Crybaby fascist Republicans: "Cake shops shouldn't have to do business with people they don't like!!!"
Also crybaby fascist Republicans: "Disney should have to do business with me no matter what I say or do!!!"
I can't wait to see Disney counter-sue these fuckers for this ridiculousness.
Non-wankers, in fact.
There’s no new jobs for horses after the combustion engine was invented to do physical labor
Bingo. And this time we're the horses.
I doubt that stores will only have one employee
It's already here, my dude. Not every store, but some are doing this now. It's just a question of how fast it will spread.
IT guy here, I am not that worried about AI
That's pretty much because you're an IT guy. You're in an industry that AI won't replace any time soon.
If you were a cashier, or a stock clerk, or a busboy, you should be terrified by AI. The speed at which those jobs are already vanishing is astounding. The other day I was at a restaurant, and I never interacted with a human. The ordering was done by touch panel at my table, the food was delivered to the table by a robot and I paid at an automated terminal. I don't know how many staff were on duty but it had to be a fraction of what it would have been a decade ago. I bought clothes last week and there was one employee in the store, overseeing the self-checkout lanes (but really just sitting idly by in case anyone had issues). I read an article yesterday about how robots are now being distributed to convenience stores that can clean, stock, and reorder items, so these shops will pretty soon have only one employee in them.
The gimmicky shit that your browser AI and chatbots can do is nothing compared to how this is already revolutionizing the world.
Yeah that jumped out at me too. What a privileged bunch of crap to spew.
Our brains are instead programmed to focus on our immediate needs.
Yes, we are "programmed" to buy things that we need to live, like food, shelter, and medicine. I'm pretty sure most people would save if they fucking could. You'd think that "a certified financial planner and expert in financial psychology and behavioral finance" could come up with something a bit better than another avocado-toast-like victim blaming.
Those were the really fun days of the internet.
When surfing the web was actually an adventure and you'd actually discover things.
Not that I could ever go back to dial up speeds, but damn those days were fun.
It's not a dick DM move as much as a lazy move. But it might feel like a dick DM move to some of them.
If the idea is to make them weaker, give them a long-lasting debuff rather than removing levels. 50% HP, -4 to attack rolls, etc. Removing levels requires a lot of work on the player's part, and feels like it takes the game backwards rather than forwards. Giving them a debuff that they have to work to restore, on the other hand, feels like there's a path forward to advance towards.
And Burger King is even cheaper.
It baffles my mind that people would pay $18 USD for that shit. I visited the US last year and while prices in general had definitely gone up since the last time I was there, there is absolutely no justification to pay $18 for McDonald's. It's crazy.