yesman

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[–] yesman 47 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The national suicide prevention hotline is almost always too busy and callers often need to wait on hold. They've calibrated everything from the hold music, the script, and the recorded voice to keep callers on the line.

This factoid splits people pretty evenly between those who find it horrifying and those who find it hilarious.

I should say that according to the hotline, the changes made to the hold system has resulted in 100,000 fewer hang-ups per year.

[–] yesman 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IDK what Laura is doing, but I know Marjorie and Lindsey are very upset about it.

[–] yesman 4 points 1 month ago

If the AI wanted to talk me out of conspiracy theories, why don't they use the brain signals to control us to thinking that way? Do the microwaves from the circuits behind the walls all go out of service all of a sudden?

This is just classic silicon valley trying to "innovate", when their real plan was to muscle out CIA and FBI work to non-union contractors.

[–] yesman 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You guys realize that CPAPTACHAs are for training AI? You're solving the problems robots have trouble with to help them improve. First, we helped digitize millions of books for Google, now we're helping Tesla cars recognize stop sighs and crosswalks.

They played us for absolute fools.

[–] yesman 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This whole dust up is between MTG, L. Graham, and Loomer is just jealous office politics. Apparently, Loomer is on the rise while the former two are in decline around Trump's orbit.

Now I won't deny it's fun to see the MTG and Graham beaten at their own game. But the only value to this story is knowing that there is chaos and backbiting in his inner circle.

[–] yesman 61 points 1 month ago

This is one of those books that seems cliche until you realize that it's the origin of the tropes.

[–] yesman 2 points 1 month ago

artificial variety

lol sounds like forced diversity. So the imitation stuff is woke!

[–] yesman 2 points 1 month ago

I wonder how many times she's had to explain what an answering machine is.

[–] yesman 17 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Just wanna drop in to say that the people responsible for keeping the planes the planes from getting romantic on the ground are the same people who chaperone them in the air.

[–] yesman 179 points 1 month ago (31 children)

Every game executive and investor wants a Fortnight. That's why no matter how many times gamers reject it live service games will continue to be developed. Because AAA games are made for investors not players.

[–] yesman 17 points 1 month ago

No, it's stop innovating, build a monopoly, never change. The automotive industry (in Germany and the US) is just blue collar wall st. : too big to fail.

Stop talking "free markets" when the competition is taxed at 40%

[–] yesman 28 points 1 month ago

This reasoning doesn't make sense unless Trump loses. How can sentencing the POTUS be any less fraught than sentencing a candidate? The judge is a coward with at least two rulings in his back pocket depending on the outcome of the election.

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