I do think the scapegoat narrative is plausible, when people have somebody “lower” than them that they can hate and look down upon they stop looking up for answers to their suffering.

The modern political and social machine is more complex than one single agenda, there is no secret entity deciding everything for everyone, though in America the 24hr news broadcasts like Fox and CNN are awfully close to being exactly that. Rupert murdoch and his ilk are definitely master sociologists, and perhaps the outrage benefits them personally.

Humans are terribly exploitable, both from a labor and rights perspective as well as a puny meat brain will believe what you tell it perspective.

Monkey mad that other monkey come and take all banana. It’s an easy narrative to accept instead of addressing the complex and corrupt distribution of wealth.

In my area, the loudest about immigrants often exploit those same immigrants for work on their homes. I saw a guy with a “close the border we’re full” sign on his home using some spanish-only speaking immigrants to paint his house, no doubt for cheap. They literally had to paint around the sign demonizing them.

Definitely not against real, so I guess if you’re asking “are you for or against real” I am for real

The ice watch apps

So do economists!

Paywall, so replying based on the headline:

Blue collar jobs are not a holy grail of safety from ai or refuge for prior white collar workers who have been displaced.

1. You can’t just suddenly become an expert in a physical job, electricians require trade school and apprenticeship, heck even the easiest jobs in the construction world, painting or hanging drywall, require expertise and a random qa engineer will be genuinely terrible at the job.
2. The culture of blue collar work generally incredibly misogynistic and requires a very hardy insensitive personality for women especially. There’s this sort of cultural inertia that has seeped into many blue collar jobs that sees a lot of love for trump and hate for soft handed people (the irony is incredible)
3. Supply and demand are not just principles of product sales, a sudden massive influx of blue collar workers will push down wages for everyone, an economy requires balance and adaptation, there is never a single golden answer
4. some blue collar jobs are more likely to be replaced with ai than others, but pretending that all blue collar jobs are perfectly safe from the impending storm is an uninformed and irresponsible take. Are indoor painters of new builds safe for now? Yes. But you can feel quite comfortable assuming that if some company comes out with a bot you can rent that does a phenomenal job at painting and costs 1/5th of a human painter the owners or managers of the companies who were contracting out the humans will absolutely switch to bots. Money talks and maybe some will hold out for a while but eventually other companies will offer their services for cheaper because of the cheaper labor and the human workforces will be unable to compete.
5. blue collar jobs generally pay less and the future prospects compared to white collar jobs are significantly different. You don’t start out as a framer and end up as a partner, the attitudes of the managers of construction companies and similar often simply view the laborers as replaceable machines.
6. blue collar workers sucks, for many you work in crazy harsh weather conditions (outside in 100 degree f) the jobs often require heavy physical labor, your coworkers are often drugged up conspiracy theory nutjobs, there are no watercooler breaks at 10am, you work hard or you get yelled at or fired. Imagine being an hvac repair technician in the peak of summer. Where exactly do you think you’re going to be? In the hottest part of the house in stifling conditions with all the pink fiberglass insulation without any ppe, all goddamn day.

Fiverr and upwork are the standard starting places, their policies of keeping contractors on the site are rough, the cut they take is rough, and the competition is rough.

I’ve had success identifying specific software vendors with functional deficits and targeting customers of that software

You could monkeypatch some javascript functions like the constructor Date types, but there will always be things not thought of that will leak date info. Hardware identifiers are quite difficult to get in javascript and several browsers already obfuscate that info.

Honestly if you’re very concerned, I really do think a virtual machine is your absolute safest approach, obviously the browsing experience is worse.

Check out amiunique.org to see what fingerprinting is generally available in your current browser

Javascript can’t generally access your local machine directly, but scoped local data like cookies are available. What in particular are you nervous about? You could run your browser in a virtual machine?

I love when articles tell me how to feel, takes all the thinking out of the equation. Now I know I should be shaking in my boots. Phew.

That is a terrible idea. We are ruled by a 2nd grade rich bully and all his sycophantic lackeys, literally comically villainous.

“The bad guys are just about done making a sword, we’re all afraid of swords, so I’m gonna use my sword to stop them from making one so we don’t have to be afraid of people using swords”

Let’s all just CALM THE FUCK DOWN

Unfortunately this is one of those cases that you have to have foresight to game the system intentionally. You can bring up your credit pretty quickly, but nothing beats some long running lines of credit.

The financial system benefits greatly from people taking out loans and being unable to pay off the whole thing. They don’t get any benefit from a person who just pays their debt off right away. Profits over humanity every single time.

SublimeText?

Predators eating prey alive, like lions eating bison from their bellies first.

Finding community in the modern age requires you to get interested and participate in something specific. Specific communities are often on Discord or equivalent, for example I’m super into some very specific video games with thriving communities, into specific genres of books and have found like minded people, love chatting about specific computing topics, etc. Specialize your interests and find others who have done the same

How does the whole vampire thing work anyways? Like if there’s a hole in the wall breaking the integrity of the house are they still barred? How much of the house can be removed before it’s no longer considered a house? A whole wall? In that case could the police vampire just drill a hole or remove a wall?

I love a good neckbeard nest for some reason, something about the complexity of the scene really captures my interest

What’s bro gonna do with a drywall knife up front there?

Nihilist, insofar that even if there is a god (about as likely as me actually being a secret agent for moon people) why would it matter? While nihilism is not a religious belief I think it fits the prompt.

I made a poop the other day, I’m its creator, I don’t care about it, I don’t control its destiny beyond the flush.

I’m an optimistic nihilist, nothing matters and that’s kinda neato. Existence happens, how fascinating is that? It’s absolutely meaningless just like everything in the universe, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the ride.

For me when somebody apologizes a lot it feels as though there is a subtle belief that I am the type of person who would be annoyed by the things being apologized for. As though their apology implies that I am an impatient or otherwise short fused person.

It’s important to me that I am patient and forgiving so excessive apologies subtly make me feel like I may be projecting some impatience. Ironically the very activity of constant apologies does lead me to be slightly impatient, quite the conundrum.