Try coaching modern day Boys and Girls Club athletics, it’s real sad how many kids have never even thrown a baseball with their “parents.”
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Try coaching modern day Boys and Girls Club athletics, it’s real sad how many kids have never even thrown a baseball with their “parents.”
Fourbtgait
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Baby boomer here, parents of the “greatest generation “.
My dad like all the dads I knew growing up, had to work to much, hard to throw the baseball, fish, etc. All of us learned to play sports on vacant lots as we lived to far from schools to be able to attend sports. The only thing we had was Boy Scouts because my father and his father grew up with it.
Not to bash my parents, but there was a lot of things I wasn’t taught that I didn’t realize till many years later was a required lifeskill. Many tend to over generalize life, the past, rose colored glasses because who wants to remember bad shit?
It took decades after the post-war to build the middle class. People knew if they put in the time and effort they would improve life for them and their families. It was hard work but an effort well worth it. I was fortunate to have parents that understood life-balance. They would spend time taking us hiking, hunting, fishing and on vacations. At the same time if I wanted something, I had to earn it by cutting lawns, shoveling snow, pulling weeds, etc. I was also provided the opportunity to help my dad by digging trenches, wheeling wheelbarrows of concrete and removing rockeries for an addition he did on our home (my pay was it was free or a dollar and hour - my choice). This all helped develop a strong work effort.
My parents paid for my college education. It was an investment in my future. My wife and I did the same thing for our kids. It was not easy to do but we had 18 years to save to make it happen, and we did. Somewhere over time this concept became less common place. I talk to others and ask if they are going to pay for their kids education. The most frequent answer in no (but they have a brand new truck outside the bar).
Also, somewhere over time, kids have a lot more idle time on their hands. They do not help with chores. They expect things to be handed to them rather than work for it.
I saw this even when interviewing people for a job opening. One of the questions I always asked was 'where do you expect to be in 5 years?'. Most memorable response 'I will be a VP in this company'. I explained to him it took me 10 years to get into management. His response was 'obviously you aren't very good'. Little did he know...
Where am I going with all this? Much of society has lost the strong work ethic. A lot of parents are not investing in their kids future. People do not understand putting in the hard work pays off in the long run. The middle class is diminishing.
It is my belief AI could be the death nail of the middle class by eliminating so many entry-level jobs and providing a quick and easy answer to so many things rather than using our brains figuring things out the hard way. This is not a 'chicken little - the sky is falling' but rather a wake up call that we need to adapt and take advantage of everything we can so that we can grow rather than a society being the 'haves and have nots'.
My parents paid for my college education. It was an investment in my future. My wife and I did the same thing for our kids. It was not easy to do but we had 18 years to save to make it happen, and we did. Somewhere over time this concept became less common place. I talk to others and ask if they are going to pay for their kids education. The most frequent answer in no (but they have a brand new truck outside the bar).
Also, somewhere over time, kids have a lot more idle time on their hands. They do not help with chores. They expect things to be handed to them rather than work for it.
I saw this even when interviewing people for a job opening. One of the questions I always asked was 'where do you expect to be in 5 years?'. Most memorable response 'I will be a VP in this company'. I explained to him it took me 10 years to get into management. His response was 'obviously you aren't very good'. Little did he know...
Where am I going with all this? Much of society has lost the strong work ethic. A lot of parents are not investing in their kids future. People do not understand putting in the hard work pays off in the long run. The middle class is diminishing.
It is my belief AI could be the death nail of the middle class by eliminating so many entry-level jobs and providing a quick and easy answer to so many things rather than using our brains figuring things out the hard way. This is not a 'chicken little - the sky is falling' but rather a wake up call that we need to adapt and take advantage of everything we can so that we can grow rather than a society being the 'haves and have nots'.
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fatbillybob
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If we had free education and free healthcare we would not be smarter if still teaching to the Edwardian model or healthier if obesity is our #1 preventable health concern. Money does not fix. It facilitates.
fatbillybob
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All of this is the parent's fault. Your parents and my parents may not have actually known what they were doing or what the outcome of their upbringing might be. They probably acted much like their parents where they could. The real problem is the breakdown of the family and lack of moral guidance from the church that continues to degrade today. When a single parent wants to be their kid's friend instead of their parent it just doesn't end well. No one thinks about paying for college until it is too late. I tell people they have 18years just as you have stated. Saving for college is like a dry run for retirement. The same tools that allow you to pay for college are the tools you need to provide for your retirement. If college is a big issue so will retiring. College is a chance to find a better path before it is too late.
