While I agree with all of that, if you’re local, you can get dropped off basically at your gate.
This was modeled after the Airport of Tomorrow in Kansas City, which was heavily influenced by TWA who demanded “drive to your gate”, which was in itself heavily influenced by what TWA did at JFK with Eero Saarinen.
That was basically doomed from the start as planes got bigger. And the nail in the coffin was security added later on and basically trapping you in a tiny, crummy gate area at MCI (can you imagine no security at all??) and finally destroyed by the post 2001 security enhancements that made it even worse.
They’ve recently opened a new MCI terminal that replaces the airport of tomorrow and looks like an airport of today.
It’s so weird because at the same time corporations are trying to normalize child labor again. It’s almost as if workers’ willingness to work isn’t the real issue for them. Heck if I didn’t know any better, I’d say those business suit fat cats are trying to pull a fast one on us and our kids.
just reminds me to Nolan Sorrento from ready player one
This is the first of our planned upgrades. Once we can roll back some of Halliday’s ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual’s visual field before inducing seizures
idk which one is more sad, that reddit is actually doing this or that i had to specify “ready player one” when looking up the exact quote because otherwise it referred me to completely serious marketing articles
Or for really old-school nerds, Max Headroom. There were the Zik Zak “Blipvert” ads that were hyper-accelerated until they literally made people’s heads explode (like in Scanners).
Also the “actual fucking content” is a mindless repost bot, with a bunch of reposted comments trying to build fake internet points so when the accounts switch to being spam advertising bots they last a little longer.
My 18mth deep depression exacerbated by doom-scrolling Reddit 12hrs per day may have been a fucking bot psyop to make me miserable. Lemmy has been a huge boost to my mood. Feel like I’m waking from a coma since coming here.
Me too feel way better than I did on Reddit. The comments and post don’t piss me off and I enjoy posting on here. Also nice not worrying over karma and if my post our comments are getting attention.
It’s a symptom of the platform altogether. It has karma, which isn’t just ‘some number’, it actually changes how quickly your post hits hot and the front page. This is why people sell accounts.
I think Lemmy will have a much more organic feel until the major instances realize they can also manipulate posts for cash. However, I feel it will still lack a huge portion of reposts and repost bots
okay, that i didn’t know. i have come across subreddits with karma requirements and i’m also aware of the logarithmic relation between upvotes and post age (basically for every X amount of time you need 10x the upvotes to stay at the same relevance) but not that account karma actually counted for that one. it can help a lot with comment rate limits though.
it (karma) actually changes how quickly your post hits hot and the front page.
Now I remember I suspected this, before I deleted my account a couple of years ago. I bet that’s contributing to reddit getting worse. It breaks the user response mechanic.
Spent four years in college, went $60k in debt for it, and I still have to take fucking personality tests as part of the interview process for the one fucking interview I get for every 50+ jobs I apply to. Not to mention that entry level jobs are basically nonexistant and professional workplaces only care to get employees that already have experience from God knows where. So that leaves us starting out in our careers with the strategy of “fake it till you make it”, which creates further scrutiny during the interview processes. But no, apparently the problem is that people are too lazy. Fuck everything about the hiring process these days.
Friends would get mad at me for how much I’d lie in interviews. Now, they see why I did. Interview questions like “why u wanna work here” or “where u see yourself in the next x years” dumbass shut up it’s a warehouse you pay me to pick things up and put them down. Now I work in places that pay more because I specialized in some areas but the idea is the same. Interviewers don’t even care if you do your job, they just care that everything is running smooth and their boss is happy by whatever metric they use to judge “smooth”. Learning that distinction saved me a lot of headache.
I’ve been a software engineer for 30 years. The only thing that’s changed in this process is they no longer have to even have humans involved in the hiring process until after 98% of the applicants have been shit-canned.
It’s up to us to figure out their criteria, of course, and they will always lowball the pay.
They fixed a lot of load issues as of this morning so it might be okay. Lemmy.world itself already feels way more responsive. You have a point tho, might be better to host a Wine community on more FOSS centric instances.
Oh no doubt about that! I didn’t mean to imply lemmy.world was against foss. I just meant there’s already instances that are very FOSS focused that might be a better fit than lemmy.world which is already overloaded as it is.
I hope that solves lemmy.world essentially DoSing my instance at whatever intervals it would eventually take a turn to post all the stuff that had happened on it since the last flood.
Here's a great recipe if it interests you!
It's not too difficult to make, just takes time. The carrots add a nice vegetal flavor and aroma to it. Use a nice, well-marbled chuck roast for it. Avoid "stew cuts" as they tend to be a lot drier and lacking in flavor.
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