That’s just par for the course, like with emails, slack messages etc, always assume they have access to everything.

I don’t get these companies that are trying to force AI down people’s throats.

I really like how mine is handling this. They gave us Gemini like 6 months ago, along with about a paragraph at most saying that we must stop using AI services from unvetted providers (GPT, etc) with company or customer data, because we needed to have legal agreements in place for that.

Nobody ever mentioned it again, at all. They probably provided us with that AI because we had people using all sorts of services and it was becoming a nightmare, so they signed some contract to cover data protection requirements and said “here, use this one if you must”.

Now it’s just there. There’s zero pressure to use it. Some Google guys wanted to come over to make some presentations, some people signed up for those but they were entirely optional.

You use it if you have a use case for it, or don’t, doesn’t matter. The only metrics are the one we’ve always had - deliver good work, on time. How you do that is up to you.

You guys still have hair?

Cat tax!

What about swimming pools?

Hey Siri, go to sleep.

I’ll take it with pride and with absolutely no guilt since you’re not spending your hard earned money on that particular cesspool.

This is an often overlooked aspect indeed. I’m amazed at how much people underestimate the impact that being dead has on one’s humour.

Delivery becomes impossibly hard. Having a working respiratory system and vocal tract is often expected by the audience, and typical physical humour becomes a stiff challenge.

“Resolving incongruity” is often a key component of humour, but the brain struggles to make sense of something that is out of place when it becomes completely electrically silent.

Gallows humours, hilariously ironic to the living, loses some of its impact when you become the literal subject of the joke.

After dying, our audience is notorious difficult to read, and don’t really offer laughter.

More importantly, humour carries a dopamine reward, which is greatly reduced to zero, which further disencentivizes it.

It’s rather grim, really.

That is indeed seductive.

Sensible, yes.

But this is alien tech in windows land, if you’re reading some device status or something, you need a special app for that.

Green dicks with chickenpox.

There’s also smooth ones if you hate the texture that much.

Or for a different, more velvet-y feel, you could go with courgettes?

If this isn’t hitting the spot, there’s always eggplants, and if you’re feeling crazy, there’s a whole universe of pumpkins and squashes for the brave to explore.

Upper management doesn’t excel at decision making, they excel at convincing others they make good decisions.

Ahahah I experienced only the media narrative, and it did play out exactly as you described it.

Of course now it comes to reason that many people were actively working to fix the problem, but they never really explained that part on TV.

Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.

Paimon? So the cute fluffy sidekick in Genshin is one of the princes of hell?

Hugs! 🤗

Ok but that’s just evil.

They painted it at a T junction, you can see there’s a road coming from the opposite direction, and at night, anybody who’s not local could have fallen for that and just assumed it was normal crossroads.

There’s also barely, if any, sidewalk in front of the painting, that could at least have alerted the driver.

It’s pure luck that the guy wasn’t driving fast, or there’d be dead bodies because of this stupid prank. This needs jail time, even if suspended.

This is 100% the reason for the documentary in the first place. Quote from the director:

My dream would be that when people watch it, they take flat Eartherism as an analogy to something they believe in, because it’s so easy to demonize another group or another person for something they think but you’re kind of just as guilty if you do that.

These are humans, people that are missing something in their lives, and this community and their “secret knowledge” grants them that.

I see the SovCit movement as exactly the same thing, but when one digs deep enough, maybe one finds the same in the fanatical MAGA crowds, and in the most fervent religious people, and it’s not a coincidence that there’s an overlap in membership between these groups…

The answer is, and always has been, unions and strikes.

Do your part.