if you change the URL to “old.reddit.com” it’ll just give you the 18+ warning, you don’t need to log in

I see it so clearly 😞

by court order, the public loses access to the Internet Archive, and it is instead devoured legally by insatiable AI nonsense LLMs

…

judges and congresscritters cheer as Line Go Up and all vibes indicate China Bad Go Down

please, step away from the lathe

This is unfortunately widespread in my community. Kroger has had baggers under this program since at least the 90s – probably longer, but I was too young to notice – and many other chains and local businesses also participate. When I worked at Papa John’s 20 years ago, there was a guy who would come in a couple days a week, and they’d have him just fold boxes or something.

I have never seen any indication that anyone was being prepared for a better job. It is just an easy way for a corporation to pretend to give a shit while keeping labor costs down. I would be surprised if there aren’t additional tax breaks written into the program that allow them to write-off a couple admin jobs because they’re necessary for oversight of the workers they’re abusing, which makes it win-win-win for the company.

Since I returned from my visit, I have been trying to place my experiences there into a larger context. The reality on the ground is so devastating, and the future appears so bleak, that I have allowed myself to indulge in some counter-factual history and to entertain some hopeful speculations about a different future. I ask myself, what would have happened had the newly created state of Israel fulfilled its commitment to enact a constitution based on its Declaration of Independence? That same declaration which stated that Israel “will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations”.

this was a devastating read

yeah, it’s not working for me, either

I see a group of smokers, I think

❤️ my people!

That was interesting! It had never occurred to me to wonder why everything used to be beige, but I think those theories are pretty sound.

Man, it would be fun to fuck around with an Apple IIe again. We had one in my childhood home, and I loved putting in the games disk and typing “catalog” at the prompt to bring up the list of games.

looks like an Alienware fucked a Cybertruck

😑 my computer is in this picture and I don’t like it

maybe someone will innovate a tiny little device I can touch against one of these things and kill it

I’m gonna be real bloomer about this shit and take this as a “maybe the tide really is turning” moment

really really really want the last vestiges of public support for this genocide to be shamed out of existence

How did you find this information? I know how to check traffic for my website, but idk how to get from “list of IPs” to “these ones are crawlers”

apologies if this is a silly question

archive link

❤️

feel this a lot - haven’t been on discord in years for similar reasons

What the actual fuck

What is her breathing tube connected to?? The fucking ocean? The sky?

There’s just so much going on here and all of it is so very, deeply wrong

Edit: upon reflection, I’d rather see hundreds of fucked up pornographic AI images than even 5 more of these, these are just so incredibly fucked. The idea of a machine feeding on images of babies suffering and then spitting back up new babies suffering just really, really deeply bothers me.

I would have agreed, and then I found out OP has access to worse

here’s a “drowned” one, courtesy of some other poor unfortunate soul

my fucking eyes

a drowned baby holding a similar sign

I absolutely do not want a link, but unfortunately, I fucking need it to wrap my brain around this cursed sentence

please harm me with this link, I need to understand, and I recognize the cognitohazard

edit: found one in these very comments - it will definitely haunt my nightmares

I bet you’re going to do great, and I hope you’ll make a celebratory post to tell us about it!

It’s been just under 2 weeks since that thread, in which someone replied telling you that you should expect to wait weeks for a response because they were swamped.

I know that technically it has almost been weeks plural, but still, it seems a little premature to call that ghosting.

gog on magog

like corn on the cog

I’m not sure I understand, but I think I might, can someone please verify?

Would this be like today, when I needed to scan and enter receipts in the office, but the office is also my craft room which is currently covered in tools and whatnot for my automatic chicken door project, which makes it a very visually disruptive environment for boring tasks like entering receipts, so I feel like I need to finish the chicken door and clean the room before I enter receipts?

but I worked on my computer OS struggles instead because that somehow seemed less difficult than tidying and data entry

Did I shave an ox a yak today?

passed the Turing Test