Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Trained For Coding Career ? FORGET IT ! "AI" Will Do It All Date: 15 Aug 2025 20:01:01 GMT Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <107hpb2$3pna1$17@dont-email.me> <0a-cnWtH4stA9AD1nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> <107kb73$d4vh$3@dont-email.me> <107nclv$14lqn$6@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xuRvyryqtqD/kVP5dkNfDQ3UUVVklMacfz+MW/9eYHSxJsvZhQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bc6/2oZJR+gxvofuGVZhM+HxoEs= sha256:F0/ktWmmAbTPfhOH8dMLSWeneMPGCy88XIiGqsvQK1E= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71255 On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:28:31 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 15/08/2025 05:21, c186282 wrote: >> On 8/14/25 2:40 PM, rbowman wrote: >>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:45:07 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>> >>>> Imagine you DONT import the slaves to pick cotton, you leave them >>>> where they are, send them FPV sets and manipulators, and they control >>>> an army of robot drones picking the cotton instead. >>> >>> At least in the US there aren't any darkies out in the cotton fields >>> anymore. They are now obsolete farm equipment. >>> >>> https://www.bandsent.com/agriculture/harvesting-equipment/harvesting- case- >>> ih/module-express-detail >>> >>> I don't know about cotton but with the GPS controls on wheat >>> harvesters it won't be a heavy lift to get rid of the human passenger. >>> >>> >>   Of course the old "slaves" then starve to death at home ........  >>   :-) > > Actually, they didnt. > > I used to live on a farm which was part of a 'Fen'. > > It was about 20 square miles of agricultural land with one way on and > one way out. > > My landlord was an old fenman, born just after the turn of the > century,. He told me that back in the day about 2000 people lived there, > and there were three pubs (bars) and a church. Which he accidentally > burned down just after the end of WWI . But thats another story. > > When I was there, his farm had the farmhouse and two cottages, one of > which I rented. There were half a dozen houses left on the fen that were > still occupied and several derelict ones,. Everyone else had left. > > He ran the farm - mainly potatoes and some wheat and flax - all by > himself. > > With no work and shit work at that, the people all just moved on and > found something else to do. > > Someone has to service all those 'tratters' and combines ... But what do you do when the dark, satanic mills are shuttered? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1RGoKdphvg