I love this post explicitly because it is so absurd. What!? 😂

Mmm not that I’m aware of. Different provinces have different ages of majority (ie. 19 in Ontario and BC, 18 in others), but I haven’t heard of no cigarettes until 21. Granted, haven’t been paying attention, that’s in the rear view 🫠

This would absolutely be my title if I was the head of Pros Piracy. Captain Hundredbuccaneer. Avast ye scurvy shareholders, shudder at me redistribution of gold to me mates 🏴‍☠️

I recently completed a fairly complex implementation training in government for a team of non-technical users, including agents, agentic workflows, some RAG, and small-scale enterprise app deployments.

I find it a very cool technology, but it is dumb yet. When unbounded, AI does some cool stuff. But building for complex workflows, I find, has resulted in a mixed bag of results. Very specific functions, such as mining data patterns, it is not bad at. But add gray area and it kind of takes stabs in the dark, much like a badly defined Web search.

Even our technical teams sell it as a 10-20% increase in efficiency, not a firesale position replacement. And they’re mandated to adopt and distribute it as widely through govt as possible.

In short, I think this is a fair assessment lol AI may replace us one day, but the models are far too new yet

That or Budweiser doesn’t get charged duties cuz it’s just that bad, so the govt doesn’t see it as a threat to domestically produced beer 😂

Only if you use it as a smart tv - I just never signed the user agreements, and now have a big TV with OLED. I switch to the source I want - off I go. Television can still just be television!

Perhaps paradoxically, this might have turned out to be an advantage rather than a drawback

Alternative pro tip: forget to go to the gym, have towel

I see you and I had the same thought. That’s gotta be meth

My risks that aren’t covered aren’t your problem!

Luke Outaboveyou!

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As indicated in the article, this feels like a very Alberta solution to no truck

Freezing rain. There’s a special circle in hell for quarter inch thick freezing rain.

I recognise the irony, but the fires of hell don’t burn as hot as my hatred of scraping freezing rain.

Dodge the father, ram the pile of snow into the car behind you!

This bread is only half cooked! We must cook it again to guarantee tastiness!

Slightly unrelated tirade:

Background in psychology here: Psychology and sociology are also terrifyingly hard fields to pin down. Any one human’s behavior can be wildly inconsistent within a given set of parameters, and ppl evolve across time. Cultural context and social expectations come into play at and individual level.

Add in individual sensitivities to authority, understanding of a request, general intelligence, and you get massively varied outcomes that may change as a person grows and changes.

Then, for sociology, pile on group pressures and tendencies, plus group think and group cultural context (I have no background in sociology).

I truly believe psychology and sociology are great fields of study, that yield light on human truths. That said, from a technical scientific perspective, I think it’s nigh impossible to measure their value the same way as you would for mathematics or physics. At least, without finding a way to apply those fields to psychology lol

Not to mention a true farming life is brutal. Those 4am wakeup calls aren’t optional, if you’re truly living off it. Tractor breaks down? Cow’s sick? Want lunch?

You fix it, you kill it, you make it.

Because the non-industrial scale profit margins on farming suck. So you don’t have the money to pay someone for many of the luxuries city folks enjoy. Do it for a year, and you either learn to love the struggle or you quit.

There are some amazing parts of farming. And the life can be incredible. But farmers are ridiculously tough for a reason.

And this, kids, is called “setting healthy boundaries.”

Honestly I think this is just a good summary of console players. I’m not young, but I play console, and don’t think about PC… ever. I’m happy PC players found their niche, I’m happy with mine, let’s talk about the games we love!