We don’t need technology invading absolutely every aspect of our lives.

Calling each other is technology. It’s simply a technology you’ve normalized

Yes, clearly the solution is to make her change her behavior. Needing your SO to change themselves is definitely a sign of a healthy relationship.

There should also be enough trust for either side to never use it except for emergencies.

I’ve been online before the internet existed

What does this statement mean to you?

Sounds like you were involved with the tail end of Usenet but I wasn’t referring to Usenet.

Incel didn’t become what means today until sometime after 2000 when 4chan and Reddit arrived on the scene. That was the beginning of the end of the period I am talking about.

You seem to be taking my comment as an attack or rebuttal on what you’re saying by cherry picking a specific phrase. It’s weird and reactionary.

My comment is attempting to expand on what you’re are saying by pointing out that those are examples of a problem that is systemic. I am expanding upon the layers involved.

It’s not just Little Caesar bad, it’s also their thousand franchises. It’s a massive problem to keep in check a business model that attracts rent seekers.

At this point the assumption must be that all franchises are committing wage theft and exploiting child labor.

As far as I’m concerned, the only acceptable response is to end the corporate entities that engage in this behavior and criminally charge everyone in the chain. This includes the overseer corporations, if they can control the pepperonis involved in the product they can sure as hell control the treatment of the humans involved.

Yep. Not my first experience with it here or elsewhere.

I miss the internet that existed before smart phones because of the intellectual dilution they allowed.

Kids today have no idea what it’s like to be in an internet discussion that is majority phds and having to up your game to participate.

The vast majority of commenters today would be dismissed as trolls; that bar has disappeared.

At what point did I say it did?

Franchising makes is all the worse because the corporate brand can claim ignorance.

The problem occurs so often that it’s clear that the brand is culpable at the societal level… If the brands actually cared, this sort of shit would end their franchise. Since the legal system won’t fix it, we need to step up and say, “no more” and boycott all franchises.

These are franchise run stores, not corporate run stores. This sort of behavior exists across all fast food franchises.

Every fast food place I’ve ever worked, the owners are trash. They dont work in their own stores except for extreme circumstances. They pay the lowest possible wages and churn through workers all so they can become millionaires. Their personalities were all so toxic that the actual workers prefer them not to be around.

Just one a thousand reasons to only dine at locally owned businesses where the owner is literally working alongside happy staff everyday.

It’s also just another flavor of chromium so it still helps Google maintain their monopoly.

Anyone trying to de-google needs to be using Firefox.

America uses lawsuits because there is no legal system around workers rights. Best we can do is sue for damages and hope there is something left over after lawyer fees.

Scapegoat implies he wasn’t also a pedophile.

With the tax being $8.04, the order is not that small.

Pizza delivery has been popular for several decades. Pizza is cheap but they made the numbers work. It’s actually weird that it was just pizza until recently.

The cost is middlemen needing to get their cut. Half the cost here is them getting their cut. $15 to use an app one time is what is unsustainable here.

My understanding on this is that Apple is expanding existing contracts. Some involve doubling billion dollar contracts which adds up faster than this deal.

One of the things they announced when they made the original pledge was 20k for new high income jobs which is easily billions per year in salaries. Plus this requires expanding their various campuses because they do not allow work from home, so several more billion there.

These tech companies are massive so expanding their existing footprints adds up very quickly. Other mega tech corps like Meta and Google are increase spending by tens of billions just on AI expansion, however they haven’t pledge that be specific to the US.

Fingerprint readers require touching a specific spot with a specific digit.

Face recognition only requires the user be looking at the device.

The bigger argument is fingerprint readers can be more secure.

I personally would prefer a device that does both simultaneously for secure requests like accessing credentials.

That’s not what I said.

I can’t say I’m surprised how adamantly people want to play the disability card. Life’s hard. My family is full of people with adhd and the ones that lean into it are all doing very very poorly. Those of us that have worked out coping mechanisms have all increased our socioeconomic position.

It’s your life. Do with it what you want.

This sort of thinking isn’t unique to ADHD. For example, there are also Little people who refuse to see themselves as disabled.

That doesn’t mean those who choose to see themselves are disabled are wrong but anyone who demands someone see themselves as disabled is not only wrong, they’re also an asshole.

Life is all about coping. Feeling like your neurological differences makes you weak is one way to cope but not for me.

A village.

Not my village.

Silly poors.

Good alternative, not fantasy.

I’ve worked at a company that used both. One for development the other for support tickets.

The idea that people would use ServiceNow for development tasks is scary.