Sending human sounding emails and IMs at work isn't difficult. Just remember that single exclamation point so that you don't sound like you're droning on! Then add a professional closing sentence to round out your completely adequate professional message.
Zink
joined 2 years ago
Somebody should describe the insane hack to these youngins where you can make a collect call to your parents from a pay phone and tell them your name is "HEY COME PICK ME UP!"
It's like you can send information to somebody across town without having coins in your pocket!
What you have made there, sir, is a horrific copy and kill device!
impossible! I checked!
I was annoyed as a kid when I independently came up with the idea of a flying car then found out that the world beat me to it.
Ah yeah, the perfect gift for a little kid, something with non-deterministic behavior that they can't make do the same crap over and over, lol.
And yeah, the potential algorithm influenced flow of information into or out of the household is a big concern.
But the saddest thought for me is toys like these taking the place of parent-child interaction in some of the most significant relationships in our lives (for those of us who have kids). I think we mostly all know that we mostly all spend too much time zoning out in front of screens. But I have really broken myself from constant phone + games + TV this year, and it makes it all the more apparent in those around me. (note that I still use phone/games/TV often, but I spend much more time on other tasks and hobbies)
Yeah, even living in the US I'd say I am patriotic in that I want the best future we can manage for this fucked up place.
I love my wife and my child even more, but that doesn't mean I pretend they are without flaw and always correct. I would be remiss in my relationships and commitments if I did that, actually.
But I don't think I'll ever think or say "I am a patriot" because of exactly what you say. It sucks when awful people ruin innocent terms.
I watched the Steam Frame VR headset video of his, after not watching for a long time.
His voice was grating, sure, but the overall delivery was so much worse. He was like a cartoon character that couldn't decide if they were doing an advertisement or a school report.
Yep, this right here.
For me and my brain's secret blend of eleven herbs and neurospices, I am most content when my world is small but I am intensely focused on the people/pets/things in it.
So in the physical world, I work a lot on my house and yard to make it my family's happy enriching little oasis. We're involved in the community, especially the local elementary school, which is close enough to walk my kid to. (my middle aged american mind cannot comprehend this walkability witchcraft /s... but seriously I have to drive to every other destination))
On the internet, while I do still exist in the eyes of Meta and Google -- it may NOT surprise you to learn that Facebook is the center of the internet for my corner of white conservative suburbia, including for local official organizations -- I choose to only open Lemmy when I want to just BS and read opinions online.
USian here and I remember knowing about this for most of my life, but I never looked into its origins. I still haven't, and right now I don't care to.
But holy shit does it feel like racism must have played a role.
edit to add: I ALSO remember on and after the Jan 6 insurriot how it seemed like hundreds of those people should be going down for felony murder. Funny how that didn't happen.
It's already been pointed out how wrong and gross this is.
But for the sake of discussion let's give her the biggest possible benefit of the doubt.
So then the president of the united states was ONLY a human sex slave trafficker. Super.
unfortunately I think her handlers know that simply planting a seed of doubt will work on many in their audience.
Haha, you ran into the mechanically inclined adult version!