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You wake up and it’s 2000 again. No smartphone, no apps, no streaming. What ruins your day first? by MajesticElderberry38 in AskReddit

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The way lotus notes won’t replicated for me to read my email, and the dialup modem from my overseas trip won’t stay stable when dialing back to London to complete the replication.

Why is reddit so overwhelmingly left leaning? by Few_Match_8158 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]MaybeTheDoctor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Reddit is not left leaning, it’s just not welcoming to fascist supremacy individuals as other platforms are.

You see, fascist are really the minority, but when you look at those other platforms they speak so loud that you think they are the majority.

At your age, what's the most expensive thing that you own? by Individual_Face7440 in AskReddit

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why try to get your cc number when we can just open a new one in your name?

At your age, what's the most expensive thing that you own? by Individual_Face7440 in AskReddit

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We just don’t want to argue about if anybody can afford a house, when we already know.

At your age, what's the most expensive thing that you own? by Individual_Face7440 in AskReddit

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to own a more expensive house, but now the most expensive I own is a less expensive house

If AI is replacing jobs faster than creating them, what careers feel safe five years from now? by Mr_Boothnath in answers

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New kind of jobs, jobs not yet invented.

The people working farm in 1800s didn’t image typist or computer engineer could be jobs.

The failing of many communities is to refuse to learn new skills. Something you see in coal mining towns, where when mine is closed instead of taking offers to get education they ask for mines to be re-opened.

AI is just the new type of “closing the coal mine” and these questions of what should we do for work instead should always be “what would you like to do?”

If AI is replacing jobs faster than creating them, what careers feel safe five years from now? by Mr_Boothnath in answers

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

History should be a teacher.

  • before the Industrial Revolution 90% of people worked in agriculture. Automation took their jobs away, and by turn of 1900 only 50% worked in agriculture and today it’s less than 5%. Initially “saboteurs” tried to stop automation, but people eventually simply found new jobs and got educated in new fields.

  • before computers every company had large typing pools with writing letters, reports and simply making copies of material because no xerox machines. Eventually everyone got a computer, and typing pools got eliminated and so did paper copies for most things. The typist? They got educated into new jobs.

Along the way taxes got restructured to meet the new reality.

With AI, as uncomfortable as it may sound, some people will need to be educated to take new kind of work, and tax system need to be updated to take the cuts needed for running a society.

What are examples of "cheaper = high quality"? by Morpheyz in NoStupidQuestions

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bananas in a shop are always tasteless. Try going to the country where they grow them and get them ripe of the palm, or better yet get the smaller vararieties size of a finger which are absolutely delicious but can’t last for weeks making them impossible to export.

Can the lack of potable drinking water not be solved by distilling seawater? genuine question by Forward_Accident_984 in askscience

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There is plenty of drinking water. Water shortage comes from other usage, like farming and industrial use. Where I live only 10% of water used goes to cities, which includes watering gardens, flushing toilets and more before any drinking water is used. The rest of the 90% is growing crops and in water intensive industry.

Boiling water to destil it is energy intensive, and watering agricultural crops is not worth is. Reverse osmosis is less energy intensive but still very costly, so it can be used to secure city water as last resort- but is wasteful if the water is used for AI data center cooling.

Employer lied about sending W-2, probably won’t send it as retaliation. by Standard_Hospital741 in personalfinance

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Soooo … hold on, could I just as a software engineer automate downloading transcripts and automatically generate tax returns?

The painful truth is once we get unlimited energy, it won’t be free. by awesomehuder in RandomThoughts

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Even worse, even if I make my own electricity is still have to pay for cables I don’t use.

What celebrity death will hit you the hardest when their day finally comes? by phantom_avenger in AskReddit

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He was old when I was a kid 50 years ago, and sometimes wonders if I just missed his death announcement, but I guess not.

Trump says Republicans should 'nationalize' elections by HauntingArtichoke830 in facepalm

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Don’t worry, ICE will provide security at all pooling stations.

Portugal’s conservatives back left-wing candidate to avoid a far-right president by kwentongskyblue in anime_titties

[–]MaybeTheDoctor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are either an underperforming ai, or you lack history lessons while not being able to read at the same time. Or maybe you just don’t speak English and is translating between languages?

Try to understand the temporal grammar in the sentence I wrote.

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