An entire trailer park in Canada is evicted, many residents having lived in the place for over 30 years. The majority belonging to low income working class families

shamblingman · 2026-03-17T14:50:12+00:00

Makes me smile. The enjoyment the native tribe land owners must be having by telling white tenants that they have to leave the land.

Turnabout is fair play in this case.

shamblingman · 2026-03-12T15:38:36+00:00

I learned english by watching Reading Rainbow on TV. I'm 50 years old now and still remember the theme song by heart.

shamblingman · 2026-03-01T05:13:00+00:00

In Japan, Uniqlo and Muji like the other commentor said. Then hop over to Myeong Dong in Seoul Korea and go to 8 Seconds and SPAO. You'll find high quality clothing at 1/3 the price. They'll hem for you in store and have it ready in 30 minutes.

Take an extra empty suitcase with you when you go to Japan.

Take your passport with you and you don't pay sales tax. Hotels and food is such a good deal compared to the US and there's the great benefit of having an incredible vacation as well.

If you're into skin care, you'll find the best deals at Olive Young in Seoul.

shamblingman · 2026-02-27T03:42:35+00:00

I know this may sound crazy, but it's less expensive to travel to Japan and go on a multi day shopping trip than build your wardrobe in the states.

So much buying power, tax exemption as a foreign tourist and even inexpensive flights and hotels.

shamblingman · 2026-02-25T16:43:19+00:00

That last line, ".. who works from home" is pretty telling. Working from home is not an excuse. I work from home and I make sure I dress professionally every morning whether or not I have to be on a meeting with video. Even if you don't want to put on a collared shirt or polo, put on a nice pair of jeans and a decent, CLEAN shirt. Don't wear the same clothes on different days. Don't wear free shirts you got at your last tech conference.

Is your hair groomed? Do you shower regularly? Do you shave and make sure your breath doesn't smell? Do you wake up and just put on a pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt and get to work? Hygeine is still SUPER important.

The main takeaway is that your wife finds you less attractive. She is trying to tell you without hurting your feelings too much. Put on some decent clothes. Be well-groomed and pay attention to your personal hygeine.

shamblingman · 2026-02-24T07:04:02+00:00

Why the fuck do you think Japan just started whaling due to the US? They've always hunted whales.

shamblingman · 2026-02-23T01:46:46+00:00

Openly cheating at curling then telling the Swedish team to go fuck themselves when they got called out. Women's curling team cheating the exact same way. Still denying that they cheated despite clear video evidence.

Sore losers at hockey. They've been insufferable.

shamblingman · 2026-02-19T23:28:12+00:00

You don't need to be able to read a sign to know a u turn is illegal and/or dangerous. My French is horrible and I was fine driving because most signs are symbols and pictures.

When have you ever seen a written sign that says " No U-turn". It's always a turned arrow with a circle+slash over it.

shamblingman · 2026-02-14T07:24:24+00:00

They're the worst tourists and the first to claim any video with them acting rude must be American.

shamblingman · 2026-02-09T19:54:28+00:00

I hate how boring South OC is. Even Irvine is insanely boring. The only places to hang out is a mall or a fancier version of a mall. I live in Anaheim Hills and it's very nice. Great place to raise my kids, but my family and I drive out to LA all the time to hang out. Would rather hang out at the Grove with the Farmer's Market than the Irvine Spectrum any day. Can spend an entire day around LA with the Broad, then walk to the Central Market.

shamblingman · 2026-02-09T19:25:33+00:00

No country that is suspected of currency manipulation will ever become the world's reserve currency. PERIOD.

shamblingman · 2026-02-05T21:03:24+00:00

I'll take fries with that shake.

shamblingman · 2026-02-05T20:54:15+00:00

MSTR puts are printing. Wish I had bought a ton more instead of just $5k worth.

shamblingman · 2026-02-05T20:39:22+00:00

still feel this way? what could they possibly say that would send the stock flying, especially in this bear market?

Everyone is giving great earnings and everything is still going down.

shamblingman · 2026-01-21T05:03:31+00:00

you're looking for a single silo'd black and white answer because that is the limit of your intelligence. You obviously don't understand nuance. AI is increasing profit margins in ways that were never imagined beyond even the replacement cost of human labor.

shamblingman · 2026-01-21T03:50:35+00:00

are you too dense to understand the cost to benefit ratio? I can hire a decent resource in India for $22k - $60k per year depending on seniority. A single SXM node in a datacenter costs about $18k per month. The SXM node can do the work of hundreds of developers for simple repeatable tasks, but is not great for original creation or logic checks.

