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- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 21 hours ago:
This is honestly a trash article. It can be summarized as:
“Microsoft, a trillion dollar corporation that makes around $150 billion in pure profit, every single year, is tempering expectations around AI, BUT then why are they still investing $12B dollars in it, that makes no sense!”.
Like, they’re tempering expectations around AGI, not saying AI is trash and theres no value whatsoever in it.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 21 hours ago:
Fellow AI-haters should check out the newsletter and podcast of Ed Zitron.
If you’re not a hater and want a balanced and rationale takes, don’t.
- Comment on It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help. My question is who does the US go to for help if or when needed? 2 days ago:
It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help
Did it?
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
I feel like you’re making excuses for bad writing.
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
Everything about Lumon staffing has been minimal though. The staff in every department feel too small for the size of the space they’re in.
Just like from a managerial and reporting standpoint, how many direct managers does the marching band department have? And why are they all equally as primed to revolt as MDR?
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
You’d prefer that the Sci fi about having a switch that can turn you into multiple people based on a religious cult in a universe which is both simultaneously more advanced but uses older aesthetics than ours be more realistic to how normal offices work?
Yes, that is literally the core concept of the show.
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
You’re completely ignoring the subtext of Milchick, a Black man who evidently gets disadvantaged at work due to his skin color, using his power as the floor manager to choose a marching band as the method of celebration for their achievement. It directly ties into his season-long arc.
Just because it makes sense with one character’s arc, doesn’t meant it makes sense in the broader context of the show.
There are lots of ways a writer could have written the conclusion to that character arc for Milchick didn’t require suddenly establishing not just a full department, but the biggest department we’ve seen at the company by far, consisting entirely of marching band players that are apparently very practiced.
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
Why is the goat department 6 people and MDR 4 then?
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
But then there was never any mystery. The secret reveal is the core premise of the show.
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
Nowhere is it stated that C&M come into work every day, they might only come in for special occasions, or they could have other jobs in-between.
They’re putting temps through brain surgery?
Also, did you count 160 people, or are you guessing? It looked like way fewer to me, though still a rather large number.
I was being dramatic to express my point
I honestly don’t get the “mystery box” criticism. The biggest mysteries have already been explained.
So then what is the purpose of MDRs work?
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
Let’s be frank, Lumen is a corporate cult. I mean they have a department dedicated to raising sheep for literal sacrifice in a religious ceremony to guide souls to the company founder.
Really feels like that department could’ve used a few dozen of those marching band employees.
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
The Mark Gemma thing raises even more questions. If Mark and Gemma’s relationship is key to whatever this is working, then why aren’t the other MDR employees loved ones involved?
And conversely if loved ones aren’t key to the project, then why can’t it scale to more people?
- Comment on Severance’s Seth Milchick was originally envisioned as a minor character, but Tramell Tillman’s performance changed everything 1 week ago:
We can tell. Severance completely jumped the shark in the last episode.
Oh what, Lumon has 4 employees dedicated to macro data refinement, the most important project in the company’s history, but they have
Tap for spoiler
160 employees dedicated to matching band, who come in to the severed floor every day to practice their matching band routine with Mr Millchek?
You could really tell the last episode was almost entirely cheap fan service filler. I honestly avoided severance and then finally watched it because everyone raved, and it actually convinced me that it knew what it was doing, right up until that lar episode when it showed that it was just another mystery box paying down tracks in front of it as it goes.
- Comment on My brain is acting like a junkie who hasn't had their anger fix 2 weeks ago:
Being dismissive doesn’t sound cool when you’re objectively wrong.
- Comment on My brain is acting like a junkie who hasn't had their anger fix 2 weeks ago:
No there absolutely is not.
Literally at a core fundamental there isn’t, since lemmy’s algorithm isn’t engagement driven.
- Comment on Friendly reminder 2 weeks ago:
Just a friendly reminder that a usb microscope is cheaper than a chaturbate subscription.
- Comment on Anon learns happiness is simpler than he thought 2 weeks ago:
I was depressed in high school and talking to my mom about happiness and one of the things she said to me, was that often real happiness comes from learning to be happy with being content.
At the time I honestly found the thought kind of depressing, but it stuck with me and I’ve only seen it to be truer and truer as I’ve gotten older.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
It’s worth drawing the distinction between ‘if guns are allowed, activists should consider carrying’ vs ‘guns should be allowed so that activists can carry’.
The former I agree with, the latter I think is nonsense.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Lmao, enjoy the half second you half firing a Tommy gun in the air before an air with an anti tank mine strapped to it blows to pieces you and everyone you love.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Please cite the number of times owning personal pistols and why. I will follow with a list of political activists who have been assassinated with pistols.
Let’s see whose is longer.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s called a feedback loop and your are participating in it rather than breaking out of it.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
We need to widely allow handguns because of all the progress that’s constantly made from assassinating politicians with handguns?
Please do list all the politicians assassinated by handguns and how much progress that made. I’ll follow with a list of activists murdered by handguns.
Let’s see whose is longer.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, good luck fighting the army with your handguns.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Canada, the EU, Europe, Australia, New Zealand would all show that what you’re saying is false.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, he navigated Disney / Lucasfilm’s grip on the Star Wars franchise pretty adeptly.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure 2 weeks ago:
Notably not being described as an RPG but an action adventure game.
Still, interesting given the studio founder is Stig, who directed both the Star Wars Jedi games and some of the God of War games.
It’ll be interesting to see his level of spectacle brought to a DnD universe.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
I mean, if it was a sinister plot, the neighbour getting into an argument and shooting him on his front line in broad daylight would be a wildly inept conclusion.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Fuck owning guns and fuck owning guns for personal protection.
Handguns are the dumbest fucking thing the world for society to allow.
- Comment on 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Im not saying it’s not something more sinister, but this can 100% be a coincidence.
Home is vandalized and copper is stolen, leading to electrical problems. He comes home, either leaves the propane stove on by accident, leaves the gas tank on by accident, leaves a bad circuit on by accident, someone comes in and does something, or just random coincidence that that’s when an electrical fire starts.
Flash forward 6 months and he’s probably still crushingly low, gets into an argument with his neighbour that gets hotter than it would’ve if he was feeling better and he’s in dumb fuck America so everyone has a point and click murder tool in their waist band and gets killed.
We don’t even know if they were the same houses.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Why is this mildly infuriating?