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George H.W. oval office posted:My parents were complaining because some friend of theirs has to deal with a Gen Z worker and they come in at 10, take a hour lunch, then dip out at 3 for the day and that’s baller as hell. Gen Z is gonna break the backs of the boomers with their 100% not giving a poo poo attitude 20 hour work week should be the standard.
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Apr 8, 2024 03:59
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gradenko_2000 posted:
frame this and put it in a museum
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Apr 8, 2024 04:01
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Father Wendigo posted:https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1777022213515805018?t=u5YPwb9zddUlMJS8tHBYfw&s=19 Saw a comment awhile back saying it's no longer cringe to clap when a plane lands.
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Apr 8, 2024 04:10
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gradenko_2000 posted:
"I'm feeling bougie today - I'm going to eat!"
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Apr 8, 2024 04:11
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super sweet best pal posted:Saw a comment awhile back saying it's no longer cringe to clap when a plane lands. lol
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Apr 8, 2024 04:12
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gradenko_2000 posted:
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Apr 8, 2024 04:17
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super sweet best pal posted:Saw a comment awhile back saying it's no longer cringe to clap when a plane lands. Mother fucker this is the bleakest poo poo
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Apr 8, 2024 04:18
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Apr 8, 2024 04:29
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super sweet best pal posted:Saw a comment awhile back saying it's no longer cringe to clap when a plane lands. rough chuckles
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Apr 8, 2024 04:29
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super sweet best pal posted:Saw a comment awhile back saying it's no longer cringe to clap when a plane lands. They're not clapping for the plane landing, OP, they're clapping for Jeb!
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Apr 8, 2024 04:33
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Horseshoe theory posted:"I'm feeling bougie today - I'm going to eat!" eating lots of avocados 🤣🤣🤣
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Apr 8, 2024 04:47
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gradenko_2000 posted:
we doubled the price of everything to the point where cream is a luxury item and hahaha these hahaha children are still buying it oh god hahahaha
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Apr 8, 2024 05:03
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well there is some ridiculous poo poo out there quote:The success of the canned water brand Liquid Death also shows how young people are willing to spend on flashy food and beverages. The brand recently shot up to a valuation of $1.4 billion thanks to a recent round of funding, according to Forbes. Peter Pham, an investor in Liquid Death, previously told Business Insider that part of the brand's success comes from its appeal to younger generations.
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Apr 8, 2024 05:09
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netizen posted:Nothing a little duct tape applied by a coked-out part-time employee couldn't fix. Part time airport employees can't even afford coke anymore
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Apr 8, 2024 05:11
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gradenko_2000 posted:
Lmfao
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Apr 8, 2024 05:13
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gradenko_2000 posted:
priced out of bell peppers
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Apr 8, 2024 05:28
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mycomancy posted:Mother fucker this is the bleakest poo poo
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Apr 8, 2024 05:35
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Chugging Liquid Death at my lazy girl job, logging in to Tradeline and watching my credit cards work for me, loving life is good, poo poo it's 3pm already I'm outa here.
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Apr 8, 2024 06:02
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super sweet best pal posted:Saw a comment awhile back saying it's no longer cringe to clap when a plane lands. thread title
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Apr 8, 2024 06:38
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gradenko_2000 posted:
this is a hateclick headline for a "price go up" new article stop giving in to the hate...............
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Apr 8, 2024 06:41
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super sweet best pal posted:Saw a comment awhile back saying it's no longer cringe to clap when a plane lands. lmao
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Apr 8, 2024 06:41
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anime was right posted:this is a hateclick headline for a "price go up" new article oops the internet is all just seo scams and LLM clickbait
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Apr 8, 2024 06:43
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i give in to the hate
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Apr 8, 2024 06:53
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Me: Purchases an ice cream sandwich as a treat Some dipshit: "THE IRRESPONSIBLE MILLENNIALS ARE AT IT AGAIN, FOLKS!" Seriously though, that is some bullshit reporting. The McKenzie study itself seems... fine I guess? It's basically just a generalized look at consumer sentiment and how consumers across various age cohorts are spending their money. The BI article however breaks away from the McKenzie study halfway in though and proceeds to go off on a bunch of weird unrelated tangents based on "one guy said a thing" and "a weird brand of canned water was successful". Absolutely baffling. Anyways, let's do a real breakdown of that McKenzie study. The first thing I noticed was that while consumer sentiment is up across the board from last year, it still seems to be fairly poor with a negative net-intent to increase spending on most things except essentials:    To me this says that the economy is improving to the point where people are feeling comfortable enough to buy the organic Trader Joe's granola they like but are still in a tight spot (or perceive themselves to be) and don't feel comfortable spending much more on anything else. Next we have "Intent to splurge"  This one bugs the poo poo out of me because "do you intend to treat yourself over the next three months" is both a fairly long time frame for that kind of thing and also incredibly vague. Both renting a $3 movie from Amazon and spending $35k on a vacation are both technically "splurging". So the fact that half of all poor Gen Z kids intend to do it doesn't tell us much. I do find it interesting that intent is down or neutral across the board for middle-income people though. Which make sense since they are the ones getting the most squeezed lately. Finally we have the things people are splurging on which does help clarify things a bit:      Most of this is pretty expected (younger people buy more home electronics than old people, shocking) but the one interesting thing I noticed was that while Gen Z and Millennials splurged on groceries, Gen X and Boomers splurged on restaurants, which 100% tracks with what I know about people my parent's age. When I want a fancy meal, I usually just make it myself. However when my parents want a fancy meal, they go to Chilis (seriously guys!?). And the reason for that divide? Because eating out is loving expensive and I can't afford to do that every week. My parents on the other hand can do it without even really thinking about it much. So this study may not necessarily be evidence that the Kids These Days are suddenly being irresponsible by spending a ton more on groceries. It could actually be that they have a bit more to spend but are still locked out of more expensive options. Lastly, I just want to take a moment to gripe about how there's no category breakdown by economic status. I'd be very curious how these categories would shift if you compared poor to wealthy cohorts. How much splurging do you suppose the rich do on things like travel? Sadly we may never know (it's a lot). EDIT: Important note: This study is only really looking at the intent to spend more than you normally would on things you don't necessarily need, NOT whether people are spending more on things in absolute terms due to inflation. Based on the way the questions are worded you probably won't get a lot of people reporting that they intend to splurge if all they are doing is buying the same stuff at a higher price. readingatwork has issued a correction as of 07:03 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Apr 8, 2024 06:55
