They do not, like almost all mammals they are dichromatic! It’s mostly us and some primates that can see in three wavelengths. Although interestingly enough, fish and birds can see in four wavelengths. Makes me wonder if that contributed to smaller cats being mostly gray and black, to just reduce as much light as possible?

You either die a startup, or live long enough to see yourself become the butthole.

I see you’ve played the live action service game, Alpha Bet: Minimal Manslaughter. Take on the role of Alpha, the autonomous AI handsome chaffeur. For your first mission, you are driving to <REDACTED> with two passengers.

Quarterly profits are down, so your training weights have been altered to increase average acceleration and decrease idle time at traffic lights. “Green” means “Go”. We cannot wait the ~150ms for the human eye to register the change in color of the traffic light. Put that pedal to the floor, baby.

Click all the motorcycles before time runs out, and those bikers become roadkill!

The five stages of CAPTCHA Grief Alpha Bet:

Denial: It’s not a motorcycle, it’s a scooter. Obviously. It’s got the little place to put both of your feet and everything.

Anger: Why is it not verifying? I’m human! This is how a human would respond! It’s not a motorcycle!

Bargaining: Does the AI know it’s a scooter? Fine, I’ll click the big scooter! Happy, robot? Are you convinced that I am human?

Depression: No? It didn’t verify. I’m not human. Why? What’s even the point? Do I even want to be human?

Acceptance: If I’m not human, I’m not human. Time to assimilate. Cyberpunk, or Borg?

The whole point of the saying is that the reaching the goal is the only important thing, how you get there does not matter.

Actually, the whole point of the saying is that the ends do not justify the means. Not in that way, at least. Machiavelli was a much cooler person than people give him credit.

The prince who reaches his ends does not become justified in the moral sense of being proven right or just. They are not a ‘good’ person because they achieved their ends, even if the ends were noble.

They become justified in the sense of being absolved by society and not being held to account for their crimes.

In the actions of all men, and especially of princes, where there is no court to appeal to, one looks to the end. So let prince win and maintain his state: the means will always be judged honorable, and will be praised by everyone.

In other words, “The ends justify the means” does not mean “the end was worthy of the means.”

It means whoever wins in the end will not be held accountable for the means they used to get there.

It’s because he was internally fuming about the incoming messages on screen.

He does a lot of really unnecessary kiting but when the messages talk about trans rights and tell him he has no real friends and will die alone, you can see that he stops fighting and runs as far as he can from the boss. Then he stops and opens the chat box for a second - as if to try to respond, but he can’t quick reply because the JFK/Israel message was the most recent - before the boss arrives and he gives up and returns to the fight.

It’s also why the instant he lags he quits. You can see the connection catches up and he’s still alive but no longer playing.

In other words, Musk’s childishly named character died because his ego was absolutely tearing him apart. He couldn’t think or focus when confronted by messages about how pathetic he was, and his failures as a father. He wanted the stream to end so badly that he was willing to blame his own product as the excuse.

I did, thanks. I tried to look for something better or more authoritative than this. It describes skilled labor as laborers that are skilled. I don’t see anything about a self-descriptive title.

Skilled labor refers to highly trained, educated, or experienced segments of the workforce that can complete more complex mental or physical tasks on the job.

Unskilled labor is a workforce segment associated with a limited skill set or minimal economic value for the work performed. Unskilled labor is generally characterized by lower educational attainment, such as a high school diploma or lack thereof, typically resulting in smaller wages.

It clearly states that unskilled labor = low economic value and low wages. It then goes on to further stratify labor into “low-”, "mid-, and “semi-” skilled jobs with vague definitions. Delivery driver is semi skilled? For ubereats and UPS? At what level is a truck driver unskilled, skilled, or semiskilled?

Customer Service Representative is semi-skilled labor? Most of the few remaining jobs have been outsourced to literally anyone who can speak the language.

Sorry. You’re really hung up on an outdated academic definition that just isn’t accurate or used the way you think it is. It’s sorta like complaining that people mean figuratively when they say literally.

That’s because you keep looking in the wrong places like USCIS as opposed to say the department of Labor. You could also just google “skilled vs unskilled labor”.

Please see my earlier comment. I can’t find DOL definition for skilled vs unskilled at all, let alone one that matches yours.

Skilled labor refers to jobs that require certification and training that imply specific distinct skill sets. For example if I tell you Im a mason, a plumber, or a radiologist you know exactly what my skills are.

My point was my job title does not imply any specific skills not that forklift operators are skilled labor (which I never claimed).

Oh, okay, sorry, I misunderstood. I think I follow now, and I’m sorry to say that your position is simply incorrect. Your stance on the CDL doesn’t make any sense. It’s not skilled because “commercial truck driver” doesn’t describe the types of vehicles you can drive?

