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EmergMemeHologram , (edited )

I did laugh at this meme, then but I came in here to make sure there was a warning.

Doing this is an awful way to spend a month in the hospital, get permanently disgusted, and possibly die.

Edit: disgusted --> disfigured, but I don’t have the great to change the existing text

Can Taylor Swift help Canada's seal meat industry, senate committee asks (ottawacitizen.com)

Previous government efforts to boost the sale of seal products have also failed, noted Fink. As an example, she pointed to a 2014 plan which recommended the Fisheries and Oceans department try to revive the market for the sale of seal penises.

EmergMemeHologram ,

Canadians need to realize that eating seal is as normal as eating a lamb chop or a veal sandwich,” added Kolga.

Am I having a stroke? What? What the fuck is going on with this article?

Who talks about fucking veal sandwiches like it’s an every day thing? I’ve never in my life seen seal meat for sale, not heard of anyone having tried it.

EmergMemeHologram ,

You can only get so famous before the seal penis lobby come after you.

EmergMemeHologram ,

Why are we talking about Russia when my Ontario elementary school showed videos of the seal hunt? I vividly remember that happening with a strong: this is wrong take.

EmergMemeHologram ,

It also looks horrific because ice is white and stains with blood easily, so as opposed to shooting a deer in grass, killing a seal looks incredibly gory.

EmergMemeHologram ,

I like to thread the needle between “useful verification of identity” and “not a horrifying invasion of privacy that puts everyone in our society at risk”

Reading these kinds of things will just result in is creating horrible identification laws like having to scan your face each time you want to watch porn.

EmergMemeHologram ,

Work in tech, I’m so fucking overworked lately that it’s massively cut down my productivity.

I can’t keep jumping from short deadline high priority to short deadline high priority and still do the baseline work needed to be efficient. So what ends up happening is I’m doing way more throw away work now than I ever have.

If I had more staff on my team we could balance the work out and get stable foundations to work from, but that doesn’t let leadership pretend we’re all better off now than a year ago and that the institutional failings of the org are all solved because they expertly threw the right people in the trash via randomly firing people.

EmergMemeHologram ,

I got into tech partially because you can scale a product much further and much cheaper than conventional industries. I was able to create and sell two small tech products/companies I made by myself, and that’s how I got into the industry.

I think in tech you can vastly cut jobs while keeping the product alive, but it’s impossible to grow a product without a solid team who knows the product deeply. These current cuts save money now and companies aren’t seeing the downside, but long term opportunities will become harder and harder to actually reach.

Having too many layers of hierarchy is bad because you can’t coordinate teams and move. Having too few means your staff will need to acquire tech debt and you’ll start seeing failures nobody understands.

This is short term gain for shareholders, long-term pain as companies will see lower growth and have to resort to more squeezing of existing customers.

EmergMemeHologram , (edited )

Since Covid I think the tech CEOs only talk to other tech CEOs, VCs demanding their payout, and their EAs.

The CEO bubble was so clearly visible with NFTs and now AI.

EmergMemeHologram ,

Careful, the tech CEOs will think this is a festival and coopt everything good about it.

EmergMemeHologram ,

The more you learn about numbers, the more arbitrary you realize they are.

EmergMemeHologram ,

“I mark them Urgent A, urgent B, urgent C… urgent D you don’t even really have to worry about”

youtu.be/UqGe9TOmnyE?si=Uk1TVNr9H2E4gcWQ

I’m sorry to hear you got fired. Falling behind tickets is a failure of management not staff. If there’s too much work then you’re not scheduling enough workers

EmergMemeHologram ,

I don’t know, last year I worked for a private firm that offered me a shitload of stock options then diluted them after I started.

You’re fucked unless you’re the boss.

EmergMemeHologram ,

Meta doing dividends to me says that’s where they are.

If they can’t get growth, they need to pay investors directly, or else the house of cards collapses.

And if I could short Google to 30% current value in 10 years I would, with AI they’re Yahoo and despite their best efforts aren’t even getting close to openAI, midjourney, or other AI companies, and they’re not able release the products they keep demoing to the general market.

EmergMemeHologram , (edited )

That has happened to me.

I’m currently running what was a team of three that all got fired and I got told to take over the whole thing alone.

Edit: they fired the whole team, then noticed they needed the output the team produced.

EmergMemeHologram ,

They’re nice dogs but I would never ever bring one into this world or super people who do.

I have family that foster dogs, they’ve had so many frenchies with severe back issues, or breathing issues, to the point the dog can’t do things like run around and enjoy themselves.

I just think we shouldn’t breed them anymore. They’re too good for the life we’re force them into for it own vanity.

EmergMemeHologram ,

I’ve heard of Pree Madonna but I don’t know what she’s famous for

Google's Chrome Browser Analyzing Your Browsing History with so-called "Privacy Sandbox" Feature

For nearly two years now, Google has been gradually rolling out a feature to all Chrome users that analyzes their browsing history within the browser itself. This feature aims to replace third-party cookies and individual tracking by categorizing you into an interest category and sharing that category with advertisers. It’s...

EmergMemeHologram ,

Honestly this is better than the old suit, but I still don’t want it.

What I would like: this is a webpage about cars, maybe the ads should be relevant to the content, instead of images of disgusting toenails that say “your doctor will eat your baby if you don’t read this”

EmergMemeHologram ,

*Gusto

EmergMemeHologram ,

Literally worse than Idiocracy.

EmergMemeHologram ,

Tldw for those of us who would rather read words?

EmergMemeHologram ,

Doesn’t this mean that Meta has ossified and the board no longer sees growth opportunities?

