More gardening in a genocide

Can AI grow a garden?

Sometimes I’m out in my garden and I feel like the Gary Larson cartoon guy in hell.

My country is funding a genocide and providing the weapons to kill, while bombing nuclear power plants in another country but damn the roses look good this year. Shrine area is done. Hooray!!

It’s lumpy but that’s the way I wanted it. I didn’t want it to look like it was done by a professional from Guatemala who can’t speak English. I’ve seen some of their paver work. Too good. Not my style. My country is going to arrest them all. We’re building alligator prisons for them. The arrested will probably do most of the paver work before being deported or eaten.

A few years ago, I toured the old Idaho prison built by the inmates.

They even have a garden in the middle of the prison. I bet a few of them forgot they were in hell while gardening.

Northwest Headlines

Home prices slip as market slows / Seattle home prices dip as listings pile up / Home values decline in Seattle / Will Home Prices Crash in Seattle

A friend of mine who worked at Microsoft for 15 years told me that one day there would be a mass exodus of Indians going back to India.

A good portion of those being fired had salaries well over $200K. All replaced by a plug and play AI system.

Right on the heels of the MS announcement or before, Amazon announces their AI workforce reduction.

Last month Google located in Kirkland Washington extends buyout offers to employees. In 2023 Google fired 12,000 employees so why do they have to buyout the remnant employees? What makes them so special? You would think these tech companies would have been smart enough to not position themselves just a few miles apart. The United States is pretty big. Spread the love, spread the financial collapse around a little.

Listed homes in my neighborhood are currently sitting. My neighbor just pulled his off the market. I only seen a few people look at it. Can AI build jets? If so that should pretty much tank Washington State forever if Boeing lays off 50,000. Washington State is setup for a perfect storm.

That billboard was put up on April 16, 1971 after Boeing reduced their workforce from 100,000 to 38,000. The prediction then was that Seattle would be a ghost town (I like ghosts) with weeds growing in the streets. I’d love to have anyone of those three cars right now.

The benefit for those of us who owned a home during the big tech explosion is that we woke up to discover our little 1400 square foot house was now worth over a million dollars.

I bought my house new in 1984 for $84K. Three years later it was worth $86,500 and then $1,000,000. And now back to $84K. All of this up and down crashing shit might have bothered me in my late 20’s, thru my late 50’s but not in my 60’s. Again, I feel like the cartoon character in hell. My thinking maybe naive but I’m thinking we’ll just grow food and help one another. Very simple.

I too was in the tech industry for a while. I worked as a CNC programmer for 17 years. I could see AI coming. Nope, but what I could see was a push to get computers to do everything even if it was incredibly slow and taking us back-ass-wards. One time all employees were required to answer a yes or no to a question. You weren’t allowed to verbally answer yes or no to your supervisor or manager. You had to answer yes or no via a computer.

First you log in using your password. If you don’t have a password your instructed to call tech support. After you have a password and can log in to the company website, you’re instructed to click on the series of white dots located in the upper left corner. You are then told to click on the link that reads, Company Goals. Then 52 links pop up. Scroll to the bottom. Click on the last link. Answer yes or no. Total wasted time to answer yes or no between 5-35minutes. I was one of the 35 minutes. A lot of tech problems.

Didn’t AI help with the analysis of clinical trial data and vaccine development and distribution for the CV19 vaccine? That worked out perfectly, didn’t it? Maybe AI should do everything for humans, and we’ll just play around in our garden.

I think my higher self could see AI coming and prompted me to retire from programming in 2012. I went full time in transit and was fired for not taking the AI developed vaccine. A new requirement to be a bus driver in Seattle. But only a public bus driver. School bus drivers weren’t required to take the CV19 vaccine. Isn’t that strange? Same county. You might say my higher self F-d that one up but I don’t think so. As I recall I had a great garden in 2022.

I recently sent a text message to a programmer I worked with. I told him you WILL one day be replaced by AI but I want to see AI setup the machine to run the Dewey Phaco Tips. I want to see it load a .022 drill in a collet. I want to see it fix the machine when it makes a programming error and the machine crashes. I told him I don’t think AI will be firing him. AI needs him.

Machine simulation narrated by computer programmer extraordinaire--Mike Huggins.

The company Vice President came down and asked me what title I wanted on my company business card. I told him COMPUTER PROGRAMMER EXTRAORDINAIRE. He said no. I then told him to write anything he wanted for a title. I think the entire box of business cards sat on my desk unopened.

Up until the Dewey Phaco Tip also called Phaco Needles, all tips were sharp edged. Dr. Dewey found a benefit with a radius or smooth edged tip. The radius edge was done in a second operation by technicians. I think I could have programmed a tool to add the radius but I had no open stations for the front working live tools.

Additional info on the Dewey Phaco Tip.

A lot of parents once fantasized that little Johnny would one day grow up and become a computer programmer. Maybe a video game computer programmer. He was just so good at all of the games.