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Human Intelligence Sharply Declining

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Yeah, well, um, duh. How else to survive the existential mass of reentry, billions of souls failing to come to grips with the available fot dealio with the current situation.. *shield intelligence lead brain case attack×

The dangerous collapse we do not see

Posted by Desperate_Web_7639@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 80 comments

Normies v Nerds: The end of an era?

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The real nerds are endangered species getting wiped out by the encroaching spiderwort invading tentacles... the "nerds" are fearsome barbarian conquerors leaving nothing spared in their wake...

My company executives thinks it can replace 100 percent of our help desk teams with AI agents.... This year.

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What does meaningful action look like if, while collapse may be likely, it's not 100% guaranteed?

Posted by Willravel@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 128 comments

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Appreciate how amazing the world is,. Human society is very human centered to the point where people don't appreciate anything... beyond our culture the world is really super amazing

Milestones like marriage and parenthood are so delayed for millennials and Gen Z many of them are skipping out on life insurance, report finds

Posted by fortune@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 169 comments

The coming global food crisis

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I found this on other subreddit and I just thought it was highly delusional, am I wrong?

Posted by Eager_PurpleOverdose@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 164 comments

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they are welcome to lead their lives... maybe life will turn out exactly the way they are thinking. sometimes I imagine finding myself in a situation where for whatever reason a woman decides to get pregnant... hopefully in times of plenty. but my life has never couched such circumstances for me personally... i have been coming to terms with the creepy reality the whole time I guess. who knows though. hopefully some people never have to worry about it and can just live in bliss... as long as they are not pigs and jerks... which is my new restaurent idea,"Pigs and Jerks, Restaurant." vegan pigs only...jk.

Call and Response

Posted by guyseeking@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 134 comments

New Evidence show Planet Heading to Super - El Niño, on top of Super Warming: James Hansen’s Warning

Posted by paulhenrybeckwith@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 214 comments

where are the l1 / l2 techs + generalists going?

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Megathread: US / Israel / Iran conflict 03.13.26

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Actuarial World War: Iran, Oil, and the Cracking World Order

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Irans Hack

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Ceo playing spyhunter... *KRA-CRUNCH* reward failure with job, no. IT people will say its their idea, unaccept. It's up to that masked IT guy somehow being paid in German bearer bonds 40 years ago

Iran says it's ready for a long war that would 'destroy' global economy

Posted by mark000@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 336 comments

Medical Company Styker attacked by Iranian backed hackers - all data deleted

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US National Debt Hits 100% of GDP

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PC sales to drop 10.4% this year, steepest decline in over a decade, budget PCs nonexistent

Posted by CompetitiveLake3358@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 328 comments

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meh, the mainstream ruined PC gaming with the "market".... i built a few cheap/budget AM4 builds that should hold me over. the main thing for me was optical audio output to listen to my free music streams and MP3s....

If ServiceNow is so painful to use, why do companies still choose it?

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I think the missing thing is that somebody has to be paid to make it work better, but its a terrible price, terrible price... the price that must never be paid... Vigilante hackers have never been known to hack in to perform fix jobs on it...

I put up a job opening for a hardware tech - almost all apps are software only people.

Posted by GoodTofuFriday@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 489 comments

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I didn't really touch the cabling aspect till relatively recently in my career... too much siloing and contracting going on to build a solid base of skills sometimes... I guess a lot of cabling work goes to electrical... funny how labor is so jacked up, and management with their ways... pretty eye opening to how fortunate humanity is to be doing as well as it is

Documentation is out of date again

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The collapse nobody models: not a bang, just a chain of autonomous decisions nobody made

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People will lock themselves out... maybe we already have... have you had to fight against the unconscious cognitive offloading? Why is everyone resisting you when you act independently. It's sort of an intriguing puzzle quest as long as danger stays at bay... down by the bay, sitting on the dock of the bay

What Gave It Away?

Posted by Monsur_Ausuhnom@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 133 comments

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i am just thrilled to be experiencing the plants and animals with spring coming back, to see the plants emerge that I have planted and continue to learn about all the wonderful plants and animals that I never had any idea of... i dunno what i would do if I did not have these amazing things to look forward to.

I found out I will be let go soon on accident - they do not know I know.

Posted by Upbeat-Chain-3155@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 506 comments

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People will make up any number of reasons to sabotage somebody... its a form of self promotion... build confidence with team while stabbing one person in back... unfortunately people are compulsive and bizarre... good luck, it may actually be for the best because it sounds like they may secretly be ghouls, cursed undead servants of undeath...

