what is up with American stores manning the shops at bare minimum?

It all comes back to money > humans in this fucked up country.

The business leaders don’t care about their customers. They will sell out the people they depend on if it makes the numbers 1% better. And then COVID taught them how they could make things even worse.

But then the rest of the people don’t have enough respect for the employees, other customers, or themselves to demand better.

Oh yeah no disagreement there. The way that social media of all types democratizes content creation and celebrity status is great.

For me personally, the YouTube model is great where individuals can basically produce their own TV show or documentaries. But all the other big corporate social media services are meh in comparison. When it comes to interaction rather than consuming, that’s when I love Lemmy.

That is sounding more and more like a benefit to me. Social media that functions as social media for humans and not just another giant corporate surveillance and marketing machine wearing a fun app costume.

machines capable of scanning the entirety of human art so that it can create a reasonable imitation based off the source material its consumed

I am counting the days until we see a tech giant’s legal team argue that this is how human artists work, and that the AIs must therefore be people with rights just like their corporate parents.

I would say I hate putting this idea out into the universe, but you know plenty of those ghouls are way ahead of me.

Sometimes I wonder how much better the world could be if I had the power to snap my fingers and everybody on the planet knows that confirmation bias exists and it’s a big deal.

people who repeatedly ruin companies

You mean those bold leaders who have the rare ability to take risks* and make the tough decisions**?

• Risking their “number go up” fun money, not their actual lifestyle, or health, or home, or food supply, etc. Or just risking other people’s assets much of the time.

** The decisions that will hurt people they don’t care about and won’t have to deal with, in order to hopefully make their “number go up” score improve.

The updoot-to-text ratio is off the charts with this comment, lol.

Yeah, that’s kinda what led to my comment. I was looking at it thinking how overtly fucked it all was.

I don’t think I’ve seen the old hard-R written out in quite some time. Let nobody say Musk and his indentured servant team have never accomplished anything. They just accomplish the bad things.

Fortunately we only have one tiny nonstick pan that she uses for occasional eggs. And I’m the only one that uses the carbon steel wok or occasionally cast iron.

For everything else, stainless steel with an internal aluminum layer, and a nice black circle in the center of the pans, haha.

I mean when there’s a fun little joke to be made, and I can post emoji-only rather than the usual text-only and my fellow nerds will like it, AND we’re in nottheonion which I didn’t notice until afterwards, how can I resist?

I use our instant pot pressure cooker to make rice, and it’s stainless inside.

I’m not suggesting it matches an actual Japanese rice cooker, but I think the results are pretty good.

Spoken like somebody who did not marry a person that is even more careless and ADHD than themselves, lol.

🧅 🧅 🫡

I agree completely. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the racist rapist traitor felon just won the popular freaking vote in the country the site is based in.

So even though I deleted my account a long time ago and so did half the people here, the idea of not using xitter because it’s run by a nazi hasn’t even entered into most people’s minds to be considered in the first place.

Potato skins loaded with cheese and bacon? -> App

Tfw you distrust the scientific establishment

While selling high tech products that depend on decades of scientific advancement to even make them possible.

Hell yeah, that sounds like the way to do it. I’m much the same way, being a decade younger and having a kid that will be 18 in a decade. If you are able, why not make your own home into your favorite place to be?

I don’t have mountains to look at but I built a koi pond in the back yard. There are a lot of birds in the trees out there, plus we have a bunch of other pets of our own. Just chilling and observing natural beauty and being in that moment can be so nice.

Well thank goodness they have that ß character to help keep their street names so efficient.

Yeah, when my Lemmy server goes down I don’t want it to be because of a large scale cyber attack, I want it to be because some dude’s dog got the zoomies in the basement and tripped on a cable.