Reminder that during Covid, Elon bought a bunch of CPAP machines (for sleep apnea), sent these to various hospitals, claimed he sent them 'respirators', and then claimed it was a conspiracy against him personally when hospitals told him 'these are not respirators, they will not work, we cannot use them'.
I would not trust these idiots with working on a vending machine let alone a social program of this importance.
Shouldn't trust these fucks with finger paints
to assist employees with everyday tasks and enhance productivity,”
My boss did the same to us. I'm a developer.
That was also exactly his wording.
Fuck?
Have... have we all learned yet, by now, that basically 90% of managers and bosses are literally idiots who only understand buzzwords, vaguely, uselessly?
... Their jobs are easier to automate than ours.
They read the same business magazines and are probably quoting the same paid article promoting a "solution". And there's a high likeyhood they don't know they're quoting an ad.
That's what makes me kinda sad about all this
He never gave a shit about our work or how we develop. Friday he looked at me, all worrisome, and said "we have to seriously use gitHub for everything, why don't we use it?"
I tried to convince him several times to use gitHub for all projects. He doesn't even remember it, never even really listened and now we get the "how could you guys work without version control, you messed up" look ..
At the same time, "work from home" became a slur. He looks at me like I'm asking for money, while taking a vacation in Honolulu. Like the pandemic never happened and we had all the same output working from home, than we had in the office before. We were productive and had a much better life, not being confined most of the day in an office.
Look i get wanting to modernize. Some government agencies desperately need too.
And maybe this is my old person yells at technology moment but ai is a menace. It makes work more complicated and makes too many mistakes to be reliable. Supposedly the reason so many ppl have been getting letters for deportation that are citizens is because of ai.
I'm also an old person who yells, and I agree.
Mostly, though, if we're going to 'modernize' the system (with or without AI), it needs to be done smartly and methodically, and by people who aren't philosophically opposed to Social Security's existence.
by people who aren’t philosophically opposed to Social Security’s existence
Is nihilism a philosophy?
Yeah when I say modernized i mean computers that aren't from the 90s lol
I don't know about the hardware, but I think the software is substantially older than that — dates back to the 1960s. I might be wrong, though, and I'm too stoned right now to Google it.
You’re not wrong. We’re definitely not there for this generation. Maybe the next. My parents will be retiring in the next few years, and they don’t know anything about social media and websites - they would rather go to an office or pick up a phone.
At work I was recently told to watch a "training video" about AI that was made entirely with AI. Nobody seemed to get the irony of a video, made for humans, more or less made by an AI, on why you should use a different AI (we don't have access to the video making tools). We're basically gaslighting ourselves.
Except anyone watching that video would likely be convinced of the opposite.
I’m fine with all of the 65+ getting jobs.
It’s an interesting point, if we get all the 65+ to work till they drop they won’t be around much longer as they will drop like flies freeing up all the housing, pensions etc. Just think, we all would have that in our future and how motivating it would be.
Yup. Finally a house for a fair price.
Yup. Finally ~~a house for a fair price.~~ Blackrock owns the house your family wanted to pass down but couldnt pay off before dying.
Gotta kill black rock I guess.
Because private equity would never use the opportunity to buy up all the extra units, further controlling the market, and ensuring their existing inventory doesn't suddenly tank in value. /s
True. Just gotta burn them down I guess
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