Had this happen to me in Berlin. Customer rep just looked at her watch and left. Granted, it was at an airport very late in the evening, so circumstances were unusually shit, but still. I was amazed.

Easy. You follow 500 accounts and just forget what you followed most of them for.

You can, however, confiscate all their stuff.

A console lives and dies by its exclusives. While it’s sensible for Microsoft to stop releasing on Steam, Windows gamers can still just buy MS exclusives on PC without having to buy an Xbox. If Xbox wants to succeed it has to stop releasing on PC at all. That’s not politically viable inside Microsoft, and so Xbox as a console business is not viable. Microsoft should kill Xbox or spin it off. This zombie division of a console maker doesn’t make sense.

Irl the hacker will have knee-high socks and cat ears

If there’re no jobs in your field then definitely study a trade instead

That data is probably good for advertising, but I don’t know if it’s useful for AI training.

To elaborate: The stock market is a “Keynesian beauty contest” where - at least in the short and medium term - what investors think other investors think* about a stock is more important than what it’s actually worth. Reality asserts itself eventually, but “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”, so here we are.

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What in the world makes you think they are unregulated?

Which is amazing because it’s somewhere between 4th and 15th place in the LLM race. Let’s say you really believe in a winner-takes-all scenario for AI where the winner gets to monetize harder than Google… Why would you invest in SpaceX? I don’t understand the scenario in which SpaceX makes loads of money off of AI. Maybe with space datacenters, assuming that’s even possible? But if that’s the plan, why spend lots of money training their own model rather than renting out racks of GPUs?

I know charcuterie is bad, and smoked meat is horrible… Actually, yeah, fair, that’s most of the ways I can come up with for heavily processing meat. I guess minced meat is fine?

Never paid in Germany (besides the huge monthly insurance payment, ofc). Small payments for absolutely everything in Norway.

If you change phones regularly you can use an old phone. No need to buy a new one.

Maybe the first time for a particular instance. The 100th time it’s just depression with visuals.

Oh you mean naphtha?

I hear the story is pretty good, but sadly for me the gameplay was a real bummer. Just incredibly boring to play after a while

I was hoping not to have to say this, but generally speaking I don’t think retail workers are the ones going viral on social media. Whether it’s writing skills or editing skills, socioeconomically downwardly mobile media employees are more likely to drive that side of the culture war.

Doesn’t mean the plight of the working poor in retail and other service work isn’t real, but I’d expect that to be more “quiet desperation” than “viral on Bluesky”.

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I do get what Watters is talking about, though. I don’t know how prevalent it is in stats / the real world, but (social) media has a lot of smart and talented people on it that have just picked a shitty career, i.e. “not a real job”, and are writing like their economic difficulties are a problem with the system and not just their personal fault. If you’re a journalist and your parents are accountants you are going to be poorer than your parents, and that’s nobody else’s fault than yours. Some jobs are more passion project than salaried work, and if you don’t come from money you should stay far far away.

Before you come at me: Obviously basic health insurance (including teeth!) should be universal and we should build more housing and build more budget housing.

Thanks, Dookieman12