The human is also pressured not to be a bottleneck because AI was supposed to increase productivity, and that means more rubber-stamping. That certainly becomes an issue when burnout sets in, what seems to be inevitable in these kind of functions.

And it was time off because all the kids were kept at home for helping on the farm in summer. School teachers gave up and closed school. That turned into vacationing time.

There's some argument that most empires last 250 year. It's how long it takes for sentiments to shift over the generations from "all in this together" to "f u I got mine" and the thing to fall apart.

Meanwhile some gamers go retro or table top. I guess that number will go up with the price of modern gaming..

I'd be tempted to play dumb and keep saying we need a bigger discount until the guy gives up and talks to my wife about the project.

Yeah, they do a great intimidation game but the usual standing tall with arms wide makes them back off, certainly with slow deliberate steps towards them. They're much more nasty towards children and people showing fear.

Seems he wants to bully them into submission first.

Unfortunately that's human. Many take the decision on an emotional level and then construct a narrative to support that decision.

On average they're normal. Kinda how it works for most people.

A place has a sign with 5 ton max weight. One car I had would always see that as 5 kph speed limit. Systems can be stupid like that.

One car couldn't tell the difference between open sky and the backside of clean white truck so it accelerated to get to the speed limit. Maybe clean trucks were not in the training data.