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It's a shame for me because I got jobs from STEM but I didn't make bank like my peers and then invest in real estate to strangle hard working people. I just made enough to barely make my payments and I genuinely love it but AI has sapped so much of my joy.

I was like, would anyone in the company at least want to hear about how bundlers work at a brown bag talk and why we use them for server side and client side and all that? and everyone was like, no ... AI can do that. I was like, fine ...

Got more work done that doesn't matter and also atrophied their workers mind.

I'd go further, I think in an ideal world all the countries of the world would be funding these projects and holding these huge tech companies to task.

I think it's this?

https://hyperallergic.com/texas-tattoo-artist-gets-30-year-sentence-over-anti-trump-zines/

https://reason.com/2026/06/25/texas-man-gets-30-years-in-prison-for-transporting-anti-government-pamphlets/

Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada faces three decades in prison after he moved a box of left-wing literature in the aftermath of an anti-ICE protest.

It's kinda why these types of posts should probably be discouraged. Posts like these should have sources.

I don't even plan to live that long but if I did I'd be blessed to look that good.

When you demonize people that don't look or think like you, there's a safety in the "known" evil.

Soon, you don't see people from other races as people but you see the humanity in the evils perpetrated by people who do look like you.

Do that with the social media bubbles you have now that constantly reinforce these biases and we have the shitty fucking situation where rich people leverage to get themselves elected. Soon they're going to remove the voting entirely.

I've worked at some banks quite a few years ago and Excel was basically a cheap application space for them. The cells were inputs/outputs, they used VBA, and COM+ which talked to SQL to perform calculations and all that. It was really weird but every iteration that they wrote to replace Excel (they needed to because of banking auditing regulations) had failed simply due to the features they would get from it. It was wild to see at the time.

"AI artists" 😂

You should see the interviews with some of these guys afterwards. They were saying how they hated how people saw them on the internet and assumed they were terrible people without knowing them. Yes, the racists were upset about being pre-judged.

I'm an 80s kid (so barely Gen X) but I did miss a lot of movies ... didn't have the ability to see whatever movie I wanted at my age. However, there's been so many references to these "formative" movies I've noticed throughout the decades ... so recently, I don't know what's wrong with me but instead of going through a lot of the soulness Netflix movies (yes, I know there are a LOT of gems too) ... what I've decided to do is watch a lot of these classics and then I watch YouTube analysis/review videos of them. So even though I may not get to see people talk about the impact it had on them.

You just listed St Elmo's Fire so I may have to add that to my list.

Okay, I don't know if it sounds bad but I saw the Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (2009) with John Travolta and Denzel Washington. I can't say I enjoyed it but I didn't dislike it either.

I actually didn't know there was a 1970s version. It's definitely on my list! Thanks!