WafflesTasteGood [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2022

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  • Any kind of SSRI medication does. Whatever serotonin shenanigans the meds do have a negative impact on certain recreational drugs like mushrooms and MDMA.

    I'm pretty sure this is part of what can make them effective for quitting smoking or drinking.










  • My kneejerk reaction to the "no automation" was negative, but after reading the actual explanation why, I totally agreed.

    Automation is better in theory, but in typical capitalist fashion it's mostly done in a hamfisted way to push out labor and ends up costing more in the long run through high initial and long term costs.

    In order for tech to work right in blue collar work, it really needs to be designed and implemented almost entirely by the workers themselves.




  • By my estimation, half of white collar jobs are like this and everyone just engages in theater about how busy they are

    This is common in a lot of blue collar manufacturing jobs I've had too. Gotta milk the work and get it done as close to the expectation as possible or else you're rewarded with more work and higher expectations.

    Always been a huge point of frustration for me since I like to get a good pace going and stay busy since it makes the shift go by faster, but then I have to arbitrarily slow down to keep from giving the boss man the wrong idea.


  • WafflesTasteGood [he/him]totechnologyNo AI apocalypse.
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    4 months ago

    I've kinda seen this in manufacturing for the last few years. Not explicitly "AI" but newer equipment designed around being smarter and not requiring skilled operators. Think like WordPress but for industrial machines; it might do basic stuff pretty well but fails at complex operations, and it's an atrocity if you ever look behind the scenes to do some troubleshooting.