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RememberTheApollo_ , 3 days ago to Technology in Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service

Companies don’t want to provide actual service for problems. That costs money. They want you to give up.

Customers hate anything that actually gets between them and someone that can actually help. Not shitty, complicated automated phone menus. Not some underpaid stooge who refuses to da anything except read from a mandatory customer service script. And not AI, which will combine both of the worst aspects of automation and scripted service along with a cheerful idiot that will spare no effort to direct you away from the nearest actual assistance.

RememberTheApollo_ , 6 days ago to Technology in Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status”

When was the last time an entity that generated stats about someone didn’t end up with those stats being used to the detriment of the individual - or at the very least for the profit of another?

RememberTheApollo_ , 7 days ago to Technology in The “Netflix of anime” piracy site abruptly shuts down, shocking users

But that doesn’t please the shareholders or appease the apparently ever more concerning necessity for infinitely growing profits.

RememberTheApollo_ , 9 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Suffering builds character". anarcho-primitivists, probably

This doesn’t have to be the binary choice you’re making it. Both can be done. Furthermore I also disagree with the premise that imperfect solutions should be immediately discounted. There is no perfect solution.

RememberTheApollo_ , 9 days ago to Lefty Memes in AT LEAST IT'S NOT THE GOBERMENT

Private policing has been done.

You had to pay a fee to have them attempt to solve whatever crime you wanted investigated.

Too bad if you’re poor.

If you’re rich the crime will be solved. Doesn’t matter if they got the right person.

Police take bribes, so they can find the other “right person”.

They were used to force workers back to work when they rebelled over poor pay and working conditions.

They were used to hunt down escaped slaves.

Want to know why people didn’t want state-funded cops? Because those police would be used to limit their freedoms. Anyone participated in a protest lately? How about being pulled over because of your color? Assets seized? Not that you would have avoided these things with private police, though. Modern police still protect the capital of the wealthy, just on the taxpayer dime now, the rich don’t have to pay them directly.

RememberTheApollo_ , 9 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Suffering builds character". anarcho-primitivists, probably

TBF there are far, far too many technological solutions that are “science will save us” but haven’t been fully fleshed out, studied, or require some modest form of unobtainium to work in mass deployment. Also, a huge chunk of those solutions would have to have been implemented 20 years ago, yet haven’t even made it off the proverbial drawing board yet.

IMO solutions need to be implemented now, like wind, solar, especially nuclear power, EV, etc. Yeah, nuclear is temporary, and yes, nothing stays in place longer than a temporary solution, but it’s a known and can be built now rather than yet another 5-15 years of waiting for untried tech solutions. Unfortunately the comic isn’t entirely wrong, we are going to need to lose some things if we want to save ourselves.

RememberTheApollo_ , 10 days ago to Comic Strips in "Travel" by TheSquareComic

I’ve been traveling for a long time. Easily one of the worst a things I’ve seen happening culturally is globalization of brands that “dumb down” local foods and crafts. Doesn’t matter where you go, particularly the westernized world, it’s the same shit everywhere. The same brands. Even some of the food is moving towards sameness. Want to find a local gift to bring home? Good luck. It’s all the same stuff made in China, each store has the same stuff on the shelves.

You’ll have better luck outside the metro areas, but usually if you’re traveling to see the sights they are often in more metro/touristy areas.

RememberTheApollo_ , 11 days ago to Comic Strips in Common sense [Outbursts of Everett True, 1905-1927

Just let their parents buy it and let the kid have unsupervised access.

RememberTheApollo_ , 11 days ago to Lefty Memes in [confused conservative noises]

I don’t know why it’s so hard. I means “Things I don’t like, especially when it pertains to anything that could be called liberal.”

RememberTheApollo_ , 11 days ago to Technology in People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are

Bar Code was one. Cameras streaming patrons in other franchises in other cities so you could kinda interact with them.

RememberTheApollo_ , 13 days ago to Comic Strips in Pixie and Brutus

Thank you.

RememberTheApollo_ , 13 days ago to Comic Strips in Mr. True goes grocery shopping [Outbursts of Everett True, 1926]

He even defends women from lecherous men! What a guy!

RememberTheApollo_ , 13 days ago to Comic Strips in Mr. True goes grocery shopping [Outbursts of Everett True, 1926]

No, he isn’t always wrong, that’s why I mentioned the filtering part. More often than not the comic presents a reactionary, violent jerk or someone who says shitty things justified by “that’s how we all really feel but won’t say it out loud” kind of thing.

RememberTheApollo_ , 13 days ago to Comic Strips in Mr. True goes grocery shopping [Outbursts of Everett True, 1926]

You must’ve spent a while filtering Mr. True’s compendium for his reasonable takes, you’d be a good “spin doctor”.

RememberTheApollo_ , 16 days ago to Mildly Infuriating in How does my local Sonic run out of just the small box of chicken?

The opposite of a jumbo small.