hobbesmaster posted:

we're not even getting a cool cyberpunk dystopia, I mean we have kill bots but they're just RC planes and all our AI research is for ads and poo poo

Pinterest Mom posted:

A 20-year-old man was also kidnapped, according to the report.

Tokamak posted:

i dont think its the 'use your home as an office' part of the ad people are mocking

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

you see, your honor, ben was actually drunkenly rollerskating in his home, not the workplace, when he had his terrible accident

why yes, his home is physically coterminous with our office. i don't see why that should be an issue

Jonny 290 posted:

There's a thing where white people pay to ride on cargo ships because it's authentic seafaring experience

Emacs Headroom posted:

It was a health-focused wearable thing, like a fitbit or an Up band or an Apple Watch. The differentiator was a focus on hard science (we had a lot of collaborations ongoing with research labs, which sucks since the studies in progress aren't getting funded either).

We still have access to the office for 2 weeks, and have joked about taking the $2000 espresso machine or our chairs or the adjustable standing desks etc.

We're all pretty scared of the financial backer though, who is known to be very lawsuit-happy.

Subjunctive posted:

yeah, I moved from Canada 3 years ago where my credit rating was basically "please sir, take more money", and my credit card still has a $1000 limit. the electric company took a deposit to turn on service at my new apartment, and my salary is a deece six etc etc.

I think that if you didn't spend your formative years running the US credit accumulation gauntlet they really think you're pretty suspicious.

Shifty Pony posted:

quote:

Yesterday, after police issued a warning that included advising that the risk for assault could be diminished if people didn't ride in a cab alone after drinking, there was swift reaction on social media from people criticizing law enforcement for victim-blaming.

syscall girl posted:

back when g+ hangouts were new and uh "fun" i was chatting with a googler who told me what he did there and i said "ah, you're a computer janitor" (thinking the cj thread, even though that means 'current job' and not 'computer janitor') and he kinda turned red and got pretty defensive

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I was shocked. Blinded by the wondrous handiness of Uber, I had missed the fact that while I got to rate them, they got to rate me back.
...
Uber began to feel less like a dependable employee and more like an irritated boyfriend.

quote:

I was trending on Uber, all right, and not in a good way. I had avoided Lyft not only because of that pink mustache but because I had heard that you were encouraged to sit up front with drivers and give them fist-bumps. It seemed more like The Flintstones’ car than Cinderella’s pumpkin coach.

1800's Racist posted:

the irish are coming

don't think they aren't; they're making millions of them every day

Condiv posted:

anyone who's not the richest of the rich is dirt poor in this country

source:

hobbesmaster posted:

it doesn't detect bicycles so

FMguru posted:

some commenter compared her to malory archer and thats just about right

bassguitarhero posted:

http://gawker.com/xxx-freak-fest-airbnb-host-i-am-homeless-1707548273

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I am homeless because you stuck a “XXX Freak Fest” orgy in my apartment and abandoned me to deal with the fall out.

I’m not homeless because of finances – though the unimagined debt and massive amount of lost work caused by your orgy hasn’t helped – but because thanks to Airbnb I’m on a blacklist and cannot get a legitimate lease in all of New York City.

Brokers refuse to help me after looking me up and finding I’m on the blacklist. One building management refused to even accept a full year’s up-front payment because I was on the blacklist.

Nintendo Kid posted:

it reduces the number of licensed taxis that can roam the streets looking for fares

it does nothing for an uber type taxi that you have to summon, since their entire business model is "you order a taxi remotely" instead of "you call them over on the street as they drive near"

DaveKap posted:

There actually was 1 cab company that tried to have an app before everyone else. All it did was call the central dispatch. What a piece of poo poo that was.

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Tomorrow, Gawker Media employees will vote for a union—or against it. It’s a historic vote, because no digital media company has ever organized. Some might say that’s because it’s unnecessary, that digital media employees do just fine on their own. A string of incidents in my own career, however, suggests otherwise.

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I lost my first job in digital media because I refused to fire several freelance employees without cause. This all happened around the same time that they started fighting for their right to health care. (They were all “laid off,” after my departure.)

I lost my second job in digital media because I suffered a manic episode and needed to take a leave of absence. However, the company said I’d either need to apply for disability or resign and reapply for my own job a few weeks later. I resigned, but I never did get that job back.

