Good luck I guess... but in 5 years you don't get to say nobody told you. So, take this time now to learn or end up being the new-age version of one of those people who don't know how to open a PDF

I'm telling you right now, AI is not going anywhere and AI agents are everywhere

This is a tough one because on one hand I'm old school I like to own physical things. Going to the music store and looking at, and then buying, CDs was my favorite. I like my CD and BluRay collection

On the other hand, it's a waste of money and material to make a physical copy of something you can sell digitally. Plus you got to package it, ship it, etc...

It's better for the environment if we don't make physical products

Again, just silly

The Virtual Boy didn't even last a year.

Tools like Siri and Alexa are over 12 years old and while they weren't based on LLMs its a clear indication that this kind of virtual assistant is not going away

And AI Agents and real LLMs are pushing 4 years now

You think you're being clever but you're just setting yourself up for failure

This is just silly

All of this is actually happening and it's not even brand new. I guess it's new to you, but some of us have been using these tools for years now.

If you're an older adult in a blue collar field you might be able to get away with spending your life thinking it's a stupid toy, but if you're young you might want to pay attention because real soon you're going to enter a work force where people are going to expect you to understand how these tools work

Because while everyone is assuming this is a tweet by just some guy who keeps running into Americans at the Pub who tell him about how great life is after moving, in reality he's a business owner making a sales pitch

Knowing it's a sales pitch, do you still believe he regularly runs into Americans who moved to Italy? Or do you think maybe he's just making that up to try to sell his business to Americans?

That's choice is up to you I guess, but at least now you know

This guy is a weird spiritual business guru. This post isn't an observation on modern American life, it's one of his many posts that try to sell you on his business where he claims that he can teach you how to monetize your passions and not have to actually work

Sure but... does he keep meeting Americans that moved and didn't know life could be that way though?

More than one thing can be true at a time but while this reads like just some guy who keeps going to the local pub and meeting Americans who talk about how great life is after moving, in reality he's a business man making a sales pitch.

It's kind of working too. The amount of people here who didn't think to research who this guy is and just took his word for it is... something.

I'm not saying the guy is a grifter, I don't know. I don't know if he's right or wrong. My point is to make people aware this is a sales pitch not a genuine observation. And it's a sales pitch by a "spiritual guru", for what that's worth

Personally, the US is a big place and so culture varies state-to-state. Where I live, people don't ask you what you do for a living when you first meet them

"freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence"

Where I live both are acceptable, but it depends on where you go

If you go to the "main beach" that's where you bring music. You show off your body, you listen to loud music, you cruise, etc...

But if you go the "locals beach", you show up looking like shit, keep your music down, and lots of people drink illegally but they do so low-key so while we all know they're doing it, nobody cares

To me, both are acceptable. It kind of sucks to think there is no place at the beach where you can party

But it also kind of sucks to think that there is no place at the beach where you can actually enjoy the ocean

SO we have both, you just need to know where to go

I don't know if you're a teenager or something that thinks AI is only used to help people cheat on tests; or...

if you're an adult that has a blue collar job where AI is basically just a glorified search engine, but...

for the rest of us it's an integral part of our daily office lives; especially in software

During our morning meetings Claude acts like a secretary. It takes notes during the meeting and emails us all those notes when the meeting is over and during the meeting, if we want something done, we just verbally ask it to do something as if it were a real person. It can make tasks, send emails, add items to our calendars, send us reminders later in the day, etc...

Claude-Code is an app you install on your computer that, should you give it access, can literally alter files on your computer. So it helps us literally write code. Not only can it write code, it can read and review it as well. Searching for bugs, logic errors, etc... and that's exactly what we have it do. Every time someone pushes code, Claude reviews it. Two other humans also have to review the code, but Claude always reviews everything first

And since Claude can execute commands, it can launch and use apps. So Claude not only writes our unit tests, it runs them too; and not just unit tests. Claude can literally use our application like a real human would, so we have Claude do that too

For sales and marketing, Claude does data analytics.

Nobody is going to just wake up and say, "nah, all that sucks. Get rid of it"

Then why didn't he? Is your logic that he was brazen enough to stand on a world stage and straight up do a Nazi Salute but at the same time was too afraid to say "Seig Hiel"?

How does that work?

