Anyone here from Texas? I’ve been out of the state for the last ten years, but this outcome doesn’t surprise me and I have near zero faith that Talerico gets elected.
I showed this graphic my wife, her response was chromebooks. She was a teacher through this timeframe and in 2015 was the period where laptops became 1 to 1 for her school.
They are all thinking that AI won’t take over my plumbing / electrical / hvac job. But I just saw a demonstrator bot that was trained on data from humans wearing pressure sensitive gloves. The robot had excellent hand movement and had very quick adaptability. So these guys in the trades jobs haven’t got long.
Life can change a lot over that 18 years. I started a college savings account for my daughter. At the time my wife was working and making nearly as much as me, so we had some extra income. 3 years later, she’s out of a job, our house payment doubled because we had to move. These people live in a crazy world, where they believe everyone has 50% of their income not allocated to the absolute essentials. Those of us who are lucky are just barely getting by, many are already under water.
Fuck me. I used to live around there a while back