A test they’ll have to pass.

This makes me chuckle, as they invented euphemisms like ‘hallucinations’ because their LLM models can’t do what they promise. Fabulous marketing, but clearly they didn’t do enough testing.

Also, just adding this here, but if you work in a team and have the means you should always keep records of your own productivity and quality.

Less of a rage-quit and more of a rage-promotion. (it’ll make sense, just keep reading.)

I am someone who keeps track of what I do, my productivity, and how much output I’m generating in my work. A company I used to work for decided they wanted to do back-door layoffs by handing out phony write-ups and putting people on performance improvement plans, and they targeted me.

Essentially, I went into a meeting with my boss thinking I was going to get promoted or at least an attaboy, because I knew I was the highest performer on the team.

Nope. It was a writeup. I told them straight up that I was doing more work than anyone on the team, I could prove it, and I wasn’t signing. I fought the PIP with HR too, and the delicious thing was my bosses knew they fucked up, because I breezed right through it.

Ended up interviewing for an internal req that put me in a senior position on the other team, and what galled me the most was the insistence of my boss on a going-away lunch, and I hated every second of it. I was gracious on my way out because I didn’t want to burn bridges, but I honestly hope that person is rotting in Hell now, and am very pleased that that company got bought out and sold for parts, so hopefully they all got fired too.

Given the ability, I’d get rid of the Internet completely.

Not much to say here other than… FUCK YEAH!

Management will argue that a nurses’ strike is going to get patients killed.

I say, Management is getting patients killed by refusing to pay fair value to nurses for their labor and forcing them out of the health care industry by necessity.

Also, I love that New Yorkers are putting their foot down on affordability. Has to happen somewhere, dammit.

Objectively not the dumbest religion I’ve ever heard of.

I hope his schmeckel no longer works.

I’m so sick and tired of the self-evident stupidity of free speech absolutism.

Sure, you are.

You’re not wrong, but if DOGE taught us one thing, they taught us that it actually is possible to delete specific terms from every document in a government database.

I don’t think the Dems will care enough to try it though.

Texas, where a dusting is tantamount to a blizzard in the northern states.

Yeah just like how all of those Civil War Generals were erased from history for betraying their country for the sake of preserving slavery.

This is nowhere near an appropriate comparison to Akhenaten.

Let’s be real. Americans are incapable of shame.

The 2025 elections, where every Donald-won district from 2024 flipped, is empirical evidence to the contrary. It seems that people were on-board for a mass-deportation, but not for the targeting of legal immigrants and the military occupation of American cities.

But sure. It’s your world and your algorithm. Think what you want.

Agreed.

It also expects that people are content to actually fix things, or sew tears in clothing, or whatever, and that often requires a little research and initiative in a world where it’s been made abundantly cheap and convenient to just replace almost everything.

I don’t think it’s necessarily ignorance so much as a combination of laziness and incredible convenience.

A few years ago I taught myself to fix my laptop screen via Youtube and saved myself a $400 repair, but most people would just chuck it and buy a new one.

Leave it to the Donald Administration not to recognize basic laws of physics and, maybe, the necessity to make logistical changes.

Hopefully the next headline is about how an ICE vehicle slid off a cliff.

simply protecting yourself from hostile third parties

That is some seriously bootlicking, euphemistic nonsense right there.

And that goes for all of these fucking leeches: The beloved pop star. The legendary athlete. The really nice lady who gave away ten billion. The soft-spoken revered investment guru who cosplays as middle class.

Every damn one of them should be paying 100% in taxes over a billion dollars, but they never will. Their greed is a more important consideration than whether or not you can get health care.

That’s okay.

It is mostly possible to erase a person’s legacy, at least in the physical sense. Egypt almost erased a whole-ass pharaoh from history. (Akhenaten)

And it’s not like the US cares about losing a few grunts for millions of dollars.

Exactly the point. Likely the people that take that fire are people who come from an exceedingly poor class and have no value in our ruling parties’ eyes anyway. (Not saying I agree.)