I didn’t need to learn this today

Oooof, this “research” is just so very reductive.

“Not even like a wave to a barista, not somebody also checking for ripeness of the avocados at the grocery store,” says Emanuel. “Just no human contact at all.”

Hot take: waving at a barista or witnessing a fellow shopper check avocados doesn’t count as “human contact”.

Remote workers aren’t making up for that lost social connection by socializing after work, she adds. “We even see a decrease in spending time with friends after the work day relative to people in non-remotable occupations.”

Shouting extra loud for the people in the back: We’re in the middle of an affordability crisis, you idiots, and there are way fewer Third Places around than ever before!!

Commuting solves nothing, and only exasperates a whole host of other issues.

If we’re serious about improving mental health, the last thing anyone should be recommending is Office Jobs

Hopefully they’ll continue utilising Outrage as the Prime Engagement Metric, so that when I start swearing loudly at annoying scammy ads, they’ll assume that means I’m “engaged”, and that’s good, so they’ll serve me more and more ragebait

Yuuuuuup. The fact that she platformed “John of God” should be the biggest, brightest red flag of all time.

I’d love to hear more about Why, because the panhandle is quite picturesque

You’re not missing anything. Execs have bought into AI hype and consider it a given that AI will be transformative, so they’re not bothering to think about use cases or real world applications. After all, the “user” is beneath them; so the user should just be happy and grateful for the opportunity.

I did it because business is changing, and to win the future, Cloudflare needs to change with it.

It’s a shame that they’ll never actually “win the future” considering they will never make enough profit to be satisfied. “Winning” isn’t something that can be achieved if enough profit is never enough and more is always required.

Step 1: Invent the universe

I mean, for people in our (little but illustrious) bubble this reads like satire. But there are people out there who will blindly accept this kind of statement at face value and find it compelling; and they vote. Our world is a silly place

You had me up until,

So, yeah, while the empirical method is fantastic and the best model we have, in the end it relies on faith as much as any religion

I feel like faith is the wrong word because the works that science hath wrought upon our world are due in part to its repeatability. When you follow the steps to build an engine and refine fuel for it, that engine will always run, and if it doesn’t, it’s due to a parts issue or a fuel issue that can be remediated. It always works because the laws of physics always apply (local variables notwithstanding).

I don’t have faith that my engine will start; I have absolute confidence based on my limited understanding aligned with repeated observations. I have evidence; where faith is often analogous to belief without or in spite of the evidence. Not that you may use that definition of faith, necessarily, and that’s fine; but that’s the definition I’m accustomed to thanks to being raised in a Protestant cult bubble.

Of course, there are benefits too. Internet-connected cars can be more convenient. The sensors they bristle with can make driving safer and more comfortable. Insurance companies could decide to charge you less because you’re such a good driver.

Yeah, that’s not how insurance companies work. That “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Just like the various works of the SCP Foundation, it’s all canon. But that doesn’t mean it’s all embraced by the fandom; and works that don’t respect prior established rules or lore may not gain popularity or respect.

For instance, if you were to write a backrooms story about a liminal space that wasn’t actually very liminal at all, you might be doing it wrong. Or possibly right, if your work was actually very fantastic.

Neato

Thanks for doing this!

I’d love to hear more about this likely very true story

You sure are spamming this grift a lot today

Sus AF

Reposting might be an unnecessary but important feature of social networks in general, in order to drive continual engagement.

The difference in engagement will often be driven by in the quality (or lack thereof) of the comments section. Salient familiar declarations may well prove to encourage replies that reference memetic icons of the latent culture; though poorly placed ones may leave a comment section bereft of replies.

Genuine original content is rare but may also be wasted for the location in which it has been planted. Attempts to break the fourth wall may be met with ambivalent results.

But reposting will always remain valid; even (and especially) when it may feel like a humorous and fashionable way to scream into the void.

The culture of corporate of PR insists that not only do meaningless canned responses help, but they’re invaluable. After all, the media will faithfully record those canned replies and reproduce them as though they’re salient information, no matter how empty and vapid the cloud of buzzwords produced.

Views are down, profit is down, and he’s pointing fingers at everyone else

Which needs, psychosis, or sycophancy?