i've never been in one and the nearest is apparently 2h away, so i'm curious about this part in tfs:
> Shoppers follow unwritten rules: move along, don't block the way, step aside to check your phone.
i find it rather hard to believe that people do this en masse because of some "behave, we're in the costco" impulse. can anyone confirm this?
> Checkout lines form orderly queues.
on this other hand, this part does not seem particularly novel or noteworthy?
Pluribus is a starkly fitting show for this moment: a dystopic wish-fulfillment dark fantasy that allows the viewer to self-insert as a character who is the absolute center of the universe and simultaneously the victim of a unrestricted global conspiracy to undermine their sanity and agency.
I cannot think of a more perfect work in this modern moment to reflect the viewership.
i knew something felt off this past weekend.
i converted my remaining win 10 box to Enterprise IoT LTSC a couple weeks ago and so far it's been indistinguishable from the Win 10 Pro it was before. EoL is Jan 13, 2032 . it was surprisingly easy to do. search your web, you know it to be true
here's hoping you pick the correct results to ignore!
> People are feeding their blood test results into chatbots, turning to ChatGPT for advice on their love lives and leaning on AI for everything from planning trips to finishing homework assignments.
are they really though? i mean, i'm sure someone is but has this reached a critical mass? or are lots people becoming increasingly tired of all this AI bullshit and just ignoring it except for the places where we don't have that option? i could certainly believe we've managed to birth a upcoming generation of the laziest non-learning students in possibly the history of education as a concept, and i can believe that the loneliest of the lonely are out there trying to fuck a chatbot, but how many folks are out there feeding blooodtests into Gemini?
> If you watch anime and you don't have a Crunchyroll subscription, do you really watch anime?
fansub's not dead!
good luck. i love my slow CGDCT shows but it took me a bit to get into Frieren. once i really settled in to enjoying it, they rugpulled and it turned into a shonen tournament battle and i noped right the fuck out. you might like it though. everything ain't for everybody. ðYââ(TM)ï
the support team i'm on got fucked onto win11 this week, despite the fact that the entire company just got acquired on April 1 and we're all getting new laptops by the end of the month, with current laptops going into the trash. it's so stupid and i am so goddamn mad (you can put that in the paper).
like, i was resigned for the new laptops to be running 11, because ofc they would, but for someone somewhere to decide, hey you know what fuck those guys, let em eat it, and force-upgrade out shit with a month to go seems downright malicious to me.
what's really odd is that it appears it was done by the old company, because we're still joined to that domain, not the new company.
I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM.
I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
> no full screen
that's what's so great about it, it's just like originally playing on my 486sx 25MHz
He keeps differentiating, flying off on a tangent.
