foofy

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[–] foofy 3 points 2 days ago

They were talking about warehouse workers, not corporate employees.

[–] foofy 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No rank and file US-based employees at Amazon are getting years of severance. They don't do that.

[–] foofy 2 points 1 week ago

He uses a handful of different styles

[–] foofy 15 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Is the criticism that they told drivers about how the Idaho stop worked? If the Idaho stop was going to be more widely adopted, it's a reasonable assumption that there would be a public education campaign so people knew what to expect.

Either way though, it's a study meant to test a hypothesis and the outcome suggested that Idaho's approach may be a good one.

If you're wanting an admission that the study's results may not hold up under further testing, sure. Admitted. But the study as a first step is pretty reasonable.

[–] foofy 18 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Kirkland anything (nearly anyway)

[–] foofy 12 points 1 month ago

Firefox can do without Google being the default fine. What they can't do without is all the money that Google pays them to make Google be the default.

[–] foofy 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

??

Doesn't everyone pick their ideals to care about?

[–] foofy 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You know, I don't disagree with your ultimate point. But if you look through this comment chain you should recognize that the way you chose to make it is:

  1. Needlessly antagonistic, and (therefore)
  2. Not very effective

If you wanted to convince anyone or provoke interesting discussion I think you failed.

In the future, you should just make your argument/statement instead of asking "clever" bad faith questions.

[–] foofy 2 points 6 months ago

Reread A Fire Upon the Deep just a week or two ago.

Amazing SF writer.

[–] foofy 17 points 7 months ago

He may have PTSD and he may have had 1,000 hours of firearms training, but if you empty your magazine the way he did, under the circumstances he did, you're incompetent to be a police officer. Period.

And even he apparently recognizes that since he resigned (though whether he'll just go get hired the next town over is probably a decent bet).

[–] foofy 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a race to the bottom.

Yes, you can decline to opt in, but the guy next to you (or the guy next to him) will opt in and sell his AI voice package for less than it costs to employ a real person. And unlike a real person, the AI voice package can work 24/7 on 10,000 productions at the same time.

If anyone can opt in, then no one can really opt out.

Is this a good thing? For the bottom line of the people making the games, sure. And maybe 3% of that savings will trickle down to the consumer.

But it's pretty bad for the voice actors.

[–] foofy -4 points 9 months ago

Now if we can just get all the fatties in America to read your post we'll have this thing licked!

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