Themselves.

Only thing worse than a conservative is a centrist, because centrists are just conservatives that are too cowardly to own up to their hateful views.

Unfortunately, it is paywalled. Can you copy the text for the rest of us?

This is what I learned in cognitive behavioral therapy.

For those who cannot afford therapy right now:

Thoughts shape our emotions, and in turn, our emotions drive our behavior.

Therefore, to combat problematic behavior, one must:

1. Identify the facts of the problematic behavior; then,
2. Identify the emotions driving our behavior; then,
3. Analyze and challenge the thoughts behind the emotions.

We do this because many of the thoughts driving our emotions are not accurate and have to be challenged. These false thoughts are known as cognitive distortions.

Worksheet.

Corporations are firing and laying off labor, but that labor is not being done by AI-- it’s simply falling on those who are still employed or not getting done at all.

I resigned from an international public accounting firm due to having AI forced on very sensitive and delicate projects in order to lower costs. As a professional, every alarm bell went off and I left because I could be held liable for their terrible managerial decisions.

They told me they were sad to see me go, but AI is the future and hope I changed my mind-- this was all back in April.

Not only did AI fail to do a fraction of the work we were told it was going to do, it caused over $2MM in client damages that the firm then used to justify the firing of the remaining members of the projects’ team for failing to properly supervise the AI, even though every manager struggles to open a PDF.

AI is not the future because it is literally only capable of looking backwards.

AI is a performative regurgitation of information that real people put the time and energy into gathering, distilling, refining, and presenting to others to evaluate and contribute to.

Even worse, AI demonstrably makes its users dependent and intellectually lazy. If you think about it, the more prevalent AI usage becomes, the less and less capable people will be left to maintain it. And to all the fools crying out that AI will take care of itself or robots will, I say:

All LLMs are hallucinating and going psychotic, and that is not something that can be fixed due to the very nature of how LLMs work.

AI is not intelligent. And while it could be, that would take far too much energy and resources to make cost-effective machines with as many neural connections present in the brain of an average MAGA voter-- and that is already a super a low bar for most of us to clear.

GNU Cash is an excellent alternative to QuickBooks as long as you do not need payroll services.

Accounting:

Intuit products. They mislead people into thinking they are saving money by not paying an accountant or taking a class or two at the community college.

Depending on the situation, it can result in heavy fines and fees when the books or tax returns need to be corrected.

What did the one cat do?

You have potential to become Lemmy’s Shittymorph.

Oh snap, you’re right. It’s like a 200 IQ move. 😂

I had this issue with my cat until I switched out the litterbox for a bigger one.

Perfection

If you happened to have an unusually high IQ, why you would you choose to join Mensa, or be a moderator on Reddit for that matter?

The smartest thing you can do is obfuscate your level of intelligence, not brag about it. That’s just how you end up doing more work and getting blamed by everyone around you.

I quit my job in public accounting for many reasons, but the primary one was the forceful adoption of LLMs to replace associates.

I told the dimwits at the top that it was a mistake, because LLMs are incompetent even when the information fed to it was perfect, and that was rarely the case in practice.

Our ultra wealthy clients were notorious for giving us the most incomplete and asinine information, and it often took someone with decades of experience to decipher what the fuck their personal assistants are even talking about.

They went ahead anyway because of the high cost of wages, of course, and I made my exit because I did not wish to be complicit in such a monumental mistake.

Lmfao the LLM they laid associates off and paid half a million dollars for made up fake ledger accounts when accounts didn’t reconcile, and none of the dumbasses left noticed in time because they hadn’t done associate-level work in decades.

It also lied all the time, even when you asked it not to.

The damage was done and the biggest clients started leaving, so they begged us all to come back but I got obsessed with baking bread and I ain’t about to neglect my sourdough starters to help a group of people who would lose a battle of wits against yeast.

I’m currently going through something similar, and I’m just disposing of anything I do not immediately need.

Some stuff is very sentimental, so I asked my neighbor to dispose of it because I can’t.

Keep it at. Little by little. It’s all we can do.

It’s infuriating! 😬

This is literally fraud.

You’d be stealing from other working class people like you.

I have about a 3:2 ratio in favor of stupid vs. smart.

Precisely where I was.

I was the third finance director for that division in two years, which is a terrible sign.

When interviewing, always ask about those who last filled the position and for how long.

I accepted a position at Amazon as a finance director for one of their many divisions, and it was hands down the most toxic work environment I have ever experienced-- and I’ve worked in public accounting for other a decade, so that’s saying something.

I resigned within a couple weeks and found myself a much better job elsewhere.