TheMadBeagle [he/him]

This is what the company I work for is doing. Wouldn’t you know it, profits are at an all time high for them despite being in an industry heavily tied to imports. I wonder how that works? 🙃

The big bang was the start of the observable universe as we know it. That is a very important distinction.There is no telling what is beyond what we can observe. Science has no apparatus for guessing what is beyond the 13 (or is 14) billion light-year mark. It could be that that line is the limit of existence. It could be that there is infinite nothing beyond it. It could be that we are just one pocket in a greater universe. We do not know, and honestly I don’t think there will ever be a way for us to know for sure.

I just want to say one of the reasons I quite like my experience on lemmy (at least the instances I most frequent communities on) is this right here. A lot of the time when I see disagreement between users in my frequented communities they:

• actually provide details and context for their points, including directing their response to specific points made.
• are willing to disagree without it being a problem or it devolving into personal attacks.

I’m not saying I don’t see these things, its just not the primary thing I see as compared to other sites.

Thank y’all for having a very insightful and positive conversation.

Well, to be fair, they haven’t yet because the patent was, at least at the time the shaker was manufactured, not yet patented.

Absolutely agree. Even before AI, the corporatization of Hollywood over the last couple of decades was shifting the winds that direction, at least as far as I have observed. This will just accelerate that fact even faster.

This, absolutely this. I work as a software engineer for a major company and it is miserable right now. The top level management are so convinced that most junior devs are no longer needed. Our department has been downsized multiple times in the last two years, IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR DEPARTMENT WIDE PROJECT, and yet, they are confused why the project is struggling to meet its deadlines. Most of us left have been working what used to be the job of 2 or 3 devs. The only reason I haven’t left before now is that I had major personal issues going on in my life that took up most of my free time and I needed to have a “stable” source of income. Now that that is all resolved I plan on jumping ship and watching it burn from the outside.

I don’t care if it ever gets good though, the cost to human labor and to the environment will forever make AI a non starter for me. I think that last point is what worries me most about the way people talk about it at work, no one ever talks about environment cost. Honestly, rarely do people except for a handful of devs I am personal friends with ever talk about the labor cost.

I definitely would not hold my breath with Chinese automobiles coming to the US anytime soon considering they banned certification of any new drones from Chinese manufacturers for the foreseeable future. I don’t doubt they would do the same to automobiles as well.

On a flat surface, bikes expend less energy to use than walking. This actually makes total sense. Biking is also a kinder motion on joins than walking which is actually quite hard on knees.

They have demands, most news sources I’ve seen have shown those demands, they have a website that states their demands.

https://www.iceoutnowmn.com/

And adding an s apparently lol