38 m^2, 2 rooms, 1 bathroom, 169000 € in a rural part of a bigger city in Western Germany.

That’s an exception, though. The house is a bit weird since it apparently stands next to a church in the backyard of some other building…

With the difference that the industrial revolution created a lot of new jobs with better pay. While AI doesn’t. I see people suggesting that this has happened before and soon it will turn the economic situation into something much better. But I don’t see that at all. Just because it’s also a huge revolution, doesn’t mean it will have the same effects.

As you have written, people will have to switch into manual jobs like layering bricks and wiping butts. The pay in these jobs won’t increase just because more people have to work them.

Your fear is in so far justified as that some employers will definitely aim to reduce their workforce by implementing AI workflow.

When you have worked for the same employer all this time, perhaps you don’t know, but a lot of employers do not give two shits about code quality. They want cheap and fast labour and having less people churning out more is a good thing in their eyes, regardless of (long-term) quality. May sound cynical, but that is my experience.

My prediction is that the income gap will increase dramatically because good pay will be reserved for the truly exceptional few. While the rest will be confronted with yet another tool capitalists will use to increase profits.

Maybe very far down the line there is blissful utopia where no one has to work anymore. But between then and now, AI would have to get a lot better. Until then it will be mainly used by corporations to justify hiring less people.

Welcome to the world women live in all the time

It’s not creative. It generates what statistically the average user likes to see when given certain (combination of) words, from the images well liked artists created.

Wow, yes this is so true for many discussions online and increasingly offline as well. Nuance seems to be not welcomed. Sometimes even suggesting there might be nuance or the topic might be more complicated than black and white already puts you firmly in the enemy camp.

Imagine you were filthy rich and a country had all Oreos and would ban all exports and tourists. Sure you wouldn’t bribe a minister or two? Give a poor kid some money and exploit them to build an over the border Oreo smugglers ring …?!

I also think these are platitudes. In reality, no one is allowed to be “just themselves”. But changing yourself to be more likeable (especially in social situations) is such a conflicted topic.

At least in western cultures agreeableness has a bad reputation and is not encouraged in boys, imho. As a girl you are raised to be agreeable and it is called “nice”. I believe men and women have a different understanding what that means because of how we are raised differently.

In my experience some men seem to think nice means basically to avoid conflict and be especially generous (not necessary in a materialistic way, also offering help etc.).

While for women it means to be sensible to your partners feelings and plan accordingly.

These are two notoriously incompatible modi operandi: a “yes man” who hides or doesn’t reflect on his feelings and wishes. And an increasingly controlling woman, constantly guessing and overinterpreting what their partner could possibly “really” be thinking.

A lot of women would rather choose a partner who is less work. Even when that means he isn’t as generous. Therefore “just be yourself / confident” has a grain of truth in it. Just not in the way people might think. Another truth I had to grow quite old for to understand.

Wendy is a horse magazin for kids :D

This sounds like people are bummed out that they need to put in effort and aren’t just cherished and loved for simply existing in the relationship. But that is true for everyone, not just for men.

I actually think it’s just a relatively new concept for straight men because in the past (and that’s still in our culture) women needed a man. And therefore it was enough to exist as a guy and not be a jerk to “get” a woman.

Why do you think that is different for women?

What is a “nice guy” in your opinion? Because this sounds like bs.

When I was a kid and McDonald’s started to became a thing here I was scared that Ronald McDonald would be at the restaurant. When I was invited to a birthday party and the parents wanted to take us to McDonald’s I refused to go inside and the dad had to wait with me on the parking lot until my parents picked me up. I also figured that he could potentially be at Burger King, so I never went there either.

I have a few old photos were my hair looks basically striped. You can see it well when the hair is worn in a ponytail.

Wow didn’t know there was a name for it. That’s happening for many or most Germans.

You should definitely read it but I think the great thing about the book is that it can turn a kid into a reader. When they’ve watched the movie already I think some of the magic is gone and it’s not as impactful.

I commented the same >_< The stories of Michael Ende and Astrid Lindgren are in my opinion supposed to be experienced as books.

“The NeverEnding Story” should never have been made into a movie. It’s almost ironic. Every time a child watches the movie instead of reading the book, that’s an opportunity lost.

I think a lot of the hobby and project posts on Reddit aren’t necessarily created by people who (also) have the internet / computers / net culture as an interest. Say, a hobby carpenter who only uses Facebook and Reddit casually, why and how would this person end up on Lemmy? The seasoning missing is all the people we left behind.