Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

prabe · 2026-03-17T20:53:40+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
The low fire/low hire economy is making finding a new job hard. I can only imagine how much worse it is in the DC area.

As someone who lives in the DC area ... you quite possibly cannot imagine how much worse it is here. (My fed contractor job vanished in 2017, I feel your wife's pain.)

Deset Gled · 2026-03-17T22:23:15+0000

prabe said:
As someone who lives in the DC area ... you quite possibly cannot imagine how much worse it is here. (My fed contractor job vanished in 2017, I feel your wife's pain.)

I'm not in DC, but I work with research grade scientific equipment. One term that's been tossed around my industry is "extinction level event".

Scribe · 2026-03-17T22:27:07+0000

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AI bots have a better time understanding context, pretty damning.

prabe · 2026-03-17T22:50:07+0000

Deset Gled said:
I'm not in DC, but I work with research grade scientific equipment. One term that's been tossed around my industry is "extinction level event".

Science does seem to be a particular target this time around, yes. I worked recording audiobooks for the Library of Congress (National Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped) and the hit that took felt like ditching a program that helped people.