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LonsomeSon posted:i give in to the hate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ6nF6JKtRc
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Apr 8, 2024 06:56
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with those prices, buying a box of cheerios counts as 'splurging' on groceries these days
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Apr 8, 2024 07:00
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i kill poster anime was right using force lighting
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Apr 8, 2024 07:01
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super sweet best pal posted:Saw a comment awhile back saying it's no longer cringe to clap when a plane lands. Lmao
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Apr 8, 2024 07:36
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Visiting other places really makes me realize how dumb the USA is. I went to a grocery store with my sister -in-law in an African country. The cashier was stone faced. After, I asked my sister if the cashier was mad that a white man was there or what. She said that is how all cashiers are, it would be more unusual if the cashier smiled and was friendly. I told her how American cashiers have to fake smile and be super friendly or they get in trouble/fired. My years working as a cashier would have been so much better if I didn't have to pretend to be every customer's friend.
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Apr 8, 2024 07:36
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umm, what are some examples of these jobs? asking for a friend
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Apr 8, 2024 07:36
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Precambrian Video Games posted:How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. by five human authors (could have just asked grok): amazing I didn’t realize that they’ve basically used all the data that there is. lol. that’s a huge fuckin problem if they want to keep up appearances and keep pushing out better models.
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Apr 8, 2024 07:38
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cool av posted:amazing I didn’t realize that they’ve basically used all the data that there is. lol. that’s a huge fuckin problem if they want to keep up appearances and keep pushing out better models.
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Apr 8, 2024 07:40
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cool av posted:amazing I didn’t realize that they’ve basically used all the data that there is. lol. that’s a huge fuckin problem if they want to keep up appearances and keep pushing out better models. i found out searching by images rather than standard weblinks is much faster at getting useful data lol, for let's say reviews for ryzen 5700x3d simply cuts to the chase than hitting up a sea of worthless algo-text excrement walls pretending to be real reviews Palladium has issued a correction as of 07:47 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Apr 8, 2024 07:44
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cool av posted:amazing I didn’t realize that they’ve basically used all the data that there is. lol. that’s a huge fuckin problem if they want to keep up appearances and keep pushing out better models. Best part is there's absolutely no way they can get more data without it being AI garbage itself, I'd bet
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Apr 8, 2024 07:48
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yes the big pinprick moment for generative text will be later this year when openAI release GPT5, and it's obvious to everyone that it's just an incremental improvement over 4. nothing like the leap from 3 to 4, or the huge leap from 2 to 3 that sparked the mania. once it sinks in that the second derivative of progress is sharply negative, the frenzied pumping of literal trillions into this poo poo will evaporate quickly (to be clear i'm not saying there's no progress to be had from fine-tuning new and existing models, but it's going to be increasingly incremental and niche)
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Apr 8, 2024 07:58
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cool av posted:amazing I didn’t realize that they’ve basically used all the data that there is. lol. that’s a huge fuckin problem if they want to keep up appearances and keep pushing out better models. loved the analogy of Human-Produced Text with Fossil Fuels in this substack: quote:Explosive growth can only come from cheating, from discovering some way to break the rules. Most of the time this involves actual explosions. it goes on and ends in a different, less intersting direction ("and that is why we should ban tiktok" lmao), but I like the turn of phrase and what's really amusing is that none of these firms seem interested in investing into the real bottleneck for advance in "AI", which is Machine Perception. Training data and models still requires a vast, vast amount of labor hours' worth of labeling and validation by humans. if we could get machines to percieve the world directly without less an less human input that could solve the current problem! but no, let's just keep brute-forcing larger and larger models on top of each other I'm sure it will go great
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Apr 8, 2024 08:08
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SA Forums Poster posted:Visiting other places really makes me realize how dumb the USA is. this is how it is in most of the 'civilized' world. going grocery shopping in italy ruled. america is just particularly sick in the head
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Apr 8, 2024 08:15
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Best part is there's absolutely no way they can get more data without it being AI garbage itself, I'd bet sort of like how pre-nuclear bomb iron/steel is very very expensive and useful for radiometer devices because there's too much background nuclear now
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Apr 8, 2024 08:16
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I figured more that even if there's better ways to acquire data and train algorithms on it, the companies pushing AI and everyone who'll do business with them are institutionally incapable of doing that when they can just feed more AI garbage into itself, because that's less effort and they will always and only choose the option with the least effort.
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Apr 8, 2024 09:05
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have the Feds seize the entirety of libgen, and then use that material to train AI without having to pay licensing to whoever originally owned the material bing bong so simple
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Apr 8, 2024 09:06
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