Cyrus Draegur

i mean, that TOO.

eminent domain seizure and fucking liquidate them

the only thing I’m hoping for is that this can serve as a proof of concept that human brains might be able to learn to control limbs made of synthetic muscles like that…

Maybe they’re attempting to make it ‘learn’ how to move itself using neural networking instead of programming discrete movement presets.

Mint has been nice

wow if we could just ‘liberal-jacket’ an array of wildly self-destructive behaviors maybe we can leverage the trash into taking itself to the curb

bruh that line is SUCH a fucking MOOD: “things they know less than nothing about”

it speaks DIRECTLY to how people THINK they know shit, but all they know is incorrect shit.

They literally have negative knowledge.

People who haven’t worked retail, sales, or customer service don’t realize how staggeringly much of any soft-skills role comprises JUST figuring out what the fuck someone even wants or needs in the first place because they are so bad at articulating it themselves.

But, to be fair, everyone has their expertise in different areas and things that are common sense to me in my specialized role is completely unknown and novel to people who have entirely different sets of circumstances to deal with on a daily basis.

So yes they’re contextually stupid AND they’re also all too often socially stupid too because they are, via failures of rhetorical conditioning, primed to look down on “the help”. Their extant frustration in the face of unmet needs is, when filtered through an attitude of misguided narcissism, thus transformed into sheer distilled repugnance. The faux “status” posturing of capitalism makes fools of everyone interacting with it.

At the end of the day, the solution comes down to:
taking in the full breadth of the client’s situation,
distilling it down to its actionable components,
mapping out the vector of the conflict wherein needs are going unmet,
generating a set of actions that could each individually OR collectively address the conflict,
convincing them that this actually WILL solve their issue, and then, most importantly, and finally: obtaining their willingness to PAY for it.

it’s a far more involved process than most salaried administrative-level keyboard punchers will EVER comprehend…

man i wouldn’t last a DAY there

i only “have clients” when i’m punched in, on the clock, being paid as we speak.

and that fourth sign, i used to honestly earnestly believe that in my past and it’s taken a lot of work to overcome.

i am dangerously tempted to remove that sign in rather spectacularly destructive ways.

… fuck me dead it’s infecting mammals now

and the current administration has shuttered the CDC and the NIH, and has withdrawn us from the WHO.

Yup.

“they can’t do that, that’s illegal!”

Shame the law doesn’t mean Jack Fucking Shit now.

The law is whatever they want it to be at any moment.

The coordinated enshittification is rather disheartening.

I’m still daily driving a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 because all the phones thereafter felt like a downgrade, and the problems like the one referenced in this article have only convinced me further…

I miss 2014, when the note 4 was the flagship. Note 4 kicked ass.

perhaps the only ethical consumption under capitalism is that which denies capitalists their profit.

civility is a luxury a society has no right to afford when it’s MURDERING CHILDREN EN MASSE.

yeah but he was a democrat, and only democrats are held to any standard whatsoever, you know?

it’s basically content-aware-fill. but the scene and its elements are simple enough that it’d just be better to draw it from scratch for oneself.

You’ve heard of the Dead Internet Theory, now get ready for the UNDEAD Internet Theory!

as amusing as the irony would be, it’s clearly too clean, sharp, organized, and consistent to be AI.

as someone else very recently posted elsewhere on lemmy:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c81a4a7c-865c-4250-b89c-96e0105af62e.jpeg

Actually, on that point, I love it when a game becomes a platform for continuous content. Minecraft is a bit trite as an example but it fits: You buy it once, and you can beat it in a couple hours if you really want to, but you can extract as much enjoyment out of it as your imagination will allow, and the developers are constantly adding more stuff to do (although not all of what’s added feels great all the time…)