My brother is an Air Traffic Controller and we were talking about this earlier. New ATCs have months of training where they get paid terribly and have to live in Oklahoma City. Nowadays they don’t even get to choose exactly where they’ll work afterwards. There are some classes that graduate and then have to pick between something like working in San Juan or Oakland. And then their pay is also shit for a year or two until they fully qualify.

Could you imagine going to MIT, then saying “yeah I’ll take a job that pays $14 an hour training to live in Oklahoma. Then I’ll let you roll the dice and send me to live in Southern California and try to live off $36,000 a year. Or you know… I can just go take a job wherever the fuck I want as an MIT grad and get paid 6 figures right out the gate.”

The tussle ended with Trump intervening to tell Duffy to hire “geniuses” from MIT as air traffic controllers.

This is the most WTF line in this article.

His head in a basket would still be rich as hell

Barring personal disaster, they will never be poor.

I’m trying to think what personal disaster could possibly happen to render Elon poor. I feel like a new administration could come in, declare him a traitor, cease all his assets, and he still wouldn’t be poor. Once you’ve got that kind of money, I’m sure you have millions squirreled away here and there.

So he announced the tariffs, got push back, postponed them, then enacted the tariffs again, got even more push back, and is now suspending them again for 30 days?

Wtf

I love Brandon Sanderson, but his world building and complex magic systems aren’t for most people. I’ve tried to get my wife to read his stuff for years and she just has never gotten into it.

The reason Harry Potter was so commercially successful is because the vast majority of the public doesn’t want to learn about allomantic properties of 16 different metals and how they have internal/external, physical/mental, enhancement/temporal and pushing/pulling effects.

They don’t want to learn about adhesion, gravitation, division, abrasion, progression, illumination, transformation, cohesion, and tension surges - and how bonding a spren through oathes increases your ability to surgebind. Their eyes glaze over when talking about the cognitive and physical realms.

Most people just want to hear “yeah some people are magic and can wave wands, say some magic words and poof magic happens.” That’s why it’s one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

But yeah, I’ve just learned to accept that while I love some Sanderson magic systems, it’s not ever gonna be for everyone. And that’s ok.

Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I’ve been in Lemmy for almost 2 years since the API migration, and I don’t know if I’ve ever encountered a tankie, despite seeing hundreds of memes about them.

I’m guessing my instance just doesn’t federate with the same weird shit y’all are seeing?

I loved how they laid that out all matter of fact like, as if I had any idea WTF they were talking about. Definitely a case of:

The whole thing was pretty damn good all the way through. The only thing that had me wondering was

Tea

Until it got to

SpillTea

Well played.

What’s a teaboot?

I’m currently on vacation in California at an outdoor mall. I’m squat/sitting on a tiny piece of concrete that’s like 8” off the ground and am so mad that I can relate to this picture. Why the fuck can’t we just have benches!?!

Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005)

Now I kinda want to read On Bullshit

No… No that can’t be right. 1994 was like… shit.