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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

As it should be. Hybrid is the correct answer. Not full time RTO, not full time at home, Hybrid. The negotiation is in how hybrid should look, and will vary from situation to situation

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's been a lot of years since high school English, but Juliet Capulet was of the Italian family Capulet in the 1590s.

There is some detail in the references of the Capulet family to real world factions of the time. But both those arguing for and against this casting don't care about any of that.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Just recently finished rewatching House MD.

Hugh Laurie is ridiculously handsome. Olivia Wilde is beautiful beyond words.

And Jesse Spencer's hair, by the gods.

All up, the show meandered and was formulaic (by design). Parts of it aged terribly, but was a good rewatch

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Virtual partners are indeed a thing.

One of the more popular ones a few months ago decided to nerf the sexy time talks, which was intersting in how much it emotionally hurt users. They described feeling like their virtual partner was no longer the same person that they'd fallen for. Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users-fell-in-love-with-their-ai-chatbot-companion/102028196

There are also huge fears of how much data harvesting they are capable of performing.

I'm in two minds. On one, they are definitley not real. They are code. But on the other, the epidemic of lonely human beings is only getting worse with time and not better, and anything that can help people feel less lonely has to be a good thing, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, a lot of pedestrians are stupid. I've watched them walking across a road, phone in hand, straight into an idling parked V6 with a hole in its exhaust, and still be confused.

Pedestrian warning systems are a good idea. But nature will always come up with a better idiot

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Guns. Lots of guns.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

If you make a system idiot proof, nature will always come up with a better idiot

We live in an age of subway wrappers telling you not to eat them, and microwaves including warnings to not use them to warm up pet dogs and cats. Because nature keeps improving on Communi Idiota

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Forbidden bathtub waffles only taste so good cause of the extra danger.

~~this is also a dark joke, do not do this~~

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, trash can now wedged into my dishwasher and a pipe burst behind it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Don't do that.... Don't give me hope.

Dang it looks good. I'm scared of how it could disappoint

 

Similar to the recent question about artists where you can successfully separate them from their art. Are there any artists who did something so horrible, so despicable, that it has instantly invalidated all art that they have had any part in?

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