My local Wendy’s put a chatbot in their drive through last year then I never saw anyone in the drive through anymore, that wendys is a local sandwich shop now.

I'm wondering who I confused her with then

isn't she also a rabid Trumper too?

if the shoe fits, fall down the stairs in it I guess

fuckin crying laughing at this shit

the only job this tech is replacing is the little old lady in the Help I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up commercial

Favorite part of this is that those big blue lines are covering wires in a very visible way so nobody trips on them.

I love how they were RIGHT THERE with the stretcher as if someone knew this might be an outcome.

exactly!

I still have like 400+ CDs and 300+ DVDs and I'm still buying them, because every time I turn around some streaming platform dickhead with an MBA rugpulls my shit for a .0000001% bump in the company stock

fuck these petty little rentiers, they can choke on it

the fact that anybody still posts shit on FB anymore is hilarious to me

the master's tools, by their very design, will never dismantle the master's house

pretending otherwise is just willful laziness and the inability to actually change a thing

Mariners reporter perfectly responds to criticism for using AI: 'Always learning' Angie Mentink -- who suffered a stroke earlier this year -- responded to trolls who called her out for using AI at a Mariners game.

If you want to know what a coordinated propaganda campaign bankrolled by powerful interests looks like in practice,a version of this story calling the reporter's response "perfect" for doubling down has appeared in basically every sports pub today, guess why

ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Yeah once you decide to break your dependence on big tech, going to some combination of niche open source projects and old dedicated use stuff is basically the only way forward.

they don't learn, either

none of em saw the mass exodus from twitter for the sign it was, these Goliaths keep turning the screws while all the little Davids are welcoming their ex-customers in droves

Bsky/Mastadon, Linux, Ellipsus, Proton, Tidal/Deezer/Bandcamp, Bookshop, are all surging

all it will take is one Really Good Catholic at the right place and time to do it right

the platform's full name is mastodonathan

"Inconvenience" lol

the word you're avoiding here is OWNERSHIP

people are sick and fuckin tired of having to pay access fees instead of just buying shit once & moving on with it as their personal property

it's why Disney won't release shit on dvd anymore & makes you pay to stream everything now

lol, you could've just *asked* people instead of writing a wholeass essay circling the answer but refusing to see it or say it out loud

we're sick of tech companies, period

we wanna buy shit ONCE, not pay RENT on it in perpetuity

there, I just journalismed for you where's my paycheck

It's easy to answer.

Do any of these need a subscription?

Do they still work when there are internet issues, or no internet at all?

There you go.

enshittification, there. One word to replace your entire article

Because the "buy" button was really a rental. Because the fancy internet of things device got bricked because the company went out of business or did forced obsolescence. Because everything is a pay forever subscription.
We buy but own nothing.

We're sick of paying to be left holding an empty bag.

I want to own the music I buy. I don't want it to be stored somewhere in the cloud, where it might be available when I want to listen to it, unless it got removed from the library randomly. I don't want to pay a subscription fee. I just want to own the music I buy.

I find having my perfectly good music player or e-reader bricked by a tech company that wants me to upgrade WAY more inconvenient than flipping records.
I’ve never had every piece of physical music stolen by the people I bought it from. But tech companies love wiping out their customer libraries.

Something I don't think we talk about enough is that it's not clear at all that JD Vance is actually good at anything, or even mid at anything, save for licking the boots of billionaires and being an all-around vile shithead.

JD Vance is taking being juiceless to entirely new levels

I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.

No matter how stupid and evil you think the MAGA chuds running the government are, I promise you: the truth is so much more stupid and evil.

The drummer from Primus in the "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" music video

Dang, and I really liked his work in the Primus video

that one earned ya a follow

Angery at mister met face

I never knew this meme comic face was based on a real guy

Not even Staten Island energy. That man has angry white boy Rockland County energy.