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  1. meanwhile our robot bosses ….
  2. I think this is the existential threat of AI, not job losses per se. Companies, firms, management and schools and universities are going to have to actively solve for this issue in the long run. Unless AI can fully replace the nuanced judgment of experts humans where subjectivity and circumstantial dependencies including human mood dictate outcomes, which I am quite suspicious can happen, then the risk really is the elimination of the path to experience for younger workers.
  3. This is exactly my experience on the legal side of things. I’m using it more and more in a discrete instance and the analysis and even the writing is solid. But I’ll spend an hour or more working with the AI tool like is a junior attorney basically making it probe its work. I certainly know where to start but I let AI formulate the approach to an argument and then I probe it for accuracy and improvement. Prompts like, please double check, are you sure, please quote the statute or case (I don’t cite cases so I have less risk there), please provide a link so I can verify, etc. then when it’s time for work product I ask it to write up the letter, memo, clause in a contract, and then I work on the language with it but it’s already writing at a high level when I use a prompt like please prepare a lawyer demand letter written in a style that is sophisticated and similar to what you would expect from the best law firms in the country. Out pops some pretty fantastic writing that I then edit to put my voice into it. As of right now I don’t see the need for a junior attorney and not even 3 months ago I was planning to hire someone, I still may but the calculus has changed.
  4. I was wondering the same thing, maybe better and expanded social programs for all, expanded Medicare, education, labor unions, higher taxes to pay for it, etc, etc, but latent racism, homophobia and transphobia.
  5. We have an arcade at home in our game room that we designed (a company made) and we assembled that has 3000 arcade games. It’s pretty rad. When the kids have friends over it gets used.
  6. Might not make her core memories but it will yours. Well written too. Copy and save that shit for posterity.
  7. More so the moment less the political blabbering from booker.
  8. Was named the Gold Mine before that. Lock ins at north cross mall were phenomenal peak middle school fun.
  9. that's an interesting one. not sure if they are stonks but I'm in Joby (JOBY) and Rocket Labs (RKLB)... Joby is electric vertical lift off and landing air taxis. rocket labs is the up and comer in space/rocket services. hoping both have 500-1000% still in them. I don't trade I look for promising 5 year holds. RKLB won't likely go bust completely but JOBY could (though unlikely) as it's essentially pre-revenue.
  10. No only the awesome shit he gives TV grifters.
  11. well as i mentioned on the old people thread, there's more cognitive benefit for extreme exertion too. SIT, HIIT, and fast station, short rest between sets weight lifting workouts (sorry guys one set then shoot the shit for 15 minutes doesn't count for this style) are phenomenal for cognitive health.
  12. just got mine, it's how I found out. texted back, "dude you didn't campaign for jack shit last time, all you did was ask for money. no. Stop."
  13. PE jags is right, if I hear another "he's a good guy" about a PE JAG with money I may make the mass shooter thread.* *law enforcement, this is a figure of speech, instead I'll just keep my mouth shut and make my hourly rate on their way to the bank.
  14. Isn’t there a lot of research that says plain cardio is meh for weight loss?
  15. I just started sprint interval training a few weeks back, anyone else? I do it on a stationary bike. i'm becoming a fan as I don't have to do dedicated cardio for an hour, I do 8-10 thirty second sprints on a stationary then rest for a quick minute then back at it. all in about 20-30 mins of intense cardio - max effort. works for my ADHD brain and it mimics the rhythm of a tennis match.
  16. troph

    Getting old sucks

    I have tight hamstrings, lower back pain on the right side, outer hip pain on the right side. I try to stretch 10x a week, some days 2-3 some none because I like to rebel, but it helps a lot. I've also gone to town with a foam roller on my hip and glutes and it's been helpful. I think I'm going to get the hip hook too. I've been hopeful that my last 5 months of strength training was helping and that more intense stretching and the roller / hip hook will help. but interestingly we are in a very walkable city for a few weeks and my lowest walk total is 6K and my highest is 19K and I used the foam roller yesterday at a gym we are frequenting and had zero pain.
  17. troph

