There’s a hardline belief that any business is automatically more efficient than government because if it weren’t it would die from competition, period, end of story. The real equation is that companies are as inefficient as they can afford to be, and the bigger ones can afford plenty. In one of my jobs my manager gave me maybe 2 or 3 weeks of actual work to do in 6 months. In another my team was told to hold off starting a project because there was a change of plan and they didn’t know exactly what they wanted. So we just screwed around for a couple months. I won’t say what company but in both cases it rhymed with Bicrosoft.

One of the weirdest aspects of America is that we think people whose job is making money for shareholders should have more power than the public servants we, the public, hire to work for us.

When my daughter and her best friend were like 14 they baked a cake together, and we plunged a giant chef’s knife into it from the top and took a picture of them looking at it close-up. The lighting on their faces was perfect. I wanted them to send it to Cake because it would have made a kickass CD cover, but I don’t think they did.

The only goats I’ve known have all been little bastards that would always charge at me the MOMENT I took my eyes off them. It’s what they live for. The Weeping Angels of the animal kingdom.

Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell - and they deserve it. Goats are assholes.

OTOH the idea that Windows tortured pewdiepie seems like a point in its favor.

On social media the standard is to call everything AI by default. It’s nearly impossible to prove otherwise before people lose interest in the thread, so you can feel right every time. Nothing but win!

Pretty good intro for absolute beginners here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg19Z8LL06w

Yes, I don’t get how watching videos on tiny screens is so popular. Seems like self-imposed misery.

Looks the same to me on a PC. Up/down arrows still adjust the volume. Scroll wheel on my mouse scrolls the entire screen as always. Do the changes only affect touchscreen devices?

If society collapses, the time until people forget enough to make whatever’s on the hard drive a rare information repository worth its weight in gold will be a lot longer than the working lifespan of a typical hard drive.

Have to admit, the name “Recall” does have a better ring to it than “Take a Screenshot Every 3 Seconds”.

At last, hardware built to run my code!

Also are the Rolling Stones involved? Asking for a friend.

Deconditioning. If we had a really serious full-on plague we’d eventually get casual about the corpse disposal wagon.

Maybe it’s the same normal human inconsistency as those of who support public health care and basic income, but ironically still buy stuff from capitalists.

“Help us improve your User Experience by trying as hard as possible to induce to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need.”

Fear = Profit!

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Because other sites still haven’t ramped up enough in specialized areas to provide anywhere near reddit’s level of interaction. If I’m stumped by some technical problem in a DIY project or my various niche hobbies, I can ask a question there and usually get good answers fast. Hopefully lemmy will be there eventually, but for now lots of communities with thousands of members on reddit have hundreds or dozens on lemmy.

Having said that, if they make Old Reddit unusable, as someone suggested might soon happen, I’m out.

Being able to use old reddit is the only thing that holds what’s left of my interest.