There will be shortages in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of nurses, physicians, teachers, engineers, pharmacists, mental health counselors, construction worker and airplane mechanics

When you have an administration which says professions such as nursing or physical therapy aren't professional degrees and want to limit the amount of money people can get as loans to pursue those degrees, it doesn't help.

At least the courts have intelligence to say otherwise.

and likewise retirees not having enough pension funds

In the vast majority of cases, companies no longer have pensions. They probably have a 401(K), which is a type of retirement account, and requires the person to make financial decisions such as how much to have deducted from each paycheck and what investment tool to purchase with that money. Companies generally, but not always, have a matching amount which is added. Some simply give a set amount each year into a person's 401(K).

At this point, the only place still having pensions are government entities, and even those are moving toward a hybrid approach. Either a small, guaranteed pension with the remainder of your deduction put into a retirement account, or a full retirement account situation.

No point staying in a place that doesn't want you.

The dumbing down continues unabated.

Yes, that would definitely help

there's no reason why the government can't do that and just give everybody free electricity.

It's not free. Someone has to pay for it. If you're saying the government will build it and then give the electricity away for free, where do you think the government got the money to build it?

This is as bad as Europeans crowing about "free" healthcare or higher education. It's not free. They paid for it with their tax euros.

May dad lost access to his AOL email 2 months ago, and every phone call and every email exchange I've had with them since has been the exact same script. In short, he's being asked to verify who he is, even though he's never had to do so in the decade he's been with them, but there's nothing to verify against. One guy said he reviewed the case, and said from time-to-time people need to verify themselves. He couldn't have reviewed anything because he's the same guy who asked me to send a screenshot of what my dad is seeing. He would have known what the situation is. I'm fairly convinced it's some agentic AI being used because it's difficult to comprehend something being this stupid.

I can't even call them incompetent. Incompetence implies something was tried and done poorly. Nothing has been done. Zero. They're nothing but a bunch of script kiddies reading the same words over and over, never doing anything.

Goldman Sachs International, J.P. Morgan, and Allen & Company didn't do their due diligence. Whatever "metrics" they were looking at, they failed to look at the most important: how companies treat their customers. Not that they care. They got their money, so they're happy. It's the investors who will be unhappy as people leave this shit show.

Buyer beware. If a company can't fix a problem they created, you don't want them.

When Musk proposed the data center he said the turbines would be temporary. Over a year later and all he's done is add more turbines while not making a single attempt to get a permit. He does this because the surrounding community is mostly poor black people who already have a high incidence of asthma and other health issues.

So no, the articles are not incorrect. He's running unpermitted gas tubines.

It goes along with gotta have a fart nozzle on your car and annoy everyone around you.

Nope:

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

He can't use electricity to power his datacenter in Tennessee, instead runing unpermitted gas turbines 24/7 simply because it's next to poor people.

Processionals are literally paid to tell you to use their products. Why would you listen to anything they say?

Agreed. When building a home or bridge, no need to listen to the professionals. All they're doing is getting paid to tell you to use their products.

Let me guess, you don't brush your teeth because professionals tell you it's a good way to prevent cavities because all they're doing is telling you to use their products.

Just curious if this is how Rust does security. Can anyone confirm?

Apparently a support person for AOL. Fox six weeks my dad has lost access to his email because their system screwed up something, and for six weeks all I've heard from them is reading from a script. No help, no escalation, no nothing.

With their IPO coming up, I'm about ready to go to the media and lay out how incompetent they are. Let the investors know what a shit show they're getting involved with.

Yes, AOL mail still exists. He was moved over from his ISP's email to them a while back. It's simple and does all that he needs at his age.

The company jumped into AI with its Llama family of models

Of course they'd have issues. Everyone knows llamas can be pains in the asses. Should have gone with alpacas.