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Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirement

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As someone who has never farmed, I don't understand why people think they'll retire through farming, arguably one of the most back breaking jobs with least pay to produce stuff that costs the least out of anything... And is due to become more and more difficult as climate change gets complex.

This is not the type of manual labor you want to learn how to do and invest in as you're older?

But yeah maybe managing some chickens and an herb farm, whatever that's not a big deal. I just would expect to only be supplementing what groceries you buy as a hobby, not homesteading. Don't get fucking acres of farmland that you won't know how to use... Grow some rosemary and thyme, maybe potatoes. Fuck even one fruit tree is a lot of work. Try that out first. Potatoes! Try stuff you can do with a balcony first. Maybe a goat if you're really wild.

But these are hobbies, not retirement income.

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He's never wrong

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Actually yes! the Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray.

It's a very odd book arguing that they weren't seeing the devil and the witch trials were people worshipping what she calls the "Dianic cult", like some ancient fertility gods with horns and stuff. But it does reference a lot of actual witch trials in the book and it's fascinating.

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I was reading this book, academic book about the witch trials but written very early 1900s, and weird shit.

It referenced actual court documents and such during witch trials and this one person was admitting to talking to some dude with red eyes in a hat. I swear it sounds like the fucking Hatman, but during medieval times... Dude has been fucking with humanity for centuries at least.

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He's seen in many other situations too. Benadryl is just super commonly known.

Someone I talked to online said they saw him multiple times in their life sober, and every time there'd be a death in the family or really bad thing would happen. They didn't see him as evil, just as an omen/warning.

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I'm tired of GTA

I honestly wish they'd release some side stories in the form of small GTA 2 style top down 2d games.

We don't need the latest graphics and best shit all the time. GTA1 and 2 were awesome in their own right.

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JD Vance is watching his presidential ambitions go up in smoke | Vance is learning what everyone else already knew: Throwing away your principles to ingratiate yourself with Trump is ultimately a los…

The funny thing is this was and still is his best chance at the presidency. If the fat pedo keels over, we get this fucking disgrace until 2028. And that year or two will be all he ever gets.

He never had a chance, before or after Trump. It's funny because MAGA voters thought he was literally a liberal plot to undermine Trump when they announced he was the VP pick. LOL this loser was so fucking unloved from the start they started a literal conspiracy theory that he was a secret liberal plot to stop Trump from winning... So no, he's never had a chance.

He's like Kevin Spacey from House of Cards where he would only become president through fuckery, except mostly the problematic parts with the live actor and couch fucking in drag as his worst kept dark secret. Also Kevin Spacey would never be so fucking awkward in a donut shop and cause a literal scandal.

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🤔 Interesting

Finally someone said it. I honestly was wondering why no one was complaining about this... I've worked on some open source myself, licensed it GPL, and never intended for it to be used as training data.

Doesn't the GPL cover shit like this? There should be mass lawsuits hitting any AI that used open source software and didn't just specifically use BSD projects or something.

If you train an LLM on GPL code, it should be illegal to sell that LLM and use it commercially without revealing ALL THE SOURCE you used and the source to regenerate that model.

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no rule infuriates me more

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I worked with a guy who was arguing with me about something and I said, "I'm not sure that's correct." He said, "I asked chatgpt and it told me that." I told him, "yeah, I figured, and I asked chatgpt and it told me the opposite" and showed him the screen.

Like sure it can be useful but don't use it as your one source of truth...

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Radicalize the frogs 🐸

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Do you think Sir Hamberder learned how to write professionally overnight?

Everyone claims it's proper grammar... But it's funny how suddenly so many people use proper grammar in their social media posts. I especially don't think Captain Dementia Kidfucker uses proper grammar.