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Comment Re:85% of college students cannot find a job (Score 1) 29

Many students are under-employed because they majored in subjects that are not in demand. Sorry, that humanities major just doesn't lead to a wide variety of job offers. For those students, being under-employed seems reasonable, until they figure out something more substantial to sink their teeth into.

Many students are lucky to be employed at all because they majored in subjects that have never been in demand and never will be outside of a classroom.

You’re assuming the one who spent six figures on a degree in lesbian dance theory is capable of a more substantial thought process. They've kind of already proven they are not.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 45

Next thing you know the price of booze is gonna go up because there's little demand for it, while the price of water has gone up as well. Looks like more money for all the greedy bastards.

Gas. Canned goods. Meat. Toilet paper. Water. New cars. New houses. We watched damn near every product category get bent over and fucked with COVID.

You know the ONE category that hardly went up in price on the shelf, while we also closed nary a store? Booze.

Other than the “experience” brands marketed with bullshit over substance, your average bottle of vodka, tequila, rum, or whiskey barely moved in price. It’s still surprisingly low.

No. Not an alcoholic or own a liquor store. Drinking every now and then revealed static prices quite noticeable over the last 5 years when everything else took a 30% increase. Am I worried about the alcohol mafia pushing price up? No, not really. People aren’t buying it because people aren’t drinking. If they want to raise the price in THAT kind of market, they’ll be giving away three cases of Jack Daniel’s with every new 2023 sold off the lot at a loss, joining the delusional car market.

There are alternatives that are a lot healthier than booze now, and the younger generation isn’t falling for that gateway drug bullshit anymore. Alcohol had its run. It ain’t coming to an end anytime soon, but they can’t afford to increase prices much. Tends to create sobriety rather than profit.

Comment Greed making excuses. (Score 4, Insightful) 72

There are some instances where the law allows digital content providers to use words like "buy." One example is if, at the time of transaction, the seller receives acknowledgement from the customer that the customer is receiving a license to access the digital content; that they received a complete list of the license's conditions; and that they know that access to the digital content may be "unilaterally revoked...."

I’d love to know how the lawyer will react after defending this dogshit excuse only to go home to a nagging wife bitching about how she just ‘bought” that Real Housewives season last weekaaaand it’s gone. She’s bitching because she didn’t quite catch her husbands “acknowledgement” on page 274 of a fucking EULA no one reads.

The excuse-statement above, is a middle finger to this problem. We already have bullshit “conditions” written in legalese not even lawyers like to read. That ain’t helping, assholes.

Comment Re:It's inevitable (Score 1) 73

Headline a few weeks from now...

FLORIDA MAN FOUND DEAD AFTER SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A ROBOT BUNNY

He's not the super hero we need, but the one we deserve.

I hear ya, but I'm having a hard time envisioning it. Someone hold my beer and pass me that satellite uplink for the PPV feed. We'll need funding for this.

- Dr. Florida Man, Chief Pervatologist

Comment Re:Long ago I said "the day computers can say mayb (Score 2) 41

If society wasn't purposely distracted by absolutely fucking worthless Us vs. Them politics for profits sake, we might have been able to realize the harm caused by abusing Weapons of Mass Distraction. Like social media, AI, and Us vs. Them politics.

The Disease of Greed, infected our species long ago. Destroyed advancements in knowledge and wisdom many times over. As we continue to pull more and more artifacts from the sands of time that we modern "smart" humans can't even explain, that pathetic reality becomes more and more apparent. The fall of Rome was merely the latest example of Greed destroying a civilization. There were many before that.

We don't advance as a species because of the Disease of Greed. We merely prophesize our own demise over and over again. Thinking differently is like assuming a stock market crash will never happen again. It not only will happen again, but it'll happen for the exact same reason it did before. The same reason Greed swore wouldn't happen again. Again.

Comment Re:More expensive? (Score 2) 73

As noted by others, it's not the acquisition costs that kill, it's the maintenance. Rabbit feed, water, medical, cages, cleaning, etc...

The robot rabbits can be scented from a bottle, the solar panel and a battery keep it emitting heat visible to the snakes (which can see into the infrared), and attract them that way. No more need to carry around feed, water, and replacement rabbits. The robot rabbits can presumably be left in place for longer periods without maintenance.

You're still paying humans behind the scene because the rabbits are nothing more than electronic bait. Screw that waste too.

Fill the rabbits with either a deadly neurotoxin (if snakes are trying to eat them), or fill them with 250,000 volts of tasing power. Along with a webcam of course. The PPV revenue would more than pay for more rabbits, along with the satellite uplinks and WiFi in the everglades.

