We actually just get paper bags and reuse them for our recycling items. The paper bag goes into the recycling bin with the rest of the paper.

I actually don’t care if recycling takes more energy. We should save plastics for where they can be best used, and that’s not a one-shot trip to the landfill

If plastic is so efficient, why wouldn’t we make reusable bags out of it instead of cotton? Why is the argument to waste it?

We aren’t getting more oil.

Probably due to my age, I religiously close every tab after I read it. If that gets more than a dozen, I literally quit the browser and declare bankruptcy because it’s not worth it to sort through the mess of tabs I clearly am not using.

Firefox is old too. I’m sure it could manage memory better, but couldn’t we all? If you have tabs in GC and using CPU when you aren’t using them, kill them maybe? What else is that tab doing all day when you aren’t looking?

I’ve never understood why people keep so many tabs open and why they’ll literally switch to an entirely different browser platform rather than change a bad habit

I thought that was obvious but here you are, since you need that spelled out. Goodreads is owned by Amazon. Overdrive is for public libraries everywhere, so the choice of which is better should be pretty clear as well

Personally I don’t watch enough YouTube to bother with that. I pretty much just close the app if they force me to watch more than 5s of an ad.

Most of my watching is plex and appleTV. The appleTV device has a better privacy policy than most and zero ads on the launcher

Unless you are trying to pass through lossless audio the AppleTV 4k is one of the best streamers you can buy right now

The general populace sees mostly the creative’s view. The results are poor and it comes at the expense of ripping off IP and providing bad copies of it.

The pervasive argument right now doesn’t view LLMs as a tool that have more or less eliminated entire segments of knowledge workers, who had already been offshored and are now basically redundant. Every mid level programmer who copied and pasted stack overflow snippets all the way down to support techs are done.

Humor goes against what we expect. A punchline works because you don’t see it coming. It’s not funny if you’ve heard that one before.

LLMs are, by design, going to be shitty comedians. They don’t have unique perspectives and their own voice

You can always say “oh well these judges don’t have the experience to catch this type of AI.

The fact that you have to insert this qualifier, to ensure you always have a way to discredit the test, pretty much shows to me that we’re beyond it.

If you look at a graph of the world population it’s seems clear to me that freely available common resources are just going to continue to get overused and ruined as we continue to add people to the equation

They can say anything they want. They hold all the power. This will never change until enough people take matters into their own hands, as the system has been compromised.

As a society we either loudly reject this or we tacitly accept it

If Snowden wasn’t enough to cause heads to roll with a generation outrage then flock is small beans in comparison and we are stuck with it

When the culture demands you spend every evening in the office, the actual work output is often secondary to the theatrics. Look at how crazy we are. Can you believe we have a kegerator?

All the shenanigans also means nobody is productive or even present until well after noon the next day. But nobody bothers asking what the point of all that was in the context of getting shit done because ultimately you just have to be one of the bros.

It’s frat culture with someone else’s money.

I would expect a layoff with the same level of care as onboarding. If that’s done 900 people at a time over Zoom, cool. We all know we’re part of a herd.

It just sucks and is completely unnecessary to treat people like garbage on their way out if you have a company culture that otherwise treats people well.

It feels similar to how CA environmental regs become the national standard simply because the market is so large it’s not worth splitting on it. So they just slap a cancer warning on everything

This is literally the bad genie / monkey’s paw plot.

Give a powerful entity a goal and act shocked when it gets there in ways that aren’t in your best interest.