7 of 9 boundaries for sustainable life crossed. The elite are pedophiles. Fascism gaining power across the globe. Everyone watched a genocide happen on their phones in full-HD, and did nothing. Food production exceeding global population, yet starvation persists.Perhaps we SHOULD embrace the collaps

Posted by Boring-Point-7155@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 147 comments

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I think one way to make progress is to probe issues where commonsense stuff is not addressed... To understand that lack of action. I will insert my bias here as I am just one, but take for examples, hand washing took a long time for people to go along with despite being proven as true.... then also with food people seem to have a big problem choosing vegan options or being able to not eat themselves to death. So to a degree these said examples characterize human issues... my, I just find it fascinating, jk. Gosh, humanity, putting the ers in bonkers.

It's completely insane to that billionaire pedophiles are destroying America, and a huge chunk of everyday, normal people are choosing to side with the billionaire pedophiles

Posted by jaboyles@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 137 comments

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People are animals. And a lot of common sense health stuff is not observed. In a way we are lucky things are not worse. There are a lot of self entitled people in high places who are simply not very aware... The breadth and depth of experience is amazing/incredible. Clearly most people are somewhat clueless. Smoke em if you got em, have a cold one for me, etc...

No more hard drives?

Posted by attathomeguy@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 292 comments

Is ServiceNow really this inconvenient to use for everyone, or is it just our implementation?

Posted by Relative_Hippo2549@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 198 comments

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I think they need to pay somebody to make it optimized... but that apparently is not important for your org... Bells and whistles on a derelict boilerplate config

America’s Oligarchic Techno‑Feudal Elite Are Attempting to Build a Twenty‑First‑Century Fascist State

Posted by xrm67@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 101 comments

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Fast forward to a timeline where they succeed only to realize it was pointless... Tis a gift to be simple... in touch with the earth... yet it is the missing link in so many lives

Up to half of the world’s key grazing land may be lost this century

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Profits Over People: The Climate Rollback Americans Didn’t Vote For

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Thoughts on all the hype surrounding space exploration?

Posted by Cardiologist3mpty138@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 138 comments

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we could send 'grey goo' to mars to pretty things up for wealthy psychopaths who are reliant on excellent people until the wealthy psychopaths can somehow manage to replace excellent people with robots.

Can't Read.

Posted by Monsur_Ausuhnom@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 267 comments

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woo, yeah, I read books, yall... i'm reading so many books while the world goes to hell. will see what spring brings though if the voles and the deer leave anything... that is why i use chicken wire cages, different types of sapling tree protectors.. and I also paint the bark with white latex paint. the deer and the voles are pretty adorable though

This is terrifying... "ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US"

Posted by Practical_Hippo6289@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 310 comments

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Reminds me of the secret highways govt conspiracy from old days... whatever that was about, some drug war thing, or anti political activist thing from before my time... Who knows what they will come up with next. So far its all been sort of derivative remix... I guess that's humanity, just same dumpster fire

In The U.S. Right Now, Experience Isn’t Valued, It’s Punished. A Laid-Off Amazon Employee Says The System “Optimizes” Out People Who Cost Too Much

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Largest Amazon layoffs in history shows fragility of white-collar work

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Onlookers and complacent witnesses

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Human condition and experience... we aren't typically aware of much... the brain prunes what it doesn't use. The reality may be scarier than one might realize when you start to understand how people do not seem to be able to express themselves or be creative... The world may seem hopeless but it's sort of because that person is lucky enough to have the ability and bandwidth to process the situation... so while it seems like everything and everyone sucks its real important to be grateful to even be able to have one's head above the clouds, or whatever...

Conforming At All Costs.

Posted by Monsur_Ausuhnom@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 263 comments

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people are lucky if they have a good community because ... I dunno if many folks really have one.. many people have struggled by themselves to survive over the generations. one may not typically take community membership for granted... or , community may be the workplace... which is not great for those who are being coerced by their employers.

‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn global crisis is decades ahead of forecasts

Posted by Portalrules123@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 144 comments

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i guess a lot of people do not realize how vulnerable our ecosystem is, how minute we are amidst the cosmic rays and background radiation. ...meanwhile there are some guys having the time of their lives messing everything up. Yes, i guess it all makes sense, given the way that people behave.

