Y’know, I keep reading about this but what’s the point? My kids talk to their stuffies anyway, and usually about way more interesting shit than the CCP. Imagination is wild.

Ugh.

At least Arial exists. And Helvetica. But Times New Roman? What is this, English class in the early aughts? 12pt font, double spaced with one inch margins?

Hell, if you want wanna make America great again make it Courier; tech bros’ll think you’re coding but we know you really just want to take us back to late 1800s when typewriters and bad economic policy were in. Or maybe something appropriate for this administration, like Wingdings.

Ants are just like us humans! So cute.

You telling me those images of Trump swimming through flood waters to save people in a hurricane haven’t already swayed voters? Lol

Sure enough the vast majority are Republican shithole states, although Virginia and Arizona are a surprise.

It’s not that it’s immortal to want IDs for porn (although GOP generally is immortal), it’s just so… technologically stupid. The red states are stupid states.

I’ve seen worse. Idk why I always check when one of you folks say this, I almost always regret it but I hit those comments as people were mostly bashing ICE. Lol

I knew a guy who made his company team building event paintball, which I think is kinda cool if they were sensitive about it, except he was one of those “alpha male” types which inherently made it uncool.

I think my step dad had it sweet though, way back when, their team building was FPS lan parties during work hours. Totally permitted, stuff like Unreal Tournament and the like, but probably not mandatory though everyone participated including people on the spectrum (though unsure if they were formally diagnosed back then).

And with that, I make like John Galt and never see that uncle again.

Some corporations do this with product releases. If misinformation leaks, they can narrow it down. Moreover, since no one knows for sure their info is genuine, they’re less likely to leak. It’s usually trivial things that won’t impact performance but sometimes stuff like video game endings and stuff, lol.

I’m… I’m not sure that’s really ADHD’s fault lol. I don’t think anyone can or should be able to remember more than 10 contestants on any reality show, really. They aren’t that important or memorable, lol

We’re really speed running our mass extinction, aren’t we. Usually it takes a couple hundred million years but nah, we got this down in 50 million.

The other 40% is somehow still completely unaware of reality.

I like duck.ai but yes, anonymous or not, never submit private data to a third party. I often warm my wife about that, I don’t think she should even share secrets over SMS, let alone a third party app.

Though, interestingly, her company does have a private server hosting a closed off version of ChatGPT explicitly for this reason, lol.

Yeah, that tracks with what I see, at least. Either it’s used as an excuse for layoffs that likely would happen anyway given the market, or they’re just included in a workflow without firing (the US was already in bad shape after COVID, with tech companies already laying off people they over-hired during lockdown)

I’ve got a friend who pays under the table to a guy to write and edit instructional videos, and still does that since there’s never enough videos to produce for her project. Just, now, the guy uses AI in his workflow and… I’d say maybe produces at about the same pace (fact checking the AI takes time, lol).

But basically, AI didn’t replace her copy writer / editor, they just scaled up (or at least, attempted to, lol).

A strengths based perspective acknowledges that being able to identify every detail in a mundane process is a good thing. Probably a reason ADHD people excel at programming, for instance.

It’s a foolish strategy, as we know the great baristas of Portland are a far greater threat than any baristas ever encountered in Los Angeles. Their oat milk lattes oatier, their half caf flat whites flattier… the California National Guard may be no match.

So we’re winning on Aerosol loading and Ozone, the two things we actually made societal efforts on reducing before our world governments went fully to shit (well, more actually, were decaying but still kind of functioning in the 80s and 90s).

I guess if there’s any silver lining, humans had the power to address these things and theoretically could again if, well… y’know. Sigh.

Lol, maybe the perception that Democrats can’t do anything is kind of working in their favor when they actually are doing something.

Hehe, bag Tetris. “Oops, I put the eggs in vertically to fill a hole and now the whole bag is empty.”

My wife used to wait tables and we generally eat or box everything, so I’m pretty confident she’s right to pre-bus (and even wipe the table a little while waiting for check).

My only personal analogy is bagging groceries; self service shows how typical people have no idea, while an experienced bagger does. I saw a guy literally put eggs in the bottom of their bag. I can’t imagine how terrible their pre-bussing must be.