[–] 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You have progressed to the dungeon and face a door protected with a riddle. You look up expecting two gargoyles guarding it but instead find two Elizabeth Holmes staring at you intensely.

Fuck.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    He's right about this being inefficient but the reason we can't have nice things here is that he is the most condensed essence of shit and we can't trust him or any of his billionaire shitcock friends.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago

    This will come with so many annoying consequences. Quick google search leads to AI answer citing reddit as a source that can't be accessed. Ultimately we're heading to informaton being locked behind log-ins and paywalls with AI circumventing all of that. Your average user will look at the AI answer and trust it because the effort to find a source or at least verify the info becomes too great.

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  • [–] 83 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

    I was once in Iceland and took a guided tour. The bus stopped at a beautiful waterfall that you can walk behind (no loot). You could see the waterfall from the bus but it was a 10 min walk to get to it. I shit you not, the american couple on the bus decided to stay behind because they didn't want to walk that far. Now I get that people have medical conditions and all but this seemed mostly like an issue of them being tired because the last two stops already required 10 min walks. It's not their fault either. They grew up in a system that stole all forms of movement from them and fed them corn syrup so now a 20 min walk is unthinkable.

    Every study on depression comes to the result that physical exercise is fantastic to combat it but all too often the decisions we make reduce the amount of exercise we get. Teenagers these days zoom past on E-scooters all the time and I often feel like they're being robbed of what we had with our regular ol' bikes. Sure it's harder when you have to pedal and put all the energy in yourself but it also keeps you in a much beter state.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Guy with a good credit score and poor impulse control walks into McDonald's high as a kite. The pricing AI jizzes in its pants as it sets up a 24 month payment plan for his Big Mac menu.

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    Most grocery stores in my country have established an App (or card) you're supposed to use and it's slowly but surely going down the route of enshitification.

    They start by letting you collect points. Then it's extra savings. Eg regular price is 3€, sale price is 1.80€ but app users get it for 1.50€. Cool, a way to save some money, you might think. Nope. Once they reach a critical mass of app users it continues to sales being App-only so everyone is now forced to use the App but there's no bonus left. Two of the biggest chains are at this stage. You now have the regular price (3€) and the app price (1.80€) which is the exact situation as before the app existed but they force you to jump through some extra hoops to get it.

    Additionally to that they collect all this data with the sole purpose of manipulating you into spending more money at their store than you did before. They extract their profits from their customers and if we help them get more efficient at that it'll be us that lose out.

    Tl;dr: Fuck store apps.

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