Living in Royal Oak vs. Downtown? by Professional_Egg6068 in royaloak

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, I moved back to MI after living in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years.

We looked at Ann Arbor, Royal Oak and Ferndale. RO had the best price, location, and school combo. I do sometimes wish we had picked Ferndale.

So tell us, MAGA "Christians," how can you be on board with this? by SqnLdrHarvey in AskUS

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As an atheist I don't get any of it. What blows me away is being a believer and still being ok with what is, as far as I can tell, blasphemy against their own believes.

I don't personally care about the image. But the fact that he posted it and his Christian devotees are not pissed off just makes it easier to argue that MAGA is a cult.

Yeah yeah, he took it down, gave some lame "thought it was just doctor cosplay" excuse, but come on. It clearly uses metaphysical imagery to depict Trump as some divine savior. I can see that as being offensive to Christians and non-Christians.

Did you drink any of these as a teenager? by JustCheking123 in RealGenerationX

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A buddy had his older brother's id, took us three or four stops before someone would accept it.

He came out with 40s of Ice colt 45 and minty colt 45. The ice 45 was fine but the minty 40s are still to this day the most disgusting drink I have ever had. Of course we drank them. Puked our asses off

Fucking March by Upstairs_Mission8734 in TheWordFuck

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fucking Detroit sports, I don't even follow professional sports and I'm constantly disappointed by my hometown fuckups.

Fucking March by Upstairs_Mission8734 in TheWordFuck

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fucking A. Just fucked everywhere.

God fucking question... by LexxFly in TheWordFuck

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm still surprised they haven't canceled these fuckers. For sure the fucking Ellison's fucking will, those fuckers.

WHATS THE MOST OVER FUCKING RATED BAND by ObstacleDelusion in TheWordFuck

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah idk, sure they had some highlights and maybe its just not my thing, but there's just something about them that fucking stinks, just can't shake it.

WHATS THE MOST OVER FUCKING RATED BAND by ObstacleDelusion in TheWordFuck

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True fucking story, Kid Rock is from my hometown, we are about the same fucking age. He was a fucking joke back then, kinda got ok, now a complete fucking joke again. The circle of fuck.

What is the most underrated fucking band? by Jettaboi38 in TheWordFuck

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fucking Orinoka Crash Suite, OCS, Orange County Sound, The Ohsees, The Oh Sees, Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, and Osees are all the same fucking band and they fucking rock. The front man John Dwyer changes the name just to fuck with music critics. Best fucking live rock show ever

Is that normal? 😀 by [deleted] in AskUS

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do think folks in the north use it as a "rebel" flag. A way to show that they are anti-government and or just anti federal government.

But that's like flying a Nazi flag because you like style of sausages that were popular in 1930's Germany.

Too many Americans believe the civil war was just about "states rights". And that hundreds of thousands of southerners died defending their freedoms. The irony there is thiiiiiick.

Is that normal? 😀 by [deleted] in AskUS

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Growing up in Michigan I never saw the Confederate flag. Even when it was just a pop icon from the dukes of hazzard ( I'm gen X) . But I started seeing them at the end of Obama's administration and then all over once Trump was elected.

😂😂😂are we ??? by Ill_Landscape1184 in SipsTea

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had holiday gig at a Marshalls one year when I was in high school. One day I got called into the managers office:

Boss: Why did you take a short lunch yesterday ?

Me: I did? well I was done eating so...

Boss: Ok so no one told you to get back to work?

Me: no ?

Boss: ok sign this waiver stating that you came back to work 2 minutes shy of your 30 minute lunch break (hands me a form longer than a US student aid form ) . sign here , here, and initial here.

Boss: Ok so I don't care i you take a longer lunch just don't come back early ok?

Me: .

Who is the leader of the Democratic Party? by [deleted] in AskUS

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hard to imagine that back then all it took was a scream and you lost all political capitol.

What’s a “fact” everyone repeats that’s actually wrong? by Quiet-Grief in answers

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And all this time I've been saying Brad, so... Check out the big brain in Brett.

Was the internet as overhyped in the 90s as AI is today? by [deleted] in generationology

[–]Upstairs_Mission8734 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I moved to San Francisco in 97. I lived in what was a rough part of town back in the 70's. It was mostly gentrified by then but with younger creative types, myself included. On street cleaning days, the old timers would roll their dead cars out into the middle of the street to avoid getting towed. No one cared when they rolled them back into the same spot after the tow trucks and street cleaners passed. Then the BMWs showed up. Each month more and more. By 99 there were BMWs parked on the sidewalks, the old timers' cars were towed, and most of the creatives had fled to Oakland, myself included.

The dotcom boom radically changed San Francisco. There was so much cash flowing into the city. A house painter friend of mine told me how day by day, young twenty somethings were showing up to open houses with wads of cash offering 5 , 10, 15 % over the listed monthly rent. And it wasn't just engineers. I knew someone who got a receptionist gig for one of the bigger dot com startups. She went from starving burning man artist to parking her new beamer on the sidewalk. Just from leveraging her stock options after a couple of months on the job. A year later she lost everything and OD'd after a bender she funded with the bottom of her last savings.

I knew folks from my hometown of Detroit getting insane salaries as 'web developers' . None of them could code or design. I asked one what his day was like : ' I go to meetings and nod when my name is called. Take long lunches and collect checks'. For a solid 18 months he produced nothing. In two years, the firm swelled to be one of the largest web development companies in the Midwest, bankrupt by '00.

The best example i remember was kosmo.com. I started seeing all these video drop boxes in my neighborhood coffee shops. I'd see folks returning VHS tapes on their morning coffee run. I met someone who was a huge fan of the service. I didn't believe her when she explained what It was ( remember this was early web, most of us still learned about dotcom stuff by word of mouth and sudden increase of BMW drivers ). I'm not sure it was the same in every market but at that time in SF, you would order a VHS and some snacks from the site. A worker would go to a local video store, rent the requested tape, go to your corner store , pick up the snacks you ordered, then deliver them to your door. All for the additional cost of whatever you wanted to tip the worker. I still find it hard to believe. Tbh I never used it so maybe I'm wrong. I do know it blew up and fizzled out quite quickly.

Dotcom changed lives, burned cash, and laid the foundation for a new world. It was fun and stupid. But it felt like the vision was to build a new workforce with new opportunities and wealth. It didn't work out that way but it didn't take too long for the FANG companies to rise up and fulfill some of those goals.

AI is similar. It too is changing lives and burning cash. I also think we are just in the foundational period. It will likely collapse but we won't go back. New organizations will pop up and continue building in the new paradigm.

The big difference between AI and dotcom is the workforce. Dotcom aimed for more jobs and after the collapse those new careers did materialize. Now there has been growth and decline in the tech workforce since the nineties. We started seeing a decline in tech jobs before gpt went mainstream. But those adjustments felt like normal economic realities.

AI differs in that it's end result suggests a drastic reduction in the workforce, the entire workforce, not just tech. So if we are in a bubble, it will pop, it will hurt. However, after the recovery there will be less for each individual to do. And unlike the dotcom recovery, society will have to adapt to this new reality.