Robotaxis are so 2023. Haven't you heard, all the in the know fascists are betting robots are going to fix everything.

Or was it rooftop solar, I forget.

I always love it when a game exec tries to gaslight their own customers.

It is usually execu-newbies who react like this, but this guy looks like he's been in the business for a while, so I'm guessing he's out over his skis on this title.

#2 is already happening, that's what the Internal Revenue Service *does*.

50% revision from a survey is not consistent or predictable.

But we do know the answers- just use the information reported to the IRS from every employer doing business in the United States instead.

Maybe we shouldn't need to report the same data to multiple agencies? Estimated taxes, 1099s, and W2 information is already available from the IRS. You don't need to "survey" anybody, you can get down to the penny reads on the entire economy.

And since AOL gave us the Eternal September, the timing, at least, make sense.

The big audit companies have been pushing companies to do a lot more surveying - they're really harping on NPS for whatever reason.

That's why you can't ask to use a restroom without getting a survey about your experience.

I used to sometimes fill them out - they are actually useful to companies, and if I didn't hate them, that's OK with me.

But they're over-fishing. It is constant now. So fuck it, I refuse.

As far as the state, well, you don't tell the truth to fascists unless you're a suicidal moron. 'Nuff said.

We gotta talk.

See, you do this thing.

Sometimes you stop looking at your phone. I know, food, peeing, mouth noises at other people who aren't looking at their phones, either.

That's why we need you to put this on your face.

TFS: "includes ... financial details".

And here I thought non-consensual anime nudes and imaginary friends that gaslight their insecure users were our primary productivity-drivers.

I did some work not too different than this when I was working for myself. That was early aughts, so instead of vibe coders we had small business owners trying to do things beyond their competence in Excel and Access and such.

I far preferred other clients - almost by definition, these people are cheap, and the sorts of asks they could come up with could be utterly absurd. ("No, I cannot build you an eBay replacement with built-in voice calling for $500.") But sometimes you can't be picky.

And lack of access to imported things.

Magats - Are you tired of winning yet? This is not a rhetorical question.

Given where we are - the Brownshirts are murdering each others' leaders in a power struggle while Pee Wee Goebbels was working up to a Reichstag fire false flag - this doesn't seem like the most important detail to me, my rather bad addiction to coffee aside. But as a nation of consumers, maybe it will get someone's attention.

Italians were subject to racism when they began immigrating to the US in large numbers. (For that matter, so were Irish.)

They were not initially allowed in to the White People Club, and got the Other treatment for quite a while.

As is normal for this sort of thing, it still hasn't entirely faded. I lived in NYC not too far back and heard Italian slurs quite a bit.

More an invitation to slag Zazlov, one of the most destructively useless media execs in a very long time (which is quite a feat).

I'll always remember him as the man who tried to kill Big Bird because he didn't want to pay residuals.