aesthelete
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- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 6 hours ago:
I seem to be the rare person that notices that something has changed slowly and completely (ship of theseus or frog boil style) over time.
I’ve cancelled and renewed Netflix a couple of times but it’s a shadow of what it was at the start like you’re describing. Occasionally, they have a single show worth pirating or binging over the course of like a year.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 6 hours ago:
Cable providers have unskippable ads on their own “on demand” platforms. I’m sure they track everything you do on their apps and their (often required for no technical reason) cable boxes. The only reason they didn’t participate more in surveillance capitalism is that they didn’t have the technical chops. They tried – and are still trying – their best to strangle broadband with needless data caps and anticompetitive agreements with alternative ISPs.
Cable companies were also rabidly anti-dvr as anyone with a tivo can attest to. I’m glad you like your cable provider or whatever, but cable companies suck in the US.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 10 hours ago:
No, cable was commercial-free when it first came out just like streaming was. They repeated the ota signals for the broadcast stations which of course contained commercials, but extremely similarly to streaming they started out with a quality and ad-free pitch and wound up pivoting to screwing over the customer any way possible.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 10 hours ago:
Streaming just waited to roll out unskippable ads so they could win customers early on with an artificially, temporarily better service.
This is the exact same thing cable did when it came out.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 10 hours ago:
I used this service in a rental for the first time in a few years. It sucks even for streaming services. I don’t even know what people are possibly watching on this thing.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 19 hours ago:
One week the whole US news cycle was dominated by “Cheungus posted an AI pic of Trump on truth social”… I mean… I get that the presidency was at times considered dignified in the modern era so it’s something of a “vibe shift”, but the media has to have a better eye for bullshit than that. The indicators unfortunately are that it’s going to continue this slide as well because news rooms are conglomerating, slashing resources, and getting left in the dust by slanted podcasts and YouTube videos.
Some of it is their own fault. People watching the local news full of social media AI slop are somewhat reasonable in turning off the TV and going straight to the source instead of relying on news anchors becoming some type of shitty reaction videos.
- Comment on Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AI 22 hours ago:
Consultancy is where the dollars are at. You get big money to tell people to implement things that won’t work, and then your contract is up and you’re out of there before shit hits the fan.
- Comment on Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? 1 day ago:
I’m not working in the fucking factories, NPR.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 2 days ago:
Remember to tip your landlord (down a staircase)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Everyone gets a fixed allotment of pencils bro Isn’t capitalism great bro?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Let’s not go that far. This lady got something she deserved. Generally speaking, what someone deserves has little to do with what they get.
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 6 days ago:
Look the CEOs already have the fifth cheapest yacht chef available, what are they supposed to do? Source the caviar themselves?
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 6 days ago:
I don’t remember all of the differences, but I think you’re conflating copyright, patent, and trademark here. Software patents should almost be not a thing, but copyright and trademark should still exist.
- Comment on Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for 6 days ago:
I have this on my Honda Fit for fuck’s sake.
- Comment on What's your favorite poker hand in Balatro? 1 week ago:
Flush
It’s almost always playable
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
Fuck you four eyes
- Comment on Intel introduces its newest employee, Chip the robotic inspector, just after announcing mass human layoffs 1 week ago:
If you look at what many consider to be the golden age
Emphasis mine
I didn’t even say I consider it a golden age, because I don’t.
but it’s worse now than it was in the – what I’m now calling the first – gilded age.
The gilded age was not in the 1950s. Also, gilded age doesn’t mean golden age.
I think we’ve hit the end of productive conversation between the two of us on this subject
Agree. Maybe next time read and comprehend some of the responses?
- Comment on Intel introduces its newest employee, Chip the robotic inspector, just after announcing mass human layoffs 1 week ago:
This is the first post you haven’t been praising the 1950s as a better time for workers.
Isn’t at all, but you’re reading whatever you want into my posts. So keep on keeping on. 👍
I get that you recently read some Marx or some shit, but corporations aren’t just capitalism. They have charters. They were put into existence via law. It is possible to still be “under capitalism” and restructure the laws. Full on gay space communism isn’t required to make any progress on any issue.
- Comment on Intel introduces its newest employee, Chip the robotic inspector, just after announcing mass human layoffs 1 week ago:
I don’t understand what you’re trying to prove here to be honest. Of course there’s been shitty behavior all along. This is America. It’s a country founded by slave owners that wanted to be free. (Carlin)
My point is simple: corporations are a made-up concept and one of the main things people are supposed to get in the deal to allow them to exist in the first place is efficient allocation and utilization of human resources.