I don't give two fucks about Elon. He can fuck himself off a tall cliff for all I care. But life isn't 100% one way or the other and no I don't have to just go along with bullshit lies about what actually happened just because the lie makes a person I don't like look bad. The fact that you think this is how the world works tells me a lot about you though. Elon Musk did not bring a baby out on stage and eat it but according to you, if you don't pretend he did, you're an Elon supporting, Nazi piece of shit. You would also know he didn't eat a baby but you'd also be too much of a fucking coward to stand up and admit it

Here in my part of the US we do build with shops outside of neighborhoods. The problem is that these shops are rarely prime real estate so the stores that move in are rarely something you want to walk to

For example, outside my neighborhood now is

A convenience store, A dry cleaners, a sports bar, a military surplus store, an office for a business that builds floating docks, a tow truck company, some kind of repair shop for hydraulics, a Wendy's, a burger king, and a bait-and-tackle store

Except not all of that is on my side of the street. If you left my neighborhood and went north you would run into the stores. Then there is a road, some more stores, and then another neighborhood. But that road between the two lines of stores is a major road. 8 lanes where I am. (8 lanes all-together. 4 east, 4 west)

So yeah, I could walk to the sports bar because it is close, but also I have to cross 8 lanes of traffic. And the other neighborhood could walk to the convenience store, but they also have to cross 8 lanes of traffic

On paper it's ideal. In reality not so much

Sometimes you luck out and you'll get a mom-and-pop sandwich shop or a small grocery store or something, but most of the time it's dance studios or a place to buy used vacuum cleaners. Just random, lower-rent shit.

If you keep walking you can find more useful things. There's a Starbucks and a doughnut shop close by. If I wanted to ride my bike there is a grocery store.. but that just means crossing more main roads. Not 8 lanes, but still. Not 2 lanes with 25mph traffic either. It's like 45mph 4-lane roads

And of course this is more difficult if you have kids. I'm not sure I'd feel safe riding my bike to the store with my young child. So if we need to go to the store, or even the playground, we drive. It's not that it's so far we can't walk, it's that the walk is sketchy

If you want to walk and shop, we have places built specifically for that. You drive there, park, get out, and then the next like 4 or 8 blocks or whatever is designed just to be for walking and shopping.

It's not an easily fixable problem through. Unless you're going to tear down a bunch of houses this is just kind of how it is

Then again, with everything costing $1000, I'm not sure who's walking to buy anything. I do well for myself but I'm still not going to walk to a sports bar regularly and buy a $9 hamburger and spend $7 on drinks. So really, I don't even care anymore.

So many almost goals... so many actual goals that were offsides.... This entire World Cup has been great.

The games, on paper, that look like they'll be boring, have turned out to be some of the most fun to watch

So Elon was at a real white power rally? Jokes about republicans aside, are you saying he was at an actual Nazi event where it would make sense to throw up a Nazi Salute? Because he wasn't.

Are you saying that Elon did not say that he was thanking the audience from his heart? Because, he did. And I quote

"You know, there are Elections that come and go. Some Elections are, you know, some Elections are important and some are not but this one, this one really mattered and I just want to say 'Thank You' for making it happen, 'Thank You'. My heart goes out to you"

Are you saying that Elon did not grab his heart before the wave? Because he did. And not just for a quick second. He slaps his chest, throws his hand up, turns to the people behind him, repeats, turns back to the front, slaps his hand on his chest a third time and keeps it there for a few more moments

These are facts... inconvenient facts that you call "lies" because your morals are so fucked that you're more interested in pushing a narrative than you are telling the truth

IF you need a name for your metal band, Ikea is full of them

Al Gore Al Qaeda Algae

Republican's weakness is "al"

Seen them during the first election

They killed Hillary, Trump, and Bernie

Trump was naked and wearing a cartoon sack of money for clothes, Hillary was sick and kept vomiting blood, and Bernie was old, died first, and came back as a mutated super monster that tried to eat everyone and had to be killed

The story, if you can call it that, was that Gwar were running for president of the universe and the only way to win was to kill your competition

This violates the laws of physics

Mass is energy. If you eat less and move more but still maintain or gain mass you are a free energy machine and a violation of the laws that govern the universe

See, this is the problem. You think that because I won't go along with the lie that it means that I'm an Elon Musk fan. To you, it's impossible to be like, "Elon Musk sucks shit but also you're lying about what happened"

And really, that tells me everything I need to know. You're not interested in the truth, you're interested in pushing a narrative and never questioning anything against that narrative. If the story was that he pulled a baby out on stage and ate it, even though you know that's not what happened, you'd never speak up. You'd never say, "that's not what happened" because to you, doing exactly that, equates to liking Elon Musk

So you don't give a fuck what he said, where he was at, or how it all went down. You're not interested in the truth.

GWAR concerts are always rad. The music is second to the actual show

But you will get covered in fake blood (it's pretty much just water) so wear a white shirt and if it's cold outside, bring a change for the car