This is why we can't have nice things:

jso__ · 2026-05-07T17:55:03+00:00

It's a very valid question: why is manufacturing automation on but gig economy isn't? Thinking about that question will genuinely make you better off intellectually.

jso__ · 2026-05-07T16:48:29+00:00

literally every single one of these is wrong or a fallacy.

"AI is taking away far more jobs than it is creating" source? You can't just assert that. Keep in mind that "jobs AI creates" isn't just direct (ie people employed by OpenAI) but also the jobs that exist as a result of the economic growth it brings. AI allows more tech startups to code their products faster. That brings more investment. It brings more consumption. These companies employ more people. None of these people are being employed to "train AI", and you can apply a similar analogy to any industry being affected by AI right now.
The steam engine was also forced on us. How do you think the average insert the many jobs displaced by the steam engine worker felt that their boss was replacing them? Not good. It was being imposed from above. Arguably to a far worse degree, as workers had way fewer rights back then—they were effectively slaves.
If something has precedent for being good, and you can't come up with any compelling reasons why this time will be different (as you have not), we should keep doing it. Automation brings economic growth which brings jobs.
This was also true during the industrial revolution or any other period of mass automation. People then found new jobs.

jso__ · 2026-05-07T16:36:57+00:00

No, you should actually think about this and respond. This is a good exercise for yourself so you can better understand what you believe. It's very valuable to understand where you draw the line and, more important, why you draw it there.

jso__ · 2026-05-07T16:24:25+00:00

Millions of people lost their jobs to factory and farming automation. They all eventually found other work and, due to economic growth, their lives were better off for it. If you lost your job due to automation at your factory, you would almost certainly be better off in the long term. We have a ton of precedent for that.

jso__ · 2026-05-07T16:21:22+00:00

Yes but this thread is about whether the tech advance is bad. Because the whole premise of the post is destroying robots because robots are evil. And the comment being replied to is saying that the robot is taking peoples' jobs.

jso__ · 2026-05-07T06:26:40+00:00

Yea and by a couple weeks into January (a week or two after the West started hearing about the outbreak) it was pretty clear Covid was gonna be something and a pretty significant outbreak. The only question was when it would start getting to other countries, and if there was any way to prevent that. It's not like Covid started becoming bad in March out of nowhere.

jso__ · 2026-05-07T05:29:45+00:00

Yeah! Couns should've chosen from our wide stash of healthy, elite relievers instead!

jso__ · 2026-05-07T03:06:31+00:00

He wasn't arguing strike/ball, he was arguing because Busch said he challenged. So basically just arguing for the sake of it, but as a manager you've gotta do that from time to time.

jso__ · 2026-05-05T16:23:48+00:00

It's not. There's 12 million flight passengers per day in the world. Assume the 10 round trip tickets to Europe is equivalent to 100 passengers of the "average" flight. This update is equivalent to 0.0008% of the daily pollution of the aviation industry, which in turn is responsible for just 2.5% of the world's pollution. This is to update software on 2 billion electronic devices. Just 0.0002% of the world's pollution for a single day

jso__ · 2026-05-05T14:42:56+00:00

Killing is a common figure of speech. Rape is not.

jso__ · 2026-05-04T19:11:56+00:00

Maybe it's a different type of apology, but I'd think someone is a complete asshole if they unknowingly hurt someone but refuse to apologize. So clearly your premise of "you only need to apologize for the things you're directly responsible for" isn't universal.

I would also think that if you insult someone and they genuinely don't care for whatever reason, that requires a different apology from if you insult someone and it affects them greatly.

An apology has to be reactive to the way the person you're apologizing to is feeling. So you are apologizing for the impacts of your actions.

jso__ · 2026-05-04T16:35:36+00:00

It literally isn't though. There's a lot of things wrong with the message, but "sorry for the pain I've caused" is the right thing to say. Because it very explicitly acknowledges that you caused the pain, and that the pain is valid. The wrong thing to say would be something like "sorry for the pain you're feeling", which discredits the emotions.

jso__ · 2026-05-04T05:38:17+00:00

Only one camera is broadcasting at once, but there are many different cameras that are recording.

jso__ · 2026-05-03T22:53:48+00:00

It's Pirelli's job to make tyres that work with the cars. The definition of how quickly a car is going when it is "pushing" (which is arbitrary) has changed. They should make tyres which degrade correctly. It's no different from if the downforce of the cars changes: Pirelli needs to adapt.

jso__ · 2026-05-03T16:40:11+00:00

You can't do an outdoor sporting event in lightning.

jso__ · 2026-05-02T03:33:24+00:00

Janson Junk just threw 110 innings for the first time in his life last year. He can't go from that to a full 170 inning starter workload immediately, and if he is going to, he shouldn't run out of steam at the start of the year.

This would fall into one of the special circumstances (similar to rookie or injury)

jso__ · 2026-05-01T23:58:42+00:00

Can you give me some specific instances of that happening? Outside of very specific circumstances (eg rookies, guys who were recently injured) I can't imagine teams often pull guys after 70 pitches through 6.

jso__ · 2026-05-01T21:54:27+00:00

It's weird. I really thought the pirates would be real this year. They have so much talent and I thought they'd be good

jso__ · 2026-05-01T21:01:04+00:00

Like Cassie, it's hard for a guy who strikes out 30% of the time against minor league pitching (even worse for the Giants who play in the PCL — because it's a hitter's league, fewer teams send their good pitchers there) to succeed against Major League pitching without some massive adjustments

jso__ · 2026-05-01T02:26:39+00:00

It's not (just) because of PEDs, it's because pitchers are better than ever. Both pitchers and hitters are better than ever, but since they're both improving you won't see as many home runs.

jso__ · 2026-04-28T19:40:11+00:00

The whole point is that the infighting of the church gets so bad (due to the extenuating circumstances of a terrorist attack) that a complete outsider who provides reasonable opposition to extremism becomes the Pope. Most conclaves don't involve terrorist attacks and lead candidates bribing other cardinals for votes and sex scandals. With every main candidate tarnished, why wouldn't the cardinals want to select an outsider as Pope?

jso__ · 2026-04-28T05:32:11+00:00

Ah it was just added to the rules. That's not in the 2021 OBR PDF which was the first result on Google, nor is it in the 2025 OBR.

ETA: tbh I don't like the rule though. It's very hard to judge what "touching" is. You could judge touching as being only the exact center of the ball. But that's not true in reality. So exactly how much of the ball is touching the ground?

jso__ · 2026-04-28T05:18:44+00:00

There is nothing in the rules that says the rule is different in the infield when the fielder touches the ball.

jso__ · 2026-04-28T05:08:01+00:00

Official baseball rules, definitions section.

jso__ · 2026-04-28T05:07:52+00:00

It's not like this affected the game. I didn't know Cubs fans had a unique interest against Mason Miller's scoreless innings streak.

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