Libra00 @ Libra @lemmy.ml Posts 0Comments 147Joined 2 wk. ago
There's a word for that: enshittification
Netflix will what now? Sorry, I was busy canceling my netflix account.
Kidding, I canceled it ages ago when the $10 version became SD-only with ads.}
Why do we keep paying people like this to enshittify everything?
Indeed, this is like the techbro approach to nuclear reactors, which seems like the worst of all possible worlds: all buzzwords and bullshit hiding barely-concealed scams about shit that can absolutely kill you.
I haven't, dunno anything about it.
What's the alternative? I guess you can use chatgpt or whatever as a sort of search engine? shrug
Is that something built into the browser? i dropped Brave when I heard Google was forcing the adblock-gimping shit in Manifest V3 into Chomium. Also I was never entirely keen on their crypto-hawking bullshit.
Yeah I'm far too used to getting my search for free to pay for it. I'll fuckin' use chatgpt before I pay a subscription fee for that shit, even if it is a substantially better option.
Yeah, paying someone else to tell you what to do with your business when they will bear none of the consequences for the things they tell you to do are is just mad.
I fucking love The Bear, I just finished watching season 3 a couple days ago and it includes one of my favorite scenes that is a long flashback convo between Michael and Tina that was kind of my Forks for this season (IYKYK.) It's probably in my top 3 favorite shows of recent years.
Oh shit, I forgot he was in Sicario. I loved that movie, and him in it. Re:Punisher - I have serious franchise fatigue for comic book shit, but that show is pretty damned good and doesn't feel very comic-book-y at all. Also has Ebon Moss-Bachrach who I've really come to love thanks to Andor and The Bear.
I think Nicholas Cage is a fine actor, but he's not a great actor IMO. Especially in the last 10-20 years, I feel like he's developed some subtlety but the roles he's taken have all been fuckin' weird. Mostly I like his older work like Raising Arizona, Con Air, Face/Off, etc.
I loved him in Moon but haven't seen anything else he's been in. Got any recs?
Dude, seriously. For the longest time I only knew him as the vampire in Twilight (which I'd never even seen) and wrote him off immediately. Then I saw him in High Life and was like 'Oh wait a minute, this guy is pretty good actually'. I even liked him in Batman. I'm glad he's outgrowing his Twilight association.
Jon Bernthal, of late. I first saw him in the Walking Dead where I kind of hated him, but then saw him in a couple other things (especially Punisher) and realized what a good actor he is. That's happened a few times actually, I really hated Brad Pitt in Se7en (that wasn't wrath, that was a fucking bad hair day), but then saw him in 12 Monkeys and was like 'Oh wait'.
What's odd is that it's not in the Wired headline either, this is a direct copy of their headline.
Also because that lump sum is all there is. If you take the annuity they put the lump sum into an investment account and then pay you out of the proceeds (from which they take a cut, of course), and you can get the same returns they get, without losing their cut, doing it yourself.
So, your bog-standard 'we're improving the company by making everyone do the work of 2 people on the salary of 1' routine. :P
it makes sense to guide the customer through the most common solutions first, as that will likely solve the problem.
And this why you have to suffer through those lengthy recordings that tell you about a bunch of shit that generally doesn't apply to your situation before you can even use the menu, much less talk to a person. I am disabled, I have had to be on the phone with the Social Security Administration, Medicare, my insurance company, and various state benefits agencies probably 15-20 times a year for the past ~14 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times those 'common solutions' were even remotely applicable. I don't even need fingers to count the number of times they have actually contained the solution to my issue, because it has literally never happened.
Once you get to a person who can make an assessment about what's going on it makes sense for them to cover a few basics (I used to do tech support, I know how much time a simple, 'Are you sure it's plugged in?' can save), but replacing customer service with AI means you're pretty much stuck in those recordings for your entire call. Now to be fair this can be done better than most places do it. I shop on amazon a fair bit (can't drive so I order most things online) and when I have issues I honestly prefer dealing with the livechat AI than calling because it's a much faster and smoother experience and they can quickly bump you over to an actual agent when there's a weird thing going on that's outside of its scope. But most companies don't have Amazon's customer service budget to do shit like that well, so usually what I get is 'If you're calling about XYZ, hang up and dial this number. Did you know that if your birthday is on an odd-numbered day blahblah-ad-blahblah? If the crescent moon is waning and the distant hills are draining and the watchful eye is straining...' etc.
They had to invest how much money into AI to realize this thing that literally anyone on the street would've happily told them for free? And they probably paid some consultant even more money to tell them it was a good idea. sigh.
You lost me at this:
For this transmutation Transmutex proposes using a particle accelerator, probably because the promoter of the idea is a former engineer at CERN,
Yeah it's definitely not that the only reliable method we have of knocking protons off of atoms involves either a nuclear reactor or particle accelerator, dude is just bringing his old job with him cause he doesn't know any better. Right.