I feel you. I spent 48 hours this week streaming shows, waiting for a possible call to some in. I'm sure that's some people's dream job, but it drives me nuts that I have to be on site for no reason. I like the feeling I get from actually working and the sense of accomplishment it gives you
I work nights with 2 other guys. One of them is cool and seems to be a bit introverted, but we're both into sports so we'll watch games the first few hours and chat intermittently. The other guy openly hates sports, but loves "shooting the shit", which he understands to mean him going on a fringe political rant or into way too much detail over some random shit he saw on YouTube.. Luckily work gave us headsets with ANC, so me and the cool guy just headset up once the games are over and live in silence on the slow nights
AI is going to start writing entire fake research papers and books written by fake authors, just so it can be cited as a source for a high school kid using it to cheat on a 500 word essay.
The thing is china is great at reverse engineering things, but not great at manufacturing things to the spec needed at this precision. There's literally one company on earth that supplies optics manufactured at this level of precision (Zeiss), who have spent decades to get where they are. Even if China has the design technology, they would still be far behind in the manufacturing if they're trying to make their own optics.
If only they had reliable utilities. Samsung's fab in Austin got shut down for a few weeks from ice-mageddon. Messed them up enough that they threatened to leave if Texas didn't give them something to make up for it.
Yeah I love the concept though, despite the dystopian energy built into it. It's something like at cost + 10% for operating costs. Unfortunately I think they have limited options at the moment. Something tells me big Pharma doesn't like this concept so it's hard to make deals with them.
I agree with you. The only issue I have is that some "important" things have much less extra money to dedicate to raising wages than less important things. The amount of profit isn't always in line with the importance of a thing I guess. But if it's that important then I guess government subsidies would be able to fix that gap
Latex gloves also work alright in a pinch