The rest of the country is going to benefit from this, while the average Albertan continue to shoot themselve and their family members in the foot with their endless defence of their cult leader(s). No matter what it is they do. Talking about book bans again. Book bans. You ever known of a state that benefited from a book ban?
99.999999999999998898999999999899% of what's described by the executives at my work isn't AI either, it's either formulas or macros. Which have existed since what, the 80s?
Just absolutely goes to show you that these idiots have no clue, and are just throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks. Aka just another Tuesday.
Add social media to that list, Facebook primarily. Reddit too. A lot of bot shit going on with both these platforms, really bad moderation and then the shit post media gets half their info and ideas from there. Bad recipe for sure.
It's precarious because the ruling government has ruined it on purpose. They are trashing things and breaking systems literally on purpose, so they can rebuild everything in the christian heritage fascist vision they have cooked up in their minds. Once they force separation somehow, and of course they'll make sure the pockets of their supporters as well as their own will be lined with gold each step along the way.
Most Albertans stand by doing nothing while they do all of this. That's why this is happening, sorry for the long-winded explanation. Personally I think this is pretty cruel, whether you agree with MAID or not. Cruelty against its citizens also seems to be a key goal of the sitting government.
Well I mean here we have Alberta, who has gone all in on a dying industry. That neither loves it back nor is ever stable. At the costs of any sort of possibilities in diversifying away from it. Why innovate when you can double down on a sure thing? That sure thing being what's probably the most cyclical and volatile natural resource known to man.
North America has an innovation problem that's long been wrecked by venture capitalist and private equity scumbags, and greaseball self serving career politicians.
You've been what now? Vibe coding. You mean where people like me, who have absolutely no fucking idea what they are doing when it comes to programming, use a broken fantasy tool that spits out a statistical calculated interpretation of what it thinks I would want but it's actually just a pile of slop? That kind of vibe coding? Where I can pretend to be a computer programmer!?
Wonder if I can vibe playboy next? Maybe I can vibe billionaire or be a vibe prime minister! All sorts of fantasies that AI can help make for me!
Oh it very much reflects reality. A reality that most retail investors have absolute shit for brains as a collective whole. There's lots of money to be made in markets like these, especially with lots of volatility. You just can't follow any sort of traditional logic, and you have to have a risk appetite as wide as the Grand Canyon.
Jokes on you, because they'll just double down, fire 25% of the workforce and whatever happens, happens. Even if it goes absolutely sideways, they golden parachute off into the sunset of whatever company that is looking to be broken next.
I think it's more addicting than cigarettes. I used to be a pack-a-day smoker once upon a time. That was a hard habit to give up. Like it took years to reprogram my body and mind to get away from it.
I've been continuously trying to cut down on my social media, because just like everyone else, it's rotting my brain and affecting my moods. It's literally just as, if not maybe even more harmful than cigarettes in most ways. It's certainly a more potent addiction, that's for sure, and it's more dangerous. I mean cigarettes will kill you long term, sure. But social media will turn you into a socially inept, manipulated, raging angerbomb that is much more dangerous to yourself and everything and everybody around you than arguably cigarettes, and in a much shorter time span. You don't even notice it either, it's latent damage thats occurring (like cigarettes).
It's a dopamine hit like no other too, and again, you don't even realize it until you are self-conscious about it and working very hard at it. I've experimented with some powerful drugs in my lifetime, and it's hard to explain to a lot of people because drug use rewards are more instant and much more apparent. But whatever weird brain reward system social media powers, I'm convinced it's just as powerful of a hit as the hardest drugs. It's certainly very very very hard to get away from.
I'm there with them too. It's time. It's unsafe, it's creating world wide political instability, they refuse to incorporate safety mechanisms and it's literally an unsafe product to use anymore.
It's like Kayne admiring the Nazis. He's now claiming it's mental illness. Makes me think that's what this largely is. That we have a mental illness crisis, and these dopamine rich environments like social media are just exacerbating the problem.
Yes there are inflationary pressures, but come on. You don't think companies like Loblaws, and their literally record breaking profits aren't one of the main causes of this crisis? It ain't helping, that's for sure. I mean yeah 5% here and there, sure costs going up. But look at the shrinkflation too. There's a lot of tomfuckery going on here, and it's high time it's brought to an end.
It's high time this government starts wadding into this mess to fix it. We don't need studies, we don't need grants, we don't need tax deductions. We need action. And it starts with Loblaws. I agree, the timing is shitty with all the other stuff that's going on in our macro world, but enough is enough.
It's a thinly veiled plan by the employer to force attrition in the workforce, while trying to keep severance liabilities to a minimum. It's a layoff plan, and nothing else. Anyone left is a slave.
Look we collectively had a golden opportunity to change things forever, but we blew it. We blew it. Collectively as humans, we are self defeating.
One thing that I just absolutely cannot reconcile in all of this, is the involvement of people who obviously have some sort of first or second generational immigration background, in screaming and oppressing immigration.
I know of a person who is now in the US just absolutely down the MAGA spiral. But the weird thing is, his grandparents died in a concentration camp in the second world war. He himself is now an immigrant to the US, from a country he also immigrated to earlier in life. Just absolutely droning on about...immigrants.
It's completely baffling. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The rest of the country is going to benefit from this, while the average Albertan continue to shoot themselve and their family members in the foot with their endless defence of their cult leader(s). No matter what it is they do. Talking about book bans again. Book bans. You ever known of a state that benefited from a book ban?