Another insane thing is that emergency personnel get paid pennies as well. I have a friend who used to work as an EMT in Boston (~2021), and he was paid $15/hr.

My partner does this already. The number of times I’ve found “tush squish” is… I’ve lost track.

I got him back by adding chicken hats to his online cart.

One of my workplaces likes fantasy football, so I’ve learned to play for free beer, however, this sounds wayyyy better.

Reagan was the worst. He should have saved his trickle down nonsense for the throat-goat.

WTF Wyoming? Animal cruelty should be illegal in all forms. Vehicles are for transport, not mowing down the wildlife. If you have a wolf population problem, there are better ways of handling it.

Definitely not as bad as some of the others mentioned here, but when I was 18 a slightly older coworker who had a crush on me for a while asked me out. I said yes because I didn’t really know how to say no at the time. I wasn’t physically attracted to him, but he was a really nice guy and I didn’t see the harm in giving him a chance.

We’d already worked together for about a year then, so he knew a few things about my interests. He wanted to plan the whole thing and surprise me with where we’d go. We agreed for him to pick me up from my house at noon. I thought, “great, lunch date”; they’re pretty chill/non-intimate.

So the day comes, he picks me up and we start driving. He tells me he’s taking me to the natural history museum. In DC. Over an hour away. Far for a first date, but I love that museum so I go along with it.

We get there, wander around, chat, and after a couple hours walk out onto the national mall to some random food truck, grabbing a nearby bench to people watch while we ate. I wasn’t feeling a connection, however, was patient and respectful, after all, we had a good enough time so far, and he put effort into planning this.

Now, normally, after the meal/activity is complete this is when a day date starts to come to a natural end. At this point it’s past 4pm, so I suggest we head to the car, thinking to myself that it’s a long drive back. Surprise! He tells me he got us two tickets for DC United that evening. Not a huge sports watching fan, I didn’t know how to react. Being young, inexperienced, and afraid to upset him I feigned excitement.

He drove us to the stadium, parked, then got out to get something from his trunk. Another surprise! A cooler of Smirnoff ice. After the weirdest tailgate we go into the stadium, watch the game, get hotdogs, and the whole time I’m dreading what other surprises he has in store. He seemed so normal before.

Luckily, after the game he finally took me home. I don’t remember what time it was, probably around 9pm, I just remember feeling relief at the sight of my front door. He tried to kiss me when dropping me off, but I managed to avoid any physical interaction. Looking back, it was the weirdest, cringiest date, and the main reason I always drove myself to dates from then on.

All of Google’s products have been getting progressively worse under their current CEO. He’s the direct driver of their enshitification. I have had Google home speakers since they were released, along with a few other of their “smart” products; every single one of them has declined in performance. They get confused, don’t respond, can’t connect, give the totally wrong answer, glitch out, etc.

I used to be able to run my roomba by voice command without any problems. Nowadays half the time Google responds to the command, confirms it is doing the command, and then does nothing. Last night I used it to turn off the tv, which it did, but then it spontaneously turned back on after 5 seconds.

CEO/MBA malakas are (one of the reasons) why we can’t have nice things.

I’ll admit I didn’t read the article, but if $63k was the sum total of all bribes, and they chose to kill themselves rather than face punishment, then it’s really telling of the prison system.

This is exactly what I was looking for. My day just got infinitely better.

Agreed. This guy’s a PoS.

Well then in that case you should know how this technology works, how it’s widely used, and what it’s good for. Instead you’re just a sad, angry boomer who is mad at the world.

Btw I am a physicist, I don’t need to lie.

I’m a theoretical physicist. Think I know what I’m doing, but you go ahead and keep arguing with everyone. There’s nothing wrong with using tools.

Man, look at this guy all salty that ChatGPT writes a better paper than him. Do you yell at calculators too?

Exactly. Watch the time lapse. We were just doing our pixel art of our favorite Stardew things but you just HAD to ruin it. We made sure not to touch any of our neighbors. Go ahead, watch; no one touched your art until you all changed ours.

We didn’t touch your cow until you started changing our artwork from the colors intended by the game creator. One of you kept removing the butter slice off our pancakes and ruined the sign. No one cared about your section until you started policing and messing with ours, even on the opposite side of the canvas.

I state again: leave it to the vegans to ruin a good thing.

Leave it to the vegans to ruin a good thing…