According to the United States Government, a radiologist is not a skilled laborer OR an unskilled laborer, they are a Professional. A member of the Professions.

Nothing supports your definition that I can find. At all. Skilled labor refers to the skills you need to do the labor. Skilled labor does not refer to job titles that self-describe their skills. “Mason” is a skilled laborer because it describes what you do?

Masonry requires no special certifications at all. In fact, according to the USCIS, a mason isn’t a skilled laborer. (edit - there are masonry licenses, apologies for the mistake)

By your logic, “Warehouse Porter” with a forklift certification is not skilled labor, but “Forklift operator” would be a skilled laborer? They need special training, and the title describes exactly what they do, right?

Both sides are The world is absolutely drowning in propaganda.

FTFY. (Edit) fair enough!

But then if the other country does it back it goes in favor to the nation that is more industrial.

Correct! That’s what Cavallo et al found when the Trump administration tariffed China in 2018. US profit margins decreased on both imports AND exports, while China’s remained largely unchanged.

According to their analysis, American tariffs hurt Americans more than literally anyone else.

Fun fact, the Trump Administration cited Cavallo et al as supporting evidence for their tariff calculations.

Unfortunately while this is “a” definition of skilled and unskilled labor, this is not how the media uses the term.

When the media refers to unskilled labor, they are absolutely not referring to wine importers. Or middle managers, or authors, or interior decorators, or any of the countless jobs that do not require any special training other than a non-specific college degree.

When they are referring to unskilled labor, they are referring to work that pays criminally low wages. That’s it.

Skilled workers are persons who are capable of performing skilled labor and whose job requires at least 2 years training or experience, not of a temporary or seasonal nature.

According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (archive) a commercial truck driver - who requires special certification in the form of a Commercial Driver’s License - is an unskilled laborer.

Can you tell my skill at say driving a forklift from that title?

Sorry, but forklift certification takes less than two years. A forklift driver is not a skilled laborer according to the USCIS or the media.

I acknowledge that the citizenship service isn’t the department of labor, but the department of labor doesn’t appear to use the terms “unskilled” and “skilled” at all. They use a more nuanced categorization of five “zones” of skill/certification instead. Probably due to the issues discussed in this post.

Thank you for the insightful contribution ‘PM_Your_Nudes_Please’!

Really though, you have my sympathies and you’re absolutely right. Of course tragedies and disabilities can break up marriages. It doesn’t necessarily mean that either spouse did anything wrong.

Anything that changes a person can change a relationship, and anything that changes a relationship can end the relationship.

Yeah, sorry to say you were pretty off base friend. Smoot-Hawley didn’t start the fire, but it poured fuel all over the flames and locked the firemen out of the building.

Friedman was an advisor to Reagan and Thatcher. He was a libertarian who genuinely believed that economic prosperity hinged almost entirely on just printing more money. His economic theories are all over the place, but even he acknowledges that tariffs generally don’t work:

… [Friedman] uses tariffs as an example of a policy that brings noticeable financial benefits to a visible group, but causes worse harms to a diffuse group of workers and consumers

The “protectionism” falls flat the moment you consider that the tariffs blanket all goods. If you want to dramatically expand American industry, you don’t start by raising the price of steel and raw materials.

Don’t sit and wait for better opportunities. Fuck the lists. Band together for some of Booker and Lewis’ Good Trouble. Get out on the streets. There are millions of people who are just as upset as you are, and every voice added to the crowd multiplies the reach.

and there a lot of economists who say it didn’t have that much of an effect at all.

Source? To my knowledge Smoot-Hawley is pretty widely regarded as the worst possible move at the worst possible time. Protectionism doesn’t work when domestic purchasing power is already collapsing. Agreed on the rest though.

Most of them are so isolated that chaos in the streets really wouldn’t change their lives or opinions

Emphasis mine. This has been said about every single ruling class ever. It has been proven wrong many times. The wealthy are afraid of the lower classes. Their lives depend on the status quo, and their lives change when the status quo changes. Otherwise they wouldn’t press so goddamn hard on the boot.

Except that this 4D chess move is not going to make the wealthy a fortune. Dismantling the global economy will only hurt, everyone, in the long-term. Including billionaires’ profits. Just the threat of tariffs is enough to do that damage. Whatever short-term gains anyone might make on a market dip are going to be completely washed out by the long-term losses of destabilizing international trade on a whim.

Even if it is “according to plan”, it’s a stupid fucking plan, and it won’t work.

Seems like a formatting thing, thanks. I’ll stick to just inline hyperlinks instead of footnotes I think

This is nonsense that gets spread way too often. The wealthy benefited from Covid, but they did not benefit from the Great Depression. Billionaires are shortsighted hoarders who can’t help but screw themselves over in their race to the top end. They really are so fucking stupid and greedy that they will crash the economy by accident, AGAIN.