psivchaz

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[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You might still be out of luck. I'm half tempted to search this out because I really really want to know what that asterisk has to say.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

Sadly this is rapidly becoming untrue. There are at least two small mom and pop restaurants near me that have gotten rid of their delivery driver and just deliver via one of the app services.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

I'm so used to him being wrong about everything he says that it feels weird when he's right.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 28 points 1 week ago

You misunderstand. They want to automate the office jobs and indoor jobs. The crops will be picked by hand.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago

Regulating demand like this is supposed to be like the one thing a free market is good at, isn't it? Supply can't go up, so prices go up until demand evens out. Am I supposed to believe that all the free market stuff I hear about isn't working?!

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

Reliable public transportation that doesn't cause or get stuck in traffic jams, also.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it's part of a psuedo-religious death cult thing trying to force the apocalypse to happen. War and Death are easy. They're hard at work on Famine and Pestilence.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

It seems to me that they can be stretched just shy of infinitely, because sources aren't reliable and people aren't paying attention. That is, when a source reports on what's happening with as little bias and editorializing as humanly possible, it is labeled as "left bias" while the conservative news sources don't bother talking about the problems with ICE at all. As long as that's the case, they can basically get away with anything because their human rights abuses won't get enough coverage or will be dismissed by enough of the population that it won't actually have an impact.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Okay but hear me out: We replace the entire executive branch of the US government with AI. It'll be roughly as prone to making shit up as the people in charge already are, but since it's trained on data sets made by people it'll probably act more in line with what people actually want.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 26 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Isn't this basically what they did in The Dark Knight? You know, when Morgan Freeman was so horrified by the implications that he made the whole room self destruct afterward?

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 24 points 2 weeks ago

I don't recall any rights about not having my memory wiped. Wait a sec...

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 56 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Unironically, Street Fighter. That scene where he says, "For you, the day Bison graced your village was one of the most important days of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

I think about it a lot in dealing with other people. It was supposed to make him sound like even more of a jerk, but I actually think it's a good commentary on what it's like to deal with the public. Imagine being a doctor. Sometimes, you get to deliver good news. Sometimes bad. Sometimes you can do something, and sometimes you just can't. If the doctor tried to care as much as the patients, they'd be emotionally destroyed in short order. For them, it HAS to just be a Tuesday.

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