Some hypothetical impressionable youngster: "Why would anyone need to shake their eggs up?"
OPENS THREAD
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
I use Excel at work, not in a traditional accounting sense, but my company uses it as an interface with one of our systems I frequently work with.
Rather than tediously search the main Excel sheets that get fed into that system for all of the data fields I have to fill in, I made separate Excel tools that consolidate all of that data, then use macros to put the data into the correct fields on the main sheets for me.
Occasionally I'll have to add new functionality to that sheet, so I'll ask AI to write the macro code that does what I need it to do.
Saves me from having to learn obscure VBA programming to perform a function that I do during .0001% of my work time, but that's about the extent of it. For now.
Of course most of what I do is white collar computer work, so I'm expecting that my current job likely has a two-year-or-less countdown on it before they decide to use AI to replace me.
If he pronounces no sentence except for sticking the felon branding, then it isn't even a slap on the wrist. It doesn't affect him in any way whatsoever, even after his term is over.
Slavery was about 99% of what drove the entire thing, so it makes sense to me.
To stay in compliance with weekly Lemmy AI image memes, here this is.
Yeah, we may be at checkmate. Unlike the end of the age of the robber barons, when we reformed capitalism in the late 1800s / early 1900s in the US... this time the capitalists have purchased enough politicians to stop reform completely and forever.
In order for us to vote for change, change has to be on the ballot.
Moreover, the ballot itself must change.
"I'm sorry, fairly-right-of-center Southern Democrats. You're not quite evil enough for me anymore, I need to spread my wings."
I'm getting major "I'm asking for a friend" vibes off of this post.
Oh, you've got a behavior there, but the wrong motivation.
I sit at home, but I don't sit on public toilets precisely because dudes have been whizzing all over the seat.
As someone living on the East Coast who is never within 2,000 miles of an In n Out Burger, I'll continue to do my part.
"The free exchange of communication and ideas, unrestricted by capitalist interference? Can't have that kind of evil in the world. Surely it's my duty to shut this down, so that others may come to know the flavor of corporate boot leather as well as I have."
Hook it up to your living room TV, and make it your entertainment station? With a good set up, you can stream on it, play retro games and emulation, miscellaneous media... I could see it being much more useful than a standard Roku / Fire / et cetera USB stick.