Every language has words that are almost the same sounds but not quite.

English speakers barely pronounce can and can’t differently. If you’re in a noisy place, or are not familiar with the accent of the speaker or got a flu and your ears are blocked or whatever else, you’ll have an extra bad time telling them apart. That’s normal. Just extra annoying that this particular example involves a particular meaning and the opposite of it, so context is not your friend.

HEY MATE, CAN YOU PLEASE COME TO THE PARTY?

I CA’!±:-

OH COOL

I SAID I CA;(++;:-

OH SO YOU CAN’T? YEAH?

YEAH! THAT’S WHAT I SAID.

WELL YOUR LOSS

I SAID I WILL COME, DUDE

OH SHOOT. OK. SEE YOU THERE.

I’d be inclined to square the blame on economic and cultural imposition.

Which means that in maybe 50 years it will be like you say because of China’s increasing weight on world affairs.

What do you mean personalised? Do people pay while making specific requests? Hard to believe given how much the biggest stars are getting paid.

Oh no Mark Ruffalo is tied up! Would he get angry enough to turn into Hulk and free himself?

It works, however I’ll need to skip reading it since it makes me log in.

Your source link takes me to a broken page?

Fwck

My thoughts exactly.

My other thoughts were, every time I see corporate BS in my company am I better off ignoring or swearing.

Now I have inspiration for what to do.

NVIDIA sells GPUs to Oracle. Oracle sells GPU time to openai.

When time comes to pay the bills, openai doesn’t have the money to pay Oracle who then doesn’t have money to pay NVIDIA. So, Oracle gives stock to NVIDIA, and openai also gives stock to NVIDIA.

NVIDIA doesn’t care if both go broke because now a gpu is worth a lot more, and in the books they’re selling a lot more GPUs each for a lot more money. So NVIDIA stock goes through the roof even if they ran out of cash and got into ridiculous debt.

Shareholders have a ridiculous profit, NVIDIA directors get a massive bonus and NVIDIA CEO gets famous.

Why is it a problem? Because nobody has cash and this can’t go on forever without some massive bankruptcies. I’m sceptical anyone is paying their power bills or servicing bank loans, so these may get dragged into the mud too.

I don’t know what you call trust, but count me out mate.

Just because there’s no option it’s not meant to say I can’t see the grift.

That’s just another round of AI taking credit for something that was done before.

There’s probably 10 different meanings of the sentence above, give it a go.

Mate I hope you get hold of your depression and find a way to sort or ignore your problems in a healthy, guilt free way.

Look I’m from South America and I get what you’re saying. Many parallels although to a lesser degree. Probably because South America has had tough life but not as tough as South East Asia.

Although I can imagine what hell would look like: commuting for 1h to sit in an office that has more people than desks to have a zoom meeting over VPN with flaky wifi and AC that is set to overheat whoever sits under the vent and under heat everyone further.

Oh did I tell you that meeting could have been an email? And the coffee machine broke yesterday. And there’s a bathroom queue.

What’s preventing a person bent on harassing you from coming back another day when you’re not home with a bigger bat? Why the need to incite violence here? There’s so many better ways to sort this, including a frank discussion, practical joke back at the offender and anything in between.

Exactly what I though

Maybe that’s what they though but it’s not what they said.

Here they are, now I need to find glue.

This is transparent tpu. Big is straight from file, small is 2mm.

I didn’t read it all but it looks like you put a lot of effort into reformating it.

I’d like to suggest that you also include a text description of it, for those who can’t see images and rely on text readers for accessibility.

I’ve saved to my things verse collection and will print in green for my XPS later today

When I have said it to people with the intention of them growing, first of all it is meant for their own benefit, not for getting good grades or work recognition.

I find it is important for people to know what their unrealised potential is, and growing as a result of doing something hard, and making this a positive cycle.

But the experience has to provide the rewards in itself. Pursuing external validation or trying to align with someone else’s idea of a noble goal will only lead to frustration. As well as decreased confidence.

All that said, you can’t have that goal through all your life. Do that for a while, take a rest that could be a weekend, a month or even 10 years long if you’re going through raising kids. As long as it’s in your own terms and you’re not hurting anyone. Nobody likes assholes.