I voted for her but don’t like her.

Primarily, because of her stance on prison labor which is just slavery with extra steps.

Themselves.

I once worked for a CPA who asked me what a balance sheet was for.

He was from a wealthy Tibetan family dynasty and clearly paid his way into the industry, but who knows why he would choose to do that because he clearly was completely over his head.

We used to call him Michael Scott sans charisma.

Only thing worse than a conservative is a centrist, because centrists are just conservatives that are too cowardly to own up to their hateful views.

Not in Gravesandestraat.

Not in Amsterdam.

Almost ate shit last month while riding.

We have a set of criteria for what constitutes a cult, and scientology is unequivocally a cult. If there’s any debate, it’s from the church trying to deny the fact.

Likewise, we also have the scientific method that disproves the health claims regularly made by homeopathy practicioners.

Unfortunately, it is paywalled. Can you copy the text for the rest of us?

Clearly the work of wizards.

Corporations are firing and laying off labor, but that labor is not being done by AI-- it’s simply falling on those who are still employed or not getting done at all.

I resigned from an international public accounting firm due to having AI forced on very sensitive and delicate projects in order to lower costs. As a professional, every alarm bell went off and I left because I could be held liable for their terrible managerial decisions.

They told me they were sad to see me go, but AI is the future and hope I changed my mind-- this was all back in April.

Not only did AI fail to do a fraction of the work we were told it was going to do, it caused over $2MM in client damages that the firm then used to justify the firing of the remaining members of the projects’ team for failing to properly supervise the AI, even though every manager struggles to open a PDF.

AI is not the future because it is literally only capable of looking backwards.

AI is a performative regurgitation of information that real people put the time and energy into gathering, distilling, refining, and presenting to others to evaluate and contribute to.

Even worse, AI demonstrably makes its users dependent and intellectually lazy. If you think about it, the more prevalent AI usage becomes, the less and less capable people will be left to maintain it. And to all the fools crying out that AI will take care of itself or robots will, I say:

All LLMs are hallucinating and going psychotic, and that is not something that can be fixed due to the very nature of how LLMs work.

AI is not intelligent. And while it could be, that would take far too much energy and resources to make cost-effective machines with as many neural connections present in the brain of an average MAGA voter-- and that is already a super a low bar for most of us to clear.

GNU Cash is an excellent alternative to QuickBooks as long as you do not need payroll services.

Accounting:

Intuit products. They mislead people into thinking they are saving money by not paying an accountant or taking a class or two at the community college.

Depending on the situation, it can result in heavy fines and fees when the books or tax returns need to be corrected.

People around you are entitled to peace and privacy.

Your rights end where other people’s begins.

I guarantee you this is happening wherever you live, just in a different flavor.

The billionaires are parasites on the entire planet, not just the US.

Billionaires: “The peasants are on to us… release the simps!”

Simps: “You’re just jealous of their success. Don’t lie, I know you would do anything for a billion dollars-- I know I would.”

Oh snap, you’re right. It’s like a 200 IQ move. 😂

Perfection

If you happened to have an unusually high IQ, why you would you choose to join Mensa, or be a moderator on Reddit for that matter?

The smartest thing you can do is obfuscate your level of intelligence, not brag about it. That’s just how you end up doing more work and getting blamed by everyone around you.

This user keeps posting this on every thread, regardless of the subject at hand.

Not very cash money.

What’s the motivation behind these changes?