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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I buy groceries at an employee owned chain that pays its people well, keeps unnecessary costs down, has a massive selection, and is consistently cheaper than almost anywhere else. It’s been interesting to see how some items have had minimal inflation while others have gone way up. And then to see those same items all massively overpriced everywhere else.
Anything I can buy there, I buy there. I spend a lot of money there. They have my undying loyalty, and all it took was for them to not be evil.
The people behind this shit? I wouldn’t piss on em if they were on fire. If they were being fed feet first into a wood chipper one by one, I’d only complain about the noise.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Rewards programs can make sense without this kind of fuckery. My local pizza place isn’t adjusting their prices, they still match the paper take out menus and coupons. But they have a rewards program because it incentivizes people to come back, and repeat business is worth the slight discount.
- Comment on Good advice 1 week ago:
When my SO does this I always reference this scene in Duck Soup as a way to gently point out what they’re doing.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Does anyone else find it a bit odd that aliens are all interested in human or nearly human women? One would think that most aliens would be attracted to creatures with similar characteristics to their own species. The ferengi should find us as unappealing as most of us find them.
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- Comment on YSK about the French Republican Calendar 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen people object to a 13 month calendar based solely on the idea that you can’t divide the year into quarters. But it’s actually really easy to remember. A quarter is 13 weeks, or 3 months and 1 week. So Q1 ends a week after month three, Q2 ends 2 weeks after month six, Q3 ends 3 weeks after month nine, and q4 ends after month 13 aka the end of the year. And since the calendar doesn’t change, you don’t even need to remember it, just mark the quarter ends once and you’re done forever.
Just compare that to the unnecessary complexity of the Gregorian calendar and the effort it takes to remember basically anything that changes from year to year, or what day of the week any given date or holiday falls on, or even just which months have 30 days and which have 31.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation" 4 weeks ago:
All they had to do was not fuck it up. Just sit back, let the developers work, and collect the money. But apparently they thought they could make slightly more by ruining everything. Fucking morons.
- Comment on I will never not be angry they we are made to believe these types of comments are genuine discourse. Why is it defeatism is always the top comment even when your talking about a pedophile president? 4 weeks ago:
In this case, the post was asking for people’s expectations regarding this story specifically, and the response is entirely valid. It’s very reasonable to think that this one news story isn’t likely to be the tipping point.
It’s different when people reply to every story that is in any way bad for Trump with a comment about how none of it matters, nothing will change, and no one cares. As though anything that doesn’t result in Trump being immediately impeached, incarcerated, or inhumed is completely worthless. Much like how sit ups are useless because no matter how many I do today, I still won’t have a six pack when I’m done.
All those comments do is demoralize people and discourage them from trying to support opposition to Trump in any way.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 4 weeks ago:
Average age of a first time homebuyer is now over 40. Even at a reasonable interest rate, most buyers would die before they actually own the house.
- Comment on Nvidia's Jensen Huang: 'China is going to win the AI race,' 5 weeks ago:
What, do you expect him to settle for having a company that’s only worth 5 trillion dollars?
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 1 month ago:
Assuming they actually believe their technology is capable of replacing the majority of human labor in the not so distant future, they ought to be pushing for UBI. Having everyone get a guaranteed income would help ensure that there is still consumer demand capable of supporting their businesses. And it would help fend off the backlash that would come from taking jobs from a massive portion of the population.
- Comment on Best wishes 1 month ago:
Wasn’t expecting to plug the Children of Time series again this week, but here we are.
- Comment on Would dinosaur meat taste more like frog or chicken? 1 month ago:
Chicken is dinosaur meat.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Electricity is basically magic. It only seems mundane because we take it for granted. If sorcery, the force, investiture, or any other fictional magic system you could think of were real, we’d harness it, get used to it, and stop thinking of them as magic too.
Dont let familiarity diminish the sense of wonder. Understanding doesn’t make electricity less magical, it just makes you a wizard.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I am not saying that we will necessarily go down the road to fully automated luxury, or that if we do that the journey there would go smoothly. The current “AI” bubble is an unsustainable mess which is causing a lot more problems than it solves. In the long term, we are looking at the development of incredibly powerful and dangerous technologies that can potentially reshape society.
I mainly just wanted to highlight the weird, shortsighted reasoning behind this post. The argument that we need to keep cashiers so that we have a human connection feels a lot like arguments for going back to an agrarian lifestyle. It’s a losing argument that requires glossing over a lot of downsides and ignoring much better alternatives.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
People should have to work shitty service sector jobs so that I have someone to talk to. Because obviously I will never encounter other humans if they aren’t being forced to trade half their waking hours for money. What am I supposed to do, talk to people who aren’t being forced to put up with me if they don’t want to lose their income?
