They attempted to stop the truck after realizing the error, but the truck didnt respond.

How much does it cost though?

Maybe an allegory to your waking life?

This is hell, but I cant be bothered to take the stairs…I guess I’ll manage.

What’d you call me?

Possible, but not practical

Imagine a shitty robot was just made available for free.

The shitty robot replaces you at work. It performs way faster with worse results, but the company hires a robot “expert” that fixes the results just enough that the product appears to be working. (Its not). You are now starving.

The shitty robot tells your kids that porn is a viable career path. And that they should kill themselves.

The shitty robot starts showing up everywhere, in advertising, TV shows, customer support lines, schools.

The shitty robot makes shitty art really fast, which people can sell or use how they want. Artists are now starving.

Imagine the shitty robot is now interviewing you for your next job.

Try 3 years

A seedbox

What?!

Aw hell naw!

Buy Nothing Project

Their app kinda sucks since the recent update (probably vibe coded) but its exactly this. You can give things away for free, or ask things for free. Its humble.

If you feel like you need a drink, no you don’t.

But what does it sound like?

“How do we pay artists”

What if we didn’t pay anyone? What if farmers gave crops to cooks, who cooked for the people, some of those people are artists or authors, who create art for the people. Some of the people are musicians or singers or performers who entertain the people. Some of the people are builders and lumberjacks who build shelters for the people.

I think this could scale. A government could oversee production and create jobs where needed, such as being able to have factories that produce phones that only come with what you want or need, none of the bloat or adware we get now. No new version every year, or if they do, they can pass down older versions to next generations, and recycle the oldest or broken phones.

What if everyone had a laptop to network and be digitally productive, with a reliable connection to the internet. We would be right where we are now, except everyone is thriving. They dont get to be picky, but their needs can be met.

The dangers of that statement allow a person to take as much as they want and claim nobody owns it.

I see what you’re saying. I think a better way to express it is saying that the person who created it is acknowledged as the creator, and derivative works should be a certain amount of “different”, otherwise they are reproductions rather than original.

I disagree with that logic, but using things for non-commercial use is fine. It’s not yours, you dont own the rights to it, but you are free to borrow it for personal purposes, artistic sampling, or similar.

Nothing is owned, everything is borrowed, hoarding is immoral. Give back to your community.

Edit: My tone/intent is not to be critical of your comments, but to add additional context.

The US has no mandatory time off. PTO is uncommon, but also a “benefit”, not mandatory.

Washington State has mandatory sick time accrual (1 hour per 40 worked), which is paid time off. But that equates to less than 12 days per year.

I agree with you that we need to do better, but with everything else going on, I’m inclined to change countries if/when i can afford to.

I have my original gamecube and games still. Controller got replaced a couple times. With emulation being accessible as it is, I think only a collector (or a speedrunner) would be interested now.

If you want your call to be used for training, either you or the employee have to do something crazy.

Training folks don’t care about the mundane, they want to show what not to do (if the employee fucks up) or how to handle calls properly (irate customers).

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