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I do not understand how people at these advertising agencies are so bad at their actual jobs.

I used to work in an advertising agency, the job is done by humans who go home and watch TV and play video games and generally interact with the rest of the human race on a fairly regular basis. There's no way in hell that they failed to register the public's dissatisfaction with AI. So how do they then sit in a pitch meeting and recommend its use?

I guarantee what happened here is that McDonald's wanted things to be cheap and so wanted to use AI, and the advertising agency just wanted to get McDonald's business so didn't push back on it as hard as they should have done. And look it's now done damage to their brand. They better come out with a statement real quick to clarify that it was McDonald's decision and not theirs, otherwise clients are going to be concerned that they're trying to cut corners.

Part of the job is to tell clients when they're being unreasonable. There was a property developer that we worked with a lot and he was always trying to get us to do deceptive things such as using CGI shots of his housing estate rather than the actual shots because the properties didn't look anything like what was being depicted in the CGI shots. I'm sure if we were doing it today he would be trying to use AI as well. Fortunately my boss was always able to talk him out of these decisions pointing out that it would simply result in him getting a reputation for dishonesty, and would in the long term hurt him.

Animals would be preferable. I reckon a chipmunk would be able to understand the instructions, it's only humans that fuck it up that bad.

Because who else would raise a support ticket because the first name field doesn't allow emoji? Or ask for a Braille language option, it's still English Karen, it's basically just a font, and there's no point anyway without a braille output, just putting the dots on the screen isn't helpful. That one got closed as it "won't fix" since there's no one in the organisation who's blind and it's mostly a hardware problem anyway.

That's because the political compass is two-dimensional, but everyone insists on thinking of it as a one-dimensional thing.

You've got left wing and then you've got right wing, and then in the vertical direction you've got authoritarianism and libertarianism. When people say far right and far left what they really mean is that the extreme edges horizontally and right at the top vertically. Think Castro, and not Gandhi. Both were left wing but are nowhere near each other in political phasespace

Far [insert preferred political allegiance] simply means extremist, usually unwilling to compromise. Whether you think that's a good thing or a bad thing depends on your personal political opinions, but generally speaking an inability to reach a compromise is not a desirable trait regardless of your political leanings.

As a saying goes, perfect is the enemy of good. We don't want people refusing to embrace more libertarian policies simply because they don't get everything that they want. Progress is achieved by steadily grinding away at the norm, not by having a big explosive change all at once. That's what communists want.

What's your point? =/= Isn't the "not equals to" term, it's !=

Just as ≥ isn't available, so you have >= and ≈ is not on the keyboard, so we have ==

Formal logical operators require the you to press the alt key and enter a numerical sequence on the keypad. If I had to type the logical operators with alt codes it would slow me down.

No it's because you can't type the not equal symbol very easily. If you type it it won't work because most compilers aren't expecting it.

But you know your fact is nicer than the boring reality

To be honest you don't need to either of them. You can just upload images to your own instance unless some instances have disabled image uploading?

That second paragraph might as well be written in Cyrillic for all the sense it made. Do I want to know what gone mild goblin girls look like, I feel like I don't, but I'm also morbidly curious.

In a lot of countries it would be illegal.

In a lot of countries the unions became powerful enough to be governments, and implemented anti-union busting laws.

For some reason the United States seems to have skipped a bunch of the social development that went on in other countries. Unfortunately this is probably because of the American psyche and their obsession with the idea that rags to riches is possible, despite all the evidence. So nobody wants to limit their own potential wealth by giving away money to the workers, just in case one day they become the wealthy. The end result is that a bunch of people have to work for Amazon.

I know that this is what a lot of Americans think socialism is but it's worth pointing out that socialism is not communism.

Communists want to take over with force and violence and overwhelming thought policing. Inevitably this pisses people off and ultimately doesn't work. See literally every communist regime ever.

Socialists simply want to implement progressive policies and are generally happy to do that within the confines of current law (assuming the current law isn't oppressive).

The US becoming socialist would simply be via a series of increasingly progressive policies over a period of several electoral cycles. It wouldn't be violence in the streets.

What really works is when unions start being powerful enough to dictate governmental policy. That's when things really improve. Of course the millionaires and billionaires will complain about interference, because it's only good when they do it.

It costs you 700 now and it costs them an unknown amount in the future. They just don't like it because they suspect it'll be quite a lot more than the 700 that you're paying to join. They're right too.

But union dues are annoying in the moment, because when it happens all you see is a reduction in your pay and initially no change in working conditions. That's why they have posters like that up, because even though intellectually people understand that being in a union will long-term result in better pay, in the short term it does effectively result in a temporary pay cut, which can be hard if you're already not really very well paid.

If you're joining an established union sometimes they will be smart and not charge members until they've renegotiated their salaries. But that only happens if you're joining a already formed union.