I left my third job in digital media after my six week trial period ended up lasting almost a year, during which I more or less ended up working two full-time jobs without benefits. They’d promised a job with benefits from the outset. Instead, I worked overtime, only to be told that the offer was just around the corner. At the tail end of this experience, I got an offer from Gizmodo and never looked back.

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Some of these workers want better healthcare. Some want a transparent pay structure. Some simply want a sense of solidarity.

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as a gizmodo employee, i completely agree with you. this process is being rushed, and nobody...NOBODY on staff truly understands what negotiation a union contract looks like and what it will entail. despite what adam says below, we do not have concrete goals. we have a broad outline of goals that will no doubt be twisted, turned, and pulled apart when it comes to actually laying them out in the specifics of a contract.

moreover, while its great that our current goals are limited in scope so as to not hurt the flexibility of our business, i wonder what will happen when self-preservation and entitlement kicks in and people start using this union as a means to avoid ever being fired for any reason whatsoever, or as a means to prevent gawker from making business decisions that are truly good for it in the long run.

i hope i am wrong about everything and this this turns out great (assuming the vote goes in favor of organizing). i will be happy if that happens, but its not the outcome i expect.

Wild EEPROM posted:

solution is simple.

if you kill a rich man, you get all of his stuff.

Shifty Pony posted:

then there is asia

Kobayashi posted:

Nintendo Kid posted:

go back to reddit

Forums Terrorist posted:

your care is showing hoss

quote:

In the past 6 months that I’ve been in SF, I’ve overheard a thing or two that really hits this town’s tone.

Please enjoy this collection as a tribute to this absurdly talented, progressive and uplifting city.

“Did you hear about the camp at BurningMan with Soylent snow cones?”

“Did my investor text me back? I’m so pissed”

“Can I trade you adderall for ashwaganda?”

“I love San Francisco! We party so healthy here”.

“Thinking ten years down the line, in the internet of things- like, your washing machine could be a corporation, and it could contract out your soap…”

“I can’t make it to your gluten-free pasta party, I have a robotics competition to go to”

“Your words felt like a warm blanket amongst the cold world of startups”

“I’m ordering E24. Do you want any thai food to go with your pizza?”

“This better not be loving Salesforce.”

“We’ve come up with this thing, it’s called speculative prosititution. Basically, it’s $2000 a night, or 1% of all future earnings”

“Is this a bar or a barber shop? We’re on 18th and mission”

“What’s the problem? Do you have adventure distraction disorder?”

“That’s old paradigm statistics. I’m talking about new age statistics”.

“gently caress, I spilled phenylpiracetam all over my bed. Maybe I’ll get smarter in my sleep”.

“….before she was ostracized and forced to move to El Salvador and start a microbrewery”.

“..even the alcohol has chia seeds in it here.”

“My whole life is on Evernote”.

“Wait, is that quinoa liquor?”

“Yeah, he wrote me a poem! It’s called ‘You’re dating my wife and that’s ok’”

“Hold on! I’m in a serious, committed relationship — I don’t take molly without my boyfriend.”

“What if you could tailor your Tindr profile based on who’s seeing it? Like targeted Tindering”

“I surfed the most user friendly wave the other day”

“Stop, we have to go to bed. I have a job cos I’m employed in a capitalist society.”

“It was nice to meet you at the meditation meet up, I’m sorry we didn’t get to drink synthetic milk together”.

“ Excuse me, why is there rotten Soylent on our porch?”

Luigi Thirty posted:

Pinterest Mom posted:

If there’s one target market every media outlet wants to own, it’s millennials, those twenty- and thirty-somethings who are going to be running the world soon and have all kinds of disposable income

at the date posted:

what if one's strong sexual preference for big titty Aryans is just a natural result of growing up with a racially biased porn industry? Is the individual especially racist, or is his answer to that question normal and expected?

asking for a friend

As a Millennial I posted:

Luigi Thirty posted:

I am actually in my thirties
I am actually in my thirties
I am actually in my thirties
(Actually it's more like)
Thirty-seven

Citizen Tayne posted:

When the evil dress code attacks,
these coder dudes won't wear no slacks

qirex posted:

lmbo their whole business is paper mache

our process is utterly perfect as long as nothing goes wrong with it ever