You’re right, absolutely spot on, about several things but ONE IN PARTICULAR is this:

A human being helping a customer is, quite literally, an act of circumvention. Customer service EXISTS, SPECIFICALLY, for scenarios that require exceptions and skilled, knowledgeable internal maneuvering within, between, and around the cold mechanisms of machinery and policy. We tend to think of, say, purchasing items at a store as standard operation, for instance. But really, from the perspective of the business, its objective is to RESTRICT access to goods and services. The cashier manages exceptions to this goal. If the company has its way, it would take your money while relinquishing NOTHING.

in first world nations we are insidiously brainwashed to believe that there WERE NO SUCCESSES among Communist movements.

awareness of those successes must be promoted.

start with “hey this really successful thing happened” AND THEN reveal “btw that was communism”

Well I suppose it’s more just a frontend than an app but yeah https://alexandrite.app/

It’s nicely configurable too in terms of aesthetics

Basically just a snazzy remix of whatever instance you’re logging into

Ooh thunder really is reminding me of sync tho!!

Ooh what’s your app of choice? I use Voyager on mobile and Alexandrite on pc

Bill wurtz reference \o/

To me it means “I take particular notice of this”

Such as,

[Third world country]: holy crap guys I struck oil!
[United States of America]: 👀

I wonder if it’s quite like anti-red

Stare at the center of a bright red circle for like 30 seconds,

Then look away at a white surface.

It looks like what those people in the article describe, especially in the “holy shit I’ve never seen that before” feeling.

You stopped being a bad person when you grew sufficient empathy to feel bad about what you did.

But your debt is not paid.

Consider the bad person you no longer are as though they were a dependent in your charge. Everything they did is, rightly, an embarrassment of who you presently are.

You will continue to be a good person as long as you work to make up for the things that your past self did.

Not out of guilt, though:
Out of gratitude that you’re no longer that person.

holy shit that fucking rocks hell yea

i’m sharing this info with all my friends :D

professional catfishing has always been a thing.

using AI to do it was inevitable, but i do wonder if it’ll backfire.

chatbots are so pathetically unreliable.

Buy european: Eutelsat.

and all he can do is bitch about it.

typical.

May her body reach room temperature expediently.

thank you for understanding the intended tone (and kinda just a little bit making my day :3)

EVs have no gears

GOOD THING THESE AREN’T GEARS THEN, FUCKO
THEY’RE MODE SELECTIONS

EVs do, in fact, Park.
EVs can, in fact, Reverse.
EVs must, in fact, need to be capable of rolling free (Neutral) and it would be BETTER if you could do that by disconnecting the drive train to eliminate the risk of the “regenerative braking” system overloading its electrical system and making the battery explode.
EVs furthermore OBVIOUSLY Drive.

“Low” in the traditional sense is clearly not necessary, obviously, but it could be nice to have a mode selection for what people have sometimes described as “single pedal driving” where regeneration is configured so aggressively that letting up on the accelerator pedal will cause the car to decelerate rapidly without the need to touch the brake pedal.

yo SAAAAAAAAAAAME
and also actual fucking buttons switches knobs and dials for HVAC and media control
not to mention a normal fucking PRNDL shifter for selecting how I want it to move
why is this so gods damned much to ask for -_-

Lol suck shit reddit. Rot in piss you won’t be missed!

It might be at least a little missed for all the useful info and history that it had accumulated over these decades… But oh well.

They shat this bed they get to lay in it

Windows 11 seemed to kick and scream relentlessly to make coexisting impossible. So I called its bluff and nuked its stupid ass. It refuses to play nice? OK; It never gets to play again. Fuck windows. I have a separate machine for windows if I really need it.

every passing day i feel increasingly gratified to have switched my previously win11 laptop to linux mint. aside from the sheer principle of microsoft being ass, i also fucking despise all of windows’ AI bullshit. Fuck copilot for eternity.

It’s not incest if there isn’t genetic overlap. Sorry. Don’t care. Fuck it, I’m borderline asexual and hardly even look at any porn, let alone this niche of it, so I don’t even have a horse in this race. As an outside observer, it’s a stupid pointless manufactured conflict with no grounding in reality, only as real as superstition. I will never have any respect for anyone who gets hung up on something so trivial.