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So instead of a janitor you become a robot technician. No thanks.

It sounds however your own biases make it sound. This is a dumb game.

Ok, not what I meant at all. Especially the part about making things up (why insert this?). I just meant that there's no rule that small talk has to stay as such. You're making it seem like I meant one should be an unhinged narcissist bragging about their life while ignoring everyone around them.

If you have an interesting life then you can commandeer small talk and make it interesting. It's an opportunity to introduce other material.

"In the middle of 1985, I got an invitation from Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian and a billionaire at the time, to come to his apartment in Olympic Tower. I went, and while I didn’t particularly go for the apartment, I was impressed by the huge size of its rooms. Specifically, it had the biggest living room I’d ever seen. I had plenty of space in my triplex, but I figured, What the hell? Why shouldn’t I have exactly the apartment I wanted—particularly when I built the whole building?

I decided to take over one of the other apartments on the top three floors and combine it with mine. It has taken almost two years to renovate, but I don’t believe there is any apartment anywhere in the world that can touch it. And while I can’t honestly say I need an eighty-foot living room, I do get a kick out of having one."

Guess who said that.

Artificial general intelligence built by people who don't have any. Sounds great, give them half a trillion dollars!

The US as a country does it to the rest of the world too, not just the immigrants.

https://fenix.iseg.ulisboa.pt/downloadFile/1688983004255200/Kicking%20Away%20the%20Ladder%20Development%20Strategy%20in%20Historical%20Perspective%20by%20Ha-Joon%20Chang%20(z-lib.org).pdf

Sometimes I think Lemmy is an echo chamber but then I hear a phrase like I used to show hogs.

It's weird because Xi is a chemical engineer. Putin and Kim I understand being gullible and clueless about scientific matters but I don't expect the same from Xi.

I don't want to type stuff into a command line. Like ever. If this is possible then I'm in.

This might be when I finally jump ship and go to Linux. I should do Mint, right?

There's a whole section in The Art of the Deal devoted to how a Saudi guy had a nicer apartment than him and how he built a whole apartment building so he could have a nicer $50 million penthouse.