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DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

The Oldest Man posted:

When you think about it not promoting medically assisted suicide for the poor and then harvesting their organs to pay off their debts posthumously is anti-bodily autonomy

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Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Shageletic posted:

Absolutely nightmare party

Simply convert your entire identity into your job and you too can enjoy making power point presentations for your friends and family.

040124_4
Apr 1, 2024
tldr, how about the price of SA chatbots?

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Mandel Brotset
Jan 1, 2024

triple sulk posted:

2015 was almost ten years ago. lol, lmao

ram dass in hell posted:

that doesnt sound right

040124_4
Apr 1, 2024

Paradoxish posted:

Simply convert your entire identity into your job and you too can enjoy making power point presentations for your friends and family.

enjoy bleeding themselves elderly DRY

In Training
Jun 28, 2008

my job doesn't require a power point to explain. So I feel threatened and excluded by such proceedings

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

Paradoxish posted:

Simply convert your entire identity into your job and you too can enjoy making power point presentations for your friends and family.

The fact that they all decided the right vehicle to convey what they do for work is powerpoint presentations says everything about how pointless the totality of the work done by the people in that room is

NeonPunk
Dec 21, 2020

If you can't describe what your job is within 6 words or less, you have a bullshit job

AARD VARKMAN
May 17, 1993

i hate these ppl. nice glass box full of silver Christmas ornaments also (?)

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

The Oldest Man posted:

The fact that they all decided the right vehicle to convey what they do for work is powerpoint presentations says everything about how pointless the totality of the work done by the people in that room is

I've watched a plumber give a two-hour powerpoint presentation on why residential plumbing is actually an advertising industry.

he was right tho

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

NeonPunk posted:

If you can't describe what your job is within 6 words or less, you have a bullshit job

Vendor compliance- making sure companies don't ah poo poo

Canned Sunshine
Nov 20, 2005

CAUTION: POST QUALITY UNDER CONSTRUCTION



Paradoxish posted:

I've watched a plumber give a two-hour powerpoint presentation on why residential plumbing is actually an advertising industry.

he was right tho

It’s true, especially since a huge number of new plumbers don’t even know how to sweat copper pipe. gently caress that, copper or burst.

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

NeonPunk posted:

If you can't describe what your job is within 6 words or less, you have a bullshit job

"make number go up"

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007

Shageletic posted:

Absolutely nightmare party

i would be in the far corner playing with the pet if they had one.

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

Canned Sunshine posted:

It’s true, especially since a huge number of new plumbers don’t even know how to sweat copper pipe. gently caress that, copper or burst.

yeah the core of that presentation was essentially "just hire someone as cheaply as possible to do the work and then sales sales sales" lmao

and anyway if you bother to fix pipes then your poo poo is getting eaten by the guy who just upsold his 50th tankless water heater this week

PoundSand
Jul 30, 2021

Also proficient with kites

NeonPunk posted:

If you can't describe what your job is within 6 words or less, you have a bullshit job

I feel like that's easy even with bullshit jobs. "I manage people/projects/departments/whatever" is only 3 words and can apply to a whole field of useless middlemen and nepo babies.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

I facilitate projects and management input, is this a project manager or a Target over night stocker, you decide!

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Paradoxish posted:

We still got some barrels in the SPR. Time to dump that poo poo out.

free spr

blatman
May 10, 2009

14 inc dont mez


i post and scratch my ball

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

triple sulk posted:

2015 was almost ten years ago. lol, lmao

da fuq

Rectal Death Alert
Apr 2, 2021

PoundSand posted:

I feel like that's easy even with bullshit jobs. "I manage people/projects/departments/whatever" is only 3 words and can apply to a whole field of useless middlemen and nepo babies.

i do stupid poo poo for idiots that can't understand how to breathe and most of my day is spent sending worthless emails that were either the 5th attempt to explain something or not necessary at all

I am the American Worker

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

I teach kindergarten and am one of the only people I know who works for a living

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Egg Moron posted:

I teach kindergarten and am one of the only people I know who works for a living

since when do teachers get paid "a living"??

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

since when do teachers get paid "a living"??

teachers in my district make an average of $80k/year for 10 months, and that's after they cut most of the step pay for masters etc.