It seems to me they are admitting that they cannot do that. In which case, the deal should be renegotiated.
- Comment on Intel introduces its newest employee, Chip the robotic inspector, just after announcing mass human layoffs 1 week ago:
You’ve got rose colored glasses on.
Not really, I expect that I would’ve hated a great many things about the supposed golden age.
This was only true if you were white, male, and a white collar worker.
Of course, people didn’t have anything approaching equal rights at the time. It could be argued that they never actually would up to and including today.
It wasn’t a utopia by any stretch, but in today’s economy Intel will openly celebrate laying people off and having less employees. There has been a giant swing toward people generally thinking that “greed is good”, and an exhaultation of sociopaths.
The wealth distribution wasn’t perfect, great, utopian, or even good during the entire history of the US, but it’s worse now than it was in the – what I’m now calling the first – gilded age.
- Comment on Intel introduces its newest employee, Chip the robotic inspector, just after announcing mass human layoffs 1 week ago:
If you look at what many consider to be the golden age of American corporations after the second world war, the notion of a “company man” was a celebrated one, and companies bragged about how they treated their employees. In that era, unlike today’s, shedding employees was not seen as an achievement but rather either a necessary evil, or a sign that the company was going down the tubes.
Over time and with complacency, we’ve ceded the territory on these things. We can say that is inevitable under capitalism that this happens if it makes you happy, but either way at one point it was a major part of the stated purpose of corporations to employ people and help them live productive lives.
The platonic ideal of a corporation that owns everything, builds everything, controls everything, and employs nobody will never be fully realized, because the people it is harming will eventually rise to destroy it, or die trying.
- Comment on Intel introduces its newest employee, Chip the robotic inspector, just after announcing mass human layoffs 1 week ago:
It’s true that Intel probably shouldn’t be handing out UBI, but if companies want to promote how much they don’t need people’s labor anymore, than that should be taken into consideration in policy making.
Somewhere along the line we lost one of the basic things underpinning our current economic structure – that corporations are supposedly better at allocating, distributing, and utilizing resources than a centrally planned economy with a governmental overlord – it sure sounds to me like Intel and other companies that are handing out pink slips for every bit of thing they automate cannot find anything to do with the human resources they’ve been allowed.
To put it much more simply, corporations aren’t allowed to exist purely because they “make money”. One of their primary functions is to employ people.
- Comment on McDonald’s reports largest U.S. same-store sales decline since 2020 1 week ago:
Those warnings are everywhere in California.
Also, just about any fish you eat has mercury in it. That’s just eating fish.
All that said, McDonald’s food is shit.
I used to eat their breakfast and that likely has real eggs and stuff, but even when I ate it, it was often burnt or crappy in some way and certainly not worth the price.
- Comment on McDonald’s reports largest U.S. same-store sales decline since 2020 1 week ago:
It’s really important to have these kinds of abilities in order to have a functioning society as well. In the current situation, everything has to go perfectly for children to even have a mediocre upbringing. Their mom and their dad have to both be pretty well-educated and work jobs good enough to afford the increasingly out of control costs of living.
If a single parent has the ability with a mediocre job to fund a household, it makes it much easier to bear the usual societal ills such as one or the other parent not being dependable.
- Comment on McDonald’s reports largest U.S. same-store sales decline since 2020 1 week ago:
Want business? Maybe rediscover how to cook a fucking egg past 10:30am.
Just kidding, even if you did that I’d still buy food anywhere else.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 1 week ago:
Are you calling for people to eat milksteaks boiled over hard?
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- Comment on Paper Planes 2 weeks ago:
Still a great song
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
It shows
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of shitty FTP sites with ratio when I was on dial-up. I used to push them files full of null characters with good filenames. The modem would compress the upload as it transmitted it which allowed me to upload the junk files at several times the rate of a normal file.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using the free version almost exclusively for over a decade. It continually gets shittier all of the time.
The latest thing is you can’t even practice the language to earn more hearts to continue your lesson, you have to now watch ads. I think it’s rather emblematic of their approach overall… it’s not about learning it’s about more eyeballs for ads, unless you fork over a recurring payment for increasingly mediocre lessons.