I had Thanksgiving dinner with an inlaws kid who went through school as an electrician and been through the union program at Hanford. Got programing skills too. He feels long term looks pretty good with those skills, and compensation is excellent. Might steer the grandkids that way.
Granny helped mom go back to school after dad left. I worked as I did 2 yr at Shoreline and 2 at the U while living at home, but they both helped me when I came up short for books. My sons lived at home and worked and I paid what they didn't have. No loan burdens. I already got enough for the grandkids as long as they go along with the program. Dad was a principal, his mom ran the one room school in Oso for a decade. Really think a solid education is important. I went back to school to be a land surveyor but all that prior learning was worthwhile and made me even better.
But yeah, we got to be involved for it to work.
Granny helped mom go back to school after dad left. I worked as I did 2 yr at Shoreline and 2 at the U while living at home, but they both helped me when I came up short for books. My sons lived at home and worked and I paid what they didn't have. No loan burdens. I already got enough for the grandkids as long as they go along with the program. Dad was a principal, his mom ran the one room school in Oso for a decade. Really think a solid education is important. I went back to school to be a land surveyor but all that prior learning was worthwhile and made me even better.
But yeah, we got to be involved for it to work.
all K-12, aside from private tuition schools, is paid for through tax dollars
The level of obesity in our society is not only stunning, marketing forces have now normalized it as a sales target.
And this rise in obesity, always accompanied by diabetes, heart disease and cancers, is generating rising costs in health care that everyone in plan must pay for obese or not.
This map speaks for itself..
cody-
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Putting Ozempic in the water supply would fix this.
fatbillybob
Steelhead
Funny....$30Billion dollar market cap Archer Daniels Midland sells us ultraprocessing ingredients for fattening us up. While Eli Lily reached $1 Trilion dollar market cap selling us zepbound and monjaro to thin us down. We get poorer, dumber, and sicker.
Dustin Chromers
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Question for all..
AI has been in the works for years. It has been in use, albeit in smaller ways, for several years. Technology has been making changes to support it for a number of years. National policy has tried to control it for awhile now. Now one can not go to anywhere, any news source, without seeing/reading about AI daily. There are at least two threads here on PNWFF now (and staying away from politics ---> thank goodness). I have a great AI article but will not post it here due to politics but have shared it privately.
So the question "how did you become aware of AI and when"?
AI has been in the works for years. It has been in use, albeit in smaller ways, for several years. Technology has been making changes to support it for a number of years. National policy has tried to control it for awhile now. Now one can not go to anywhere, any news source, without seeing/reading about AI daily. There are at least two threads here on PNWFF now (and staying away from politics ---> thank goodness). I have a great AI article but will not post it here due to politics but have shared it privately.
So the question "how did you become aware of AI and when"?
Blade Runner -Replicants, 1982
Synopsys software is widely used in designing everything from computer chips to jet engines. Engineers use its tools to simulate those designs virtually in computers before committing to expensive prototype manufacturing.
Those simulations can take weeks, but could be sped up to a few hours using Nvidia's chips, the CEOs of the two companies said during a press conference.
www.reuters.com
Those simulations can take weeks, but could be sped up to a few hours using Nvidia's chips, the CEOs of the two companies said during a press conference.
Nvidia takes $2 billion stake in Synopsys as AI deal spree accelerates
Nvidia has invested $2 billion in chip design software maker Synopsys as part of an expanded multi-year tie-up to jointly develop new tools for designing products across industries using its AI technology.
www.reuters.com
Dustin Chromers
Legend
They are literally building Skynet. I've seen this movie before. Man creates something. He then realizes he can get chicks with the success it brings. Man makes money. Man gets more chicks. Man destroys element of culture. Man didn't care. Man destroys more with his creation. Man gets robot girlfriend as he is soulless. World of Man destroyed. Man laments loss of robot girlfriend and goes looking in the desert for Cherry 5000. Man rediscovers soul in post apocalypse type wasteland. Man creates again. Cycle starts over. What do you think got the dinosaurs?
In all seriousness though this is the technology that will finally make man unfit in the evolutionary sense of the word. Never before have humans been so far away from providing for their survival. Obesity is a function of that. All this automated AI will make it worse. I'm glad I'm not going to be around to see the end state of people. They already disgust me as a population in many cases. This technology is being developed by the worst in people. It's designed to reward the worst impulses. It will get a far worse result than anybody is hoping for. I for one herald the age of human blobs and idiots. They already can't figure out basic biology and nutrition. This will be their final form. They deserve it.
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