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Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

On the surface, it sounds like Boomers hate you. Or like they have the attention span and logical thinking skills of a goldfish. Neither one of these is true. Their complete dismissal of any of your concerns, and their total refusal to understand your situation or worldview, is actually quite sensible in light of one key fact about them. They're not hateful. They're not dumb. They just have an incredibly low emotional pain threshold. They cannot stand to feel bad about themselves for any reason, even for a moment. When you create a meme like this, or you tell the story of how you are forty years old and can't afford a house because you trained for three different careers and got rugpulled by work visas and offshoring every time... ... then they don't even think about it as a worldview or a perspective or an experience that you have. They don't think about you at all. They think only about the effect on their own self-esteem, which must be parried. You have, you see, told a tale of playing life on hard mode, which implies that they were playing life on easy mode, which implies that they are not wizards of insight and paragons of virtue. That's why they will immediately respond with these incoherent lines about whining and bootstraps and firm handshakes and avocado toast. Of course they don't make sense. They don't have to make sense. The goal isn't to persuade you of anything or engage with you at all. The goal is simply to have an excuse to avoid thinking about something which might make them feel bad. These Boomerisms are magic talismans used to ward off emotional discomfort, in much the same fashion as all the species of plants they smoked their way through when they were your age. I don't see a solution to this. I don't know any way to tell Boomers that Hart-Cellar, CRA1964, DEI, open borders, social welfare programs, anti-racism, gay marriage, gun control, the sexual revolution, etc, were massive mistakes and need to be stopped, while hiding the obvious implication they were the ones who made those mistakes. If we wish to save Western civilization, to make things good enough again that actual Americans can manage to have homes and marriages and children, then we're going to have to find a way to work around the Boomers, because they're never going to get on board.

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@JiujitsuOtter lol you could tell he was done just by his breathing

Merabs style of grappling is kryptonite for guys like Larry Wheels iykyk

@BowTiedKong It’s bullshit that this is where the market is at, but hang in there man. I was in the same boat in ‘23 and we eventually found a home with an inspection, better than all the homes we had looked at prior. Still not sure how we got the house, I’ll admit, but hidden gems do exist.

Someone came in around same price but waived inspection I won’t waive inspection Oh well

@WTevels @WesleyJohnson_ @HabitualLinest Nah that’s typical of a GC. This dude’s just blowing smoke with his words or being purposely obtuse. The conversation isn’t apples to apples. He’s not hiring in-house people at $50, which is probably what most people are thinking in this thread, if I were to guess.

@WesleyJohnson_ @phillypilgrimm @HabitualLinest Thats your problem. Your just hiring subcontractors. Thats expensive.

There's not a single chance in hell that he is actually offering $50/hour. He's upset that Americans won't work for $12/hr doing that job. He's demanding we keep the illegals who WILL do that job for $12/hr

@WesleyJohnson_ @HabitualLinest Dont cop out and forget healthcare. If you can’t match what other companies do for their people, then your talking points are bullshit.

So as a 36 year old who worked retail most of my life until 5 years ago, making solid money at my desk job now. I think my hourly is about your going rate for my yearly salary if I were to work no more than 40 hours a week. Given my work history, I’d much more comfortable doing something physical, but it’s all about the money in the end. So if I (a white guy) switched careers and you decided to hire me, you would pay me $50/hr?

Recent history may as well be ancient history.

There is literally nothing that encapsulates the fall of our "elites" more than the data centers issue. 140 years ago the industrialist tycoons of their time dealt with literal riots and revolts with more competence and effect than these people. Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Ford built monuments, schools, universities, and concert halls that dwarf the lifetime achievements of these cretins. Everyone is revolting against AI and new tech because these people lack so much vision that they can't even see an apple when they close their eyes. How pathetic.

@Bow_B4_BJJ What finally got you there? I’m in a similar boat with kids and with the birth of my son last June (he doesn’t sleep!), I’m officially in year 3 of being a white belt.

A year ago today I received my blue belt from my coach, Charles Heller! I was a white belt for a little over 3 years. I’m incredibly grateful for all the Jiu Jitsu and life lessons learned during this short time. I’ll continue to be consistent with my schedule and march towards purple belt.

