GM is gonna end up backpedaling so hard once they realize how important these apps are to car owners.
The first feature I review nowadays when car shopping is the infotainment systems integration with my phone. (Mostly because Google took away my ability to use my phone as the navigation system)
I'm not alone on this. Android auto and Apple car play are so much better than the crap the manufacturer makes that it's not worth looking at a car that can't do this simple thing. And I'm not about to spend $25k+ and not get what I want.
They mention that it's happened 10 other times in the past year but the recipients of those packages were not identified. The key detail here is that he's a repeat offender: once you pop, you can't stop.
I had an aunt who told me as a small child not to feel bad or give a dollar to homeless people because they're "bad people who deserve to starve."
She died wealthy as a former J&J executive. What a fucking train wreck of a society where monsters like that get to live a life of gluttony for their dedication to private profit and schadenfreude.
George Carlin was a great guy, terrific comedian, and pretty smart.
But nothing informs me more of someone's else's immaturity than holding him up as source of true wisdom.
He was always a simplistic, self-serving, a deeply cynical nihilist that went for the edgiest takes. So of course the internet loves him. But for people that are actually interested in solving problems rather than spending their lives bitching about it them, his words are empty.
We know the world sucks. Carlin had nothing to say about actually addressing it.
I would have been interested to know their opinion on what they consider true wisdom, but the thinly veiled ad hominem in their response then made me lose that interest.
Few comedians rise to the level of philosophers and notable social commentators, but I'd count Bill Hicks among them.
He was a student of humanity and it's hilarious attempts at communication.
Read his books. He's deconstructs so much about communication and criticises systems that deploy twisted communication to achieve their shallow ends.
Carlin criticized the church before most of the public was aware of their horrible record on protecting victims. He criticized the right and it's fetish for fetuses but two fucks for living babies.
The world sucks, Carlin reinvented himself from his first foray into comedy as the Hippy Dippy Weatherman and realized that creating new criticism was a challenge worth his focus, and committed to creating all new material for each special.
I'm sad that you only see this, it's a superficial take on genius.
in 2021 my job was "informing, not asking". a bunch of us walked, and it crippled the OU. They actually shut it down not long ago, they decided to keep a skeleton crew on to keep the app running while the contracts run out, then they're gonna sunset it
A story from back when I worked in HR. Finance handed HR a list of teams to reduce. HR saw who had lowest performance metrics or was most recently hired and earmrked them to be fired. Then HR emailed the managers and said, 'we want you to follow around Angela and Brian today, the first mistake they make, write it up and terminate them'. The company had laid off too many people and several states it operated in warned the company they would seek payment if too many more ex-employees filed for unemployment insurance.
Most employees skewed right politically and wouldn't dream of fighting the company for their rightfully due unemployment benefits since they legitimately thought it was their fault, and many thought UI was socialism anyway.
After witnessing this I immediately began switching careers.
Remember folks, HR is not your friend, HR exists to protect the company from employee related lawsuits.
HR are all class traitors. Their sole purpose in life is to pay you as little as possible and protect the people at the top who are stealing everyone elses' profits. Fuck anyone working in HR.
That really isn't true, and you would know that if you were actually familiar with HR.
HR, for stuff like this, is just the messenger. Some exec told them to fire people, and gave them a directive on who to fire. The HR reps couldn't answer her questions because they likely don't know the answer.
Yes, the job of HR is to protect the company, but mostly that's protecting the company from the company breaking labor laws.
But, I'm sure I'll get downvoted to hell because the hive mind loves to shit on HR, which is exactly what the execs are wanting. They're scapegoats.
First off; This is a highly engaging lecture. I'd encourage folks to withhold comment before watching it through.
Second; I'm failing to find the syntax to call out other users. I'll go caveman style and reply to the 2 posters I wish to engage with permalinks. Could you reply to this post instead of the post I ping you with?
Have you read any of the Deathworlders universe? Fascinating take on science fiction tropes, turns many upside down. I'd like your take! (Free to download, but don't read the main page, all spoilers. Give the first chapter a read for taste.)
The premise is that the Milky Way has several intelligent sophonts. Twist being, humans are the only intelligent life that evolved on a "deathworld", not possible in the minds of the aliens. Planets like Earth are regarded as totally inhospitable to intelligent life. Factors like gravity, solar radiation, viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, predators, plate tectonics, violent atmospheric phenomena, temperature extremes, all that, are just too brutal for evolution to produce intelligence. Intelligences that evolved on "softer" worlds are the norm.
I'd argue that some of those items, such as radiation, are necessary for complex evolution. Arguably, some items like parasites are inevitable byproducts of any evolution.
I so loved reading you two kick evolution around, and I so wish you would give a thought to the "deathworld" notion.
Insane these are not popular in the states, they've almost taken over the market in China.
They're only available online from a very few companies and very expensive stateside.
I didn't bring my tent back to the states , figuring I could pick one up at North face or the like and was pretty surprised and frustrated when I couldn't find a single affordable pop-up in any sports or outdoorsy store.
I was in Colorado at the time, too, so there were plenty of places to look.
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