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   June 23, 2026

   bluecollarcritic

   Amend to the Wranglers. Not only are the acceptable but a lot cheaper then the more in fashion brands I thought I had to get when younger. A pair of Levi’s today is around $100 and not even worth it these days IMHO.

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      June 24, 2026

      way0utwest

      Love those wranglers, and I just can’t pay $100 for jeans. I can hear my Mom in my ear if I even think about it

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   June 23, 2026

   bluecollarcritic

   “In Reshuffle, Sangeet Paul Choudary reframes one of the most hyped technologies of our time not as a smarter brain, but as a better glue.”I’ve heard similar positive takes on AI but their all wrong including Elon b/c they mistake humanity as projected in fiction as how it is in reality. Unless there’s some global level event or massive encroachment and control over all AI by government here is how this will play out. REMINDER: Musk is building these AI robots so they can go to mars and prepare what humans would need to live there so there’s NOT going to be any safe jobs in the trades as many speculate. 1) B/C they can’t help themselves every single corporate executive at every business in every industry that a sales person for one of these AI companies is willing to lie/embellish to and say “Yes our product can do that humans job” they will replace every last human employee with AI. It won’t be immediate or necessarily fast but quickly b/c it will become a race to the bottom. 2) As fewer and fewer are working, dependence on government welfare will increase and far beyond what it can even print to cover. In response the government will introduce UBI b/c their wealthy business campaign donors want them to do whatever is necessary so they can continue with replacing all humans with these AI bots. Once people have no jobs but income we are not going to be this next age of resonance as some think. A few will peruse the arts and hobbies but most will be idle hands seeking something to do and not always for the better. 3) All existing forms of entertainment will be run thru within a few years and more and more extreme sources of entertainment will be created to keep the mobs happy under a modern day bread & circus. You can bet this is when we’ll start seeing games where lives are really on the line, They may be filmed outside of the US for legal reasons but they will come to pass. 4) Eventually society will collapse b/c humans can’t exist long term without what a job provides, a purpose, a reason for being, an anchor to ones day/week. Humans are not made to be waited on hand and foot but to work and create and these AI powered bots are going to destroy that b/c the executives in charge will believe lies about AI b/c they want to and b/c they will be unable to resist the urge of the next quarter or 2’s profit margin; they won’t think twice about years down the road. What is NEVER going to happen that Musk has tried to predict is this post Currency Star Trek like universe. Never going to happen. For 1 it is impossible to actually make things so cheap that they are effectively free. At the bare minimum will be the energy costs to run these robots and the cost of materials to produce products. Even f all companies were %100 solar powered so there was no energy costs there’s still maintenance and supply costs unless you believe every place with something another wants is really going to just give it away for free.There’s only 1 way forward with these things that doesn’t destroy us and that is by making it more costly for companies to replace humans then to pair one up which one of these and use it like a tool that helps the human do more in less time just as all new tools so far have done for humans. I do NOT like the idea of government having that kind of power but corporate greed and short sightedness will make it necessary.

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      June 24, 2026

      way0utwest

      I don’t think we’ll get that dystopian. Mostly because government and society has some inertia and we usually poorly execute on visions, both positive and negative.

      Already I think the cost of AI tokens is starting to limit how/where they get used and that’s going to limit how many people can you get rid of. At some point, it’s cheaper to use humans, especially when the humans often poorly guide AIs. The people that have the most success, a) have the most knowledge and b) are pro ai.

      So many experts don’t love AI, which slows adoption. So many people do dumb things and don’t guide AIs well, so we might limit their access or use of AI. We’ll be so inefficient at this tech that we won’t aim for your dystopian future.

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   June 24, 2026

   bluecollarcritic

   Love those wranglers, and I just can’t pay $100 for jeans. I can hear my Mom in my ear if I even think about it

   I don’t know how I was so easily pressured into the pricier fashion based Jeans when I was a young adult. As a teen seeking to fit in I understood the desire for a pair of those Coca-cola stonewashed jeans but by the time I was in my mid 20’s I shouldn’t have acted that way, should have been wiser, and yet it took establishing a single income 4 person household before the realization that Wrangler worked just as well and for a lot less took and then stuck.

   I used to get the classic Short Sleeve Polo nit shirt w collar, the actual POLO brand version, that was release din the 80’s and remained popular even until today but I had to quit them too b/c eventually the reduction in quality + increase in price made it smarter to get the Walmart equivalent and now with these new shirts made out of wrinkle free material, you no longer need to iron them. While costs drove me to Wrangler initially we’re at a point now where I could get the Levvis without a 2nd thought but I rather not waste the money.

   You and I had a lot of fashion fads to go thru between the 80’s/90’s so I’m sure there were a few specialty items, perhaps the MJ Thriller Jacket, that you had to have at some point ? 🙂

   AT the time I remember THE CHESS KING (in a mall) being the young mans store for the current urban fashions.

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   June 26, 2026

   David Wiseman

   I really enjoyed the Bobiverse series. I listened to it on audible – highly recommended! Some other books/series that I love:

   * Dungeon Crawler Carl
   * Red Rising
   * Project Hail Mary
   * Murderbot diaries

   I only do audiobooks now as I don’t really have time to read books – but I spend a ton of time running where I can listen to audiobooks. 🙂

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   June 26, 2026

   way0utwest

   thanks. I’ll take a look at those

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