Yes, Trump being famously data-literate and low on rhetoric, that’s probably why.

Ah but even coming from a native speaker, it just flows so smoothly and feels just like saying what is arguably now the most common greeting said in English. To me it’s like the word “app” is hiding itself right in the most natural greeting, the greeting also being a symbolic distillation of the app’s purpose - there’s an elegant, simple symmetry to it in my ears, the opposite of buzzword cringe!

But hey, opinions and assholes eh? Taste is so subjective lol. Just glad they didn’t name it iWhatsApp, then we’d agree and be big mad

Have to disagree, WhatsApp is a great name, maybe the best named app of this entire generation of software.

Problems pointed out by commenters aside, I am under the impression that there is very little oversight about this kind of stuff anymore.

For one thing - unless they’ve changed recently, Amazon “bins” alike products from multiple suppliers, meaning if a bad actor is introducing counterfeits (or just less stringently tested, for more fungible products) - Amazon doesn’t even know who they got them from, by the time that’s discovered.

But for another thing, the absolutely incredible volume of products - how on earth is anyone making sure these random-character-generated “brands” are safe?

I lack much in the way of direct evidence, cuz I’ve got shit to do and this isn’t my life’s focus - but it seems apparent that there cannot possibly be the kind of consumer safety testing that we want going on. And if that’s true, it’s only a matter of time before the smart capitalists realize no one is watching and they can make stuff even cheaper (I think they already have), and then how long before we as a society discover all the harm that’s done as a result?

I’d love to be wrong about this, but like so many tech innovations, I have a feeling we’re going to find out later there were huge harms done before we learned how to rein them in. The speed, volume, and price we’ve grown used to with Amazon seems to preclude consumer safety.

Thanks for the info! So far I’ve been enjoying those same characteristics. I spend my work day arguing with computers, so I have little patience for doing more of it when I’m off (more seriously, I carefully marshall my tech efforts outside of work as a long-term strategy against burnout). I appreciate how “out of the box” gaming (and anything else I’ve tried) works in Bazzite, and the stability has been great too. Though to be fair, def helps that it’s my first experience with Plasma which really makes the “feeling” of the OS pop, in an unfair way lol.

My new measure for intuitiveness of an interface - do half-drunk, clumsy fumblings with a mouse occasionally reveal a slick new feature I wasn’t aware of?

Feel like elaborating? I’ve been running it for a couple weeks and very happy so far. One nice little feature was how I can just scroll on top of the little sun icon in the taskbar and my monitors dim and brighten. But that’s prolly a Plasma thing more than anything else.

Holy shit, this is quite the list.

Wish I could forget my friend. My mother got clipped with that, she ain’t been with us for a while and I finished raising her daughter for her.

Fuck “health insurance” companies. Free Luigi Mangi-mothafuckin-one, too!

I can’t help but see it this way too. And healthcare before some of the ACA’s protections was similar. “Yes, give us those premiums, everything’s looking pretty safe, we’ve got you covered if something happens! Wink wink, nothing does really, so we’ve got you!”

And then the moment that changes, it’s “woah there, too risky for us, are you crazy? We’re gonna lose money! You’re on your own”. And all the 10s of thousands paid when times were good and there was very little likelihood you’d need help are just gone, and fuck you.

I understand insurance companies only make sense if the risk of paying out heavily is small enough. But still, you paid to be covered when the shit gets bad, they should have to taper down over time or return some premiums or something. Not just “welp thanks for all the money, it looks like we’re gonna have to start giving some out soon so we’re just gonna stop here while we’re ahead”. It’s just a legal scam.

You seem to have chosen only a few of the words in my comment to read. Feel free to read the rest, or fuck right off with your ridiculous nonsense, your call. Blocking you regardless so enjoy whatever you choose I guess.

Interesting perspective, but also a little derogatory or at a minimum…overly prescriptive about the folks coming here on those visas?

I’ve known multiple PhDs here on H1-B as well, and while the exploitative nature of their living status depending on their employment is always there and a problem, and I’m sure they were underpaid compared against a US citizen equivalent - the pay was nowhere near the fractions you’re describing, and several of them were far more knowledgeable about their areas of study than any citizens I met at the company.

One of them probably has top-100 understanding of his field globally, if I were to guesstimate. Let’s not portray all H1-B recipients as fundamentally less qualified than Americans. Not only is it overly reductive, our increasingly poor educational performance compared against e.g. China and India are starting to reverse that idea in a lotta cases, too.

Edit to add: I should say I also met one who was a fraud at best and a spy at worst. Totally clueless about his supposed “field”. I understand some parts of the world have issues with corruption and buying of degrees, but I know little about it.

I read it as him saying Tesla, SpaceX, etc. couldn’t have succeeded without H1-B visa workers.

IS IT LUIGI MANGI-MOTHAFUCKIN-ONE?!

I’m definitely aware of that move, you can kinda tell who has gotten burned the worst (or maybe just most recently) by this behavior - by how insistent they are about the paper trail.

For me, I’d rather fuck off altogether, I want to work with people who want to get shit done. This nonsense is for the terminally unproductive, and that ain’t me.

But, alas, myself and many others…ya play the hand you’re dealt, I guess. Working on swapping some cards though.

I’ve bumped up against some federal govt (US) contracting work, and have seen this for sure. I’ve seen some (decision-making!) individuals who behave this way, impacting progress so badly that it truly smells like a compromised person / spy. It’s really that nuts sometimes, where the more plausible answer is that the person in question is not acting in good faith.

Not the person you replied to, but I think you’re both “right”. The ridiculous hype bubble (I’ll call it that for sure) put “AI” everywhere, and most of those are useless gimmicks.

But there’s also already uses that offer things I’d call novel and useful enough to have some staying power, which also means they’ll be iterated on and improved to whatever degree there is useful stuff there.

(And just to be clear, an LLM - no matter the use cases and bells and whistles - seems completely incapable of approaching any reasonable definition of AGI, to me)

There was no walking path, no. There was, however, a huge stretch of unused farm land between the neighborhood and the school. The owners of the land fought bitterly to prevent access.

LOL, perfect reference. Hope that’s not where I got the idea haha.

But damn, ya know what, I need to watch this whole entire show again, it was fucking AWESOME. Avasarala herself (not in this clip of course) is dope enough to merit a re-watch, and there are so many cool characters and excellent performances, the writing is great, the universe is great, fuck. I’m not even a TV or really movie watcher.

Members of his previous administration complained about his tendency to just kind of agree with the last person who spoke to him on a given topic / day. I assume it’s mostly due to his love of (need for) flattery - he comes out of each meeting feeling great and wanting to endorse whatever that person was saying.