I did a PhD. The skill behind my success was mowing lawns. Owning your own business beats your qualification almost every time. Four years as a tradie earns more than a degree, with no HECS debt at the end.

Hay #Canberra dont complain Winter hasnt even started yet...

Us GenXers 🤣🤣💯🎯

Ow. Sounds about right.

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

We are literally paying premium prices for the worst version of society we have ever lived in. I need a refund.

Due to the high cost of energy, the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off.

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It is an unfortunate consequence of human nature that those who seek power are rarely those fit to wield it. As AI-driven layoffs increase, we will see existing employees at companies treated significantly worse, because those managing them will know they can fire them at any time and get a replacement at 70% the cost. Not only will this collapse the economy, it will, without a shadow of a doubt, cause social revolutions on a scale which would shock most people reading this today. The only choice for the permanent underclass is to not accept their position in it. If they accept the UBI, accept the slave mindset, tolerate disrespect from the 'elite', accept the tech bro argument that the world is getting better even though their lived experience is one of subjugation, corruption and decay - they are finished; we all are.

Why is this silly man wearing a yamulke to a book launch when no Jews are wearing one? It’s not a religious place. Does he think you have to wear one when you’re with Jews? They’ll be laughing at him. Good

Not a bombshell. Its obvious.

So Ive just realised @elonmusk has been limiting views on every single post about @Israel or the @IDF

These people pay 125k a year to be coached plus 2k a month. If they can pay that theyre already winning, but their obviously complete psychopaths and they want to 'win' more.

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Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it. Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying. Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence." Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter." Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter. They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created. One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility." Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies. That's the metered intelligence business model. And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

This is so true and why I found my ex gf and lots of my workmates very frustrating.

AI 'knows' nothing except the data its sourcing and this is indeed a death spiral to infinite nonsense being sold as facts.

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Hahha my ex gf. At least the sex was good.

You’re born onto a planet you never asked to exist on… and society immediately hits you with: “Okay, now go earn the right to eat, sleep, rest, and have shelter.” Like… zoom out for a second. We’re floating on a rock in infinite space and we created a game where you have to spend most of your life working just to not starve or freeze to death. The whole concept is actually insane when you think about it.