Oct 23, 2026, 3:55 PM@DrHyde very very very excellent point, and I can understand that. I guess I was lamenting reading anecdotes from people who did this for a living and suddenly were off the job. And I can see that flawed is better than none at all. I have reduced hearing into my 60s so it helps me but I get mad at the really stupid things put in with automation that make no sense, but yeah, I still understand what is going on.
Oct 23, 2026, 5:15 PM@kevbob yeah, it sucks for them, just like it sucked for all the people who used to make cloth by hand and had their jobs automated away by power looms, and all the people who planted seeds in the fields by hand and had their jobs automated away by seed drills. And now more people can have warm clean clothes every day, and more people can have lots of nutritious food, and more people can have subtitles, all of which are a net good thing, I think, despite the temporary job losses.
Oct 23, 2026, 5:17 PM@kevbob and I say all that as one of the temporary job losses. My ex-employer made lots of people redundant because they are automating code production. I, like the cloth makers and farm labourers, will find something else.