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RBWells

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  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • They are pushing it at my work. I spent half a day trying to train Copilot to build me a report from one PDF and one way too formatted excel sheet, no go, the too-formatted excel stumped it, I had to clean it up first. I am booking payroll and the fucking system we use refuses to generate a report with the whole cost, there is one for gross to net and a separate one, not available in excel, and not in a format that can be put in a spreadsheet, for the employer cost. I need to split the total into departments & job cost codes. (ETA the payroll system also doesn't handle the job costing, even after I get total cost, more manual work)

    I worked with the department who sends me this trash and glory be, there was a CSV for the gross to net one. Finally wrestled it into getting this right and asked it "what do I ask next time to get this result the first time" and it does now do a reliable job of this BUT:

    All it's doing is making a report that the payroll system really and truly ought to be capable of producing. And I guess letting me honestly say, "sure boss, I use the copilot". It's not adding anything at all, just making up for a glaring defect in the reporting available from the payroll company. Give me access to that system and I could build the report, it doesn't need AI at all.

  • Seneca Village

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  • Where I live they ran an interstate highway right through where the black business district was. Ripped through the middle of town. I hate that highway so much, they keep adding lanes too. Fucking racist twats and the effects reverberate to this day, no transit just more lanes because of handshake agreements between good ol' boys in the 1960s.

    "Nothing changes, even when it wants to" Hayes Carll

  • Hard to hear the haters

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  • My husband said he wanted a sports car once, kind of joking, and I just looked at him and said "huh, I figured I was your midlife crisis"

    It's true we can do some things we definitely couldn't have done or had when we were single parents, before we got together and became a two income household, but not a corvette, no. More like a beach vacation (20 miles away, lol).

  • A good reminder to put your family first

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  • I had a boss - he was one of those manic genius people who can do twice as much as others, he was in before us, left after us, did way more than anyone ought to. And when he went home still didn't stop, was always learning to play guitar or to cook, learning a language, doing marathon training, I don't think he slept much. He would also keep giving you more work until you said no - he literally said "you have to tell me when it's too much, don't say yes if you cannot handle it." Everyone else seemed to take it like a challenge, burned out, we had turnover. I took him at his word, did what I could do well, took my PTO, one late day a week, otherwise left on time.

    Always he rated me highly in reviews for "managing work-life balance." He didn't really expect everyone to be like him, and his work habits cost him his a marriage, nobody SHOULD work like that even if they can, it's not a human pace. We need time to do nothing, unstructured time.

    My kids understand when I have a busy month, I almost always come home and make supper and hang out, so when I can't they know it's not an ongoing situation.

    But really even if you don't have kids, don't make work your life.

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • I have never heard the temperature expressed with decimals - my phone says "it's 14, today's high will be 20 and low of 4" or whatever. Do oven settings have decimals in places that use Celsius?

    Is the temperature expressed beyond whole numbers?

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • Wow people are so different. I grew up in Florida, without air conditioning until I was 25. 85F is so nice outside in the shade, and 80 in the sun is fine for working outdoors. In the shade, with a fan going, and something to drink, I am comfortable to mid-90s at least, just not moving so much, relaxing. Hot yoga at 103 is sweaty but not dangerous for me.

    There are not enough clothes in the world to make me comfortable at 0 F, there is not gear for that, I don't generate that much internal heat.

  • European propaganda DESTROYED

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  • I would prefer Celsius if it was smaller degrees, so 0 = freezing is great logic but boiling needs to be 1000 not 100. There just aren't enough degrees between freezing and boiling, Celsius is too inexact.

    And no way is 50 medium in F, it is cold. We might actually put the heater that low because the HVAC system we have is built more for cooling, but that is very, very cold feeling. 0 in F is beyond cold, that is 32 degrees (or 18 of your civilized degrees) below freezing. Hellish cold.

  • A mural drawn by artist: Topsy depicting Alex Pretti trying to protect Lady Justice from ICE.

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  • This is amazing.

  • Outside of politics, have you ever had a position on something that you have doubled down on and refused to move an inch on to the point of upsetting someone? Were you right?

