Yeah my normal job is in Nashville. Instacart is what I was talking about on the side. Basically it is just picking up stuff for people like groceries and hardware stores and dropping it off. Mostly it's Kroger for me, grab 25 items, drop it off at their house and make a few extra dollars. Usually can make $100 on my day off doing that for 5 hours or so. You know how far the trips are before you take them so if you want further drives you can do them but you are paying for gas so usually I only take farther ones when they are for decent money amounts. I have taken some that are 30 miles into the middle of nowheresville. I've actually delivered to an Amish community as well.

Thanks for the info! Going to say cheap phone, possible cellular connectivity issues might not be a good idea for me right yet. I'll put it on the to do with next phone list. I sometimes do Instacart deliveries to supplement income when I accidentally splurge to much. Not having cellular in remote areas would mean I couldn't work directions/electronic signatures for alcohol.

I'm interested in moving off Android but afraid of bricking my phone. Years ago I had flashed roms onto my galaxy s4 but these days I worry about not being able to get work calls if something goes wrong. How risky is it these days, also is there anything I should know ahead of time if I try to move to a linux os. Do they work well on cheaper phones?

So let me ask you this. If the U.S. "printed" 20T dollars (really just say it exists in an account). Then they start investing that in the market... The value of the money in theory would decay by 14% (rough math) but the market would thrive from the increase in buying.

That said. It would "hurt" the lower classes purchasing power at first. But the interest made off that 20T is enough to build every person in the U.S. a new house every 30 years assuming the average household is 2.5 people. At first you would be building new ones and repurposing old ones. But after 15 years or so, you would have the country all sans rent/mortgage payments, which frees up their money to be spent on things like resteraunts, movies, plays, sports, whatever it is people do. So the economy would be growing, while homelessness would be gone foreve and everyone would have a $250,000 equivalent house built/renovated every 30 years. Which because of the mass building projects and it all being purchased from one group.. would likely be like getting a $400,000 in todays market. This doesn't mean people can't save and invest money to have a larger dwelling and size up, just that everyone would have the base $400,000 equivalent house in a restabilized economy where everyone is less stressed and free-er to spend money at ease not worrying about becoming homeless if something goes wrong.

Does this mean some people will choose to work less, maybe. But with automation growing the way it is, we really have less work and more people already. It would also give us the opportunity to build some new cities/towns built around more walking and less car dependency, which would promote public health and people not being as reclusive if they don't want.

Idk, it would never happen, but I'm just saying it could probably happen and we choose not to because people think helping everyone is bad.

Edit: the number of stress based mental issues alleviated by this would be huge. Less reasons to murder and rob people as well, so crime would likely drop

The data of the buying/selling would be tracked by software via the stock broker, which would aggregate into a tax form via other software, and then be imported into their taxes by more software.

I think a 1099B at the end of the year coming from whatever company they are using would cover it.

So if you give a human and a system 10 tasks and the human completes 3 correctly, 5 incorrectly and 3 it failed to complete altogether... And then you give those 10 tasks to the software and it does 9 correctly and 1 it fails to complete, what does that mean. In general I'd say the tasks need to be defined, as I can give very many tasks to people right now that language models can solve that they can't, but language models to me aren't "AGI" in my opinion.

**As someone who has ran fiber and ethernet to companies post a category 5 hurricane to get network connections back online for paychecks across 7 states including the virgin Islands... I have never seen that. And we used satellite radio dishes to send signals across areas when we rewired the emergency center (police, fire, etc) under marshall law. It's fucking humbling to have all bridges shut down in the area to try to cut down on people pillaging and have them give you a badge to cross under any conditions no matter the danger because you are considered "needed.". Some other poor souls could have stood on the beach watching it come in piling shit up and running home to drag my chicken coop into the garage throw 2 dogs in the car and "evacuate" only to where the hurricane actually ended up hitting harder. I was an idiot, but the office building i was working from was on the front of the Los Angeles times or w.e the next day to show the destruction. We dug crabs and sucked water for days out of pipes to get Ethernet run in moves for months.... But yet I have never seen someone run them though heating ducts haha. (True story)

Edit: circa Hurricane Michael, Panama City 2018

Ah, I'm still trying to figure out what the debate is. Sorry mate, but thanks for trying to respond, I appreciate you having tried. I'm just missing something.

Banana bread at work?

So the debate is whether it could or could not matter?

I forget people look at Lemmy on desktop/laptops. I just assume everyone has 15 minutes to kill and picks up there phone and opens the app they prefer, that they put on the second screen, 3rd row, 3rd column from the bottom where it belongs. If you have it somewhere else... Well maybe you have 5 columns instead of 4, or are wrong. But never on the first page .. that would be obsessive. It has to hide, lurking on that second page laying in wait. For its 15 mins to shine

Why? Not sure what the debate is, if you divide/multiply first?

Maybe she was 2 cents short of figuring out the answer she was looking for?

Why are there networks, health insurance companies, co-payments, payment disputes/ negotiations of prices, and people suffering from not receiving medical care?

Oh yeah, because this way it costs us significantly more and we can think we are doing better than others in life by acquiring a job where we have linked medical coverage too.

The fact that there are "classes" of healthcare is just repulsive.

The jet isn't the weapon. It's the missles I agree.

Want people to change their mind, tell them Bill Gates/Elon Musk and such are starting a nuclear program. They'll want to ban it, they are arms after all.

"Musk is adding AI controlled weapons to Starlink" Immediate call for reform haha

Thanks for the support.
Also C h i c k chick chicken sounds like a fats food commercial we'll see in the coming years.

They worked to get what the Union asked for and the Union thanked them for it.

They were guilty of making coffee to hot years ago. I have no idea how they were sued for 800k off of selling removeden tenders that were still hot.

Edit: Is the term chicken actually sensored? Appears it shows now, strange

My mother didn't know that private prisons existed until yesterday. She voted for Obama his first/second term. Now she is a supporter of Desantis and Trump. Fox did a great job at changing people

I have worked for companies that have rules stating no logos/brand names could be noticeable. So a black pair of shoes that had a Nike check on it would be considered unacceptable. I always worried the dickies emblem on my work pants might cause issue. White socks were an issue which since you are wearing long pants and shoes... shouldn't even be noticeable. All tattoos had to be covered, no facial hair allowed, and no piercings. Hair color must be a natural color.

I think the concept behind BLM is good, but I would have never thought wearing a mask with their logo on it would be allowable work attire.