EFFORTPOST Uhaul Lesbian dreams of being a court reporter, has a debilitating $400 a month Spring Roll addiction leeching of her mother while making 15'000 a year

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Ariana, 31, Corpus Christi TX

Personal Life/Career:

  • Personal Shopper at "Major Texas Grocery Store" (HEB)

    • basically just handling curbside pickup stuff

    • Last year made $25'386

      • Brought in $1'400 dollars last month?

      • Probably closer to $15'000

    • 34 hours a week - usually less than that

    • 3 years

    • Was an English teacher in China prior to this

      • Tried to substitute but did not like the culture in usa
    • Got a raise to $18 an hour recently

  • Bachelor's in Poli Sci

  • Leeching off her mother

    • Mother is 58
  • Went back to school, stenography "to become a court reporter" timestamp

    • Pushback on this because Caleb thinks it will be vaporized by ChatGPT

    • Apparently this pays 6 figures starting? :marseywtf:

      • Caleb fact checks this as around 61'000 starting

      • She was basing it off a job posting she saw

    • School details timestamp

      • 2 years (she thinks)

      • Paid in cash, 1 class a semester $500 each ("per speed level")

  • She tries to explain what she does with her day timestamp

    • Caleb brings up the Uhaul lesbian meme :marseyxd:

Financials:

  • Financial score timestamp

    • Tries to give story, gets cut off and then says 3/10
  • How'd she get into debt? timestamp

    • Claims majority of it is "taking a lot of flights to Britain"

    • "Trying to save [her] relationship"

    • Wifed an Englishwoman she met in China, separated during pandemic because they went back to their countries

      • Only 3 flights?

      • First time she stayed there 6 months

      • Others were 2 weeks apiece

      • Last went May of last year

      • Divorcing now (just filed)

      • Brit developed "chronic illness" and decided leeching off the NHS was smarter than moving to USA

      • Got married in Corpus last year, she traveled to the USA

  • Credit Card 1 (Sam's) ($5'859/$14'900) timestamp

    • Went and bought a pizza at Sam's before coming to the show

      • Gets pressed on blowing money on the pizza :marseyxd:
    • $100 interest

      • 20%
    • $158 payments (old minimum)

    • $130 new purchases

    • 159 minimum monthly payment

    • Lots of eating out :marseyxd:

    • Tries to justify it because it's convenience

      • usually grabs it when she's on the way out of Sam's
    • Pulls out her stenography machine and she tries to transcribe what he's saying timestamp

      • She's barely 30 wpm. Unfricking real.
  • Credit Card 2 (Discover It) ($1'235) timestamp

    • $625 paid

    • $424 in new purchases

    • $35 minimum payment

    • Interest free until November - 30% after that

    • She claims balances are because of relationship? He pushes back because it's obviously not :marseyxd:

    • Constant super market spending

      • Every shift at HEB she gets Sushi (actually spring rolls) :marseyxd:

      • Has tried making spring rolls at home but fails ever time

      • Roughly $300 a month spring roll habit. She claims she stopped and gets pressed on that because it's obviously not true

    • $75 therapist payment - put on this card instead of debit but this is interest free

  • Credit Card 3 ($0) timestamp

    • Authorized user on this one, it's her mother's

    • Mother is responsible, pays it off

    • "Mother wanted to help her build credit"

    • 690 or so credit score, she thinks this is "really good"

      • Gets pressed for being constantly being confidently incorrect
  • Student Loans ($9'244) timestamp - timestamp 2

    • On a payment plan - all consolidated

    • Not paused because she's under the requisite credit hours

    • Mother paid for most of her degree, these student loans are making up the difference

    • $98 minimum payment, she thought it was $198

    • 6.5% intrest rates

  • Addressing the mother situation timestamp

    • Thinks she's been given $3'000 over the last three years

      • Some for dental she "broke her teeth" while eating at Wingstop

      • Then had to get root canal?

      • Informal on the payment plan, mother is keeping an notebook and writing down all numbers

    • Living with mother right now, free rent

      • Sister also lives there, also going through divorce
  • Car 2014 Chevy Spark

    • 96'000 miles
  • Checking Account ($25) timestamp

    • She takes out "mostly everything in cash"

      • All that spending is untracked :marseywtf:

      • Caleb presses her hard on where the cash goes and she struggles to come up with answers

    • $80 on getting her hair done once a week :marseyxd:

      • She wants to be "platinum blonde" instead of black hair

      • She wants this to be in her budget

    • Started the month with $600

    • Tries to get her to draw a bar chart comparing her spring roll spending vs her income timestamp

  • No retirement account

Budget Pie Chart timestamp

Attempt to design her a budget timestamp

  • At least $57 underwater based on what she's done
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Caleb's take on court reporters getting replaced by AI is quite a :marseygigaretard: take if you work with courts. They are slow to change technologically, and they do a lot more than just record notes. I can't imagine chatgpt allowing it's voice to repeat some of the things I've made a court reporter read back into the record.


Still that WPM is far too low, and frankly she seems like too much of a :marseychonkernoticeme: to cut it in how catty the courts can be.

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..and then I walked over and got a burger

:marseyexcitedtalking:

ChatGPT, please read that back for the courts

:marseyjudgetalking:

...and I balked over and did murder

:marseysnappyenraged2talking:

Hang him!

:marseyjudgetalking:

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Many state courts already phased out the use of court reporters for audio and video recordings. With speech to text being better than ever, can you be so sure this job will exist in your state for the next 20 years? It's r-slurred to bet your entire livelihood on the idea that courts are slow to change.

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I don't know of any state that has fully phased out court reporters. Maybe it's my 9/10th circuit brain, but the only time I see only recordings is at justice and city court levels.


In a federal civil case, you can bet your butt a reporter will be there until you have 100% accuracy.

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Yeah I really don't get the argument of "well the transcription can be wrong sometimes". Stenographers aren't perfect, either. It's pretty cheap to have a full audio (even video) recording for internal recordkeeping, even if you don't allow outside video reporters. If someone claims the transcription is wrong, you can always go back and listen/watch to the original recording. It's not like they need to get rid of it.

I'm not sure if ChatGPT really has much to do with it but presumably decades from now we'll have more court recordings and the value of a stenographer will be diminished since they won't be as necessary.

There's people in the YT comments complaining about the same thing and how "every word must be accurate" in the official proceedings, but that's clearly not the case today, stenographers are not infallible.

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things youtube commenters interact with (youtube auto subtitles etc) are designed for "don't suggest someone said a racial slur" as a slightly higher priority than accuracy after some very funny incidents

presumably a courtroom standard speech-to-text system would be able to retain audio recording + be tuned for actual accuracy

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The USPS has some of the best hand writing recognition and now they don't need mail sorters anymore, well they need a few to handle the cases where it fails (very rare). Could be the same thing for stenos, they'll only need a few of them to correct mistakes from the VTT system.

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There's mfs that learn stenography for fun

It took me a lot of effort just to learn a new keyboard layout

I wonder if her typing WPM is all tht much higher

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The hardcore court reporters put some of our greatest programming neurodivergents to shame in terms of niche skills :marseyfluffy:

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