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Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Platystemon posted:

Pfft, all it has to do to beat that is cause little a societal breakdown.

Death rates will go up if hospitals are understaffed and grocers are understocked.

Yeah that's unlikely in the us tho. After all it's not like the majority of the population is either priced out of seeking healthcare or threatened with homelessness and starvation due to lost productivity if they take significant time off work for health concerns right??????

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Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003

Shrecknet posted:

I know this threads been over it, but this tweet makes it so succinct

https://twitter.com/silvexis/status/1219687488253505538?s=19

These really look like props from 12 Monkeys.

Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003

https://twitter.com/Relentlessbored/status/1220174955515645953

Tricky D
Apr 1, 2005

I love um!
"We would like to everything everything we can for the victims, but pricing decisions are determined by the algorithm and we have no control over it," a spokesperson presumably said.

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

lyft makes a bold marketing move

Schmeichy
Apr 22, 2007

2spooky4u


Smellrose
https://twitter.com/chelseywaters/status/1220194136277434370?s=19

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant


more like fartbox

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009

Shrecknet posted:

I know this threads been over it, but this tweet makes it so succinct

https://twitter.com/silvexis/status/1219687488253505538?s=19

can't wait to get locked inside one of those things like the wework cubicles

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Honest Thief posted:

can't wait to get locked inside one of those things like the wework cubicles


Relevant Tangent posted:

more like fartbox

Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003

goatsestretchgoals posted:

lyft makes a bold marketing move

https://twitter.com/Relentlessbored/status/1220177047101702145

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo
On the one hand: Lol, if you think anyone's going to pay for the double with the sliding door.

On the other hand: Lol if you think anyone's gonna pay an extra $300 for a stool

On the gripping hand: Lol if you think anyone's going to pay for this overpriced crap.

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"
totally evil for sure to surge in the shooting area, but isn't it also lovely to the driver to summon him/her to an active shooting area that they can't cancel out of or they'll lose their livelihood?

gently caress rideshare apps

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

SwissArmyDruid posted:

On the one hand: Lol, if you think anyone's going to pay for the double with the sliding door.

On the other hand: Lol if you think anyone's gonna pay an extra $300 for a stool

On the gripping hand: Lol if you think anyone's going to pay for this overpriced crap.

they absolutely will because companies are about giving money to their CEOs not about actual intelligent spending and office design

bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Tashilicious posted:

they absolutely will because companies are about giving money to their CEOs not about actual intelligent spending and office design

this. a loving thousand times this. no manager gives a poo poo what theyre saddling their employees with, their offices are on a completely different floor, in an actually useable environment

dex_sda
Oct 11, 2012


Mad Wack posted:

totally evil for sure to surge in the shooting area, but isn't it also lovely to the driver to summon him/her to an active shooting area that they can't cancel out of or they'll lose their livelihood?

gently caress rideshare apps

Luckily, they don't count, and they have separate bathrooms

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"

Shrecknet posted:

I know this threads been over it, but this tweet makes it so succinct

https://twitter.com/silvexis/status/1219687488253505538?s=19

it's all CAPEX too so if it's like anywhere else i've worked that means it's free!*

*if marketing people are buying

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

bring back old gbs posted:

this. a loving thousand times this. no manager gives a poo poo what theyre saddling their employees with, their offices are on a completely different floor, in an actually useable environment

For the cost of the cheapest one they could give an employee a $3/hr raise, which would likely make a happier, more productive employee.

On the other hand $7000 is a one time expense and that employee could work there for years.

Tashilicious
Jul 17, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Iron Crowned posted:

For the cost of the cheapest one they could give an employee a $3/hr raise, which would likely make a happier, more productive employee.

On the other hand $7000 is a one time expense and that employee could work there for years.

they dont want happy and productive. they want cowed, hopeless, and broken.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Tashilicious posted:

they dont want happy and productive. they want cowed, hopeless, and broken.

Oh I'm aware that if they could legally use employees as a blood bags, they would

NO LISTEN TO ME
Jan 3, 2009

「プリスティンビート」
「Pristine Beat」
It really is amazing how many studies have shown time and time again that the way you produce happy, more productive workers is to actually pay them well and listen to them and what they want. For how much corporations worship Data and Productivity you'd think they would actually listen. But, alas, when you're a sociopath you can't imagine why this would ever be true, so bring in the slanted toilets.

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


Iron Crowned posted:

Oh I'm aware that if they could legally use employees as a blood bags, they would

you say that like peter thiel doesnt exist

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS




I loving hate these pieces of poo poo so much

exmachina
Mar 12, 2006

Look Closer
The thing is he is right. I use taxis a fair bit and I fell in love with the Uber UX the moment I saw it. Where I am the taxi fleet was quite deregulized already and competition that was not quite as evil and retarded as Uber popped up and I use them almost exclusively now

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Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
counterpoint: gently caress him and gently caress you too

Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

I'm just an inbetweener

exmachina posted:

The thing is he is right. I use taxis a fair bit and I fell in love with the Uber UX the moment I saw it. Where I am the taxi fleet was quite deregulized already and competition that was not quite as evil and retarded as Uber popped up and I use them almost exclusively now

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Just out of interest, why the probation?

