I worked as a licensed aircraft mechanic for years, watched my coworkers die from disease and injury, destroyed my body, and did it all for basically no money.

I did a coding bootcamp and and doubled my salary + plus wfh + better benefits.

Blue collar work is exploitation to the highest degree.

Automation has been replacing your job btw, just indirectly. More reliability, better preventative procedures, better chemical engineering, process improvements, and automation of related and dependent fields means that equipment needs less maintenance overall.

Software development jobs are not actually being replaced by ‘ai’ and the automation has to actually be engineered by someone. In the same way that an llm may be able to naively troubleshoot a problem, it can also naively achieve a programming solution. That’s it though, llms arent solving the problems that computer science is solving.

After working on airplanes I worked as an applications developer (and pseudo systems engineer) for an industrial automation company, the physical machines we manufactured completely eradicated jobs, a single bespoke robot cell took what was 30-50 people and replaced it with three people monitoring it. Those 47 people are now in competition with you for your job.

Like you said in your own post, advancements in technology are making your job easier, which in turn lowers the bar of entry and the pay scale with it. Easier and faster work (increased efficiency) means you need less people to do the work.

Too many people think ‘automation’ is a robot coming in and replacing your job, sometimes that is the case, but more often than not, it’s things like digitizing records, excel spreadsheets, process improvements, and micro automation (like tools that can scan and diagnose every trouble code and provide the common troubleshooting paths, instead of needing to watch a flashing pattern and look that pattern up manually in a physical book)

Every job has automation risk, it’s just not always clear.

The pads actually make the injuries worse as people feel safer and consequently hit harder.

When I worked at a pizza place it was the ‘dough patch kit’

When I worked on airplanes it was exhaust samples and the id-10-t form.

Or staged it at all

While trading in general is zero sum, if you believe the product you’re trading has intrinsic value, then no one needs to be holding a bag.

If I sell you a car and you get to use the car, you wouldn’t be holding the bag, because you wanted the car. This applies to stocks, and stock derivatives, as well as commodities.

The problem arises when there isn’t an intrinsic value (or the intrinsic value is very small), such as with NFTs or many cryptos in general.

There are cryptos that have some intrinsic value like monero, since they have fungibility and a use case, but most do not.

Emulate?

I’m almost positive it’s meant to get you to stare at it and try to figure it out, versus you blindly throwing it out with the rest of your junk mail.

The steam deck didn’t exist when the switch came out, it innovated and filled a niche that turned out to be a severely underserved segment of the gaming market.

Nintendo struck gold with the switch, and a ‘switch 2’ likely isn’t going to cut it.

It’s not like Nintendo is infallible, remember the console before the switch was the Wii u.

Old looks cheap to make, new looks cheap and safe to operate, shows, imo, a positive trend.

Lawns aren’t the reason people want to have space from their neighbors.

Not that I’m condoning this, but, take the keys to the other car away, and give them a headstart and I bet they’d figure it out precisely one commute’s time away from their next shift at work.

I think part of the difficulty is people ‘learning’ to drive stick in a parking lot. That’s good for 30 minutes, but you won’t actually get a feel for it unless you properly drive around.

Honestly though, I think if someone is actually incapable of driving a manual transmission car, then they probably shouldn’t have a license in the first place, it shows such a lack of fine motor control that it brings in to question their ability to manage other aspects of driving.

Afaik, votes are visible to server admins (because admins hold the keys to the DB) and server admins can proliferate information however they want. With anyone being able to be a server admin, there isn’t much you can do about it.

The people who can get holidays off are generally the people who have the means to vote otherwise.

Until the last few years, the only time I had holidays off were if I could get someone to switch with me, meaning at least someone was working that day.

Labor day didn’t mean shit to me working at fast food, and retail has sales instead of closing.

Walmart ain’t closed on labor day and neither is McDonald’s.

That’s the first and second largest employers in the world, not respecting the holiday literally made for their employees.

If your video can be replaced by a title, it probably wasn’t with watching

My thermostat increments by 0.5c

It’s about crossing into triple digits, a new order of magnitude, it feels heavy.

Tbh I wrote that comment moments after waking up with my eyes barely open.

So it’s HLE?

Was that a claim being made?

I usually store food on them