toynbee

I like the dichotomy between the two currently existing responses to this post.

This is the best theory I could come up with as well.

One time I tried to rent a truck from Home Depot to haul ... Something, I forget what.

They said they weren't renting out the truck because there was rain in the forecast.

What kind of work truck can't handle the rain?

The person perhaps (eventually) most qualified to answer this might be Graeldon, who is on a quest to play every Steam game in alphabetical order.

Ancient video time!

https://youtu.be/yWYvl_AIIbU

My pleasure! Glad it helped. Also, I like your username.

I'm still not sure how much to fear AI, as I'm not knowledgeable on the subject (never even intentionally interacted with one yet) and have seen conflicting reports on how worryingly capable it is. Today I did see this video, which isn't explicitly about AI but did offer an interesting perspective that could be compared to the paradigm: https://youtu.be/fVN_5xsMDdg

(Warning, the video was interesting, but I got invested about halfway through when I started comparing it to AI, then was disappointed in the ending)

I saw an interesting video about this. It's outdated (from ten months ago, apparently) but added some context that I, at least, was missing - and that also largely aligns with what you said. Also, though it's not super evident in this video, I think the presenter is fairly funny.

https://youtu.be/L6mmzBDfRS4

I did - I'm from the US and have been confused by this before.

Also I saw Technology Connections' rant video about this! As always, in case you're not familiar, I highly recommend his channel.

I thought that was a legal safety requirement in the US.

It wouldn't be King Triton?

I used to have the title "system administrator" in my resume. I guess recruiters were just going off of single keyword searches because I'd get all kinds of emails about unrelated administrative positions like "social security administrator."

My favorite example was when I got invited to apply for the position of "ocean administrator." I looked it up at the time and it seemed to be about directing shipping traffic, but it's more fun to imagine that I would have been in some way directing the ocean itself.