Let's reframe: You cannot insult my race with a slur. We built the greatest civilizations, technologies, and arts. Our women are the measure of beauty and our men are benevolent while being capable of precision violence. We are untouchable, antifragile, and will always win.

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

I’d just begin messing around with it on things that you like in the beginning. I built some simple stuff which went a long way towards getting the “gist” of AI prompting. The Knowledge Base wiki (from Karpathy?) is really quite cool and am using it for account/company/client/contact tracking and note taking in Obsidian as my W-2 “brain”. Plan is to flesh it out and have a life-long “marketing plan” knowledge base for hunting down and securing accounts/agencies. At home, I built a local BJJ event calendar, a networking event tracker, General AI Prompt Knowledge Base, HTML-based premium tracker (can’t install anything on my work computer, so HTML apps are the work-around), and I’m currently trying to build a weekly meal-planner/grocery list builder bot for my wife. Coworker is totally neat, as well as the Gemini CLI (though you gotta be careful in the CLI as I understand it; make sure you read up on security/computer access issues).

W-2 is pushing AI hard. We have claude code built in now. I want to become the expert at Claude Code at my W-2. Obviously, can't use it for any biz related stuff, but imagine I can sharpen my skills enough with the right prompts. Any resources, guides, or prompts I can play around with so I can master it on the company dime?

If the tech billionaire class really believes, "We are at war with China over AI, and we can't afford to lose it, because they'll hurt us, if they win" then they would want closed borders and they wouldn't be replacing American tech workers with H-1B's.

Redeeeming Richard Nixon is one of the most significant cultural and spiritual projects of our era. The coup against him is the skeleton key of deep state machinations and conspiracies with the fake news media.

CS Lewis wrote about a similar concept: “Most of us find it very difficult to want "Heaven" at all — except in so far as "Heaven" means meeting again our friends who have died. One reason for this difficulty is that we have not been trained: our whole education tends to fix our minds on this world. Another reason is that when the real want for Heaven is present in us, we do not recognise it. Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise. The longings which arise in us when we first fall in love, or first think of some foreign country, or first take up some subject that excites us, are longings which no marriage, no travel, no learning, can really satisfy. I am not now speaking of what would be ordinarily called unsuccessful marriages, or holidays, or learned careers. I am speaking of the best possible ones. There was something we grasped at, in that first moment of longing, which just fades away in the reality. I think everyone knows what I mean. The wife may be a good wife, and the hotels and scenery may have been excellent, and chemistry may be a very interesting job: but something has evaded us. Now there are two wrong ways of dealing with this fact, and one right one. (1) The Fool's Way. — He puts the blame on the things themselves. He goes on all his life thinking that if only he tried another woman, or went for a more expensive holiday, or whatever it is, then, this time, he really would catch the mysterious something we are all after… (2) The Way of the Disillusioned "Sensible Man." — He soon decides that the whole thing was moonshine. "Of course," he says, "one feels like that when one's young. But by the time you get to my age you've given up chasing the rainbow's end." And so he setties down and learns not to expect too much and represses the part of himself which used, as he would say, "to cry for the moon." This is, of course, a much better way than the first, and makes a man much happier, and less of a nuisance to society. It tends to make him a prig (he is apt to be rather superior towards what he calls "adolescents"), but, on the whole, he rubs along fairly comfortably... (3) The Christian Way. — The Christian says, “Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same." There is no need to be worried by facetious people who try to make the Christian hope of "Heaven" ridiculous by saying they do not want "to spend eternity playing harps." The answer to such people is that if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them. All the scriptural imagery (harps, crowns, gold, etc.) is, of course, a merely symbolical attempt to express the inexpressible.”

@FLCons Thank you for the idea, I have this exact same stuff in my gutter and planned on cleaning it out this weekend.

Well, this sure beats picking it out with my hands doesn't it! Is there anything wrong with this logic? Or is this stealth MacGyvering?

@WinterB3rry @yonann AI slop

Shaquille O’Neal says he doubled the asking price to buy his grandmother her dream house "one day i said, grandma, when i get rich i'mma buy you a house. you know what she says? i want that house across the street" "i knocked on the lady’s door and said, i wanna buy your house. she gave me a price, i doubled her price, and i bought my grandmother her house"

@bumbadum14 A woman complains like a storm cloud rains. Pack an umbrella and continue on your way.