terranoid

Every serious cities skylines player knows this isn't true

Aliens invading in 2027: why is shit so fucked up already

That's between me and your dad's penis

...and if you do a 180 you can see an amazing painting opposite it. People always gather in a huge crowd around the mona Lisa and you have that other one to look at all you want.

Start ranting about sprints and how you took 25 story points last sprint and STEVE THAT LAZY BITCH only took 18, but you think on top of it the tshirt sizing of your features was too optimistic, and make her fucking dread the agile.

But key thing is to lead her on a little bit here and there, like if she asks what you work on, just say "oh can't talk much about it, kinda nuclear related", so she never gets pulled off your case. And promise to tell her the intimate details and tell her one day you can send her the source code you're helping integrate.

Then send her bootstrap.css and go into way too much detail about how how you're aligning buttons for the top secret application

Why does the thing he's sitting on have balls

Puts on my black leather chef's hat

This and you really want a pineapple but she laughs at you and won't give you one and you start to get really anxious

So what about suicide assistance for people without any sort of illness?

How do you feel about bodily autonomy if the person is choosing to die at 18 just because they don't want to work 9 to 5 and believe they'll never be rich, and that alone makes them want to end it?

Not that the AI bubble doesn't need to burst because it does just like any boil needs to be lanced...

However it is going to be painful as fuck for a lot of people and I'd hardly call it heaven. It might trigger the next depression for all we know. People think things are bad now and hard to afford and we haven't even seen the long term effects of this crazy fucking investment behavior and dumbass tariffs. The AI dust bowl is coming and our costs of living will skyrocket from what we consider high right now.

Bitcoin doesn't require any business propping it up. It is a decentralized ledger.

As long as people trade with it, it has value. No one needs to advertise it. No one needs to market it. You still see malicious scams take advantage of using it to exfiltrate funds. Ransomware still demands it.

It actually works pretty damn well at what it does. People love to hate on it but I never saw it going away or any bubble there. It was always a decentralized technology. The US could collapse tomorrow and Bitcoin would still be around and valuable.

The bulk of "AI layoffs" I agree are bullshit. They are using it as an excuse to increase quarterly profits while not signalling any weakness to investors, and in fact voicing layoffs in a way that make them sound competitive.

However ... I work in software and am married to someone in the art industry. It's definitely cut jobs in ways that might not be sustainable, but still cut jobs. They are barely hiring junior devs anymore. They think they can get away with tiny teams of seniors that use AI constantly.

And the art industry is changed forever. They simply don't need certain artist jobs as much anymore. I know someone who would work with these people who buy images from photographers. They used to charge a ton for licensing. Now they skip the photographers and use AI and save a fuck ton of money doing it, and have actual artists clean up the AI artifacts. There is a lot less value in photography for certain industries.

And pay attention to writers who post about their job just disappearing. AI is being used to pump out writing material that used to be a career.

Is it sustainable? Maybe not. I think people have an eye for the AI slop and will spend less money on cheap looking services that prove they cut costs anywhere they can. But jobs have been cut.