Recent times have made me ashamed of what this site has become. I'm with jaquesm- this is ridiculous.

Tons of new accounts <1mo throwing the discourse out with the bath water and no one stopping them.

HN has become the LA of websites. Y'all think everyone thinks like you and anyone who doesn't is just wrong. But when it all burns down and people are cheering you will be left wondering why.

It has devolved and only gotten worse. I feel those of us who are more center have slowly but surely gone AFK and now all thats left are the two extremes.

Comments flagged for absolutely no reason, the attacks- it even feels like dang has gone hands-off lately.

Since Trump's election I've seen nothing but rule-breaking everywhere, and it has become absolutely rampant.

I dont even come here for the comments anymore. yall can have the burning garbage heap this has become- it was a good run while it lasted.

Ethan Suplee is a personal hero of mine. I've been watching him in movies since clerks, and felt bad as I saw him continue to get bigger. When he started his transformation some gym bros posted it to some forums we inhabit. He didn't want to be all public about it since he'd yoyo'd before, but we cheered him on online. When I saw he'd gone public I was so happy for him. His pic now hangs in my home gym with Arnold and Ronnie.

Or refuse to give in to extortion and don't.

What’s the extortion?

I hate bait and switch done on me when they were giving free stuff out. I was there when creators were purely about having fun, trying stuff out and sharing it with the world.

But for kids these days it mostly is fair game - you want to watch funny cat videos, pay up or watch ads.

You can always have fun with friends from over the world and send each other videos no one is forcing you to post it on YT.

Because the videos in YouTube premium still have ads. But because the ads are built-in to the videos by the "content creators" themselves, they call them "sponsor segments". YouTube Premium doesn't include SponsorBlock.

It does in a limited capacity now [1]. No, it doesn't auto-skip for you and it's not nearly as quickly updated as SponsorBlock itself is, but it works fine enough on the iOS app.

[1] - https://9to5google.com/2024/05/05/youtube-premium-jump-ahead...

Ah the Disney approach.

Bold strategy Cotton.

Owner did the smart thing and listened to the constructive criticism which made me feel infinitely better about using his tool.

Which I will now do, and would not have before. I am also his exact customer.

This is happening to me in the trades.

Im in maintenance as an industrial electrician.

New plants came to town paying current market rate and snagged most of the top talent.

Then the company started quiet-firing to avoid layoffs. It killed all motivation.

Then they froze hiring as we kept losing people. We are now short on HVAC, mechanics, and electricians.

Lucky me I'm the only guy who can do all three so im running ragged all day.

We have response times we have to meet but our vehicle (an electric GEM) had the charger die, it's only $2k but they won't let me order it so we all walk everywhere. Huge plant I easily bust 30k+ steps and 20+ stories climbed via stairs.

We then had a mechanic and an electrician take paternity leave so we are even more shorthanded. Still wont let us hire.

We lost the maintenance manager and cant get another one for what we pay and the condition the business is in now.

I love my job andy co-workers but I'm sending out resumes and interviewing because I can't take all the extra workload with no extra pay while our administration keeps getting more money and bonuses.

How do companies keep making the same mistakes over and over expecting different results? They don't, they know what's going on and are getting theirs before the bottom falls out.

If your company:

* needs HVAC, mechanics, and electricians to function and deliver revenue

* your company cannot afford to hire new people, only maintain their current payroll, or are unwilling to raise wages to be able to hire more (not enough talent)

* you are able to do all three, but are being asked to do more than want or are able to do

then there's a simple outcome that to me it seems like you're missing.

you can just say "I can't", or "no, I'm going home at 6" or "cool, that's a great plan but I only have time to do the first half of the tasks you just described today", and most importantly - your company simply won't be able to afford to do anything about it.

What are they gonna do? Fire you and be even more fucked? Seems like if you set firmer boundaries on how much you can work, their best decision is going to just be accepting it. Because their only alternative is to even stupider which would be to fire you and have no work get done at all.

Not really. I just came off night shift and was thrown right back on it. We work 12 hour shifts, they alternate between forced overtime and disallowed overtime at their whims.

When I brought up I have yet to get my float (4x10s considered the 'easy' shift) I was told there was nothing they could do. All I could think was well how will you handle it when I leave?

Management really is that dense.

They care not one whit about objections nor people leaving.

Imho it's merely a matter of time but the younger guys all hold out hope. I've none left.

> All I could think was well how will you handle it when I leave?

You mentioned upthread:

> New plants came to town paying current market rate and snagged most of the top talent.

You should totally get a job at one of those plants and let them hang.

Many Manufacturing managers hate people and just treat them as an expense to be exploited.

So what you're saying isn't you have tried saying "no" and just seeing if they call your bluff and fire you or just let you leave.

Lol no one i know wants any of the things you mentioned.

Normies hate the AI hypetrain bullshit.

Okay let’s be fair, people do want better low-light photos. And text recognition in photos. And translation.

Or maybe they don’t, but I somehow see people using those features all the time.

I’m really curious to see if this VC wet dream will materialise or if reality will prevail. Currently I’m pretty sure that the only people who are still enthusiastic about the AI bullshit are the ones with some form of vested interest, so they’re trying to fabricate the demand.

Actually I like all those, but I don't care whether they are with AI or not. So slapping AI on them is a definite "meh" for me, show me results not trendy labels.

I once heard it said that we don't have a justice system, we have a legal system.

Don't recall who or where but it always stuck with me.

You did make the argument when you made people who eat meat complicit and assume they share in the company's guilt.

I think most if not all of us can agree Tyson is evil, there is no need to bring personal biases into it.

It isn’t just Tyson. The entire industrial meat industry, especially in the United States, exploits workers. Those workers are often immigrants.

Take a look at what they did during COVID:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/12/meatpack...

You are missing the forest for the trees.

You are simply mad it doesn't benefit you directly, the problem with most people nowadays.

I also paid mine back, but I'm glad this is happening. I'm also angry we don't use the funds for ie veterans instead and I also would like reform with the bailout.

As you can hopefully see it's a very nuanced issue and you can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

I am mad that I am paying for others' bad decisions, yes! The terms on the loans were clearly explained. They agreed to them.

My action is to teach my kids that in today's world, being responsible is idiotic, since uncle sam will just force those who are responsible to pay for your idiocy anyways!

The person you are replying to is what we call a 'cry-bully'.

You know when you've found one by them gaslighting you while accusing you of what they themselves are doing.

The community manager is the hateful one, and did indeed make the comments, enacted the bans, and then doubled down.

You are combating their gaslighting with facts and information, while they keep spouting nonsense and making ad-hominem attacks.

For more on this see what happened with Sony's 'Concord'.