This is correct.

Well shit, I had no idea. Thank you!

Personally I love when Google Photos pulls together a cute album of my dog who had to be put down a few months back and hits me with that shit on a Monday morning.

Sututututu

They are suddenly everywhere in Australia, I can tell you that much.

Aloha.

You need to make the worst product that you’re still able to sell, and then make sure you sell it to the same people multiple times.

This is a lovely summary of modern capitalism. The carnival barkers would have you still believe that excellence rises to the top, but it doesn’t. What wins is the appearance of excellence, as a facade for the least effort possible, like you said.

Share markets created this perverse incentive that rewards businesses for appearing successful even if they produce fuck all. I’m thinking of Jack Welch era GE or today’s preeminent carbon credit trading firm, Tesla Motors.

It reminds me of the feedback loop engulfing the major LLMs as they consume more and more of their own content and start outputting lower and lower quality: the original goal of rewarding the best is long lost, replaced by making line go up at all costs.

Yes. European. It’s the norm.

I think we can all guess the country. I wish you all the best, wakkawakkawakka.

Back in the day (ow my back) carriers let you control how calls are diverted by dialling one of those * 123*12345# type numbers.

Man, fuck that coworker. I’m sorry that happened to you.

Kill James Bond is brilliant.

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Jesus. Straight to the top

Love this

Corollary: Prior planning and preparation prevents piss-poor performance.

✨✨Thanks! ✨✨

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

“Sports” Bluetooth buds so I can quickly take one or both out and not have to faff around with a case.

Repetition legitimizes