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I really did t know much about him at that point, but tended to respect him because he was doing some interesting tech stuff. Then he went off the deep end about the cave rescue, without understanding ANYTHING about the situation, and I understood all at once who he really was. I haven’t seen anything since that would make me alter my perception. In fact, the more I learned about him, the more I realized that I was perfectly correct in realizing that his ego is far larger than his intellect.

More of a “broken clock is correct twice a day” kind of thing.

“Experts say.” Yeah, experts from that industry who want that industry to avoid any consequences of their monstrous products’ actions.

Who fucking cares what their “Experts” say? We’ll decide who is responsible, not them. They’ll just suffer the consequences.

The Peter Principle states that a manager will get promoted to his level of incompetency, then get stuck there. As time goes on, more and more managers reach their level of incompetency, until the entire management level is populated by people who are bad at their jobs.

Say a guy is a great salesman, the best in the company, beats all his targets. He’s just great at it, and all his customers love him. So he gets promoted to sales manager, with a nice office, and a big raise.

But just because he’s a talented salesman, doesn’t mean he knows how to manage sales people. Also, the guy who replaced him isn’t pulling in near the revenue, so the department he’s managing is now WORSE than before he took over. He becomes just another mediocre manager, in over his head, and he never gets another promotion again.

Or maybe he moves up a few more levels, but eventually he hits the point that he can’t do well, and that’s where he remains, being mediocre. After a while, ALL the managers are people who were good at their old jobs, but mediocre at this one, and here they stay, until they are swept out in their 50s.

The first time I heard about cloud storage, I wondered why anyone would store their stuff with a third party, for reasons EXACTLY like this. This is the exact scenario I thought of.

And while we’re talking about this specific case, presumably all the other customers of that cloud storage company list all their stuff, too.

Give the nerds a break, perv glasses is all they’ve got.

Tell it to the Ukrainian citizens whose homes are being blown up. Are the Russians blowing up buildings with mind control now?

When Mamdani sat down at his desk, and moved the giant pile of paperwork that every other mayor ignored, he found a button that said “Something Good.” He pushed it, and something good happened. So he pushed it again. And again. And he kept pushing it.

That button was always there, and any mayor before him could have pushed it, but they didn’t. That’s all they had to do, and they just didn’t do it.

Furthermore, that button is on the desk of every politician, and most of them never push it either.

We need to make them ALL start pushing that button.

In Japan, you can’t disable the shutter sound on phone cameras, because weirdos were sticking them up women’s skirts and silently taking pictures.

We didn’t do that here in America, because perversity is a human right in MAGA America.

Because they’re her friends, and know her, just like I know the people around me would never do that, and if MAGA arrested one of them, I’d KNOW the problem was MAGA, not my friend.

Still eligible to hold office.

That would make me vote for him.

Anytime a corporation or a politicians says they aren’t going to do something, it means they’re thinking about that subject, and they are definitely going to do it.

We make far more decisions to NOT do something, and if someone doesn’t want to do something, they just don’t do it, they don’t tell everybody. We don’t talk about the things we aren’t going to do, we talk about things we ARE going to do.

Years ago, I was in a national managers conference call meeting, and HQ started it by saying “If there are rumors of lay-offs in your office, shut them down. There are no plans for lay-offs at this time.” I don’t remember what the rest of the meeting was about, but we all walked saying “Lay-offs are coming.”

Sure enough, within two months, I was out of a job, along with a bunch of others. Within a year, several branch offices were closed. We weren’t worried about it at all, until they brought it up in the meeting.

If they’re bringing it up, they’re softening us up for it, even if they’re saying No.

Marvel at how AI stopped this non-existent threat, while also giving advice on the best way to kill yourself, or get the highest kill score in a mass shooting, or hack into other corporations.

Sure, this tech isn’t ever going to start directly killing people it has determined are a problem, flipping off life support machines, crashing autonomous vehicles, etc.

They joked to a few very close friends who knew it was a dark joke after a rough day. It had no business going beyond that.

They need to learn that class is a place to focus on learning, and phones interrupt that learning. You think it’s an opportunity to learn self discipline, but what about the kids that aren’t as capable of that? You just let them miss their education because you allowed them to play on their phone in class, hoping they’d learn phone discipline instead of the curriculum?

Science and English classes are for Science and English, not phone discipline. They can learn phone discipline at home, and having significant breaks from constant dopamine hits throughout the day will help them do that.

When I was a student in the pre-cell phone era, you couldn’t walk into class with a boom box or small tv, and expect to enjoy those in class, even with headphones. Phones are the modern equivalent.

Phones do not belong in the classroom.

Everything new tech that comes along can be used for bad, and you can absolutely count on bad people figuring out how to use it.

It is totally predictable, and it’s up to the rest of us to figure it out, too, and make sure those people get stopped early. But that’s not what happens. Those at the top don’t want anything slowing down their tech, so they are fine with it being used for corruption, as long as nothing slows them down.

This IS how you deal with phones responsibly. When kids get out in the real world, they’ll have to work and interact with the world around them without the constant hits of dopamine from their phone. Asking them to not be scrolling their phones while in class is the LEAST we can do.

If I was a teacher, there would be a basket next to the classroom door, and everyone would have to drop their phone in it when entering the classroom. Anyone caught with a phone in class would get a 5 page essay on the addictive properties of phones.

I know plenty of diabetics who are slender and fit and healthy. On the other hand, I know plenty of fat people who don’t have diabetes.

I topped out at 350 (I’ve dropped over 100, no drugs), and was never even pre-diabetic, yet I have a friend who is in excellent shape, runs, exercises, etc., and he was diagnosed at about 25, despite being fit, and nobody in his family having it.

I think what we’ve all learned here, is that YOU are stupid.

At least he didn’t have to spend all that money on higher salaries. How you boys liking the rocket game? I’m thinking about blowing a few dozen billion on that, just as a hobby. Not trying to make money off it.