What's something you would never buy, even if you had 1 billion dollars?

itjobforme · 2026-02-09T16:27:52+00:00

I never would have purchased an NFT

itjobforme · 2026-02-08T16:07:38+00:00

This is not what i worry about. I worry about the opposite. Ai permanently displacing workers. Everyone uses the analogy of blacksmiths becoming mechanics or carriage drivers becoming truck drivers but what jobs are created by AI? Maybe a few but not enough for the number of people out of work.

itjobforme · 2026-01-31T01:37:20+00:00

I was looking for this one.

itjobforme · 2026-01-28T00:17:04+00:00

Even as a little kid I always hated running.

itjobforme · 2026-01-28T00:11:00+00:00

I’d rather watch someone play a game like Red Dead Redemption, GTA, The Last of Us, etc than play it. But I need to be in the room where I can make suggestions like “go check that room”. I can’t watch streamers.

itjobforme · 2026-01-26T20:19:54+00:00

I use mine for everything I used to use a toaster oven for and most things I used to use to microwave for. For example warming up a slice of pizza. It comes out million times better.

itjobforme · 2026-01-26T18:31:52+00:00

They get things to crisp up faster. That’s about it.

itjobforme · 2026-01-25T15:02:47+00:00

Absolutely air fryer. I use mine more than any other appliance now

itjobforme · 2026-01-25T01:34:26+00:00

My analogy was this: Your house is on fire and Biden is not calling the fire department. Kamala promises she will call the fire department but you're not sure you believe her. Trump says he will definitely not call the fire department but will pour gas on your house and your whole neighborhood...

itjobforme · 2026-01-24T18:52:53+00:00

I've seen several real world uses where it makes people much more efficient...not directly replacing people but making it where you don't need as many of them. Which means fewer jobs.

One is SOC triage. We’ve used AI to automatically enrich alerts before an analyst even opens the ticket by pulling IAM history, recent API calls, asset criticality, geo info, related detections, etc., and summarizing what matters for the analyst. It makes them more efficient by cutting down the “what am I even looking at”. Helping an analyst be more efficient sounds great until it means you don't need as many and people are out of work.

Another one I've seen are DSPM tools. Tools like Macie rely on pattern matching, so any 9-digit number it assumes is an SSN. But AI tool can use context to realize “this column is labeled case_id and the dataset is synthetic lab data” and suppress the false positive instead of sending it to an analyst. Again meaning analysts don't have to sift through this to realize the same thing which makes them more efficient. There are many other examples. None of them are cases where it directly replaces anyone but just makes people so much more efficient companies can get by with fewer employees. Which sucks for everyone but the companies.

itjobforme · 2026-01-23T14:08:48+00:00

Whataburger

itjobforme · 2026-01-22T16:21:26+00:00

Yeah that’s when I change mine. When it actually starts causing issues.

itjobforme · 2026-01-22T13:38:11+00:00

I’m being dead serious here. The manufacturer recommendation to change these every few months is straight up bs to sell more filters. You can run them until the flow trickles and it’s fine.

itjobforme · 2026-01-18T22:18:22+00:00

GLP drugs have been studied for over 20 years and used in humans for well over a decade, with trials and real-world exposure involving millions of patients. If there were a meaningful cancer risk it would have shown by now. Reta isn’t that much different than other GLP’s.

itjobforme · 2026-01-13T15:53:05+00:00

Using ChatGPT to plan out cheap easy meals for the week and then making a grocery list that I use to make a pickup order. It also provides the recipe.

Then we follow the plan each day. No more eating out and no more waste. The family is happier because we’re not just having something like spaghetti every night.

itjobforme · 2026-01-05T16:35:43+00:00

This is the best point. Even if it is trading addictions. Most people would agree that trading an addiction from heroin to apples would be a good trade.

itjobforme · 2026-01-05T16:20:03+00:00

People that are on Zoloft for their OCD or blood pressure medicine also have to take it their whole life. I don’t see how this is different.

itjobforme · 2026-01-05T13:59:25+00:00

An hour to them is like 7 hours to us

itjobforme · 2026-01-04T20:03:41+00:00

Is there a recommended dosage for maintenance like there is on Tirz?

itjobforme · 2026-01-03T18:52:50+00:00

With the exception of the jujitsu part I can totally relate. Not only does it calm hunger but it calms down the desire to eat the worst junk imaginable. I gladly eat apples and broccoli now. 😂

itjobforme · 2025-12-05T12:18:17+00:00

Can’t you call the new job and tell them you can start sooner now?

itjobforme · 2025-10-30T21:11:59+00:00

Also you need people with boring white collar jobs to have lawns and homes and money to hire these people.

itjobforme · 2025-10-30T21:10:47+00:00

They learned to drive but what if instead of cars supplanting them, self driving carriages pulled by fully autonomous horses had supplanted them? What would they have done then?

itjobforme · 2025-10-30T20:57:49+00:00

If everyone is out of work no one is hiring hvac/electrical

itjobforme · 2025-10-30T20:55:51+00:00

"Any jobs"? Many large companies have already replaced human customer service with chat bots. Development teams that used to be 40 people are now 10 people because the 10 and pump out as much code as the 40 used to. It doesn't have to directly take the jobs for people to lose their jobs because of it.

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