My gen Z kid was pretty excited because it seemed like AI had so much promise. Promise to do his homework for him. He since learned how he spends more time getting the right answers out of it than just doing the work himself.

My experience is exactly the book reproduction part when I used a LLM to help with a narcissist. I had no choice but to deal with them, for months. I was stressed and panicking from fending off constant attacks while undoing years of conditioning and abuse, raising two young kids, working, seeing a therapist, seeing a lawyer, and cramming self-help and communication books.

My lawyer suggested it. It picked the manipulation hidden in ‘reasonable’ requests and phrased things safely for me while I learned to do it myself. It did a good job, still better than I do. I was reading a few self help books and began noticing familiar phrases. It was reproducing sentences, sometimes closely paraphrased, sometimes verbatim. Like, a lot.

I feel a little bad because I probably used a bunch of water, but I got full custody. They had been doing a great job making me look like the crazy one until they started flipping out from me being calm and professional in response to their abuse instead of panicking and flipping out myself or shutting down. Sorry planet, thanks for the water, will do better next time.

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It’s funny that not too long ago getting a FAANG job right out of college was a recipe for success. Now many grads would prefer to avoid them because they’re so toxic, but can’t find a job and have to apply anyhow.

An associates, bachelor’s, and master’s here. I’ve been rejected for being “underqualified” for jobs with no stated or practical education requirement. I just got a job making a bit above 1/3 of what I was making when I was termed seven months ago. I’m incredibly overqualified and I only got it because I was third choice and two PhDs ahead of me backed out after being offered it. The job is just above entry level and has a requirement of an associates or high school and 2 years experience.

It’s not you, the job market is just insane.

Seconding Bazzite, it’s great for gaming.

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Thanks for the summary, much appreciated.

Thanks for the link. I don’t understand your comment, though.

I literally just read about this. There goes that opportunity. Ugh.

LOL

TIL: disinformation is a synonym for “presumptuous asshole”. Who knew?

Might I ask about your concerns about Napoli? Are they more than crime?

Are there any areas you’d recommend? We’re looking for more community/family engagement and a slower lifestyle, if it helps.

Meaning you already have jobs lined up for this?

Yeah, we already work remotely. My employer is fine with my working anywhere in the world. My husband’s employer isn’t, but he’s working on new employment. We can survive on my income alone.

Maybe focus on being yourselves rather than what you want to be seen as!

Thanks, that’s the plan! We’re both friendly and outgoing, I think more than most Americans, so I’m hoping that helps.

Thanks again for the info and your encouragement. We experienced a lot of xenophobia when we previously asked on Reddit, so this has been really refreshing.

That’s great! We’re trying to be forward thinking with his citizenship. I want to be sure he’s okay if I were to suddenly die or something.

Any recommendations on locations? We’re thoroughly overwhelmed figuring this all out.

100%. We’re taking classes and using Babbel already, just in preparation. I doubt we’ll be fluent by the time we’d move, but we’ll be functional. We just don’t want to be more entitled Americans who expect everyone to speak English. We want to do the work.

Thank you so much for a very helpful and detailed response. We’re both planning on working remotely and we’d actually prefer to live outside of the cities. I’m good at learning languages and my husband is bilingual and excellent with accents, so we will work at being fluent in the language of wherever we settle.

In your opinion, can we ever be fully accepted by any Italian community or will we always be “that (hopefully) nice American couple”. I worry because we’re missing all the cultural touchstones gained from growing up in Italy. We’ve been advised to be persistently nice with neighbors and that bigger cities will have English speaking immigrants we can meet up with, but we really want to integrate, acknowledging it’ll take time and effort. Do you think that is possible?

Thanks for your response. The multi-party government is exactly what kept us interested in Italy. We can both work remotely, so that’s the plan for income, plus we inherited a bit of money when my husband’s father passed. Nothing huge but we won’t show up destitute.

Hah, I know exactly what you’re talking about. I’ve been on the “double carbs bad” train for awhile, but I don’t care when other people do it.

No hate at all, it’s a good question. We’re both politically active, we even met at a protest lol. We’ve been involved in local politics for over a decade.

We’re now in our thirties and are just tired of the US employment rat race and general political apathy. I’m not going to pretend we’re not being selfish. We’re just tired.