I've read worse.. but if it's for spelling deregulated with 'deregulized', I wholeheartedly support it :)

purple death ray
Jul 28, 2007

me omw 2 steal ur girl

Trainee PornStar posted:

Just out of interest, why the probation?

I've read worse.. but if it's for spelling deregulated with 'deregulized', I wholeheartedly support it :)

We don't use slurs on something awful anymore, is the thing

ekuNNN
Nov 27, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/isaiah_kb/status/1220354646687899650

Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

I'm just an inbetweener

purple death ray posted:

We don't use slurs on something awful anymore, is the thing

point noted.

*quick edit*
I didn't mean to sound flippant but was a surprise to see SA raising the bar against Reddit again :)

Trainee PornStar has issued a correction as of 21:49 on Jan 23, 2020

Invisble Manuel
Nov 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/IamShaneMorris/status/1220367934947758080

Halser
Aug 24, 2016

Fallout was a documentary

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo

Time to start cloning their RFID thing into a bunch of cheapo RFID tags.

edit: Just checking now, can get 50 1kb RFID stickers for $15. That should last the lifetime of the fridge.

At $55 per OEM cartridge, minus $12 for a 3rd party cartridge, plus $15 amortized over 50 stickers at six month intervals, that's $1060 saved over the 25 years.

What the everloving gently caress, GE.

SwissArmyDruid has issued a correction as of 22:45 on Jan 23, 2020

silentsnack
Mar 19, 2009

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

Time to start cloning their RFID thing into a bunch of cheapo RFID tags.

edit: Just checking now, can get 50 1kb RFID stickers for $15. That should last the lifetime of the fridge.

At $55 per OEM cartridge, minus $12 for a 3rd party cartridge, plus $15 amortized over 50 stickers at six month intervals, that's $1060 saved over the 25 years.

What the everloving gently caress, GE.

If it's just RFID to recognize that an authorized filter is in there, they could just take apart the cartridge and tape the chip to a nearby surface. But I'm just gonna take a wild guess and assume the manufacturer would know people would use hardware hacks if possible and made it a software lock that won't let you use the same ID tag for 10 years. Or possibly a slightly more complicated system that includes telemetry.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


silentsnack posted:

If it's just RFID to recognize that an authorized filter is in there, they could just take apart the cartridge and tape the chip to a nearby surface. But I'm just gonna take a wild guess and assume the manufacturer would know people would use hardware hacks if possible and made it a software lock that won't let you use the same ID tag for 10 years. Or possibly a slightly more complicated system that includes telemetry.

Hell yeah time root kit your fridge using shady software from a Belarusian darkweb site

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord
https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/1216912546155958273?s=19

While we're on dumb IoT poo poo

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

silentsnack posted:

If it's just RFID to recognize that an authorized filter is in there, they could just take apart the cartridge and tape the chip to a nearby surface. But I'm just gonna take a wild guess and assume the manufacturer would know people would use hardware hacks if possible and made it a software lock that won't let you use the same ID tag for 10 years. Or possibly a slightly more complicated system that includes telemetry.

Apparently it'll refuse to use any given filter for more than six months, so just transplanting the tag won't do the trick. One of the twitter replies linked to this method, where you can trick your fridge into thinking it's giving you unfiltered water when it's actually going through a forbidden third-party filter.

This is every bit as crazy as it sounds.

Trainee PornStar
Jul 20, 2006

I'm just an inbetweener

SwissArmyDruid posted:

Time to start cloning their RFID thing into a bunch of cheapo RFID tags.


I played around with this a bit a while back.. i got pretty much any tag I wanted from ebay/amazon & used an arduino to do the copy.

Purr Objectives
Mar 3, 2017

Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

Time to start cloning their RFID thing into a bunch of cheapo RFID tags.

edit: Just checking now, can get 50 1kb RFID stickers for $15. That should last the lifetime of the fridge.

At $55 per OEM cartridge, minus $12 for a 3rd party cartridge, plus $15 amortized over 50 stickers at six month intervals, that's $1060 saved over the 25 years.

What the everloving gently caress, GE.

I’m extremely skeptical of the idea of a modern appliance lasting 25 years.

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

SwissArmyDruid posted:

Time to start cloning their RFID thing into a bunch of cheapo RFID tags.

edit: Just checking now, can get 50 1kb RFID stickers for $15. That should last the lifetime of the fridge.

At $55 per OEM cartridge, minus $12 for a 3rd party cartridge, plus $15 amortized over 50 stickers at six month intervals, that's $1060 saved over the 25 years.

What the everloving gently caress, GE.

You kind of undercut your entire argument when you reveal the savings is only $1k over 25 years.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Agean90 posted:

Hell yeah time root kit your fridge using shady software from a Belarusian darkweb site

Now thats' on topic

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purple death ray
Jul 28, 2007

me omw 2 steal ur girl

From my perspective anybody who has a fridge that does ice/water is living pretty comfortably

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