The “AI” being pushed on us now is trash, but if we do eventually get to the point of being able to automate away the vast majority of jobs, we ought to use that to free people from the need to work. Give us UBI, make robots do the shit that you wouldn’t do for free, and let us all have free time to do the things we actually want to do.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 2 months ago:
Not to mention that the bullshit in AI videos made by the left would absolutely get called out in every propaganda outfit on the right. It would just give them more ammo (without the usual lies).
But even more important, it will grant legitimacy to everyone who responds to damning video evidence by claiming it was AI. We don’t need to make shit up, the reality is already horrifying. All AI will do is make it harder for people to believe their own eyes.
- Comment on "fridging" is honestly the only good motivation to become a superhero or good person 2 months ago:
So if your character is from Alabama it could still work then.
- Comment on Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo 2 months ago:
Also, the book makes it clear that Nedry isn’t just some greedy asshole, he’s someone getting screwed over and financially ruined. Hammond hired him as the lowest bid for the job of setting up the systems, with a contract that explicitly stated that support was not included, only for Hammond to threaten to sue him until he goes broke and ruin his reputation so no one else will hire him unless he provides free support. He’s being dragged to the island and working around the clock and he’s not even getting paid for it. Of course he’s going to take the opportunity to get paid for screwing over Hammond.
- Comment on How do I stop sleeping through everything? 2 months ago:
Things that have helped me include:
- an alarm across the room that I have to get up to turn off.
- a light that turns on before that alarm
- an alarm app on my phone that can only be turned off by solving puzzles.
- having an engaging activity that I want to do ready for me and fit into my schedule
- getting up a little earlier so I have time to make a decent breakfast instead of grabbing some trash or just not eating.
- a TV set to turn itself on and set to a channel that shows stuff you can’t easily get used to (the history channel used to show random documentaries in the morning, no idea what it’s like now)
- strict discipline about never sleeping in even when I can.
- avoiding spending time in my bedroom when I’m not trying to sleep.
- setting a reminder to start getting ready for bed
- popping melatonin when that reminder goes off if I’m not already tired.
- drink water before drinking caffeine.
- stop caffeine at least 6 hours before bedtime.
- prescription medication in the morning. Not enough to replace all the other stuff, but definitely something that makes a huge difference with my sleeping disorder.
- Comment on Just a little bit more 3 months ago:
Had a coworker who was riding a motorcycle on the highway by a semi when the tire next to her blew out. She ended up dropping the bike and sliding along the road. Fortunately she was covered head to toe in protective gear, but it’s still amazing that she wasn’t seriously injured.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 3 months ago:
The context is important, but all that needs to be said is that she is a main character that died in the first season. It’s actually the firsted episode with Tasha that I saw when Istarted TNG and how I’ve introduced others to the show. There’s no details needed, no history, just the knowledge that she is dead.
- Comment on best episodes for people who've never seen star trek? 3 months ago:
Depends on what you are looking for. Trek does a lot of different things and can appeal to people in different ways.
I like measure of a man and yesterday’s enterprise for TNG. Both work as examples of a lot of the best aspects of star trek, and come early enough to jump into the series while skipping the crap in season 1, at least until they know they like the show.
- Comment on This is real 7 months ago:
Part of how you know that no one they send there is going to actually be a gang member or terrorist or anything like that. Those guys wouldn’t be going without a fight. And with no due process and no chance of ever getting out, it’s not like they have anything to lose.
- Comment on Trump pardons crypto exchange for money laundering, possibly preventing them from even being investigated again 8 months ago:
On the other hand, if a future administration wants to get around that pardon, they can just snatch these people off the street and throw them on a plane to another country to be locked up in a hellish concentration camp. Then when lawyers point out that they were pardoned the government can just say “whoopsie” and ignore them.
- Comment on Trump says 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine: NBC 8 months ago:
But… but… he has the cards!
- Comment on Parasites successfully deliver drugs to the brain. 9 months ago:
Nice try RFK Jr, but you’re not gonna assimilate me that easily.
- Comment on I love the future. 9 months ago:
Being a criminal is practically a requirement for a post in this administration.
- Comment on US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters 9 months ago:
If they actually do this, then every country that still supports Ukraine should ban Starlink, Twitter, Tesla, etc. Musk and Trump want to aid Russia militarily, they can get sections like any other Russian Oligarch.
- Comment on Europe will not be part of Ukraine-Russia peace talks, US envoy says 9 months ago:
Or peace for that matter.