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  • Oh my ex wanted me to cut his hair, but just pulled it over one shoulder and said cut it off. He wanted to see it cut, understand? No, neither did i. I said "no, it will be slanty because it's all pulled to one side, let me cut it into a haircut." He said no, it will be fine, just cut it. "It will be slanty!" He was getting mad, JUST CUT IT! Finally he just took scissors and cut it how he wanted. "Oh no, it's all slanty!"

  • What are your cheap, but not miserable, recipes?

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  • Mine don't love this but sag paneer is heavenly, my kids would eat it by the bucket I think.

  • What are your cheap, but not miserable, recipes?

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  • Ooh I love beans & rice. But we do eat other stuff, and I find the biggest $ savings comes from avoiding waste, not buying cheap ingredients.

    My kids LOVE

    Mapo Tofu (ground pork & tofu)

    Bulgogi beef or pork with tofu

    Cabbage in coconut curry with any protein - tofu, shrimp, chicken, or just veggies.

    Rice bowls. This week we had one with chicken tenders, cabbage slaw (dressed in rice vinegar and sesame oil) wasabi carrots (dressed in wasabi and soy sauce), cauliflower (grown in garden, no seasoning), avocado. Sauce of mayo & Sriracha. But most variations they like - a rice, a meat, bunch of veg or sometimes even fruit, a sauce.

    Breakfast for any meal, eggs, potatoes, refried beans, and some meat, with onion, cheese, avocado on the side.

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  • Underwater welders, electrocution. You can imagine, all the risks of diving plus welding, plus combining electricity and water.

    Seawall builders, the whole process is dangerous because of the water, they can drown or be hit by heavy construction materials.

    I just always found it interesting that those were more risky than race car driving. Our highest individual claim actually was a landscaper hit by lightning, who died, but sadly, he did not die quickly, suffered in hospital for some days.

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  • Most of them, I suppose. The list of jobs I could do well enough to be paid for is a shorter one than those I can't.

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  • I used to work at a payroll company and our highest workers' comp rates were:

    Underwater welders

    Seawall builders

    Race car drivers

    In that order.

  • Bill Clinton's Turn To Finger-Wag...

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  • Clinton is problematic as fuck, but holy shit the difference between reading this and the "your mom" outrageously stupid sounding bullshit the current admin puts out is so remarkable. I do so miss having smart people at the top. Say what you want about Clinton and Obama, at least both were wicked smart and able to communicate well.

  • If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be?

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  • South Canada?

    North Mexico?

  • What improved your quality of life so much, you wish you did it sooner?

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  • It's funny that the first two right now are 'stopped eating meat" and "stopped eating everything except meat".

    For me it is getting up when I wake up. No alarm. It wasn't always possible but instead of getting up early to run or be virtuous in some way, I sleep until I wake (not late! Usually between 7-730), have a short but indulgent morning, only water until I get to work (by bicycle) then coffee and breakfast. I wish I had always been able to do this.

    And MHT, so glad I tried it - I had no idea I had menopausal symptoms because I never had a hot flash. But the MHT knocked out the migraines I was having, the UTIs, my thinking is clearer, and even though it put a few pounds on me I'm still inside healthy weight. That success convinced me to be more intentional and interventional about aging - I thought all that longevity stuff was about living longer (because of the word) but mostly it's about staying healthier and that feels physically good.

  • Please science

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  • Oh fuck that. I would get a second opinion. At least now you know to underplay it. "I think it's working, yes. Sleeping better and feeling a little better, no side effects that are bothersome, this one seems good, thanks."

  • How old did you get your driver's license? Did you learn driving from a driving school or from parents? (or some friend or relative?)

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  • I was my mom's oldest kid, she let me drive without a license to learn, as she was not familiar with the rules. Then I took a written test and driving test.

    Drivers ed here was in the summers and my friend and I traveled in the summer instead, worked in the school year to make $ so that we could.

    My kids, insurance cost is so high here now, they have to wait until they can pay that, I couldn't handle a $1,000 increase in the monthly budget for two teen drivers at that time. The older ones learned after college, my younger ones got the learner permits and learned earlier, one at 15 (she is the only one who likes to drive my stick shift car) and the other at 17 (that one still has only learner permit, can drive well, but usually takes bus or bike to get around town).

    I think the reason kids usually learn early here is because the bus system has been systematically underfunded for so long. It's really hard to have a job without a car unless you are lucky and able to arrange everything close to your house. Which isn't gonna happen if your parents live in the exurbs.