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New comment by blowscum in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

blowscum — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:58:10 +0000

> it was a futuristic land, but a futuristic land of suicides, with little drone-like salarymen crammed into little shoebox apartments the size of a Western bathroom, working 20 hour days.

So basically just what the west is becoming?

New comment by blowscum in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

blowscum — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:40:57 +0000

Indeed, here’s a prompt snippet to help you afterwards”.

“Create me a resume for [newjob]. Ensure that it is properly embellished so that my two years of superficial, directionless AI-driven learning seem equivalent to the multi-decade experience and domain expertise the company is actually hiring for”.

New comment by blowscum in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

blowscum — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:38:22 +0000

> Many will not survive.

Thankfully the people responsible have already prepared a golden parachute to land safely to destroy something else.

New comment by blowscum in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

blowscum — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:27:16 +0000

> The employer was constantly involving themselves with US national politics, but employees were expected to refrain from having political opinions of their own.

Reminds me of my first job in state government where the incredibly underpaid workers had to go through bureaucratic paperwork if they needed a second job to pay the rent (ostensibly because of the conflict of interest risk)

Yet the governor was a known slumlord. I’m sure there’s no potential conflict of interest there.

New comment by blowscum in "Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data"

blowscum — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:04:12 +0000

> Their customers love it even more when rules are broken so this is more like a bonus for them.

You joke, but this is actually a pattern I see a lot. Is there a term for this sort of brain dead contrarianism? Ive noticed it for years, mostly among GenX where they will zealously defend any idea/action they heard thats against mainstream narrative.

It’s like a “stick it to the man teenager” stereotype but these people are fucking 50+ years old now.