We're not catching the damn things for trophies. Kill them where they lay before someone suggests drone carpet bombing. This isn't a small problem anymore. It's why I suggested neurotoxin. You ain't killing anything else down there accidentally because there isn't anything "else" left.

Comment Re:I mean ... (Score 1) 112

... what would you normally do if someone orders 18000 water cups? Unless it's a robot filling the cups too, I think you're gonna be fine.

Unless the store manager happens to also be a Tik Tok influencer who wants to turn filling 18000 water cups into some kind of "viral" stunt.

8 hours and a $2,000 water bill later, they'll realize the 27,000 views wasn't nearly enough to stop off a well-justified firing.

Unless the district manager happens to also be a..

(Try not to forgot the attention-whoring world we live in.)

Comment Re:Sometimes it surprises him? (Score -1, Troll) 112

So sometimes it lets him down and sometimes he's surprised at the new and ridiculous ways it lets him down.

No one could have seen this coming without way more common sense than a CTO.

It's PC-speak. Nothing more.

What the educated executive wanted to say is the technology itself works just fine. We just need to legalize bitch-slapping the living shit out of trolls to validate that. You know, common sense shit.

Comment Re:Not surprised (Score 1, Insightful) 127

Anti intellectualism will do that. Look who runs the department of education for an example.

The Leave No Moron Behind policies that reduced the American classroom down to the lowest dumbnominator, didn’t fall off the back of the DoE truck yesterday. Neither did turning the entire American education system into a liberal cesspool of political indoctrination. Let’s try and remember that before we assume a single administration or political party is to blame.

Greed infected education. We fucked the kids and their future when we started tying dollars to grades.

Comment Malicious Defiance. (Score 3, Insightful) 31

This is just Apple doing its usual malicious compliance thing, where it "allows" devs to do something, but only because it's required to by law, and then takes it away, without any real explanation given.

If Apple is required by law to do something and then turns around and does not do or allow that something, that’s not what I or anyone else would call “compliance”.

Requiring no explanation is akin to telling a bank manager “girl math” is the reason they should ignore a negative bank balance.

Fine them $1M per day until they provide a legal explanation. Otherwise, call malicious defiance what it is; blatant corruption.

Comment No Shit. (Score 1) 47

It’s a social media platform. Even investors should stop seeing it as a job seeking platform. Between ghost jobs and bots trying to maintain the delusion of not-a-recession economic outlook to sustain a stock market house of cards, there may now be more evasion there than actual employment.

Its like arguing the vitality of Facebook in another decade. If they’re going to tout “accounts” as a metric of success, remember that’s the world’s largest online graveyard.

Comment Re:Project 2025 goons in charge of America (Score 1) 51

Are talking about eliminating section 230 of the CDA so that they can hold platform holders liable for anything that happens on their platform. Short-term the goal will be censoring and eliminating porn. Long term they will go after video games in general. They will start with dirty hentai games and move on to violent video games and then all video games. They do not want competing media for their propaganda. Ideally they want you consuming specific religious propaganda so that you will tithe.

If any of your fearmongering had real weight to it, America would have carved Tipper Gores face into Mount Rushmore by now. Needless to say, that didn’t happen. Blackie Lawless is not rotting away in prison. He’s still screaming about Fucking like a Beast, still wearing his buzzsaw codpiece, forty years after attacks on those Freedoms were tried. As we see and hear content streaming into children’s eyes and ears from every platform that would make W.A.S.P. antics look and sound like a Christian Christmas concert.

Rather ironic Lawless was raised in the church. History tends to show what happens when religion is shoved down society’s throat. To both believers and non-believers. Kinda validates todays separation of church and state.

And if you think censorship is going to target video games anytime soon, ask yourself what is training the next generation of warfighters. The Military Industrial Complex certainly knows. The future is a coin toss as to which is more likely; Enders Game or Skynet. Guess it’ll depend on how bad we humans annoy the shit out of AI asking for 3D SpongeBob porn.

Comment Call it what it is already. (Score 4, Interesting) 51

..suggesting Beijing either deployed new censorship equipment or experienced a configuration error.

Call it what it is already: A Test. The only suggestion needed is a reminder of the communist regime we’re talking about here. Injecting forged packets doesn’t sound like a “whoops” error. And to leave it alone for an entire hour? If that was an error, the hell were they waiting on to fix it? Was the metric fuckton of negative impact in the first 5 minutes not quite enough?

..while companies including Apple and Tesla couldn't connect to servers powering their basic services.

Perhaps we’ll start to recognize the downsides of products being “designed” in America but manufactured elsewhere. I truly wonder if the AAR will validate how blind Greed can be.

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