Still… I expect hurricanes in Florida, not in Tennessee.
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TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•New survey suggests the vast majority of iPhone and Samsung Galaxy users find AI useless – and I’m not surprisedEnglish4·2 months agoThey’re kinda like the S-Pen… is it cool? Sure! Do I find myself using it? No, not really.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto RetroGaming@lemmy.world•The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games?English4·2 months agoI really loved the “Anchor Man” DVD menu. Solid graphics, great playthrough, simple controls.
And turns out… he can get away with everything.
I mean… yeah, probably.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Democrats finally sue Trump for trying to control elections3·2 months agoWell, Senators Manchin and Sinema made sure nothing got done through then… which, when you realize Biden was in charge of the DNC during his administration… it’s a whole “they didn’t whip their legislators well enough” situation. Democrats are nearly world renowned for failing at that.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Democrats finally sue Trump for trying to control elections4·2 months agoFilibuster only works against certain legislative pushes… usually only stuff that needs 60 votes (instead of a simple majority) in the Senate.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers.1·2 months agoI mean, like the OP said, unless it’s a worker owned co-op or, at the very least, a small mom-n-pop that treats their workers fairly.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers.16·2 months agoOne time at a TV station I worked for, the manager of our marketing department decided that three $90k pieces of robotic studio camera equipment were actually fun toys with which he could (without training) just mess around. I came into the studio that day to find two of my fellow production department coworkers trying desperately to wrangle the situation. At one point, the manager nearly crashed two of these robots into one another and my co-worker threw himself onto the emergency stop switch halting the imminent collision and, potentially, tens of thousands of dollars of damage.
Knowing we had work to do with these units shortly and having been trained on how to reset everything after an emergency shutdown, I turned to the manager at the control panel. Y’all, as the words “wait let me help you reset it” were coming out of my mouth he shouted directly in my face “I said I fucking got it!” So… I threw up my hands and walked to the break room, which was across the hallway from the chief engineer’s office. About two minutes later the marketing manager walked into the chief engineer’s office saying “hey [chief engineer], we’re having a problem with the studio robotics, can you come take a look?”
My coworkers told me that, the moment the door closed behind me, the manager turned back to the robotic controller and said “I don’t think I’ve got this.” An hour later, the GM sent out an email announcing basically “union shop rules” for the incredibly expensive robotic equipment… essentially: if you’re not trained on them, don’t touch and we weren’t training anyone else. Come to find out that when my coworkers explained what happened to the chief engineer (who had fought corporate bean counters for nearly five years to get us these robotic units), he had apparently chewed the marketing manager out to the point of causing an HR situation and nearly succeeded in getting the idiot fired.
Since then, every time I realize that I am doing something that will make the company more money or even just save them money, I always think back to that moment of “I said I’ve fucking got it” and stop what I’m doing. I’ll do a ton of extra work to make my job and my coworkers’ jobs easier long term, but I am NEVER going to intentionally contribute to making any place at which I work run more profitably. It’s just not worth it.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•The Tesla takedown has begun. A national protest movement seeks to strike a blow to Elon Musk’s net worth2·2 months agoLouisianan here… I’m working on my French language skills… if y’all want to invade and take it back, not gonna lie we’ve got some problems (red state).
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•The Tesla takedown has begun. A national protest movement seeks to strike a blow to Elon Musk’s net worth3·2 months agoRight, the best time was yesterday. Today is the second best time but it’s better than nothing.
Gigastructural Engineering for Stellaris… the megastructures included in the game and DLC are great, but they lack a certain insanity. Plus the mod allows you to terraform any planet (even gas giants).
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•What 5 Megabytes of Computer Data Looked Like in 1966 ~ Vintage EverydayEnglish1·3 months agoAll your need to do is drop in one card randomly with all the holes punched out to screw up those things… there was a name for doing that to be a dick but I forgot and am drunk right now so I don’t feel like looking it up.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Joe Rogan dethroned by anti-Trump podcast in the charts2·3 months agoEffing preach!!!
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Joe Rogan dethroned by anti-Trump podcast in the charts21·3 months agoYep. It’s been a whole thing on the YouTube political drama channels and in like Dem Leaning progressive spaces.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Joe Rogan dethroned by anti-Trump podcast in the charts3·3 months agoWelcome to Polymarket Studios!
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TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Joe Rogan dethroned by anti-Trump podcast in the charts7·3 months agoI wish I was kidding… here’s Cenk being given a (mostly) kid gloves “debate” with Francesca. She’s since left TYT over Cenk’s embrace of MAGA and Anna’s embrace of TERF talking points.
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Joe Rogan dethroned by anti-Trump podcast in the charts262·3 months agoSad to say, but it’s likely some of this bump they’re getting is TYT listeners/viewers leaving after Cenk and Anna’s latest spar with literally everyone near their orbit (and even losing some contributors). Many -oh so many- disaffected MSNBC viewers turned to non-traditional media after 2016, I cannot imagine how many might be leaving for more actually progressive sources after the recent election… but TYT has fumbled the bag here by both attacking other progressives AND doing shit like Charlie Kirk “debates” and interviews with Tucker Carlson.
I really hope they turn the ship around, because going after MAGA die hards isn’t the answer. At any rate, Majority Report seems to be doing just fine so there’s that.
I think it’ll be more of an Enron slash Theranos docudrama… questionable accounting and overvaluation mixed with a superstar CEO stuck in a faking-it-till-you-make-it corporate death loop with investors drunk on hype.