I posted this in the other thread, but it’s relevant here, too

Aircraft engineers and mechanics used to be considered unskilled labor until the 1950s. They were only “reclassified” during the Cold War because there weren’t enough people going into the profession to keep up with the demand.

I was going to make a joke about building a utility grid and making Texas pay for it, but I realized that telling those kinds of people that they’ll have heat and electricity in the winter and that their bill is going down thanks to big government and socialism is fitting punishment.

Similar energy

14 werewolves??

Because every Tumblr post is a comment thread. That’s how the site works. That’s like complaining about screenshots of Reddit comments or comments on a Twitter post having other people’s reactions in them.

When a post shows up on your dashboard, it’s usually at least 3 steps removed from the original post, and there’s 50 different versions with their own conversations happening. By the time this reached Hellsite Hall of Fame, somebody had already commented on it, and somebody else had tagged the hall of fame so that they’d see the post.

The weird part is that none of the users’ names are displayed on the post.

Way to put words in my mouth. I wasn’t defending anything.

I was pointing out that the reason people started arguing with you is because you said that they’re posted on the edge of municipalities, and they said that they’ve never seen them visibly posted anywhere that wasn’t a highway and asked for specific places where you’ve seen this hapoen. You then switched to arguing that they didn’t believe that minimum speed limits exist at all.

You’re straw-manning.

But, since you accused me of making the same argument, for your information, I used to drive for a living. Everywhere obviously has minimum speed limits, but where I live, they’re only posted on specific roads where they differ from the norm. Most people could probably go their entire lives around here without ever seeing one that wasn’t posted on a highway alongside the signs saying that it’s illegal to ride a horse down the highway. We don’t have signs that say, “Welcome to the town of Smithston, minimum speed limit is 15mph.” The minimum speed limit is statewide, except in cases where a town deems it necessary, which is usually specific roads, not an entire municipality.

Yeah, the weird part for me is that some of these are like “celebrity fits,” so it’s like teenagers to mid-20s adults wearing what the fashion industry thinks 90s - 2000s high school kids wore, as high fashion. Like if people started doing photo shoots and runway walks in skateboard kid outfits. It feels as incongruent as when companies sell ripped t-shirts for $2,000.

Reread your original post. You stated that the minimum speed is posted at the entrance to every municipality. These people are saying that they’ve only ever seen minimum speed signs posted on highways. Maybe that’s what you meant, but your post sounds like it’s posted on local roads all over the place.

I wish. It kinda falls into like some kind of Bratz-core or something, in my opinion. There’s a handful of outfits I see that wouldn’t have looked out place in a high school in 2000, but a lot of it feels like Temu ripping off Hot Topic vibes. A lot of jeans that wish they were JNCOs, some cargo pants, plenty of crop tops, and zip-up hoodies. The closest I could find to Matrix anything in a quick search were a couple of outfits that wouldn’t look out of place at an MCR concert.

This is labeled as “Y2K Grunge”:

Wow, that’s deep, man. There should be a forum where we can post stuff like that.

Currently, Zoomers and Gen Alpha are really into Y2K. So give it a couple of years, and Scene and Emo will be back in fashion and this will be considered peak cool parents photos.

See the rest of my post: the people who are making it and why they’re making it.

I have no complaints about the people making LLMs that can spot tumors better than humans can, but I 100% agree with every single one of your points. The grifters and the AI fad of venture capitalism are ruining a useful technology and ruining the world and society along with it for a quick buck.

Says the guy whinging about a meme.

I remember many years ago there was some study being done into deer antler as a way to integrate implants with zero chance of rejection (something about deer antler being bone that penetrates through the skin without causing any problems), and something about using squid cartilage for implanting circuitry for similar reasons, but the coolest advancement that I’ve seen for prosthetics has been 3d printing.

I saw an open source project for 3d printing prosthetic limbs with a focus on making affordable prosthetics for kids since they grow so quickly they need new fittings quickly as well. And beyond that, I haven’t heard of pretty much anything new in easily decades. The fact that much of our prosthetics technology isn’t that different from what they had in the Civil War is sad.

The underlying point misses why people have problems with the current AI bubble. I’ll cheer when they replace CEOs with AI - it seems like the best job to be replaced with LLMs and would save companies billions of dollars that could be used to improve the lives of workers. There’s tons of AI being used for all kinds of cool things already like spotting cancer in MRIs.

The issue people have with AI isn’t the tech. It’s who’s making it and why. It’s not being used to make life easier and better, it’s being used to cut decent paying jobs and commodify part of the human experience, all while making big profits without paying the people whose work was stolen to make those profits.

It’s just a different flavor of the fast fashion industry stealing high fashion designs and churning out their cheap knockoffs from factories in China where they don’t have to worry about things like safety standards or paying their workers a living wage.

Sorry, perhaps you prefer the full comic?

You didn’t propose how to improve society to address the original complaint either. You were circlejerking with the other guy about how OP should shut up and people aren’t allowed to voice such complaints because otherwise they’re just edgy 14 year olds.

Fun fact: After the adoption of electric lighting in homes became common, there was a massive increase in the demand for maids and cleaning services because people simply couldn’t see just how dirty their houses were when everybody was using candles.

Another fun fact: With the introduction of the computer and similar technology into many jobs, productivity skyrocketed, but wages didn’t rise to match the increase in company profits. However, it was still viable for the average American household to live off of the wages of one 40 hour per week job. Today, the average American household requires at least 2 full-time salaries in order to survive, despite technology continuing to push productivity even higher and companies continuously reporting their most profitable year ever, year over year. Despite technology, the amount of work per household has effectively doubled or more over the past 60 years.

I’m well aware of switchboard operators. Computers were originally a profession as well.

Secretaries are still all that, both using digital tools as well as physical. They weren’t replaced by any of those programs. They just changed how they do their job. They schedule your meetings for you now in their cell phone instead of on a desk-sized paper calendar mat.

Just one more lane, bro, I swear. One more lane and traffic will be fixed forever. Just pull out the trolleys and add one more lane.