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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • You can easily overwork devs, and while their salary is higher than others a difference between 60k and 120k salaries is less than 60 employees to do manual work and 15 to automate it.

    Plus when devs create a digital item that can generate a profit nearly indefinitely they are viewed as cost productive to MBA types. Versus janitors where for some reason we dont see a value at all in cause of no immediate profit from their position.



  • It’s absurd that anyone making less than $50k a year is saving more money than someone making $200k.

    If they arent buying assets they arent actually saving, they are just building a buffer against drowning.

    Also to simplify your percentages there of people living paycheck to paychecks.

    • 75% under 50k a year
    • 48% of people making 100k a year (only 21% of people are above this line)
    • 33% of people making 200k+ a year

    Seems like increasing pay does reduce that issue even if there is an issue of spending to your max budget in america but I’d actually rather have currency in circulation than sitting in accounts for the sake of collecting.









  • Yeah it’s fine to not have the answers. Honestly I don’t think there are any just actions you can take and consequences to figure out after.

    I do agree we could probably do more to separate distracting news from useful news since there is a lot of it. And I think that’s a pretty interesting suggestion. And I think that kind of creative consideration is exactly what we need to make actions that we think might work, since it’s smaller than the huge goal all at once.


  • There seems to be this concept that humans do their best when under pressure and I really think that is wrong, heck science literally agrees with me and so does history.

    When people are uncomfortable and struggling they really just suck. Short fuse, anxiety, and uncreative. But during extremely peaceful and well funded times people prosper and contribute better. Look at how much we got out of the post world war 2 era of just funding and building more that gave us new genres of music and art and it’s from free time and comfort that people can get creative. Humans love to be lazy but get bored quick. It’s the center of all our innovation.

    So, I agree that a better world would give us better everything but not really actionable advice for the moment in here though right?



  • I’ve noticed that people seem to agree with the person they “think” is winning the argument and turns it into a game of butting heads, when I don’t think that is how social media should be treated anyways.

    The whole point is people don’t know what you do and these spaces are supposed to be for coming together and communicating in a digital space instead of a physical space and then you share. But because it’s all practically to an audience people treat the conversation like a gladiator combat where someone needs to speak more confidently and belittle the other as to show their strength and get the upvotes. Or their humor to show they don’t care and are more funny than the other. It’s so competitive.

    Honestly the best interactions come from the people who don’t use the platform as much and just talk like a person asking what other people think and responding reasonably. No assumptions of using the platform as a stage, no attempts to “win”, shouldn’t even be thinking you will get the other person to agree with you just that you both leave with more than what you came in with.
    And that needs to be especially true for the fact that new younger people will come in and having no expectations of what they should already know or be but welcoming them in anyways is how it will have to continue.




  • I mean there were no instructions up front because literally Google is refusing to give them, basically.
    No more choice just the company force feeding the user and saying it’s good for them.

    Nowhere in the email or any of the Support pages did Google say how to remove all Gemini integrations from my phone.
    I then emailed Google PR and… I asked if someone could provide actionable guidance for my readers who want to ensure Gemini integrations are completely disabled. Instead of answering the question, the person responding to my email wrote, in part: “This update is good for users: they can now use Gemini to complete daily tasks on their mobile devices like send messages, initiate phone calls, and set timers while Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. With Gemini Apps Activity turned off, their Gemini chats are not being reviewed or used to improve our AI models.”

    Literally that reads like you can’t turn it off and they just scrape less of your data on a technicality.