the greatest place and that it's really tough to find good VR games to play. For example, there's Fallout and Skyrim VR but they're not really in good shape, and it takes a lot of modding and tweaking to get them to actually work properly. But I'm curious what other people think. Do you think VR is in a good enough place to be able to play it and enjoy it long-term? Or is it some sort of short-term hype thing?