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

Just spent ninety solid minutes explaining to an adult with a six figure salary why you can't run an experiment without a null hypothesis, then to a different adult with a six figure salary what a null hypothesis is, then to a third adult with a six figure salary what the concepts of specious results and cherry picking are

Egg Moron posted:

I teach kindergarten and am one of the only people I know who works for a living

apparently i am also teaching kindergarten

Vox Nihili
May 28, 2008


give me enough wine and I'll sit through drat near anything but this might be pushing it

Irony.or.Death
Apr 1, 2009


Xaris posted:

yeah apples been late to the game, and also late to the "AI!!!" game which has hurt 'shareholder sentiment' lmao

VR felt like a pretty forced bubble, i didn't really know anyone who actually really cared, especially with MS and Sony trying to force VR console poo poo that flopped DOA. that said technology, particularly on the very small-scale level, has been advancing a lot. it's amazing what the Switch does as basically a 2013-model android tablet. a new Switch with 2024-tablet technology would be balls-busting good. i could be wrong but I think VR was a bit too premature for it's own good and they cooked the golden goose while it was still a zygote in an attempt to chase da profits before anyone else.

but it's clear that even with $$$$$$$ in infinite apple money, they still can't make a good device, so it's probably still too premature.

insanely premature, it's obvious to everyone that the device can't take off until they get it down to sunglasses and if we make the generous assumption that this is physically possible it is still going to take way longer than the money is willing to wait. but they can't just abandon the idea because stuffing the AI girlfriend overlay into sunglasses is such an obvious hit.

their solution: interim niche product releases to sustain ongoing r&d costs. this would even mostly work if management + execs were capable of understanding that it is the strategy they are pursuing, but they aren't, so instead we get tim failing even harder than zuck because apple can't let the only niche interests the currently possible product serves exist in their ecosystem.

ok that is overstating things, i am sure the apple goggles will be able to handle babysitting even if they are no good for racing sims or pornography. somehow i always forget that people use these things as babysitters.

Morbus
May 18, 2004

The Oldest Man posted:

Just spent ninety solid minutes explaining to an adult with a six figure salary why you can't run an experiment without a null hypothesis, then to a different adult with a six figure salary what a null hypothesis is, then to a third adult with a six figure salary what the concepts of specious results and cherry picking are

apparently i am also teaching kindergarten

Jokes on you, they all understand, but the reason they get paid the big bucks is to promote the fantasy that steady progress is always being incrementally made towards a goal, and sometimes that means finding 4 insignificant/specious results and knowing in your heart that they must surely add up to 1 significant result.

I recommend day drinking

Father Wendigo
Sep 28, 2005
This is, sadly, more important to me than bettering myself.

Amazon displaying why they make the big bucks with a very early slow-burn April Fools joke!

https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1775215997898698907?t=SEkcdbDK2fz2hKSv2AAZXg&s=19

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



Father Wendigo posted:

Amazon displaying why they make the big bucks with a very early slow-burn April Fools joke!

https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1775215997898698907?t=SEkcdbDK2fz2hKSv2AAZXg&s=19

jfc

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

The Oldest Man posted:

When you think about it not promoting medically assisted suicide for the poor and then harvesting their organs to pay off their debts posthumously is anti-bodily autonomy

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

RadiRoot posted:

i would be in the far corner playing with the pet if they had one.

The go to move in any awkward gathering

Morbus
May 18, 2004

biceps crimes posted:

i want to be euthanized when i develop dementia, but i don't want poor and/or disabled youngs to be euthanized on my way there

BrotherJayne posted:

Oh so you're just gonna yank up the ladder behind you? Seems fair

Morbus
May 18, 2004

Father Wendigo posted:

Amazon displaying why they make the big bucks with a very early slow-burn April Fools joke!

https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1775215997898698907?t=SEkcdbDK2fz2hKSv2AAZXg&s=19

the A stands for Asian

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

Morbus posted:

Jokes on you, they all understand, but the reason they get paid the big bucks is to promote the fantasy that steady progress is always being incrementally made towards a goal, and sometimes that means finding 4 insignificant/specious results and knowing in your heart that they must surely add up to 1 significant result.

I recommend day drinking

Yeah I've found inducible ignorance seems to be a valuable skill when ladde climbing

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

I would simply get up and walk out. Hit da bricks, as they say

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Father Wendigo posted:

Amazon displaying why they make the big bucks with a very early slow-burn April Fools joke!

https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1775215997898698907?t=SEkcdbDK2fz2hKSv2AAZXg&s=19

trying to read this Gizmodo article on mobile safari was loving dire. god drat. towards the end I just got forwarded to something else that was stalled loading when I closed the page. awful. 2001 poo poo.

Willa Rogers
Mar 11, 2005

hey smythe, did you see this meteor breakup or chinese spy thing or something else last nite?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBSVsMIUwGU

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Willa Rogers posted:

hey smythe, did you see this meteor breakup or chinese spy thing or something else last nite?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBSVsMIUwGU

drat no but that looks cool wow

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JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


Father Wendigo posted:

Amazon displaying why they make the big bucks with a very early slow-burn April Fools joke!

https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1775215997898698907?t=SEkcdbDK2fz2hKSv2AAZXg&s=19
Everything is built on the backs of the peasants

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