FBI asks agents across US to travel to Minneapolis for temporary duty

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According to ai: Munchausen by Proxy" (now formally known in psychology as Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another or FDIA) in a political context is a metaphorical analogy used to describe politicians or political entities who deliberately harm the country, economy, or specific institutions, and then present themselves as the heroic caregivers needed to fix it.  This, like the medical syndrome it is named after, involves a caregiver (political leader/party) engineering a crisis to gain attention, admiration, and sympathy for their supposed "struggle" to fix the problem.  Key Aspects of the Political Analogy Fabricated Crisis for Attention: Just as a caregiver with MSBP induces symptoms in a child, political actors may provoke crises in infrastructure, the economy, or social services, only to present themselves as the solution. Victimization of Constituents: The "proxy" or victim in this scenario is often the general public, the economy, or specific government institutions that are rendered "unwell" by policy actions. Political Manipulation: The goal is to receive adulation for their supposed "stoicism" or leadership in the face of a crisis they created, creating a cycle of依赖 (dependency) from voters.  Reported Examples and Context Republican-Controlled Congress (2013): A 2013 Post Independent article argued that the Republican-controlled House functioned like a Munchausen by Proxy caregiver by manufacturing crises in the economy, postal service, and air traffic control to gain political sympathy. Donald Trump (2016-2019): Commentators in 2016-2019, such as Angel M. Castillo, proposed that Donald Trump and his supporters functioned under a political "Munchausen Syndrome," where they acted as victims of a system they were controlling. Obama Administration Criticisms (2014): Iraq War veteran and GOP candidate Larry Smith alleged that President Barack Obama’s handling of the child refugee crisis at the Mexican border suggested a form of "Munchausen syndrome by proxy," accusing the administration of creating, rather than solving, a humanitarian crisis. Pop Culture Representation: The Netflix series The Politician explores a similar theme, where a character fakes her granddaughter’s illness to scam benefits, highlighting the intersection of manufactured illness and political ambition.  Definitions in this Context Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP/FDIA): A mental health condition in which a caregiver makes up or causes an illness or injury in a person under their care to garner attention. Political Application: The "victim" is the nation or a government institution, and the "perpetrator" is a politician acting as a caregiver who claims to be rescuing the victim from the illness. 

This is all that remains of two houses in Buxton, Outer Banks, N.C.

Posted by roblewk@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 87 comments

Do people think ICE will go away?

Posted by Far_Cartographer903@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 466 comments

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there are a lot of people jealous of what they have seen in rap videos and I don't think that can be undone. i dunno... i always took for granted that there were smart people in charge, but they seem to have died or aged out. things are different. people are different and the attention spans are very smallish... but it is the mystery that I have been coming to an understanding of ever since my childhood began to go away. it's a dynamic thing. unfortunately, I have been bombarded by oppositional behavior from just about anybody... these days I am much better acclimated, but when I was naive it was something... but this has been my experience for maybe 30 years... nowadays it's smooth sailing, but I wouldn't dare make a sign and draw attention to myself... even putting nonsense on a sign would be too much... it is better to just be ignored... that is my reality... better to bore anybody... thankfully I am extremely boring to most anyone...

U.S.-Venezuela Conflict Megathread

Posted by lavapig_love@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 287 comments

A catastrophic brain drain is coming for America

Posted by Creepyfaction@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 264 comments

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Yeah, leaving usa is tough tho... I could see it being more of a temptation if i didn't enjoy plants and wildlife... and found people more rewarding... Unfortunately people tend to become circlejerks... as great as the cultural opportunities are in Europe, useful people are still difficult to engage with effectively without a carrot. What needs to happen is the return of café culture... but unfortunately, people are encapsulated by human contrivance... human contrivance can only account for a sliver of reality so its sort of a losing game... I can stay in usa and dig in my little bit dirt for the rest of my life and have a more enlightening experience than what most people have to offer imo... People stopped hanging out because people weren't cool anymore... its not up to me to make things cool again when so many ppl suck

Some Japanese shops start rationing GPUs — graphics cards with 16GB VRAM and up are becoming harder to find, says one store

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The rise of AI, social media, and reality dissolving

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Hasn't it always been that way? At least realizing the limitations of being a human observer is more realistic than not. Isn't it funny that realizing and admitting the fallability of being a temperamental and vulnerable observer makes one have less credibility in our society? Everybody is so sure about anything when that buzz goes through and they hear the bell What if reality is a picnic that is being moved by ants...

Enjoy Life

Posted by Mountain_Mirror_3642@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 73 comments

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We planted all these trees that could live for hundreds of years and are planting all these native plants, transforming our small plot of land. Tho the reality is when we move on or whatever the next people will probably wreck everything with heavy machinery and relawn it... at least we got to know the beautiful plants and bugs some..

This is fine

Posted by wanton_wonton_@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 348 comments

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So its a warm winter night... may be sort of a relief fir some... especially if there are no bugs... It can be a challenge to enjoy nighttime because the dark makes us sleepy I think It seems like here in great lakes winter is more normal this year, except not as much snow as past decades

Investors Warn of ‘Rot in Private Equity’ as Funds Strike Circular Deals

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I feel like I missed out on the Golden Age of IT work

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It's pretty cool I guess... thrown into analog, coax... sort of one off not IT anymore... I like it better than the siloed bs and slimy coworkers.. not a lot of money tho