EnsignWashout

I hate the impacts of cars too, and desperately want better transit options.

But we should maybe put up a sign for stories out of North America:

"North America is really really big. It sucks that it doesn't have better mass transit coverage, but that's still a genuinely hard problem to solve in rural North America."

Most folks in rural North America have stories both of being the rescued and being the rescuer when cars have broken down.

Wow, I totally missed the part where Microsoft had a gun to your head.

Yes. Microsoft is good at hiding that part until it's too late to do much about it.

There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass, yet.

Microsoft doesn't willingly lose money on something unless they think they can make it into ~~a market distorting rent extraction hellscape.~~ something very profitable later.

A really high percentage on common hiring practices are completely illegal. Many people who should hire a little bit of legal advice usually don't.

On the scale of such things, this looks pretty chill.

Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.

Yes. This sucks.

The main cause of this is artificial intelligence

Unlikely.

The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and "Not The Onion", in particular.)

Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.

I'll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.

AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.

Good point.

There are folks who will use an unenforceable rule to convince their company to do the right thing. Many CEOs are uninformed or risk averse. So this still has value.

and the internet (in the current form) never gets developed.

based on my recent online shopping experiences, we may get there, soon.

It feels like nobody knows how to Java a Script anymore.

most agree it's an upgrade from the Znyder

Yeah. We figured. Synder's Superman is interesting, but in many ways unfun.

and Singer takes

How dare they! Superman Returns is a national treasure. We waited a long time for a third Singer X-Men film to get it, so we should treasure it.

Seems that some folks from Iowa would rather go to court than stop being cruel to animals.

I'll keep my judgement to myself, but it is scathing.

This economist is telling me they never fixed their own plumbing.

There's theoretically nothing hard about plumbing.

It stands to reason that we ought to be able to automate all plumbing repair quite soon.

Unlike this economist, I've enjoyed a delightful spray of educational water, more than once, highlighting the joy of discovery of one of the many more nuanced aspects of home plumbing.

If there's one thing I've learned over and over, it is that however complicated I think some aspect of the world is, it is actually at least slightly more complicated than that.

I find it particularly evocative when I happen to learn this lesson while I am literally "all wet".

Robots may become delightful-but-stupid helpers to many more roles, any day now - even plumbers.

Perhaps someday robots of various jobs may even become delightful while even not-too-terribly-stupid.

But thinking that all subject matter experts will be adequately replaced by robots is incredibly naive.

I personally consider that belief "all wet".

Tablet pornography must be nice.

That seems like someone who made a plan, and then lived out their best evening.

I imagine those tablet Pornhub users probably prepared themselves a nice mixed drink, set out some snacks, and got all cozy in a bathrobe first.

Tablet pornhub sounds like some kind of intentional self care.