xeromal

Rough economic landscape. Fear of flying to the US. High gas prices. Softening of american company support for "woke" causes.

The post reads pretty clear to me. They didn't raise enough money

iamverybadass

My guess is that the validation just validates the numbers which are old and valid and some automated system notices the label and routes it. I bet their system is a disjointed system and not set up in a way where every step checks every thing. It's very plausible it was home grown in such a way where its like this

It's doing something that wasn't worth the squeeze for a human. Seems like a perfect use case for AI. Sure, I can do X or I can do Y but if it takes me a few weeks but AI can hash it out in hours, it now makes it worth it.

Just a guess but gig work might be picking up some of that slack?

Humans seem to do alright with most diets except for the eat too much one

Account created 2021

Most of my family are small business owners, so I've done a handful of Excel automations that they needed that generally take me a while to figure out. Landing pages and a few 3D designed prototypes that I used the Fusion 360 MCP server for

Same. Helping family out when I generally was too tired to do it earlier. They're all very happy too

Many people were making more money on unemployment than their standard wage due to the covid increased pay. The fed paid $600 on top of state benefits for a few months and then $300 for more than a year after that meaning people were seeing 16 -> 24 dollars an hour in wages for not working in my state of Georgia for instance. It was often smarter to stay unemployed until that ran out compared to local wages.

Russia invaded Ukraine specifically because they have nukes. Everyone is afraid to fight back.

Yeah, I grew up in N. GA in a rural area and my family still had a rotary until the mid or late 90s. lol. No internet either

Missing the forest for the trees