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- Comment on State names of the US if there were no letters "A" "M" "E" "R" "I" "C" "A" 8 hours ago:
The moment I saw the title and thumbnail I KNEW that OP would have deliberately made at least one mistake in order to gin up engagement. The internet sucks now and I hate OP
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 1 day ago:
Also based on an experience I had at work with a visiting American who point blank refused to get the tram, there seems to be a vicious cycle where public transport is seen as unsafe because only poor people get it, and only poor people get it because it’s seen as unsafe.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 day ago:
Owning a car used to be nice. Heck, even the notion of living in a Capitalist country used to be nice.
- Comment on sponsored by raycon 2 days ago:
Not just from Wish. I’d like to take a moment to say a massive Fuck You to the turbo thundercunt at Apple who decided it would be a good idea to make the iPhone headphone volume exposure limit warning LOUDER than the audio it was warning me about, and also to provide no method of adjusting either volume to match what my headphones actually output. That’s some fucking Grade-A trolling right there. Twats.
- Comment on Better Watch Out Eddy 3 days ago:
There’s a gentleman with the same surname and first initial as me, who keeps giving my email address to everything he signs up for. I’ve got enough documentation on his life to pretty much take it over if I wanted.
- Comment on Marie Curie 4 days ago:
If it’s any consolation I can guarantee that nobody will remember that.
- Comment on Marie Curie 4 days ago:
Posts like this always make me wonder how many people are telling stories of deadpan jokes I made in their presence, that they didn’t realize were jokes.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 5 days ago:
Their methodology is so astonishingly flawed at the most fundamental level I had to read it twice.
They got a ton of LLMs to simulate how they thought real people would react to changes in their feeds.
The entire study is built on less than sand.
- Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant. 5 days ago:
Yeah, we often see the entire non-terrorist Muslim population being held responsible for not doing enough to condemn terrorism, but Christians are let off the hook for the atrocities of their fundamentalists.
- Comment on 💀 💀 💀 5 days ago:
Normally I wouldn’t make fun, but he even typed the word Celsius in his reply. It’s almost like some small part of his brain was trying to throw him a clue.
- Comment on Anon goes home 6 days ago:
It’s negative, yeah, but that’s not the same thing either. I can’t believe I’m having to defend the position that not changing at all in 30 years could be seen as anything less than ideal. Did I touch a nerve or something?
- Comment on Anon goes home 6 days ago:
You’re the one that made an assumption. I said nothing about whether I thought they were happy, but you couldn’t resist the opportunity to get sanctimonious.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
The reason most web forum posters hate AI is because AI is ruining web forums by polluting it with inauthentic garbage. Don’t be treating it like it’s some sort of irrational bandwagon.
- Comment on Anon goes home 1 week ago:
It’s nice seeing my parents but everything else in my hometown is depressing.
The things that have changed are depressing because they represent lost youth. But, the things that stayed the same are also depressing, because it means the same bunch of people just spent 30 years on a treadmill and got nowhere.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
I don’t know if Groupon is still a thing, but at its peak there were posts online on a regular basis from wait staff who got stiffed, because customers would tip based on the balance they owed after the 90%+ discount Groupon voucher.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 1 week ago:
…you do understand that “stop taxing the rich” in that sentence doesn’t literally mean set it to 0%, yeah? The only strawmanning here is you taking things way too literally. You still argued exact the thing I was talking about, i.e. that taxing them might make us lose revenue therefore we shouldn’t do it.
Also, ad hominems get you blocked, so bye bye
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 1 week ago:
No one’s saying this, this is a straw man.
…and then you go on to spew exactly that talking point at length.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 1 week ago:
I’m not saying it doesn’t ever happen, but we really need to stop talking about it like it’s such a serious threat to the country’s financial stability that we should chicken out and stop taxing the rich.
The billionaires in all those other tax haven countries also repeatedly make the same threats to their own governments too. They’re playing us for chumps.
- Comment on Great Advertise 2 weeks ago:
What’s crazy is I instantly clocked it as AI slop just from the thumbnail, and I’m not even wearing my glasses.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s not that he did it per se, it’s the idea that he probably did it because he’s a classless fat troll.
Same with some of his policies; grand scheme of things if they were presented by most other people I’d have little objection, but because they’re motivated by greed, hate or narcissism I don’t want to give the twat an inch.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 2 weeks ago:
Visually it’s striking how similar it looks to how Nazi Germany also put eagle motif crests everywhere.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 2 weeks ago:
The consultant and artist who conceived and realized that sign both went to Yale. The company who holds a regulatory-captured monopoly on all Texas roadside produce stands paid their agency $6.5M for this design.
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 2 weeks ago:
Support callers for banks and ecommerce maybe, but Jira is a tool for educated professionals.
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 2 weeks ago:
The stupid thing about replacing staff with “AI customer contact” is that the AI can only really spit out the same stuff you put in its knowledge base, i.e. the stuff that in the documentation in the first place (and maybe perform limited actions that also would have had to be implemented as forms). All it does is save someone broadly 0 seconds on what it would have taken to do a regular search of the documentation.
If I’m actually phoning up Atlassian to ask something it’s because what I want isn’t available online, and AI doesn’t solve that at all.
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 2 weeks ago:
Six months’ pay isn’t bad. Certainly enough time to get together with your former colleagues to develop and roll out something far better than JIRA…
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 2 weeks ago:
Something like this appeared near the Miramax offices in LA, where if you showed it your bare feet it gave you a milkshake. It remains a mystery who put it there.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
This comment highlights a fundamental misunderstanding on how society should tolerate companies operating.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
Up til about ten years ago, doing mass layoffs was seen as a sign of company in trouble; it scared shareholders and it made talent less likely to apply to your company.
Then enough of them did it often enough that the stigma fell away and it became a thing you did to get rid of underperformers, scare people into working harder, and separate the wheat from the chaff. Now it’s so commonplace that I’ve heard execs talk about it like it’s just what you’re supposed to do as part of good governance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Go on a linux forum and post “as a windows user…”
Go on PC gamers and post “as a console gamer…”
Would have a problem with being told “this is not for you” then? No, you wouldn’t.
This is a terrible example, because yes absolutely I would indeed consider the mods to be militant over-the-top a-holes if they deleted and blocked all comments from Windows or console users.
- Comment on US education 2 weeks ago:
What are birds? We just don’t know.