Universal Monk @ UniversalMonk @sh.itjust.works

Notorious Lemmy outlaw. Writer of stuff like **Booty Sweat Jesus and the Ho

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They have nothing in common though, so how does that work? Unless Andrew Yang has sold out or something.

Andrew Yang is the guy who really needs to do the third party thing. I know he tried, but it hasn't accomplished a lot.

From last month, but still an interesting watch. Really great topics brought up!

They are the smallest Socialst party in the US as well.

I’m much more irritated for example with the mods who decided UniversalMonk was a force for good in the universe, who must be protected at all costs

Much like a delicate flower, I do need to be protected at all costs. Thanks for noticing, friend!

like letting UniversalMonk bait people into arguments and then banning people he got in arguments with).

You talk about me a lot. A lot. Although it's impressive that I'm in your head so much, I always forget about you until ya post about me.

Anyhoo, I just posted articles, I didn't bait anybody to do anything. If someone doesn't like me, they can always block me.

Thanks, friend!

Oh, no doubt about it, change is coming for everything. Just the hard manual labor stuff is a little farther away. Right now "data manager" jobs and coding and white collar jobs are going first. Then warehouse. Delivery is coming up. It will eventually get to construction and plumbing, but those will be the last jobs automation takes based on how they are done.

And we shouldn't wait until they can replace the jobs to start getting UBI rolled out right now. Because the time is coming. Fast. Regardless of how many Lemmy's screech out, "Oh, but ai sucks at coding" lol

To those that laugh about this, yeah, it's way to early to be effective. Now.

But the tech will get good enough. And jobs will be lost. Soon.

I understand being anti-robot/anti-AI, but if you aren't taking this seriously, you are just taking too much copium.

I don't care how much you think AI sucks or is silly. I don't care how much proof you have that you are better than AI or robots. Management takes it seriously. Mangement doesn't care that you can do your job better than robots/ai.

They care about how much money they save by not having to deal with you. Yes, there will be many companies that make poor choices and replace workers before the tech actually works for them.

But it doesn't matter that they are wrong and that you are right. What matters is you won't be working for them, and they aren't going to call you up, offer an apology and beg you to come back.

Shit is changing. And not in your favor. You can laugh it off and shrug, or you can prepare for it. I prepared for it. Took care of my shit, took early retirement, and live a frugal debt-free lifestyle. I knew this was going to happen.

None of it surprises me.

What does surprise me, is how few Lemmy people take it seriously. I see "haha! AI sucks a coding!"

Who gives a fuck? Your company doesn't care that you're a better coder than AI. They care that right now they save money by getting rid of your salary and benefits. They aren't thinking long-term. They are thinking about bragging rights of how much they saved by laying you off.

You all are idots to laugh these reports away. Glad I bailed on the workforce early!

If I were you, I'd stop jerking off to anti-Trump Lemmy posts, and start training as a fucking plumber. Robots ain't gonna unclog toilets anytime soon. Tech will take over your job way before they take over a plumber's job.

I'm right.

then analyze the voting behavior of the accounts

How do you do that? I'm noticing much more downvoting bots lately.

The bot creators were probably just testing the waters to make sure it works. I've been a victim of vote-manipulation bots; they downvote attacked me. So glad to see people are trying to get a handle on this.

Thanks for this! I am noticing more and more vote manipulation bots on Lemmy. Annoying af, so you're awesome for researching that!

But I’ve noticed your comments since this wee little exchange more and more, esp. on db0, and I like how you get down.

haha, thanks, friend!!

Careful though, saying that you even kinda like Universal Monk on Lemmy these days puts ya at risk of "guilt by association." lol They'll probably just say you're an alt of me and that I'm talking to myself, so...

I see soooo many people accuse of being an alt of me. Someone made a list of names and said, some variation of, "Here's a list of all Universal Monk's alts so you can pre-emptively block:..." And none of them were me. lol

As for selling you on PieFed. Hmm, I don't really have the knowledge base to do that. I do like it though. It uses much less resources/memory. Community is growing. And it's a good backup for when/if Lemmy fails. It does the same thing faster and quicker.

I personally don't catch as much hate there, and the admins seem to be much more "as long as you aren't breaking any laws, you do you" in attitude.

Way more options for organizing your the communities you follow, what you wanna see when you log on, etc.

I think if you do a quick search for "piefed vs Lemmy," you'll get much better feedback about both platforms than I can give you.

Truth! Lemmy is very anti-crypto, but it has a lot of advantages in socialist and anarchist circles. Sometimes Lemmy just hates anything that is popular, because they think it means "rich."

Even tho the average Lemmy poster makes more than the average Americans wage.

Yeah, well I have been lucky, but I always cash out early. But it's hard for me not to just be all in all the time! I do love watching the stands and the news about it though.

Yep! And yes, you are overthinking it. If you are worried about them profiting from you, then just pirate their stuff.

Join a union and ask for their advice.

Yep! But here in the US, unfortunately not everyone has that ability. The last few years of my working life I was union, and it was amazing. I'd never work at a non-union place again.

I never understood the appeal of Tik Tok. I hated it the second it came out. What's the point of watching a 15-second vid of someone lip-syncing to a song?! I don't get the appeal.

but even before Musk took over it was ALWAYS a fundamentally negative force.

Yep! What's hilarious to me is that so many people would post how much they hated Twitter, how it was ruining society, etc. Then Musk gets it, then all of a sudden people say they are gonna stop using it. Ok, well you hated it just as much before, but now you are not gonna use it?

Also, they didn't stop using it. The platform didn't die, like everyone gleefully predicted, and it's still sucks. It sucks equally as bad as before Musk.

I quit twitter long before Musk, and never got back on.

Lemmy is quickly becoming the same way. People have started entire threads in different forums to try to get me banned from Lemmy, just because they don't agree with me. Rather than just be mad at me and block me, they legit go to other threads, and even call out admins, in an effort to get me banned from every instance.

All because I didn't vote the way they wanted me! lolol

I still prefer Lemmy to Reddit though!

Preach! I'm a fairly terrible boyfriend, and I have no idea why girls continue to give me a chance. And that just reinforces my bad behaviour.