AMA (YYW)

I recall you liked Ojeda. Do you like Yang similarly? Do you believe Yang could surge to be a juggernaut in the coming months like Trump did?

Who do you think will Edson Barboza vs Justin Gaethje? (Going with Justin)

i don't really watch UFC... sorry bud.

Who is the worst person you know of (That I would know)?

Who is the best person you know of (That I would know)?

I would know if they are a celebrity so no-one who isn't famous or relevant on some platform like Twitch or YouTube. 

Phillip DeFranco.

Have you ever back handed someone in the face?  If not was there a situation where you really wanted to or thought someone deserved it?

>Have you ever back handed someone in the face?  If not was there a situation where you really wanted to or thought someone deserved it?

Back handing isn't my style, so, no.  I have, however, gotten physical when it was necessary and have no reservations about doing so.  The times where I have wanted to get physical but have refrained from doing so are too numerous to count. 

O.O.  Interesting. So wanting to beat someone down is a challenge that may come up in a normal day.

I'd have to think about it to remember the last time it came up for me... I do struggle with road rage but I just flick the person off then I'm done.

I wonder.  My family was just not violent, pacifists you might say.  Were you exposed to violence growing up at all?

I don't get road rage.  That's...  a waste of energy.

well I do not normally but I've been traveling so much between two locations it's that the frustration is intense and a new thing I'm dealing with.  It is a waste of energy but that doesn't change the feels.

If I'm exhausted after a 75 meter sprint, does that mean I'm ridiculously out of shape?

No.

What are you doing Saturday evening?

I don't have plans, but i'll probably be doing something with the boyfriend. 

Are there any forum topics or debates you might be interested in?

Nice. I got the day off work so I am probably going to hang around home.

Maybe people should do a hangout... I might join.  I might not.  You never know with me. 

I wish I knew how to better approach the issue.  I read an estimate recently that something like 50% (some large amount) of factory jobs could be challenged by automation in the near future.  My first thought is the great potential for humanitarian strides, as new machines may be able to compete with sweatshops and other issues.  But also, I wonder whether the cheaper goods will be able to offset the lower demand for blue collar jobs.  Overall I believe the process of automation is going to prove beneficial for most everyone, but there are transitional challenges best accounted for sooner than later.  Have you put any thought into this subject?

I got my camera tapped over, so I can't join.

Yes, you can. 

No one really knows what impact automation is going to have, precisely at least. 

Automation will continue to displace workers, as it already has to a considerable degree.  It will also probably bring back managerial and administrative jobs to the United States.  We are probably 20-30 years away from stage 6 fully autonomous vehicles.  So, that means that transportation will still, to some degree, require humans for at least one more generation.  After that, transportation is probably not going to require human beings. That is probably going to cause the biggest disruption to American labor markets, because about 15% of US workers jobs depend on the transportation industries. 

Automation will not take all jobs, however.  Construction and engineering jobs are quite safe from automation, for the most part.  The reason is because even with the most sophisticated visual image processing software, radar, lidar, and everything else; you need a person to pour concrete into a building foundation, remodel an office space, or do any of the things that construction people and workers do.  Especially the more sophisticated work in commercial and mixed use properties.  There is some very complex and sophisticated stuff that goes into building them.  Now, we can barely get robots to do the most simple form of brick laying. While the exact limits aren't quite defined, the more complicated and sophisticated a task, the less likely a robot will ever be able to do it.

The hardest hit by automation, I think, is going to be developing counties.  Namely, India, Pakistan, China, and the South Pacific.  The whole thing that automation potentially offers is in replacing low-skill wage labor with something much simpler, and, which involves a higher capital investment in the short term, will be dramatically more productive in the long term with much less risk.  For example, robots do not require workers compensation insurance (as human beings do, in the first world), because they do not get injured on the job; they only get broken, and can be repaired or replaced, the cost of which involves an insurance that is a lot likely to cost companies a lot less than comp insurance does now.   That among other costs has already driven most manufacturing jobs out of the first world, though.  But now, sweat shop labor will be less economical than automation.  That's going to have serious consequences for a lot of places. 

Are you still a thing?

Obviously, not.   You are not even reading words on this page.  Instead, I am an apparition, which is only a "thing" in a metaphysical sense; and, in that way, not a "thing" because there is no such thing as a metaphysical thing. 

Join the hangout.

There is no hangout 

Yeah join, so we can start one. 

Thoughts on incels?

Thoughts on Pete Buttigieg?

What policy would stop or deter the 85% asylum refugee seekers that have no legal case for asylum?