I'm forced to assume that you are now surprisingly attractive, as well. That's the way out goes with the person I never noticed in school.
Of course, part of it might be that my definition of attractive grew up to be a lot healthier than it was when I was a kid.
Oh!
As they say, them who laugh lasts, probably needed a minute to think about it. Today, that was me.
That tracks with some human social groups I have met or been welcomed into.
There's usually one or two guys who are willing to play the "big scary" when necessary to get rid of creeps. The rest of the time they're usually the chill ones whose couch anyone can crash on.
I guess that is a kind of leadership, in itself.
But they usually aren't the one who decides which theater to go to.
I don't see how even Amazon can try to kill the competition in a market that huge, regardless of price or convenience.
So I assume you wrote this after picking up groceries from your locally owned grocery store? Because you still have one - it didn't collapse due to a Walmart coming to town?
Most of us have a solid example of what driving a grocery store out of business looks like, though.
"Not everyone in the union will celebrate this corporate partnership. Some members have legitimate concerns about tech giants shaping classroom priorities through financial relationships."
When has a corporation and a Union ever not seen eye to eye?
(Please don't answer. This is sarcasm. Otherwise RIP my inbox.)
I'm going to start talking in vague terms about my own designs for a "Corsi-Rosenthal Box" when I want to sound smart.
It'll be great if anyone bothers to look it up.
It still is, it's a standard for imaging devices.
Oh, thank you. I had forgotten that!
And also a nightmare.
Yes. Now that the memories are coming back, I do notice most of them aren't very nice...
It's an acronym: T.W.A.I.N. (edit: a backconym, as was pointed out - I've also heard that the weird upper case name came first, and the weirder acronym was added later.)
"Technology without an interesting name."
And... That's all I remember about it, at the moment.
Well, also that it broke often, and threw weird errors like the one pictured.
Wow, I totally missed the part where Microsoft had a gun to your head.
Yes. Microsoft is good at hiding that part until it's too late to do much about it.
There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass, yet.
Microsoft doesn't willingly lose money on something unless they think they can make it into ~~a market distorting rent extraction hellscape.~~ something very profitable later.
Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.
Yes. This sucks.
The main cause of this is artificial intelligence
Unlikely.
The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and "Not The Onion", in particular.)
Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.
I'll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.
AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.
The key lesson here is that anyone can find $25 / month to waste on WebVan stock.