Sure I’ll try to find one.

The new style is actually worse. They cut / paste other people’s work (usually entire scenes from a movie) and then have an AI talking in the background. Normally the AI is so quiet you can barely hear it, but I guess it’s enough to bypass any censorship.

Whether you are a hardcore capitalist, or any other political ideology, I just don’t understand how anybody can be against social policies.

In my country, people complain that our benefits system is crippling us. SOME people take advantage of our disabilities and childcare benefits, but it’s a small price to pay for having them – at the end of the day, if I had a disability which meant I could not work, my country would take care of me. For that, I am more than happy to pay more tax.

This extends to healthcare, childcare, education, etc. it’s easy to sit and grumble when you see the tax bill every month, but god forbid you ever actually need these services. I am VERY happy I do not require disability benefits, and I am VERY happy that I pay into a system that makes this (and other services) available for those who do.

Yep, should go without saying! I didn’t list every company but there are plenty more who belong there.

not just chatgpt.

Stop using Amazon, Meta products, Netflix, Spotify, etc.

All of these massive corporations are actively making life worse for people, and it will only get worse and worse as people continue to stay subscribed.

The only option is to log off and find an alternative.

I definitely wouldn’t class it as “objectively terrible” but I have been seeing a lot of sentiment that the tonal shift in Click made the movie awful, and if the script had been taken more seriously from the start that it could have been a great movie.

I actually found the movie to be great, it was one of my favourites when it first came out.

As a QA, I raised the very real risk that should tensions with America escalate, they could effectively cut us off and our business would be kaputt.

What happens if AWS goes down? We use Google. What happens if both go down (or cut us off)? We’re fucked.

The answer to me raising the risk was a, “Haha, yeah, true, we’d be in big trouble…” but there’s no actual appetite to do anything about it. We’re so tied up in AWS that I can’t imagine there ever will be.

I feel I’m too old for this meme now. The Christmas period passed me by like a breeze, and then January vanished behind it.

In roughly two or so days I’ll be saying, “I can’t believe it’s 2027 already” whilst 2030 waits around the corner to whack me over the head with a baseball bat.

thing you just can’t buy elsewhere anymore

Yes and no. For example I had to buy double-sided tape and went into four different stores in different areas of my city and only found it in the fourth store after researching.

I checked on Amazon after the fact, and could have had it delivered to my door same-day lol.

I don’t believe there’s anything you can only buy on Amazon… but it IS so bloody convenient.

I am looking at using Eufy, no subscription. Unsure of potential of it joining the darkside.

Edit: China-owned, so it’s a pick-your-poison kind of deal.

Unironically a sack of potatoes should be an S tier ranked grocery. They are extremely versatile, can be as healthy or as unhealthy as you want them to be, make some incredible delicious things, and are also one of the cheapest things by weight.

The first thing that came to mind wasn’t actually in school, it was at home, but it was when I had just got home from school so I hope it’s okay.

I was eating nutella from the jar, with a spoon. Like a goblin. I had a huge amount on my spoon. Suddenly, the front door opens and in my embarrassment for eating this large quantity of hazelnut sugar, I quickly shoved the jar away in the cupboard, and snuck by my parents with the spoon behind my back.

Uh oh. I was planning on eating the nutella in my room, off the spoon, but I realised it was far too much nutella. Maybe I lost my appetite. Either way, the only recourse in my mind was to dump the contents of the spoon down the toilet, and stash the spoon to be returned at a later date.

Not only did the nutella not flush, but I also didn’t notice that it hadn’t flushed, leaving a sight that I’m sure we can all imagine. My parents were furious, we actually had guests so they were livid that they could have seen this. They pulled me to one side, were basically yelling at me: “We’re not mad you did it, we’re mad you’re lying to us about it.”

I didn’t know what to do. I just kept telling the truth. I was eating nutella and didn’t want to get into trouble for the gigantic spoonful so I tried to hide it. Resulting in a stalemate.

Anyway, I’m not sure they actually remember this happening, but it was quite traumatic for me because I was otherwise quite a good boy.

I have rage quit two jobs.

A long time ago I worked in a supermarket as a personal shopper. It was a pretty decent job, early start (4am) but an early finish, so it felt that I had the whole day to do whatever I wanted, though I was tired.

Skip ahead to Christmas eve, where everybody apparently has left their huge shops until the very last minute. Not only through our online service, but also in person.

Imagine this: You are being pushed to complete orders as quickly as possible and being called out for being slow, not only that, but every aisle is so full of people that you literally cannot push your trolley through them. I literally couldn’t move or do my job. I’m fairly embarrassed to say that I walked out, didn’t even tell anybody, and to my surprise I never got called out for it (I think it was too busy to notice) and the way the system worked, one of my colleagues would have just got the order and completed it without me.

The first job I ever quit, I must have been 16 years old. I was working as a promoter for a bar in a small town, essentially walking around with a sign, hanging out flyers, etc. ironic that a 16 year old is advertising a place they wouldn’t otherwise be allowed into, but it was cash in hand and pretty dodgy.

On my first night I was promised $50 for my work, but ended up being given $25 because they said it was a trial night. Suddenly my nightly salary is $25 and as a 16 year old, I’m a bit too scared of this dodgy guy in his car that was paying me to ask for the full amount.

Skip ahead a couple of weeks (I work maybe 3-4 nights a week, hours are like 10pm-5am) and tonight, it is pouring down with rain, I’m freezing cold, my uniform involves a t-shirt, and it is genuinely just a horrible experience.

I go to my boss, and tell him that I’m gonna go put my coat on and he says that’s not part of my uniform. I get a bit ballsy and tell him I want the extra $25 for the night before, and he said he never promised me anymore money than $25. So I walk home, in the rain, feeling hard done by but also like I learnt a valuable lesson. I never worked for less than I was worth after that.

It’s easy to hand wave and say, “the other people are idiots who never free think” it’s harder to sit and rationalise why people that disagree with you might actually have valid things to say.

This is not just “good americans” this seems to be a coordinated effort to destablise every western country. It will soon be the UK, it will soon be Europe.

I have seen right wing people in the UK saying, “The United States of Greeland” as if somehow, handing it over to the US is in our best interest. The world could genuinely be fucked.

That’s fair, I just hate this idea that he’s some mastermind behind everything that’s happening, when really he’s just an old, weak man who says words that right wingers love.

Being “centrist” shouldn’t mean “I support the republicans and democrats equally” it should mean “I can see the value in social and capitalist policies and think there is a middle-ground between them”

Anybody who claims to be a “centrist” and supports almost anything Trump’s party is doing is not a centrist, they are right wing.

People need to realise it’s not all Trump. He is the face of an organisation. He is a spokesperson. Yes he has power but he is not some puppetmaster pulling all of these strings.

There is a small bit of intrigue here, imagine you get to a boss and think, ‘this is impossible’ but there is an ability to observe a ghost of your character taking the boss on in your gear.

Bare in mind as well that ‘AI’ has existed as a word in gaming for decades and has nothing to do with LLMs, surely this is achieveable purely with the gaming definition of ‘AI’ simply coding the PC also as an NPC that reacts to things.

I don’t know. It’s not really up to me to figure that out, either. Companies should self-report on their AI usage.