hangonasecond

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hangonasecond ,

peak Aussie humour

hangonasecond ,

It's an analogy, not an example. We are significantly further from a theoretical, all powerful, all knowing god than we are from ants. The scale of sentience from "inanimate object" to "all powerful god" is likely to have us mistaken for inanimate object. So the analogy serves its purpose, but of course the specifics are different.

hangonasecond ,

I mean, yes. The wiki page for technological unemployment has some good examples, like the mechanised loom being disastrous for artisan weavers.

The big thing is that the effects of new technology causing mass job loss are felt far more severely when the economy is in a bad state. A particular Australian news outlet bragged last year about producing "thousands" of news articles using generative AI. The outlet in question is garbage, but the journalists who lost their jobs (or were never hired) aren't living in a prosperous economic environment where starting an outlet of their own is in any way feasible.

Sure, the whole industry is far from being replaced, but if you have the misfortune of dedicated a good chunk of your life to learning a particular skill only for it to be made redundant due to new technology, you have every right to be afraid and uncertain about the future as long as the safety nets we have are completely inadequate.

hangonasecond ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_insemination

hangonasecond ,

Taking harm reduction measures in the meantime is absolutely not a waste of time. We cannot be so naive as to think that your suggestions will happen in the short term as each of them require radical changes to the political and social landscape that will take (have been taking) decades.

hangonasecond ,

I don't know if @Hackerman_uwu is enough? I'm writing this comment to test it

Maybe !Hackerman_uwu

Edit: nope neither of those work

Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity.

This only makes sense when I realize that to conservatives, it's an identity. They think it's an identity that Taylor Swift should have because she's (presumably) white, popular, rich, good looking, Midwestern, Christian, etc....

hangonasecond ,

They're saying that the actual Democratic party leaders are equally performative.

hangonasecond ,

Easy enough to imply it from all of the other comments in the thread, and the fact that the op referred to the ThinkPad in the title. You're correct, and it's not your fault the op used the wrong word, but context indicates that they were talking about desktop PCs.

hangonasecond , (edited )

Ministers, also known as front benchers, are MPs which hold a portfolio in addition to representing constituents. You might have a minister for defence, a minister for education, a treasurer, etc. that minister is then the one responsible for working directly with the relevant department (e.g. department of education).

Edit: oops, just realised you understand this, and this should've been a reply to the parent comment. Oh well.

hangonasecond ,

I agree, but this is the way we avoid letting shitty companies dupe is into getting paid less for doing more. The four day work week in many industries is a win win win - improvements to productivity benefit the customer and the shareholder, and getting 20% of your life back benefits the worker.

hangonasecond ,

Eh, I know plenty of developers glued to the apple ecosystem who could probably have a lot of fun with it if they were able to. They just don't rate it as important enough to counteract the things they like about the ecosystem.

hangonasecond ,

Reddit death > installing mint on my second PC > realising I can run most of the games I play and installing mint on my main PC > start learning Rust as a first foray into programming in a long time > realise I want to go back to uni and study info tech to get out of my shitty marketing job > get a shitty second hand laptop off my parents that struggles to run windows and install endeavourOS to try something different.

It really is a slippery slope. When does it end???

hangonasecond ,

I've got a pretty good mixture of qualifications and am working in a tech adjacent role so I'm not starting from nothing. I have some decent connections and might be able to carve out something at my current org. So it could be worse.

hangonasecond ,

We'll see in a year, lol

hangonasecond ,

My doctor gave me four months to live.

What is your unpopular flim opinion

I'll go first. Mine is that I can't stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It's like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds

hangonasecond ,

I think it deserved to do better at the box office but I disagree calling it that good, primarily by counterexample (which I'll get to). It had an entertaining cast, an entertaining plot and some good twists but it wasn't unpredictable and the audience it was best for was the audience who recognised the constant homages to the experience of playing DnD - my primary example is the scene of the main character breaking out of prison completely unnecessarily.

The movie was made by Hasbro to sell dungeons and dragons (which, to be fair, you do mention) and I think as a fan of the ttrpg it did a great job of capturing that experience as a movie. I can't call it the film of the year though, let alone the decade.

What makes you say it's better than, for example, Blade Runner 2049 or Avengers Endgame, both being movies similarly sprouting from established brands? I would argue Dune is significantly better (talking about movies with a brand) also.

Outside the established brand space, you see movies like JoJo Rabbit, Marriage Story and Power of the Dog. All of my examples have been off arbitrary top 10/top 50 lists of the last 5 or last 10 years and I'm honestly curious about why you think the DnD movie beats all of them?

Edit: in saying that, upvoting because this is almost certainly an unpopular opinion

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