I am live.
Remove the word AI from the meme and you will have people in the comment section totally in support of self-checkout and self-driving trains.
The reality of the situation is that you do want these things because they’re very popular you’re just painting it with the word AI making it unfavorable on this particular platform.
What other nonsense.
Japan has some of the worst copyright and fair use laws in the world.
Satire is often times considered copy right infringing.
You know there was another person who made up wacky names for his political rivals. So cringe.
Now that’s some 1939 Gestapo crap if I’ve ever seen it.
Lol. Guys come on. It’s the first thing everyone would do.
The lack of depth of field is breaking my brain!
WW2. It really was the greatest generation full of amazing and terrible people. Winston Churchill story alone is breathtaking let alone all the smaller stories and experience of all people who played a roll large or small.
Lol. Crunchy roll was always crap. Watching anime in the raw is torture.
The Lemmy world news sub is a trans rights echo chamber.
I fully support trans rights and hate the rhetoric against them. People should be allowed to live their lives the way they feel comfortable within reason and law.
But Jesus. I blocked world news when I got into it with an mod who said I’m a transphobe when I brought up a trans issue. Sighted that I had multiple downvoted comments as a slight against me.
If you can’t listen to criticism get off the internet.
Kid saw an opportunity and they took it.
I work for a large home appliance warranty company. Many of you in the States probably have one, they are very popular.
My boss just had a meeting with them, and the only thing they care about is five star reviews. That is it. How many we get, how high the average looks.
Here is the problem: nobody is going to pat me on the head and say “good job” because I fixed their dryer. That is just the basic function of my job. You do not leave reviews for the Kroger checkout lady just because she scanned your produce correctly. On the other hand, if I mess up even a little, I get slammed with a one star.
I service seven orders a day, five days a week, plus six on Saturday. Statistically, that means at least one job a day is going to turn into a one star review, not because I did something wrong, but because someone is unhappy for some reason. And the truth is, people rarely go out of their way to leave a five star review, but they will absolutely make time to leave a one star.
The home warranty company does not care about that reality. If our average rating drops below 4.0, we get significantly less work. The higher ups do not deal with customers or field service, all they see are the numbers on a spreadsheet. From their perspective, the companies with the most five stars get the most jobs, period.
Bottom line the five star rating means absolutely nothing it’s not a measure or metric for anything it’s completely false.
I often have this discussion about DEI on this platform, and someone always responds with, “That’s not how it’s supposed to work.” And you’re right, but what happens in practice and what happens on paper are two completely separate things.
The bottom line is that these lower to mid level employees are given a list of criteria and very little training in DEI itself. They’re then required to fill these slots so it looks like the company is making progress, when in reality it’s very likely they’re hiring someone underqualified.
It’s true that many companies implementing DEI have seen an increase in profit margins, but I think that’s happening because DEI pushes back against nepotism—which, in my opinion, is significantly worse than hiring someone who may be slightly underqualified.
Two primary issues with Samsung refrigerators:
On the French door models, the drainage system for the ice maker is poorly designed. Instead of water draining down into the pan underneath the refrigerator to evaporate, it backs up into the ice maker compartment. This causes a heavy buildup of ice. Eventually, the ice can get so bad inside the compartment that it prevents the refrigerator section from cooling properly.
On almost all Samsung refrigerators, the drain holes for the freezer evaporator coil are too narrow. This leads to water and ice backing up into the freezer, creating widespread issues across the unit.
As a result, these refrigerators break down frequently. More than 50% of our work orders are Samsung ice maker problems. The root cause of these service calls is simply poor engineering and design deficiencies by the manufacturer.
The easiest thing in the world is not to connect your fridge to the internet.
Also don’t buy Samsung refrigerators they are truly truly horrific.
I’m an appliance repairman.
My friend, who works as a license renewal and hiring manager at a large tech security firm, once shared something interesting with me. He said that when hiring under his company’s DEI standards, he sometimes had to bring on someone who wasn’t the strongest candidate for the role. The goal was to meet diversity requirements, but the tradeoff was that it occasionally meant hiring someone less qualified.
According to him, if a hire brought in under those standards didn’t perform well, it could be harder for the company to let that person go. The emphasis on maintaining diversity created extra pressure to hold on, even when performance wasn’t where it needed to be. That situation, understandably, can affect the rest of the team.
Personally, I don’t have anything against DEI. In fact, I think it helps reduce nepotism, which is a positive. But I also don’t think DEI always works out the way people imagine it will. Like many policies, it has both benefits and downsides.
The reason I bring this up is because I think it’s a slippery slope when governments start drawing hard lines about who can and cannot be fired. At the end of the day, what tends to matter most is whether someone makes the company money.
Take my friend as an example again: he’s only required to bring in $250,000 each quarter, but he actually brings in around $4 million. Because of that, he has survived multiple layoffs and has even been moved to different departments, simply because his performance makes him too valuable to lose.
Volkswagen is so bad at this! They have phone connectivity but they bog down the infotainment with they’re own crap software. The GPS is so bad it slowes down the whole system. I will never use vw maps. Ever. Just stop!
And Chevy just doesn’t have android auto on or apple play on their lower trim levels. But they do compensate by integrating Google maps at least.
Kia is the best though. Minimal proprietary software. Plug your phone in and android auto automatically comes up.
It is kinda insane. Dude. I’ve seen billboards for the guy in my home town.
Christ on a stick. I feel like I need a shower.
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Why would I or anyone outside of his family and friends mourn him at all? He was a political pundent… A talking head.
Well I personally feel safer.
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