all Tinder cares about is keeping you swiping, with your eyes on the screen.

Before that it was ‘big data’. remember that?

every 5 or so years the media needs some new tech to hype up to get people paranoid

Exactly. It will lead to improved automation for industrial processes but it won’t ever be a consumer tech other than improving your siri results.

It won’t replace jobs, anymore than industrial robots in factories replace them.

‘big data’ ‘crypto’ etc.

AI is just the next ‘big thing’ that amounts to nothing. 90% of what anyone says in the press/media is total nonsense. And most AI researchers are downplaying the hype because they know it’s all bullshit and AI will ultimately not be a major change anymore than navigation systems in cars was. It is merely convenience and those that ‘rely’ on it will end up in trouble.

It’s a complementary technology, not a revolution.

same here. i can pay 120 for cable tv and internet at 250mbps, or 100 for internet that is 50mbps.

but my town is a monopoly. i have zero other internet/cable choices.

When i was in school in the 2000s file sharing basically crippled the campus network until it was banned. A few bad actors were hoarding all the bandwidth and storing copyright violation stuff on school servers.

It’s the protocols more than anything.

stuff with this speeds existed already, it just wasn’t via USB. it was expensive proprietary protocols and hardware and cables. USB is an open standard design for consumer use, and not for giant corps with datacenters who can pay $2,000 for a single data cable.

Thunderbolt is basically a data-transfer focused version of USB, and just requires a different controller that supports the new protocols to achieve the higher speeds.

multiplexing is one way to achieve higher bandwidth and throughput over the same physical cable.

Microsoft already had this trial back in the 2001.

The landlords have much bigger pitchforks. Called the police, and the city government.

and they will fight any and every expansion of the housing market in order to protect their power and further increase housing values.

savings and COD are 4-5+% right now.

what is financial freedom? like, never having to worry about money?

because even billionaires aren’t financially free then.

Exactly. This is like the biggest problem with today’s society. Everyone thinks they are unique and sigificant… you are not.

The dirty erotic fan fic stories you wrote when you were 14 aren’t going to ruin your life if they are found. What will ruin your life is when you find out how little anyone gives a fuck about you.

dude, everyone says the housing market will crash for 15+ year now.

We have to accept the old rules of economy are out the window. govt will bail and stimulate to no need the second the market slows down.

this is the new normal. truth is our inflated economy can’t ever allow housing values to go down anymore without causing a depression so the govt won’t allow it.

Same here.

Where do you guys find women who are cool with that lifestyle? I’m so jealous. Every woman I meet thinks DIY is for ‘poor people’.

where do you find your partner?

I’m nearly 40 and every lady I try to date thinks a low stress lifestyle with a work/life balance is a horrible thing. They are all obsessed with ‘ambition’. And when i talk about wanting to actually be a father to my children and having a life outside of my job, they basically tell me to f myself and that I am not a ‘real man’.

Same here man.

And yet soooo many people I meet seem to think this lifestyle is ‘for losers’. Apparently you are supposed to be a miserable corporate drone so you can make an extra few bucks to spend on useless crap that you don’t need.

I am. I make about 120K to work from home, and do maybe 10 hours of actual work a week. Rest of it I’m just dicking around on the internet or playing video games.

However, in my city, when I socialize, people seem to think I am living in poverty, wasting my life, etc. Apparently I’m suppose to be working 60 hour weeks to make 200K+, and live in a million+ dollar house and all that crap. IDGI, but that is the attitude in my city.

My dream was to be a professor, but I realize that making 60K and working 100hr weeks was not a recipe for being miserable forever.

I bought a new car in 2018 for 19K. Everyone I know flipped at me for ‘wasting money’ and not buying a 5yo+ 10K car that looked like shit with 100K miles.

It’s now worth 21K, after 50K miles.

I’m looking at trading it in for a 35K car in the next two years, and watching the value on that car never go down either.

because the us govt doesn’t give a shit about monopolies.

EU might get up in their shit though.

Massachusetts turning the inmates gay but allowing them to call family for free.