The ATM typically gives $20s, so that’s what I usually get.

I work from home. The systemic incompetence of this multinational fortune 500 company means I can do a lot of reading and no one seems to notice.

Of course, management is planning to fire a lot of people, including me, to pivot to AI.

It depends on the details of the implementation. There are many possible solutions.

If we change it so the rule is like “if you use stock as collateral to get a loan, that is income and taxed as such” then no. You might just default on your loan, but that’s kind of on you and the bank for using a volatile asset as collateral.

It wouldn’t be so bad if you couldn’t use the unrealized gains. But people can have a bunch of stock, get an untaxed loan, and have access to money without the tax burden. We should fix that.

Also property tax should probably be progressive

I will unilaterally decide.

First off, conservatives aren’t allowed to speak anymore.

That… that might be it. I might be done. Now everyone else can get to work building a better world.

It’s not corporate owned. No profit motive to turn things to shit.

Don’t blame the tool, blame the user 😁

I compare it to snapshot tests a lot. They’re similarly constrained by “good if used wisely” but most people don’t do that. It’s easier to use them extensively. That’s just how people are. They do the easy thing

Paying more money for better results doesn’t fit into the world view of many business decision makers.

How do you feel about people who refuse to use ride-share like Uber because it’s exploiting labor? I don’t want to give them any money because fuck them, but some of my friends say the drivers need money so refusing to use it is only hurting them.

If I could get hired someplace else, I would go.

Sadly, everywhere either isn’t hiring or is frothing at the mouth over AI.

Software job.

Good: this place is so dysfunctional I can fuck off most of the day.

Bad: the place is extremely dysfunctional. Pays crap. No benefits.

Like the classic joke

A guy is heading into work when his boss pulls up in a new luxury sports car

“Wow! How’d you get that?” he asks the boss

The boss smiles and says, “I’ll tell you what. If you work hard, hit all the targets, put in some overtime, I can buy another one next quarter”

Well, yeah, AI is mostly garbage. Fuck it. Fuck the people pushing it.

This is really quite “are we the baddies?”

Have you considered a book club? Locally or on Lemmy. That might be nice, though I’m not sure how to level it up from “we’re reading this” to include “and we did some critical analysis”. Also online is more vulnerable to slop, even though I don’t understand why someone would use AI to think for them in an exercise that’s entirely about thinking.

A friend of mine had a book club and was reading a book a month, but then the ring leader had a kid and it’s on hiatus.

In a 2019 interview, Goodman responded to criticisms of three cueing, saying that “word recognition is a preoccupation” and emphasizing that he places greater value on making sense of language as a whole than understanding specific words. In response to the example of children failing to distinguish between “pony” and “horse”, Goodman argued that it was irrelevant whether children understood the specific word, as “pony” and “horse” are similar concepts, and a reader failing to distinguish between them would still understand the meaning of the story as a whole.

Absolute nightmare

Some sort of online community for people to practice reading, especially critically so they practice skills like recognizing subtext, irony, themes, etc, could probably be cool

Unfortunately, the people on a text based platform like Lemmy probably have better than average reading skills. The people who need more help probably stick to video.

Also there’s a surprising amount of anti-intellectualism, sometimes, where people say things like “it’s just a story it doesn’t have any deeper meaning!”. Fundamental misunderstanding of how meaning works. (You don’t find the correct answer. You make up an answer and justify it with the text.)

I vote in every election. New York has ranked choice for some things now, which is nice. The way judges are picked is pretty bad, though.

I don’t enjoy it. I think it’s sad when people get addicted to it.

I don’t even like big random factors in games. One of the things I like about the dark souls franchise is there’s very little randomness. You never win or lose because “lol critical hit”, like you might in something closer to D&D

I’m optimistic that they’re more likely to learn something during that process, but that might not be a well founded belief.