Send like bad news for investors long on growth and prospects of the meta verse.

EmergMemeHologram ,

6 months from now: “We didn’t sell it, we granted them a non revocable permanent license to be the exclusive producers of D&D content, but we still receive a royalty fee and have no control over it”

EmergMemeHologram ,

This makes me feel old. I had the biggest crush on this girl who was very into flight of the conchords when I was in school.

EmergMemeHologram ,

There’s a lot on it.

It’s not just girls in things standing in a hot tub flossing.

I don’t like the company, I don’t use the product. But it is what Facebook was in 2010.

EmergMemeHologram ,

I think 1 day blinding stew would work as well as a bittering agent. You think she’s going to forget blinding stew?

EmergMemeHologram ,

No porridge is not a soup.

You cook porridge by boiling off water until you hit the right amount of water absorbed into the cereal, and it not being soup or gruel like. The starchiness also plays a role in consistency.

Porridge does not use or create a broth, soup does.

Porridge is always cooked until there is no or little liquid left, you can’t have soup without liquid.

I am willing to entertain whether nothing that porridge can be a stew, but it is not a soup.

EmergMemeHologram ,

The teeth do grow back, but if you pull them before their natural schedule it takes a long time and can necessitate needing braces later.

EmergMemeHologram ,

Cereal grains, like oats, prepared as a porridge are a stew. Cereal and milk is soup.

EmergMemeHologram ,

Your parents didn’t give you blinding stew?

It’s not that bad. It doesn’t hurt, it’s scary at first but you adapt. It never made me want to get revenge on my parents, and I haven’t jaywalked since. I actually got it twice when I got suspended from school but the second time was baloney.

Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech (www.theregister.com)

Doctrow argues that nascent tech unionization (which we’re closer to having now than ever before) combined with bipartisan fear (and consequent regulation) either directly or via agencies like the FTC and FCC can help to curb Big Tech’s power, and the enshittification that it has wrought.

EmergMemeHologram ,

How about making bootstrapping businesses easier and providing preferable tax strategies floor small businesses? That would show down venture capital backed companies demanding a public offering and short term profit motives over sustainable businesses.

Or opening up platforms to drive increased competition?

Or providing sponsorship for open standards so users get more choice in the market instead of relying on entrenched large companies?

EmergMemeHologram ,

One time I shoved a crayon in the lock on one of these hoping class would be cancelled.

Instead we had to stand outside until the custodian showed up and fixed it.

EmergMemeHologram ,

I’ll go further, I stopped using Amazon entirely and I don’t miss it.

The junky shopping experience is especially clear once you leave and come back.

I only ever order books from amazon anymore, and usually only when I get a gift card or a product isn’t for sale elsewhere.

The prices aren’t even that good anymore.

EmergMemeHologram ,

Amazon takes 50% on average now

www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/…/445043

They’re only cutting fees in categories competing with Shein

businessinsider.com/amazon-reduced-seller-fees-to…

EmergMemeHologram ,

Costco can be worth it

EmergMemeHologram , (edited )

Amazon is bad at packaging books lately. I’d say 1/3 orders are damaged. My last one was both misprinted and the envelope was unsealed, so the book arrived bent, wet, and blurry.

EmergMemeHologram , (edited )

Most of the books I buy are reference books, that site actually has a decent stock, thanks!

EmergMemeHologram ,

Amazons average take is over 50%, so naturally it’s not cheap to sell on.

EmergMemeHologram ,

I toasted a croissant today and now I’m not sure what to call that

EmergMemeHologram ,
  1. gives weapon to group saying they’ll attack Americans 2 group users weapons to attack Americans 3 Americans are upset about the situation 4 don’t threaten me bro!
EmergMemeHologram ,

Oh, sorry

  1. All of history happens
EmergMemeHologram ,

I do not like where this thread went…

EmergMemeHologram ,

You’re forgetting over 20 years of rockets fired indiscriminately into Israel and the decades of border invasions and wars before that.

The history of that region is incredibly hostile and shitty going back before the British drew up the current border divisions. There’s no way you can look at one group and go “yeah these guys are unambiguously good”.

I feel for the Palestinian people, the current situation is beyond horrible or acceptable, but at the same time Hamas are fucking awful and you don’t kill and kidnap thousands of people and not have a fucking plan or idea that there will be retaliation to the fullest degree possible, especially with an aggressive country like Israel. It looks like their entire plan was to create a war and hope the world turns on Israel and bigger powers get pulled in.

Hamas also is a huge source of what’s happening now, they tried to use the rules of war to shield themselves, but like the boy who cried wolf, once you break the system people stop obeying the usual rules.

So here’s my opinion the topic. Hamas are scum and I don’t blame Israel for trying to eliminate them. I don’t agree with Israel’s tactics the last 20 years, and I don’t agree with Gaza’s either. I see no evidence that a non partitioned state would ever work, and as long as it’s a gray area countries that hate Israel will keep funnelling weapons to Hamas or whoever runs Gaza. Unless you can right 1000s of years of wrongs going back to the kingdom of Israel, I think the best you could ever hope for is a bitter quiet.

EmergMemeHologram ,

Just wait for the 23AndMe liquidation sale.

They’re financially fucked and your genome is going to get sold out to advertisers and life insurance companies.

EmergMemeHologram ,

That is horseahit

EmergMemeHologram ,

Oh my God, that’s awful!

I hope the US responds by installing more solar panels this year than China ever has!

EmergMemeHologram ,

See also: universal-ctags.

EmergMemeHologram ,

This is so much better than imagining the Pans Labyrinth eyeball hand thing

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