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Comment bet (Score 1) 49

AI content is awful. It's only interesting and watchable when you've seen it for the first time. After watching enough of it you begin to notice how it's all the EXACT same thing. And then after a bit more, it starts to feel like nails on a chalkboard. And then after watching a bit more, it feels like nails in your skull. The instant I recognize something as AI content, I unsubscribe.

Comment As soon as stranger things is over... (Score 2) 71

I'm cancelling Netflix. It had a good run, but there's nothing even remotely watchable anymore. I'm only finishing Stranger Things just to finish it, not because it's actually interesting anymore.

Random YouTubers are making better content on their webcams and capture cards than I've seen on any streaming service in years. I've seen better video essays and speedrun documentaries than multimillion dollar projects.

Comment Well, I know one brand of car I will be buying (Score 1) 143

never. Long after this pantsload of a nickel and dime shakedown fails miserably, I will continue to remember that Volkswagen is the kind of company who would even consider attempting to cheat its own customers for what amounts to pocket change, so I won't be even approaching a dealership. Thanks for letting me know because I previously had been thinking of Volkswagen as trustworthy. I'm glad I've learned before I made a huge mistake.

Comment You get what you pay for (Score 1) 333

They helped fund the guy who is FAMOUSLY disloyal to even his most devoted followers, and they got their faces ate. Luckily, there's a way out for Apple, which is to invest a billion dollars into Trump's meme-coin. That will buy them at least two or three months of tariff relief.

What the fuck is happening, though, seriously? How is it that even mega-corporations are super-fine with losing billions in service to this grifter, as long as they get nothing in return?

Comment Google still has a search engine? (Score 1) 29

I searched for something random on Google a few months ago and got ZERO results. Literally nothing. It wasn't even trying to do a keyword search, it just decided there was nothing to sell me so there was no point in returning a result. That was basically the last day I used Google as a search engine.

Comment COBOL is not hard to learn (Score 2) 76

What the fuck, just hire a good software engineer and they'll learn COBOL fine, exactly how they learned every other language they know, and then they'll maintain the code for you. It's so weird how people treat is like ancient magic as if people can't just learn it. The ACTUAL problem is multi-billion dollar corporations don't want to spend a single dime on a dedicated COBOL maintainer's salary because that would be less money for stock buybacks.

Comment This is inevitable (Score 1) 177

Instead of fighting against it we should be welcoming it by rapidly restructuring our society to be ready for an abundance economy. When we have real robot butlers/slaves that do everything a human can do, but better and cheaper, the concept of manual labor has ended. We need to start preparing for that today, not after the bread riots start.

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