We're talking radio hosts. That usually means the only skill they need to have is to keep their lips flapping.

In my estimation, radio hosts are the absolutely dumbest people on earth. Or at least they look like it due to statistics. The more words you produce, the higher the chance that something absolutely asinine tumbles out.

I see no value lost in having AI do this instead. Well, perhaps other than having to find something else for such people to do.

My dude, you do realize that most people can change jobs, even vocation, yeah? It might not be easy but if you truly wanted to breathe better air, you could manage.

Unless, of course, you prefer the additional victim points?

This is by no means a statement of acceptance toward the status quo. That kind of thinking leads to things getting worse everywhere. However, being defeatist certainly hasn't solved any problem ever.

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a teenager but I didn't react well to Ritalin and didn't pursue it. When decades later the autism diagnosis came, I expected the ADHD had been misdiagnosed.

I have become unsure lately. I do much better jumping from project to project, whereas I hate being yanked out of a thought process. Not so much by a colleague wanting to chat. That I kinda like to do from time to time. And if it's a bad moment, I just say that I'll get back to them.

But the ever growing administrative side... who needs to give their okay, who knows what and all the management overhead of a company, that is painful to me. And background noise that doesn't concern me, personally.

I am a diagnosed autist (and I mean diagnosed a few years ago, as an adult) and I learned during covid that I need the office environment.

Not every day, of course but once or twice a week I do, otherwise I completely lose the relationship to my company and quite frankly, I haven't seen a company yet that has communication worked out.

computer based communication is motivation-driven, meaning you need to want to communicate something, formulate it and put it in the right channel.

The involuntary conversation that is so annoying to neuro-divergent people is important, though.It's a regular occurrence that I overhear a morsel of info I can provide a solution to or solves or at least advances my own issues towards a solution.

During covid, at times I didn't feel like I was even still part of the company. It was not a good time.

Let's see how that works out for them.

How would it being cheaper factor into it from the caregiver's side? Isn't it more a question of insurances pressuring towards less costly procedures?

I would guess they calculated that the additional cancers are cheaper than putting them all in MRIs instead.

...conservative loons?
Have you been on vacation for the last decade or so? Sightseeing Jupiter or something?

What stops you from just buying those parts? I would presume someone with a skill set to optimize a 3d model for aerodynamics should be able to afford the what, 2000 bucks these parts would cost.

They declined three different perfectly good credit cards.;)

Well, obviously. Experience cannot be taught as opposed to knowledge.
Wisdom and intuition both rely on experience, among other things.
So this is just logical. I use ChatGPT when scripting because I don't have a lot of routine at it so I tend to forget basic things. I can supply some experience and intuition while ChatGPT fills the knowledge gaps.

Works on my level.

X is social media. Social media is not made for beneficial interaction. It's made for clicks (which is why I don't consider Slashdot social media, even though it has a social aspect).

Threaded comments would make it possible to reorient yourself in the discussion, contextualize a post and post a level-headed reply that shows understanding of the point another has made.
None of that leads to drive-by insults, rage and flamewars, which bring views.

I am much more concerned with archeologists stumbling over the data on there and thinking we were all this stupid... you know, like people today think people were stupid in the middle ages for being illiterate (which back then meant not being able to read latin, the scholar language).

You know how historians operate, right? Everything they find is put into context with other things from the same region and area to try and paint a picture. Getting close to the truth with incomplete data and so forth.

Now if someone stumbles over Idiocracy in a thousand years, that alone should not make them judge our whole era... but if you add the VAST data trove that is social media to that, it's gonna corroborate a LOT of that movie.

Maybe but that actually does work. Of course it's not easy but how do you think religion leads to less depression? Because you have more hope. Because, in effect, you are thinking positively.

The people on the internet are not real. And I include WhatsApp in that as well. People behave differently when detached through a couple of screens.

You make an assumption that I don't think you should be making: That everyone, including your social peers, are only on social media and are unwilling to engage with you in any other way.

Sometimes you have to set your boundaries and whoever thinks talking to you in person is too much effort... is that really your peer? A peer is what you perceive as such. You have control over that. And yes, the young'uns have a harder time at this than adults and no, it is not an easy thing to do, even for grown-ups.

But I say the earlier they learn, the better. What relationships they do form based on boundaries will be all the stronger for it.

There is nobody and nothing going to save you from putting in hard work and learning restraint if you want to have a good life.

I am at a loss on whether you didn't get the joke or I'm not getting yours:D.