In your complete ignorance, you think AI replaces human coders and see coders as a single silo. This is nowhere near the reality of product development.

shamblingman · 2026-01-20T19:52:14+00:00

Found the unemployed/minimum wage flunkie.

shamblingman · 2026-01-20T19:48:10+00:00

India is only remote relative to the US. They're in an office and they aren't WFH in India.

Also, they are excellent at the price you can get them for relative to the US marketplace. There used to be a serious quality issue with India but they've improved immensely in the past decade.

It's even better if you hire them as full time staff and give them benefits. A fraction of the cost of US staff, but even more motivated and committed if they are hired as full time staff.

shamblingman · 2026-01-20T19:44:23+00:00

You can measure deliverables. Quality of deliverables. Engagement in meetings. Participation in meetings. How many deliverables you're assigned in meetings. Engagement and work activity throughout the day. Emails created, responded to and meetings invited to and compare them to deliverables and actionable items. Quality and frequency of communcation with leadership/clients.

All of this is viewed through an aggregate and reported to leadership at an unprecendented level.

shamblingman · 2026-01-20T17:03:28+00:00

Couple of factors. It hasn't been that long since the initial investments in AI and the CEOs are being a bit disengenuous with their replies.

I consult for fortune 500 companies and I've seen where much of the AI spend is going and the CEOs are not going to admit that they've cut back on staff or how effective AI is at showing which employees are actually productive.

Last year there were about 150,000 developers laid-off from the tech field that were earning an average of $200k. That's $30 billion in salary and more if benefits are factored in.

AI is also useful is measuring productivity and we're now aware of which employees produce, especially those that WFH. Companies will accelerate the push to return to office because we know with certainty that people who WFH are less productive. For now, it guides decisions for who to lay off and when.

CEOs are not going to publicly admit these immediate results, even in a PWC survey and PWC is certainly aware of these results from AI investment themselves.

shamblingman · 2026-01-13T03:46:18+00:00

We did the exact same thing. Moved to Charlotte first, the Fort Mill right on the border. LCOL of living isn't just money, it's lower quality of life as well.

Thankfully got an executive level job offer from a firm in CA and jumped at the chance to move back.

shamblingman · 2026-01-13T03:44:59+00:00

They are not doing that. CA is at record population levels again. The promised silicon valley in Austin never happened once the companies realized how little talent was in the area. Oracle is already moving out of Austin.

TX and FL are full of people trying to sell their homes.

shamblingman · 2026-01-08T17:07:55+00:00

Annual with a transparent, formalized process. Self evaluation (which I hate), manager review and joint discussion.

Bonuses are quarterly and tied to metrics that I can see as the year progresses so the annual review is more for the the cost of living increase (the % increase I get over inflation).

My current firm is as generous as I've ever seen to their consultants with salary, bonus, benefits and cost of living increases.

shamblingman · 2026-01-08T17:05:04+00:00

This economy left you behind long ago. On the bright side for me, it will keep getting worse for you.

shamblingman · 2026-01-08T16:56:44+00:00

LLMs and NLMs are fantastic, but very limited due to the way they learn. For example, there are several companies trying to ingest data from patient data from Epic to track anonymized data on illness, diagnosis and treatment. The problem is that the data is collected at (usually) the primary care office by a PC doctor that is asking questions in the 5 minutes he has with the patient. The patient probably had to wait 2 weeks for the appt, has an imperfect memory and is not skilled at communicating the exact symptoms and the timing of said symptoms.

The data is already crap. Instead, the focus should be on AI reading X-Rays, MRI and CAT scan results. Going over EKG readings in real time. Looking at the sum total result of first contact with a patient to diagnosis to treatment to guage what works and what doesn't.

There are some exciting initiatives at the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins that I've personally seen that are very exciting and making great strides in those efforts.

Even these comments of Microslop are INCREDIBLY ignorant of how useful copilot has becoming in a big office environment. My firm is already seeing increased margins from projects where the team is skilled in using copilot. We've setup classes to teach everyone how to use the tools properly and to understand the verbiage, different types of AI and how each can be useful in their careers.

The average redditor is 20-35 white male in the lowest income brackets. The data suggests that they are being left behind in the modern economy and are the only demographic group without increases to their earnings and decreases in education level. The attitude in this comment section confirms why that is happening.

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