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All the things I’ve read say that a majority of tipped workers (as well as the general population) prefer the current tips system. Maybe it’s not true, but looking at the comments here it seems accurate.

‘AI isn’t reliable, has a ton of bias, tells many lies confidently, can’t count or do basic math, just parrots whatever is fed to them from the internet, wastes a lot of energy and resources and is fucking up the planet…’. When I see these critics about ai I wonder if it’s their first day on the planet and they haven’t met humans yet.

Not a yank, as you’ve already discovered. But to answer your question, I don’t know about suburbs and the like, my experience is only with apartment building hoas and no, you can’t leave them. The thing is part of the property is shared–like corridors, stairways, lifts, any space that is not a home, even the facades…

Excuse me if I’m wrong but central hvac system, the word ‘complex’ instead of just ‘apartment building’, no junkies, soundproofed walls… doesn’t sound like ‘working class high density housing’ to me. At least that’s not a thing where I’m from.

Now a ‘major city’ without rats and roaches??? It has to be a cold as fuck city, definitely not a thing in temperate climates.

I live in a ‘high density working class neighborhood’ in a big dense city, and have for most of my life except some years I moved to a small village. Certainly not healthy, I would be even hard pressed to call it ‘community’. ‘Rat race’ or ‘crab bucket’ seem more appropriate.

I live, and has lived for most of my live, in a big and dense city, one of the biggest in the eu. I lived, for a few years, also in a small village (~2k-3k people) that’s now my (adopted) hometown. The city is definitely much more concrete heavy than the village. My sister still lives there in a much bigger home than me and her utility bills are identical to mine even given that I’m not at home half of the days for work or visiting her, so no the power consumption is much more dependent on the quality of the buildings. The other points are probably right, but I prefer the power lines to the rats and cockroaches, the garbage piling up on every corner, the smell, the noise, the crazies and junkies (we have those in my small hometown too but not even near in quantity or ‘quality’).

I get the impression that all the proponents of these ‘high density’ housing ideas haven’t lived in a high density working class area ever, and probably wouldn’t last long if they get themselves in one.

Denser housing doesn’t lead to more sustainable communities, it leads to more insanity. Even grouped single family houses start to be awful with hoas and shit.

'k I’ll bite. Which one’s the first?

Because horses are living beings that probably would prefer not to be ridden around?

We had fava beans in Europe I think. But add to that list peppers, turkey, tobacco…

To be honest they were super cheap. A Barbie doll or another name brand toy cost the same as the euro store crap this side of the pond. When I visited the states I brought Barbie’s and Levi’s jeans as souvenirs! Literally the same price as the shitty key rings I bought at the airport.

More than the south sure. As a tourist you wouldn’t have any difficulty getting directions or ordering at restaurants or things like that. Places where you can work effectively without any knowledge of the local language are more difficult to find. And those are the hardest countries to get in as a migrant.

Well in Germany there’s a greater percentage of English speakers than in other European countries, I don’t think there are many teams in Spain, Italy or France speaking in English.

I’m not in IT so my knowledge is not first hand but I do know that while there are jobs the competition is crazy, job offers for a single position or two get thousands of applications. For a company to hire someone on the other side of the pond op would have to really stand out from the other thousand applicants.

I don’t want to demoralize you just to be realistic. Those languages aren’t getting you very far (maybe try in Ireland or malta), English proficiency in the eu isn’t great. Also those fields you listed are super saturated.

When you say remote do you mean working from the states? A European wage with American CoL? I think many Americans think we’re paid the same as them. We are not. A waiter in the us prolly makes more than a (medical) doctor or an engineer over here, and I’m not talking about fresh out of college.

Hotels, bars, restaurants in some touristy areas in Spain (east coast, Mallorca, Ibiza…) do hire native English speakers. Also teaching English as a second language. But I’m not sure you’ll get many offers without being already here.

No, that’s not my assumption. Where did I say that? Rich people are mostly born, not made.

English is not my first language and I’m no expert in sewers maintenance so substitute whatever trade/job title instead of plumber.

I’m not against this robot quite the opposite. But I’m curious about the reaction when technology ‘takes the jobs’ of working class people like in this case (or you know last couple centuries) being very different than when it takes the job of artists, journalists, writers…

In which world they aren’t? Like if you have the option of working throwing paint onto a pice of cloth or taping bananas to walls would you chose to work with literal human shit to your knees and your elbows??

Also see my other comment, only 8% of artist (in the UK) are working class against A FUCKING 100% plumbers being working class.

Not trolling at all. I used to hang around an art school when I was a teenager, the vast majority of those kids came from pretty well off families. The small percentage that were of a more working class background were there to get into graphic design or the-like in college, so they didn’t end up being artists.

A quick web search gives that only 8% of artists are working class in the UK which is a wealthy country, I’d bet the percentage goes down in poorer ones.

Generative ai is also machine learning, and you could say that the ai is generating movements and actions for the drone. My question, that was not about the underlying technology or semantics, still stands.

So now all Lemmy is on board with this AI. Why is acceptable for technology to take the jobs of plumbers (usually poorer) but it’s evil for it to take the job of ‘artists’ (usually rich)???