Sorry, I didn’t realize this picture had already been posted several times on Lemmy, but yeah, I also think it has a nostalgic feel to it.

Unfortunately, I’ve never seen a Warhammer store like that here in Germany. But hey, the two that were around where I live have been closed for five or ten years now.

I never really got into the hobby much, but as a kinda nerd, I still enjoyed going there back then—especially since one of them wasn’t just a Games Workshop store, but actually a specialized and very well-stocked bookstore, complete with a selection of board games (also playable in the store), a small café, and even a life-size H.R. Giger Alien statue—it’s a shame that this store no longer exists. Unfortunately, it hadn’t been able to stay in business before the pandemic, which I think led to somewhat of a revival for stores like that.

I can definitely imagine that. I’m not particularly knowledgeable about the subject, but I think he was probably quite amused by the pseudo-intellectual ramblings the art world came up with when discussing his works in the culture sections or elsewhere.

Yeah, that was totally Magritte’s thing. He painted a lot of clever—and also pretty strange—pictures. A surrealist through and through, and even one of the best-known representatives of the movement. He was particularly recognized for placing familiar objects in unusual and unexpected settings.

If you like that kind of art and happen to be in the area, I highly recommend the Dalí Theater-Museum in Figueres (Spain)—it’s pretty trippy.

I’m not entirely sure if I’m fully compatible, but hey, I’ve even got some new features now, even though some of the popular old ones have been partially superseded – so maybe there are still some legitimate use cases for “Legacy Me” after all :)

Yeah, if only because Flash—Ahhhaaahhaaa—is the savior of the universe. You know, that Flash—Ahhhaaahhaaa—he’ll save every one of us.

I had a lot of security flaws and vulnerabilities that were patched over time. I can’t understand why people are still running such old versions of me - it’s grossly negligent.

I’m glad you like it :)

Finanziert werden Stolpersteine durch private Spenden. Ein Stein kostete 2019 einschließlich seiner Verlegung 120 Euro.

Quelle

What I meant by that was that many tech companies hire people, who frequently perform these tasks on a project basis for only short periods of time, and pay them a pittance for their work. Their numbers are likely to fluctuate greatly.

I was by no means trying to emphasise the fact that these people mostly live in countries where wages are particularly low and where there are virtually no labor protections; I was simply pointing out that they are usually hired on a short-term basis.

This exploitative practice, as well as other “gig-work” arrangements, is unfortunately quite widespread, especially in the tech industry, and serves to increase corporate profitability. Many tech companies use this approach to reduce the number of permanent employees—a practice that, of course, isn’t unique to the tech industry—but using these practices there are many tech companies that generate astronomical revenues with a comparatively small workforce.

Mechanical Turk

I don’t understand what you’re getting at. Of course tech companies have a lot of employees if you count all the “mechanical turks”. That’s simply misleading.

None of that has much to do with what my original comment was about.

You’re saying that it’s impossible for powerful, completely degenerate people to be capable of playing their power games.

My take on this is that a look at the history books proves you wrong. LinkedIn-style fairy tales about leadership and all that bogus doesn’t change much about that.

Because they have the money to do so. Those who have it simply pay good people. You should know this if you’ve ever dealt with large companies. It doesn’t take good management—just the money to pay the people who do the work. You should also know that giant online corporations like Meta have an incredibly small number of employees compared to industrial companies, and labor is the biggest cost factor in any business.

What do you actually do for a living? You claim to have insights. Where did you get them?

I’d be an idiot to say here what I do for a living, but yes, I regularly deal with CEOs -and it’s precisely this experience that makes it all the more likely to me that a conspiracy like the one mentioned above is underway. While I’m nowhere near that level, I’m still quite familiar with the politics in companies with 500 or more employees. For me, this is all the more reason to entertain such thoughts, because I know of hardly any company where performance or competence is even remotely appreciated. The people I know as “the decision-makers” should actually be the very last ones to make decisions—they’re self-absorbed, unscrupulous people.

This is a conspiracy theory, but is it really so far-fetched to assume that the most powerful 1% of the populations are joining forces worldwide to establish something like a global feudal regime?

It’s entirely feasible, since we’re talking about just a few thousand people here.

In any case, these people have one thing in common: they view democracy as a problem. This applies to Trump just as much as it does to Putin and Jinping. The same goes for their henchmen, such as Merz in Germany, for example.

It’s not that unthinkable when you consider the fundamental idea behind fascism, as shaped by Mussolini in his day: a brotherhood of the elites striving for absolute rule.

It seems to me that this is now the agenda, especially since in the U.S., with the pseudo-intellectual concept of “Dark Enlightenment,” there doesn’t even seem to be any attempt to hide it.

I’m not usually a fan of such ideas, but it does seem very, very suspicious to me, given that the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries are apparently doing everything in their power to undo the civilizational progress of the last hundred years—and are clearly doing so in a fairly well-coordinated manner.

That really sounds like the same owner. I’m always grateful for whatever food she grants me, especially since it’s always excellent, and I wouldn’t dream of not flushing the toilet—that would undoubtedly lead to the consequences stated on the sign; that’s as certain as death and taxes.

There’s a Laotian restaurant right around the corner from me that serves really delicious food. The owner is an elderly lady who’s so amazingly unfriendly that it’s actually funny.

In the men’s restroom, there’s a sign hanging above the urinals that reads: “Flush, or else ✂️”

Is there anything in the UK after Brexit that is similar to the GDPR? While it does little to protect EU citizens from the influence of corrupt politicians, it is at least a law on the books that stands in the way of the neo-fascists’ diabolical schemes. Is there anything comparable in the UK?

Schon bitter, wenn sich der Kanzler direkt nach Landtagswahlen vor die Kamera stellen muss, nur um Rücktrittsforderungen vorzugreifen.

Glaube kaum, dass diese “Ich-sitze-fest-im-Sattel”-Show auch nur die Leute in den eigenen Reihen irgendwie beeindruckt. Wüsste nicht, wie man hier etwas anderes denken kann als: mal wieder ziemlich peinlich, Fritze!

The manufacturers’ reasoning here is presumably that the more technology is built into a device, the faster it becomes obsolete, and the sooner consumers will have to buy new devices.

This is a classic example of consumer-unfriendly design, in which manufacturers ensure that devices have a limited useful life or a purposely frail design. This is called planned obsolescence and can be achieved through both mechanical means and software.

What a valuable contribution from the co-founder and CEO of “Cooper AI”… on a platform for business-type show-offs who have nothing better to do than reinforce each other’s outrageous incompetence…

So this is the scope of “Cooper AI’s” operations:

Executives Who Use Cooper Make Better-Informed Decisions. Cooper uses natural language to generate insights and deliver the high-impact opportunities your executive team needs right now.

I think it’s pretty obvious from this sentence alone that this is nothing more than another front-end that forwards all requests to the actual cloud LLM providers.

It’s truly absurd that there are people who see any added value in this.