Klicnik

You are not the asshole. The purpose of that community is to have communication with humans. When a bot posts a question there, there is no reason to respond. It's not a human asking, and the human that originally asked in another forum will never see the response. I blocked that spammy bot, and have enjoyed my feed way better since.

I agree with them. Your review sounds like, "This restaurant's food is terrible because the owner hit my car in the parking lot."

I worked for a kind of IT outsourcing center for a company that otherwise had a very good reputation. We were their cheap, crappy branch. They still had decent severance packages as a vestige of when they used to be a decent company. When they had a round of layoffs at our site, after a few days of calling people into the office and seeing them come out crying, I started to do the math. I would be paid well enough for a few months if I got laid off. I would finally have the time and mental energy to job search and move on. At the end of the week, when they announced that all of the people had been laid off that would be affected, I found I was disapointed. That's when I realized how truly toxic that place was, how much I hated it, and how badly I needed to move on.

It's also nice because I can charge my entire family's phones all at once. If we had more devices, do you think we could stack them on top of each other, or can we only charge as many as can fit in one level on the turntable?

He would have had to cut his all expense paid yacht trip short.

And it would be less guilty of insider trading.

There sure are a lot of "Google enshittifies Google" articles lately.

Is that a thing now?

I searched for "colored Willies" to see what that would look like. It was not what I expected.

I ended up working for a bank next as a contractor. The grass was greener on the other side of the fence, but not by as much as I hoped. I used the skills I learned there and my increase in pay as a springboard for finding a better job with slightly higher pay as a regular employee elsewhere at a small healthcare company.

That makes more sense. I thought it was dryg dealer.

They give the example of "job" vs "occupation" but then talk about the headlines "Meghan and Harry are talking to Oprah. Here’s why they shouldn’t say too much” vs. “Are Meghan and Harry spilling royal tea to Oprah? Don’t bet on it.”

This doesn't seem to fit the simple words narrative they just set up. To me, this is standard language vs. slang. The first one sounds like it may be objective and fact-based, and the second sounds like it was written by a gabby middle schooler.

I would likely not be interested in the content either way, but I would be far more likely to click on the drivel-free headline.

Wait, don't worry! The economy is doing great. Whew. Disaster averted!

PR. It's like the bully in an 80s movie telling the teacher that the kid he's giving a wedgie is actually his friend.

I had this exact thought. It may actually be "The year of the Linux Desktop."

I grew up in a small town. We had two Wells Fargo banks on different ends of town. There was a female banker that looked like she was probably about forty who, whenever I would go into the branch closest to my house, would flirt with me so much that I eventually went to the other branch to avoid her.

This title sucks. The article is overly short, and by a random user on that site, seemingly. Was the whole article poorly generated AI content?

For a long time, I wanted to get a PS5 or "the new xbox", whatever the heck it was named. I was in a big box store and saw what I thought was one of the new ones when they were still hard to find. But, I had no cell signal in the store, so I couldn't look up info on it. I couldn't verify if it was the new one, or the old one, since their stupid naming scheme was so arbitrary and hard to remember if you weren't already in their ecosystem. I didn't buy it, and later found the one I saw was the newest one. I ended up eventually finding and buying a PS5. I doubt I am the only one, but even if so, they did not make a sale to one person because of their stupid naming scheme. With Playstation system naming, there is no confusion.

Because Genthree Genfour Genfive Gensix, etc. would get confused with other products on a Google search.

I get a headache if it is late enough in the morning and I haven't had caffeine yet. I get a headache if I have too much caffeine.

Additional supply depos required.

Lately I have been spending more time looking for videos that actually interest me than I have been watching videos. It's all either extremely similar, or stuff I have already seen. I often end up just closing the app without having watched anything at all.

I am surprised no one has mentioned cost yet. If a school suggest parents send their kids to therapy, but the bill is completely on the parents and they can't afford it, that's a pretty short conversation.

I have seen IBM do this multiple times. When they buy a company, they leave it pretty much alone for a year or two. Then they start to make their IBM changes to it, and change it enough to make anyone that knew the product before them hate it. IBM buying RedHat was the beginning of the end. I told my boss about it the day I read the news of the IBM buyout, "We need to stop using CentOS for any new systems."

The example that really convinced me of this is the recent "Us is spelled U.S." comment. Most people stop to think, "If I say this out loud, I will look like an idiot."

The problem is that we already value our land as much as Russia does, so we resist them taking it.

I am both thrilled and disappointed to see the exact thing I was going to comment.

Noy OP, but I canceled all of Prime. I haven't used anything but video and shipping from it for months already. Almost everything I want to see on Prime Video requires renting/buying or getting a subscription to some other service through Amazon.

We didn't buy enough stuff on Amazon last year to justify the cost via shipping either, even considering Christmas gift purchases.

"Instructions unclear" popped into my mind immediately.

That's beautiful.

"Don't mind me. Just making some notes for myself about my wife, in a sort of private diary... on a public forum that federates with other public forums. Multiple posts per hour. Ho-hum dee dee dum, oh, wow? Other people are reading this? So shocked."

Edit: meant this as a post reply, not a reply to your comment. Oh well.

Duolingo has dropped hugely in quality (for Korean anyway) just in the last couple months. The AI-generated voices mispronounce so much stuff. I spend more time reporting unclear audio or outright mispronunciations and grammar issues than I do learning. They seem to want their users to be their QA team, but then don't even fix the reported issues. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/duolingo-lays-off-workers-as-it-leans-on-ai-tools-to-carry-out-more-tasks/ar-AA1mKgja

City of Angels

I almost never remember the brand from advertisements, even if there's a funny one people talk about. "Oh, it was Tide? But it had nothing to do with laundry." It's odd how so many ads leave you going, "What were they even trying to sell?"

It's too bad Apple don't think all the thoughts I want to think for me anymore. Oh well. 8GB of RAM is all I need, and I have removed "You're welcome" from my lexicon.

I definitely have moments like this too. I have been reflecting more lately and trying to decide if the feeling is temporary or permanent. I have been pondering what else I would do. Are you considering a career change, and if so, what would you do instead? I don't know if I could transition to something else without going back to school, and it would kill me a bit inside to take out more student loans.

That's solid advice. I think I have my identity wrapped up too much in my career, so when I dislike my job, I feel unsatisfied in life. I will try to see it as means to an end more than who I am.