Not to mention the destructive price increases to basically any and all consumer technology caused by billionaires hoarding RAM, SSDs, HDDs, and GPUs.

Yes. And they desperately need stonk go up, because their life savings has been plundered by the Epstein class, multiple times.

But they're too busy trying to stay afloat to think critically and do something real about it. Or too brain damaged by lead additives, in some cases.

Yes. It's pretty close to a circle. The shared trait is getting suckered by a fast talking abuser.

Although - The giant trump yard sign in my community fell into disrepair.

Every time I see (what is left of) it, I'm guessing which demographic the owner is it, that Trump finally hurt badly enough to wake them up.

It could be anyone, really.

It's wild to me that anyone ever thought a politician could be on their side, of anything, in this millennium. But I guess I'm glad that random ex-sucker is woke now.

So these guys in the trades jobs haven’t got long.

I too have incredibly sensitive hands.

But I pay a plumber because his track record of flooding my house is 0%, while my own flooding track record is... not 0%.

I learned that the 0% rate of flooding is the most important thing, to me personally, when it comes to plumbing work.

Don't ask me how I learned that. It is neither interesting, nor hilarious, nor deeply embarrassing to me personally, or anything. It's just my lived experience of doing my own plumbing.

There's currently no credible evidence that the hallucinating problem in AI can ever be solved, at all.

AI does quick shoddy work. Some quick shoddy work by AI is easily fixed by a human (or fixed by a second AI for those feeling frisky and risky.) But some quick shoddy work by AI is instantly tragic, leaving no time for fixes. (As shown by any quick search for the words "AI" and "database".)

I do agree that we will have robot plumbers available, soon.

If their work matches the quality of work done by AI coders, some houses are going to burn down.

Yes, I said "some" and "burn down.".

Many houses will flood. That's not the interesting bit. A few will manage to burn down. That'll be novel and interesting to watch, for those of us not trying to live there.

I plan to stick with skilled human trades-people, myself.

Edit: And I want to point out that it's a privilege to hire skilled humans, that I appreciate. We know some landlords are going to send in a bot with the words "fuck you, you flooded my home" graffitied on it, at every opportunity, because it's slightly cheaper.