mosin46 said:

this is so true and has been so easy to see comps replacing people well before AI. look at check out at most large retailers. they now all have self check out. people are too stupid to understand who that puts out of work-not those brainy programmers! ultimately gets a lot of people with lower level tools for success onto welfare etc. that is part of the goal-dependence on gov.
of "high end jobs" that are a setup for AI are family practice and internal medicine. for the last 10+ tears they DO nothing. sit in the chair,ask a few questions and push meds. they don't do or prob don't remember how to do a physical exam,if they ever knew. if doing anything is required,they refer it out. this observation is universal from anyone of any age i have spoken to in years. the current corporate,protocol driven way is a setup for non human,machine driven work. get some data,apply a protocol-done!

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carbonbased said:

I’m just popping in to administer some comedy relief. Rimfire guys can get, uh, sorta serious, ya know?

I think what Mike is doing is pretty awesome, even though I don’t have a Vudoo. Let’s all take a sec to think how lucky we are to have a guy who has a great attitude about life and a great sense of humor who also is making us guns!

Now I’m going back to sipping my custom cherry cokes and eating nachos while watching bouncing ta-tas on the Lido deck.

I expect my custom Vudoo 22 Hornet on my doorstep when I get back lol

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Mike Casselton said:

One thing that you either overlooked or omitted to make your point:

Either way, that's okay.

Even if you find those workers or trainees to do the construction work, so many of them have never done more than a couple of hours of manual labor.
They get put on a job, out in the hot sun, rain, or cold weather and they fold up like a cheap suit. Many don't make it past lunch time, day one. A few make it to the end of the day and fail to show up day two.
Some make it almost a week.
Those that make it through the first month can usually be counted on to show up.
Showing up is only part of the battle. Next is actually being able to do the job.
Then there's actually caring to do the job correctly.

On top of all of that are the people responsible for training new workers. Some are good. Most suck.

It's fucking maddening, and it's not just the construction industry that has these issues.
Even low skill jobs like flipping burgers or bagging groceries have the same issues.
People want money, and they don't want to work for it. Most think their skills deserve higher pay. Look at this $15.00/hr minimum wage shit. It didn't fix anything, it just drove the price of goods up to offset it.

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SilentStalkr said:

AI is going to replace far more people than just those in IT, it’s simply a matter of time. Those that praise this stuff are too shortsighted to see how this plays out in the long term. I just hope I can get another 20 years in till retirement before it takes over. I have no idea what to tell my kids to get into. I’d say programming or something in computer science lol but apparently those jobs are gonna be replaced by cheap Indians, if not overtaken by AI first. And those that think their jobs are too high and mighty to be replaced by AI are sadly mistaken. There is tons of jobs that I can totally see AI taking a large market share of. It’s literally just a matter of time. And all these idiots so willing to use i fail to realize that their use of it is teaching/feeding it exactly what it needs to learn how to replace them.

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Fx51LP308 said:

Actually, not that much, perhaps. You see, SAGGIN is backwards for how the "Amish" actually use the term to refer to themselves. That, and the "***GUH" suffix as well. But when you hear the Amish refer to the "Hard R" suffix, that's the one that causes issues/consternation.

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sirhrmechanic said:

Since he didn’t tell us what it is or year… I didn’t assume Canbus…. But I get your point.

That said, I had a wonderful 1998 MB 300SL. The last of the straight six wedge drop tops. It does over the winter and so I sent to the dealer to start it. They must have jumped it wrong because their explanation was “all 5 computers failed simultaneously and sorry, it is 2 weeks out of MB Certified used warranty. That will be $5k please.

The Conti-R Bentley I had and sold last year… if you jump started it with the drivers dooor open, it would fry the main computer. New ones in 1998 were $30,000. Fortunately there is now a guy in NJ who uses a Subaru computer, wipes it and puts in new code. So if you zorch your Turbo Bentley it’s only a cheap $5k or so now!

But, yeah, probably todays cars are better protected.

That said, I never even attached a trickle charger without taking the battery posts off! And cut off the main switch before reconnecting. Paranoia runs deep!!!

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flogxal said:

Harbor Freight house brand case, goes on sale a few times a year for a good price, comes with pick/pluck foam layer to tailor to contents, seals up sturdy.

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