Mr. Herbert Garrison

Czech people hate communism. You are asking me to engage deeply with your nonsense on a truly absurd point you are trying to make. Just because you want to live in fantasy land does not mean I'm an idiot for not following you there.

You are more in the latter, of course - you haven't internalized the obvious calamitous downsides of communism simply because you don't want to know them. Not knowing what you're talking about can be quite freeing. Social media encourages that mindset.

There is no actual causal link between age & approval of communism. You have no idea how to analyze data. It is simply an artifact of domestic societal conditions that impact generations & classes of people differently. Plus the baseline Dunning-Kruger effect of overconfident dumb people.

Oh & China also succeeds through the subjugation of foreigners such as in Africa & other neighboring Asian countries. Communism is wonderful. It spreads like the dickens!

China still relatively succeeds through massive sheer volume of their society, the amount of hours their people are willing to work (2-3+ times that of most Americans) & their willingness to get paid basically nothing for it. That's the only way their economy survives.

You love this though.

Market forces keep economies & societies more regular & they lower the risk of calamitous abuse. In communism you invariably wind up with too much or too little of various necessary items. Even China, the most successful communist country in history, is crushed by over & under abundance.

So, again, the point you're distracting from is that the reason you love communism is that you've never had to live through it yourself. So the idea of people suffering, in your view, is overblown & maybe even somewhat nostalgic & old-fashioned. Worth trying!

Like call the FBI, my neighbor is smoking a cig 5 feet from where they're supposed to be smoking

Really. I guess that's true. At my old apartment complex, which had like 320 apartments & 40 buildings, there were all sorts of rules about where you're allowed to smoke & even then people ratted all the time. It's gotten to be like leaving your pet in the car for 2 minutes. People love to rat.

Basically is, if you aren't overwhelming your body with stimulants generally, it will be more sensitized & have a greater effect

My mom only being addicted to nicotine gum now is basically amazing for her really

All good. I can't help it either. Almost everyone on all sides of my family is some kind of addict. Multiple suicides etc. You have to take it in stride & not beat yourself up over it

Nah nothing bad will happen

Still nicotine gum, even being permanently addicted to it forever (my mom has chewed nicotine gum for like 30 years) is 99.9% better for you than smoking. You do what you can.

I've heard that swallowing gum is a bad idea. There are "natural gums" but I don't think that actually changes the root issue. Since rubber or whatever can be perfectly natural but still maybe not the best for you.

Yes. And meanwhile they are still justifying violence at the same time they are denying involvement in it. It's like they have two sides of the brain that apparently don't talk to one another.

Gum itself is filled with microplastics. I believe it's all made from rubber?

There are many alternatives that take only years to biodegrade instead of millions of years, but if unit cost increases even by 1% people will not accept it. Companies will not accept it because they have no incentive to - why would they. The customer doesn't care.

There *ARE* numerous companies, many in the process of failing, etc that do "find value" like that still & that is by contracting with staff in India or Mexico, etc. They can have a team of 10 people over there making the same as 1 junior domestic worker would have.

That has nothing to do with AI.

How many companies pay to provide their employees with significant new credentials anymore? It's extremely rare. Companies only set aside negligible resources for that. It has nothing to do with AI.

When employees stayed with the company for 20-30 years, it was much more of a value proposition.

The issue with IT is that the top 10-20% of workers are 5+ times more productive than junior staff with 1 yr exp. 1 of those high performers on your team eliminates any need for hiring a junior employee.

Especially when nowadays that junior employee leaves the company within 1.5 years anyway.

And no they weren't simply preempting the future productivity gains from AI. Nobody was thinking about general AI at that time.

Company management does not want to wait anymore for a return on their investment. They simply want to pay the going rate for experienced staff.

10 years ago I literally managed a team of junior IT staff at a large health system in CA. They had been hiring at least 6-8 people with zero experience every year. In 2017 they disbanded my team & practically stopped hiring people with zero experience, just like most other companies started doing.

The more accurate way to put that is: companies are *still* not hiring junior IT staff, largely due to productivity gains from tools like AI.

I'm telling you they were not hiring people with zero experience in 2020, or 2021, or 2022.

I find it interesting when ppl tell me that companies aren't hiring junior IT staff anymore bc of AI. That trend has been going on for the last 10+ years, & by far the worst offender was the pandemic. Junior staff hiring ended then. 2020.

I've worked in IT for dozens of companies in the last 10 yrs

Potential draft nuclear agreement theory plan. Maybe

"...known to help "people who don't give birth" to breastfeed..."

AKA fetishists.

AKA... MEN. The male sex. Just say it. People might take you more seriously if everything you said didn't come off as a language game 👍

I posted a ridiculous joke about horseshoe theory & suddenly a hive of communists was buzzing all around me. So could be

Sam Altman says the quiet part out loud, confirming some companies are ‘AI washing’ by blaming unrelated layoffs on the technology Some economists are warning there’s no sign of AI-related job displacement appearing in the labor data. Altman claimed it’s just a matter of time until it does.

"I don’t know what the exact percentage is, but there’s some AI washing where people are blaming AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, and then there’s some real displacement by AI of different kinds of jobs"

Been saying that since AI started to become a thing in 2023. Nobody questions it