Keep churning out the CO2 and the plastic. All that matters is the next quarterly earnings report and shareholder satisfaction.

Star Trek branded clothing excluded.

I can’t believe people actually pay for branded clothing. I avoid branded clothing like the plague. If companies like Nike actually want someone to walk around plastered with their brand on them they should be paying them.

But companies have convinced people to pay enormous amounts of money to wear their brand as a “style” or as “self-expression”. Just wow.

They are recreating the ghettos of Poland during the Nazi occupation, like the Warsaw ghetto.

I don’t doubt that that’s a problem either in some of those small businesses.

I have a great electrician that I call all the time. He’s probably in his late 60s. It’s definitely more of a rough and tumble work environment than IT work, for sure, but he’s a good guy and he pays his people well and he charges me an arm and a leg.

But we talk about it and he tells me about how the same work he would have charged a quarter the price just 10 years ago. And honestly, he’s one of the more affordable ones.

So it definitely seems like the trades is the place to be these days with so few good ones around. But yeah you have to pick and choose who’s mentoring you.

Exactly this.

Absolutely. This is a huge problem and I’ve read about this very problem from a number of sources. This will have a huge impact on engineering and information work.

Interestingly enough, A similar shortage occurred in the trades when information work was up and coming and the trades were shunned as a career path for many. Now we don’t have enough plumbers and electricians. Trades are now finding their the skills in high demand and charging very high rates.

It’s always the ones you most suspect.

My mommy let me visit my friend Vlad and were were talkin’, ya know. And he said, you know what? I agree with you that mail-in voting is bad. And I said, yeah, right? See I know my friends agree with me. I’m going to go back and tell mommy what my friend Vlad said and say “See, mommy, even Vlad agrees!”

Fucking toddler child loser leader of MAGA losers. WTF is wrong with these people?

The party of family values protecting us from the real monsters. Thank you MAGA!

/s in case it wasn’t obvious.

The party of family values protecting us from the real monsters. Thank you MAGA!

/s in case it wasn’t obvious.

It’s almost a joke at this point how many MAGA pedophiles there are. Do they realize they’re a joke?

Yeah I’ve seen that before and it’s basically what I’m talking about. Again, that’s not “printing a 3D house” as hype would lead one to believe. Is it extruding cement to build the walls around very carefully placed framing and heavily managed and coordinated by people and finished with plumbing, electrical, etc.

It’s cool that they can bring this huge piece of equipment to extrude cement to form some kind of wall. It’s a neat proof of concept. I personally wouldn’t want to live in a house that looked anything like or was constructed that way. Would you?

The LLM worship has to stop.

It’s like saying a hammer can build a house. No, it can’t.

It’s useful to pound in nails and automate a lot of repetitive and boring tasks but it’s not going to build the house for you - architect it, plan it, validate it.

It’s similar to the whole 3D printing hype. You can 3D print a house! No you can’t.

You can 3D print a wall, maybe a window.

Then have a skilled Craftsman put it all together for you, ensure fit and finish and essentially build the final product.

Death by fascism.

It magnifies the worst in people.

You spelled criminal regime wrong.

What year is it?!

So the criminal Trump regime’s literal police state has arrived.

Bibi is literally the 21st century Hitler. He’s doing everything to the Palestinian people that Hitler did to European Jews except putting them in ovens. So far.