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- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 day ago:
Sorry, didn’t pay my Netflix cultural tax this year. Maybe I’ll sail the sees for it.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 day ago:
It was almost the entirety of AM radio for the past 40 years. Sports and this right-wing trash. On in the background at every work place, hardware store, and cafe until Muzac took over. Had that ranting asshole and his friends pumping into our ears wanting it or not. Many areas of the country had only that and Country Music for hours in any direction.
When I said “if you knew what you were doing” I meant you can build an AM receiver out of literal trash with a middle school understanding of electrics but no one bothered because you had one built in to every car, every tape player, boom box, alarm clock, and anything else with a speaker. You had a radio in every room of the house and 2 in the garage even if you never turned it on. There’s no way to believe that phones have less cultural push than AM radio had pre-1990.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 day ago:
Rush Limbaugh was broadcast on the free radio, you could listen to it on $1 worth of junk parts if you knew what you were doing. The ease of access is not what made republican bigotry accessible or popular.
- Comment on An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it. 5 days ago:
Please also see people who need employees to assist with the touchscreen ordering and self-check. If you want to talk to a person, please use the line for talking to a cashier.
- Comment on An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it. 5 days ago:
You can either represent yourself or claim you can’t communicate and need assistance. You don’t get to claim to represent yourself and then demand they let you have an AI representative. Just hire a lawyer to represent you, that’s what they are literally there for.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
I must have read this comment 10 times before deciding you are probably joking.
- Comment on 5 Soothing Solutions for Back Pain Relief (That Actually Work!) 💆♂️✨ 2 weeks ago:
I propose this has the red flags for LLM created content
- No human uses the number button emojis
- Em dash with spaces used correctly. Not even an English major does this intentionally.
- Crap ass editing otherwise. Whoever hurried to give this “a human touch” also didn’t know WTF they were doing and tried to re-write the Yoga section, pooly.
- Comment on Muslims and Mormons are basically the same thing 1 month ago:
Yes, 2000 years ago Christian writers borrowed heavily from the other religions and mystery cults they were living and working with.
Smith’s copypasta use of Masonic Rituals from New York as “passed down by God” in the 1830sm is a -little- different.
- Comment on Muslims and Mormons are basically the same thing 1 month ago:
Smith stole from any source he could find. Most of the Mormon temple rituals are based on Masonic Temple rituals from around the same time period. John Smith was a member of a Masonic Lodge and assumed no one would notice or tell their new congregation that they used to do the same thing with their drinking buddies back East.
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 1 month ago:
Yes, if all had been perfect it should have only taken about an hour but dialup internet was ditzy and unreliable so I spent a huge chunk of that weekend getting a full download.
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 1 month ago:
I sure remember the HOURS it took me to download that sucker on my 14.4kb modem. I was blessed by the gods with a parent in the computer industry even then so we had a 2nd phone line that I could monopolize for a day of agonizingly watching and praying not to lose connection again.
- Comment on Is Civilization 7 not fun? 2 months ago:
This right here.
I played 6 at launch and it was a huge downgrade from 5 but now it’s been updated so much it’s now unrecognizable from what was released as 6.
Every patch, update, and DLC will change it incrementally back into a similar experience as the others. They like to try to get real wild with the initial release but it tends to get back to the same sort of things eventually.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Thank you! I didn’t want to have to dig up the episode by hand. The YT short missed the excellent stinger that seals this joke.
- Comment on Tough question 2 months ago:
Both are recoverable but the astrology daughter is much cheaper to handle. Tarot, crystals, and star charts don’t eat retirement funds.
Daughter with a Psychic, much tougher call.
- Comment on Austin Powers was made approximately as long ago as Austin spent frozen. 2 months ago:
Imagine an unfrozen '97 James Bond played by Pierce Brosnin.
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 4 months ago:
The lawsuit was about the fact the school knew for months about the problem and did nothing to address it. If they plausibly couldn’t know, it wouldn’t have been their fault but this was reported to the admin repeatedly and they did nothing.
- Comment on Cowboy 4 months ago:
- Comment on Are illegal streaming sites really getting shut down a lot lately or has it always been like this? 4 months ago:
There’s always churn and turnover, I’ve been part of communities that lost up to 3 of the top 5 sites for something etc. and the community bounces back in a couple of months. Streaming sites aren’t horrifically difficult to set up so they will often reappear shortly with similar interface.
- Comment on Voice Actor David Wald Leaves Role as Gajeel in Fairy Tail, Will Not Return to Crunchyroll Following Claims Company Opened His Mail, Gave Away Contents 4 months ago:
Unfortunately it’s gonna be the mailroom intern who followed directions from someone else to open all “that other mail”, not the person who made the decision.
- Comment on Source: Father, H. , Son, H. Spirit, H. (2024). Visions from God 5 months ago:
That’s what the “Personal Communication” citation type is for.
- Comment on Trickle down 5 months ago:
I was taking control of a big department in a non-profit where funds were tight but I had a lot of flexibility so I read a book about how to reward employees instead of money. I was hoping for non-tangible rewards like first pick of schedule or Employee of the Month type stuff.
Every single suggestion in the book was something that needed money to be spent first but not given to the employee. It had a whole chapter about how giving cash was rude and terrible and your employees would hate you for it so you had to give gift cards or worthless garbage to give them instead.
This was nonsense advice. Nothing motivates like cash. In the end I just taped my own $20 bills to the back of the ‘Certificates of Achievement’ I have for good work and warned them it was a personal gift and not from the org.