    Getting old sucks

    for anyone dealing with cognitive decline ... the other thing about cognitive health --- blood flow is probably along with diet the most important thing. nutrient deficiencies and added toxins or inflammatory compounds like added sugar are terrible, and there are literally hundreds of natural compounds in healthy foods that are neuroprotective. but back to blood flow, high intensity interval training (HIIT) and sprint interval training (SIT) are tremendously helpful for cognitive health. I've probably spent 200 hours researching brain health because of my illness last year and what became clear is that it's really hard to heal a brain but it some case it can happen but whether it's healing or halting a decline the fundamental key is blood flow - in every single case getting max blood flow to the brain is critical. unfortunately it's really hard to get that blood pumping to the far reaches of the brain but the one thing that does it, strenuous exercise. going for a jog is great, and HIIT can be helpful for even those beginning a journey of wellness in the gym, but if you are in good shape (which is a prereq for SIT), it's time to up it to the next level, sprint interval training (SIT) and that shit will get blood to everything. basically you exert max effort for 30 seconds then rest for up to 4 minutes and do that a bunch of times. I do 6-8 sprints on a stationary bike with a minute or less in between to mimic an all out tennis point (you only get 20 seconds to rest between points). my way is probably ill advised an I think I may revise to 6-8 times with a 90 second break because by the 4th or 5th time I'm not fully recovered in my 20-40 second rest period. but it's undeniable how helpful strenuous exercise is for brain health. another blood flow treatment is EECP - I used it to help with micro-vascular and brain injury from long covid and it was a fucking miracle. there is emerging interest in its effectiveness for neurodegenerative illnesses... I spent hours working on understanding it before I committed to a seven week treatment protocol - every single work day for seven weeks - but it was a game changer. Too lazy to deep dive again, I asked chatgpt to tell me, here's the excerpt... while the insurance issue is legit, you can probably find a cardiologist that will recommend it. my cardiologist was able to get it approved for long covid with a heart injury focus.
  18. I connect with my sons by going to the gym together. They learned to lift in athletics and our club has a class. I don’t do anything other than say “hey bro, let’s go to the gym.” My youngest is pretty aloof like a normal teen and our quality time is being at the gym in parallel existence. Connection is limited to “how was your work out?” No way I could tell him how to do it. But hey, it’s something.
  19. I know it's the age of pay to play and that lowers the threshold for criticism but I'm still not one to criticize college athletes like professionals but that said, there's not a single guy on that list that I wished was staying. not one.
  20. You are wrong. But hey keep going idgaf.
  21. Changing the topic now because you were wrong about the law. Okay, 3,500,000 are in the top 1%. Maybe we expand to top 1.5% or 2% but eliminating the cap on SS wage taxes, increasing the retirement age, would all make a serious dent. 90M people will be on SS by 2035. 900,000 off the rolls alone could save $30B, if benefits are lowered for top 1.01-3% you could double that. Raise the tax threshold alone would add $200B. Raising minimum to 70 would be another $10B. We need all of it.
  22. Wealthy participants were included as a matter of political expediency not intent. The entire legislative history is crystal fucking clear the program was intended to provide workers, laborers something so they had some security as they aged out of the ability to work because at that time they had nothing. The wealthy’s participation is not about intent or primary purpose but was instead to ensure passage and that it would not be eliminated. There is some ambiguity with respect to age and middle/upper middle classes as increased longevity and the creation of a middle and upper middle class was not contemplated in 1935. So to reform to exclude the top 1% would not remotely invalidate the purpose of the law.
  23. You couldn’t be more wrong. It was not for Rockefeller and others like him and at that time there weren’t many with anything resembling a nest egg, it was the fucking Great Depression. Know your history. And know that realistic plans I and many advocate to reduce SS benefits would maybe apply to 3-4 surly posters, unless more of you have a retirement income based on over 8-10m in invested assets. The fact that high wage earners and families with some modest wealth think the cuts needed now would go against them is what’s funny. The only way that happens (we all lose or have steep cuts to our benefits) is if we keep arguing against reasonable cuts for those that truly don’t need it (i.e. it’s a rounding error) and increase tax revenue.
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