impartialobserver

AI is here to stay.. like it or not. First, it is going to take over the repetitive, transactional based labor that you used to do at a factory. Robots do not call in sick or complain about working conditions. Second, they are already starting to creep into some accounting fields... payroll being the big one. You submit the data and an AI-based program creates the reports, submits the tax payments, and issues paychecks.

This is not surprising if you put your bias/passion away. It takes time to build up the customer base for such a site/platform to get popular and therefore be viable. Trump and those involved expected folks to instantly switch from X, facebook, instagram, etc. over to this.

For an economy that is doing so terribly.. this is interesting. But we are all in the second Great Depression... Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to the “third” estimate. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 4.9 percent. The increase in the fourth quarter primarily reflected increases in consumer spending, state and local government spending, exports, nonresidential fixed investment, federal government spending, and residential fixed investment that were partly offset by a decrease in private inventory investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.

I would support term limits. Furthermore, I would also support a measure that limits one's campaign. I know its unrealistic but a measure that would make all political advertising illegal until Sept 1 of a given election year would get my adamant support. Term limits and not having the politician in near constant re-election mode would make them more focused and efficient.

My point is not that you should move on. This is a matter of what is. The weather should be nicer.. 85 and sunny but it is not. Your approval is not necessary nor of any impact in the greater picture. Largely society is moving on. You are free to keep whining and complaining. The issue is that you do not have the self awareness to know that you have no audience and therefore your words have no impact.

When someone claims to be an epidemiologist and come to find out.. they have never attended college of any kind nor have ever worked in the health care field... I find that to be disingenuous. It apparently does not bother you. I do not claim to be an expert on rebuilding old cars. Why? I have never done it.

Quite a few people have never worked in the health care field nor taken any course (high school, community college, or standard university). Someone with absolutely no working or educational background does not qualify as an expert with me. If It does with you.. then so be it. Everyone can have an opinion. And I am free to not take truly non-expert opinions into account. Where we differ is that I found that both sides were chalk full of these conveniently created experts. Some truly bizarre stuff came out during the heart of it. As for reading up on it... that's what I do and not just do a simple google search and find something that agrees with me. If i care about a topic, I tear it down to the studs (so to speak) and do not take subjective opinions into account until the very end.

Here is where we differ.. I found there to be faux experts on both sides.. pro vax and anti vax. I can sniff out a faux expert on economics, statistics, and programming within about 2 minutes usually. Yes, there are quite a few of them.

You are filling in the blanks again. Never did I say what someone should do. I am simply pointing out a lot of folks who had zero medical background were suddenly experts. It can be difficult to discern a true expert in a field. Its not like you walk up to them and they give you their credential and life history on demand. I found a lot of experts on BOTH sides to be full of it. Hence, why I stopped paying close attention to it. I already have a fairly cynical view of society and this did not nothing to change it. If I do not know much about a topic.. I will say so and move on.

this is why I have no respect for WCM... the almighty assumption or filling in of the blanks. Where did I explicitly state that i trusted Fauci? Lets start with that. The forum is searchable so you should be able to find this pretty quickly.

When I say "folks" I am including government. I will say that it is amazing how the most ordinary of folks (on both sides) instantly became epidemiologists and doctors. They went from not knowing what the nucleus of a cell is to being lifetime experts. I have no respect or patience for faux experts. I am not a doctor and will own up to it. Now...if we are talking R or Python scripting, then sure I will tout myself.

Thanks for the civil response. No one in my family/friends/work circle suffered any ill effects. Some got vaxxed and some did not but there were no horror stories. My overall view of the situation is that most folks overreacted. I had covid twice. Once pre-vax and once after. Neither time was that terrible. Yes, some contracted it and it was not fun but I was never convinced that it was worse than the flu or other ailments. Six months after having covid the first time.. I had shingles and well that was considerably worse than covid.

Honestly, I think that society is moving on from it. I think that some know this but do not want to accept it. It really bothers them that they have no captive audience. They are free to keep going even if no one is listening.

I posted about how at least governments are putting this topic behind them and it led to a mostly pointless back and forth. I work for a state government and semi-regularly meet with our governor in NV. In the past 9 months, he has made it clear that he addressed the topic and does not want to rehash it. Whether or not, someone should brush it aside is up to the person. My point is not about what it should be but rather what is.

and yet you do respond... there is a reason why. You will never admit to it.

inflation is only one metric of many when you measure or describe an economy. As for Joe biden losing the young vote, I suspect that inflation is not the sole reason as to why. I sense a more general discontent with our current political environment. The younger voters also have a far different view of the Israel - Hamas situation than do older voters.

I do the same thing.. I know that a certain someone can't help himself. He can't respond and not have it be full of insults, personal attacks, and loaded assumptions. He still insists that I watch CNN religiously and every time I correct him. He has watched infinitely more CNN than I ever have but simple minds make assumptions. It is easier to only consider one data point, one view than to be realistic and look at the actual more complex picture.

the numbers do not lie. Stock price has been tumbling. Will it rise? No one knows. It is interesting how Truth Social has not really taken off. Parler had the same struggles. Apparently, Americans want familiarity over new.

That has been my stance since the beginning. When someone would say, " I am not going to get the vax", my reply was "ok". I could not care less if someone was vaxxed or not. No guilt or shaming on my part. I only did it because I did not want to fill out paperwork. No passion, fervor, etc on my part.

Proof that someone has no clue about human nature. People are moving on according to you because of some grand conspiracy.. There are all in on it and yet no one knows this.

No, i am not. I have a life.

looks fairly realistic. However, i predict that Trump loses in NV and MI. Still wins but not those states.

and yet when you run simple web scraping code.. you find that covid is not even close to being the number one story. I am not the only one moving on. So if it is such a hot story.. how can this be? Why are we moving on? Simple human nature. The more time passes by since something, the less we prioritize it. Why is occupy wall street not front page news now? Answer.. its been roughly 12 years. A more rational and honest person could understand this time-tested truth but we know that you can't 50 years from now.. you will be saying the same thing. What is amazing is that you think that you have this vast captive audience who is waiting on your every word.. such delusions of grandeur. You keep rambling on and on and no one is listening. You have my pity.

so what is your plan for making the internet go away. These items that you so abhor are the inevitable product of it and the first amendment

this is disheartening to some but you can't unring the bell. the internet is here to stay. From the internet.. you get wokeness.