AI has not pushed me one inch towards suicide. Then again I treat it like a calculator for words and not a therapist

ah yes, “fiscal responsibility”

I can think of a couple

• expectation management: sometimes call volume is genuinely high, and if you set a floor at say 10 minutes it only feels like a 5 minute difference if the caller’s actual wait time is 15
• engineering downtime to allow agents time to complete paperwork or catch up on emails
• make us all so annoyed with the process of waiting in line we welcome AI agents as liberators

Rock and stone

ah yes, the bigly gains in homeland security that we made tremendously more secure by… um…

Leonard Bearstein Symphony Orchestra. That is all you get from me. Chris Chan is a cognitohazard and I refuse to directly link you directly to the cwcki.

Sometimes I wonder if the dude who was operating that animatronic bear ever learned the butterfly effect impact of him getting some weird sonic obsessed kid’s name wrong in 1992

To hide the soundstage they’re building for the mars landing. It’s my fault, really, I forgot to forward the order for the regolith camo dropcloths on time. The project lead decided there wasn’t enough leeway to delay construction so it’s been quite a strain on the PR team.

Honestly I’m incredibly embarrassed. My manager is telling me it’s okay and that everyone makes mistakes but honestly I almost wish they would fire me. Everyone here at Illuminati hq has been incredibly understanding and kind to the point it makes me feel weird.

If there was more competence none of this would have happened. Their incompetence is not stopping them from mulching innocent civilians and it is not stopping them from fucking up global trade and putting billions at risk of starvation by causing the price of energy and fertilizer to skyrocket.

A competent imperial leadership would have perhaps still had the desire to wage full scale war on Iran, but competence would have led them to do at the very least a cost-benefit analysis and conclude that continuing to leverage soft power would have been more in line with the imperial goal of continued global hegemony. This administration’s actions belie a deep seated desperation that is unnecessary and unbecoming. Precisely because, I suspect, they are all painfully aware that they are not qualified for the positions they have found themselves in and that they are doing a terrible job.

I give you Lemmy gold:

well I guess parking warships on Indian soil beats parking them at the bottom of the black sea

Some vehicles that people call “ebikes” should absolutely be registered and plated. You should not be able to take a motorized vehicle on a bike path and zoom through at 50+ MPH. The surron kiddies are going to ruin alternative transportation for everyone. Sure, surrons aren’t ebikes (and something like a super 76 which has pedals really should be regulated as part of its own category like emoped or something), but regulators are going to want to put everything in nice neat categories and ban everything else.

What pisses me off the most about all this is all the crimes against humanity. But after that, the thing that pisses me off the most is the sheer incompetence. You didn’t think they would hit back? Like you SERIOUSLY DID NOT CONSIDER THAT THEY ALSO HAVE BOMBS?

All I can say is that feminism is not a monolith. It is an incredibly fragmented ideology. There is only one thing you could honestly say that every feminist in the world 100% agrees on, and that is that sexism is bad.

I have read precisely one book about feminism, and that book is The Will to Change by bell hooks. She is maybe the most influential feminist of the 21st century. In the book she writes that hating men is bad and that it hurts the movement. She also had an incredibly simple definition of feminism: sexism is bad and we should stop it. I wonder why she is so popular.

Anyway, yeah, all that shit in your links is awful. Its also incredibly fucking fringe, and the feminist circles you’re referring to are not representative of the broader feminist movement. Your take here is nuclear, as in it’s radioactive. You couldn’t be worse at attacking feminism dude.

Anyway this conversation isn’t going anywhere so imma head out

I wouldn’t say the feminists I know believe any of that stuff. Most of them are focused on poverty and rape and how those things affect women.

Toes deserve fair compensation but I wish they’d just price it into the bill.

I have similar feelings but I tell myself this: If nothing else rails to trails maintains the right of way. The carbrained city planner says you’ll displace the cyclists, but in 30 years that planner will be retired or dead. What would kill railroads forever would be carving up the ROW and selling it off.

They’ll shoot at you

Crew? Only dear leader deserves to be the first man to walk on the Sun.