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christmas boots posted:this is amazing It was something else alright. Like, season one he's working for a rinky dink local team and it seems like that's more or less where the show will be about his hedonistic antics, maybe ending with him cleaning up, getting called to the minors but choosing to stay with his love interest. But instead he's out of there by end of season one, burns the bridge with his love interest and in season two he's working in the minors. By season three it's a science fiction dystopia show about the commissioner of baseball having a secret meeting with the algorithm who wants to buy America's dying heart, not because it has any affection for us, but because it's something that was programmed to sell people things and if everyone dies then there will be no one left to sell to. It's... maybe the most high concept vulgar comedy about baseball losers I've ever seen.
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Aug 31, 2020 05:18
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yeah it's not painful. fun fact: old school neurophysiologists used to think the pfc didn't do anything because when they delivery current to it nothing overt happened, no movements or seizures. they called it 'silent cortex'  it has potential to help but it is several decades longer that popsci and charletans like musk care to admit
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Aug 31, 2020 05:22
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Powered Descent posted:I'm a little surprised that fast food restaurants haven't gone to the dark side and set up their drive-up order taking to go the call center route. After all, there's no reason to be paying that sky-high first-world minimum wage to have someone sit there in the building taking the orders over a headset from the cars outside and punching it into the touchscreen. Move that job to a country with low labor costs and no worker protections, and achieve economies of scale by having all the reps in the giant non-climate-controlled warehouse able to take orders from all client restaurants as needed. With a decent algorithm to predict the demand, and adjusting the staffing levels accordingly, all the reps will be taking orders as close to ALL THE TIME as can be managed, thus pinching even more pennies. Idk how they do it there but here the people taking orders are also doing other poo poo too, like taking payments and helping to pack orders.
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Aug 31, 2020 05:31
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Hodgepodge posted:tbh that at least sounds better than electroshock (which actually can be helpful for depression but it's a bit of a last resort) It's not a last resort at all. It's one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in the world.
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Aug 31, 2020 05:37
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*for non-cognitive deficits*
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Aug 31, 2020 05:51
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how can i do it to myself and is there an api to do so with every post? unrelatedly, where's the orgasm lobe?
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Aug 31, 2020 05:57
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The Nastier Nate posted:does it use a micro usb cause you could just get one of those lithium batteries with USB ports to charge phones I’m modding my cybernetic arm to take loose 18650 cells. Loads like a shotgun.
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Aug 31, 2020 06:47
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T-man posted:(the) orgasm lobe this is a powerful username
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Aug 31, 2020 07:16
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uber_stoat posted:you can read it for free here. I started reading this and it owns because it has things that are mundane in 2020 like a distributed network of gigahertz-level processors used to control a lightbulb, and complete loving nonsense like an IRS agent going after a rich man for tax evasion.
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Aug 31, 2020 07:41
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Powered Descent posted:I'm a little surprised that fast food restaurants haven't gone to the dark side and set up their drive-up order taking to go the call center route. . That employee taking drive thru calls has other responsibilities when no one is at the window
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Aug 31, 2020 08:41
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And they're always automating more and more aspects of the drive-thru experience. I've noticed McDonalds near me now has automated drink dispensers. As soon as a drink order goes into the system, the machine drops the right cup, drops some ice, then fills the correct drink. It then moves the cups on a small conveyor to make room for more drink orders.
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Aug 31, 2020 08:48
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ITT: we collaboratively reinvent the premise of Marshall Brain’s “Mana”.
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Aug 31, 2020 08:49
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:It's not a last resort at all. It's one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in the world. Huh. I didn't realize it was so widely used. Ugh. I hope it isn't "yeah but I meant torture."
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Aug 31, 2020 08:52
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Pikachu therapist is making a killing in Kanto after Pokémon training was abolished by President Lickatung before his untimely death by John W. Bulbasaur
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Aug 31, 2020 10:59
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blatman posted:I want to get a first-generation brain implant so that by the time it's 3 or 4 years old it's so riddled with unpatchable security holes that merely existing outside of a faraday cage results in me being brainjacked by malware, bonus points if there's corrosion or something on the part that directly interfaces with my shark-smooth brain because it was from the first production run and they hadn't worked out the kinks yet Not to worry, no corticoid implant has as yet lasted more than a couple of years without scabbing over, and with ELON "SAFETY THIRD" MUSSSK using the shittiest and cheapest procedures and implants, you too can experience the delight of severe infection and faulty wire electrocution racing to be the first thing to send you to meet the reaper 
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Aug 31, 2020 13:03
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Food Boner posted:i worked on a darpa project for a number of years to "cure mental illness" by stimulating the prefrontal cortex in human patients ama which part of the PFC, which mental illness
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Aug 31, 2020 13:03
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SaTaMaS posted:which part of the PFC, which mental illness the typing part, your posting
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Aug 31, 2020 13:13
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Food Boner posted:yeah it's not painful. fun fact: old school neurophysiologists used to think the pfc didn't do anything because when they delivery current to it nothing overt happened, no movements or seizures. they called it 'silent cortex' *creates a written test with none of the demands or ambiguities of everyday life* *notices that none of the more recently evolved parts of the brain activate* "Is my test crap? No, clearly the brain is wrong" *liquifies misbehaving childrens' PFC with an ice pick*
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Aug 31, 2020 13:18
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Hodgepodge posted:Huh. I didn't realize it was so widely used. Heh, nah. ECT is nothing like you see in the movies, with people thrashing around trying to bite their tongues off. You get a mild sedation when it happens, so the only thing that happens is the patient might have a mild twitch at the most. And recovery is almost immediate. We do at least 2 a day at the hospital I work at, and they are so quick and event free that they typically just pop them in first thing in the morning before the regular surgeries start happening.
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Aug 31, 2020 16:29
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Tias posted:Not to worry, no corticoid implant has as yet lasted more than a couple of years without scabbing over, and with ELON "SAFETY THIRD" MUSSSK using the shittiest and cheapest procedures and implants, you too can experience the delight of severe infection and faulty wire electrocution racing to be the first thing to send you to meet the reaper Uh, what. These words do not work this way.
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Sep 1, 2020 04:12
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Heh, nah. ECT is nothing like you see in the movies, with people thrashing around trying to bite their tongues off. You get a mild sedation when it happens, so the only thing that happens is the patient might have a mild twitch at the most. And recovery is almost immediate. It really is amazing what science can do when the desire to do good isn't twisted into an elaborate front for sadism.
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Sep 1, 2020 04:42
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Powered Descent posted:I'm a little surprised that fast food restaurants haven't gone to the dark side and set up their drive-up order taking to go the call center route. After all, there's no reason to be paying that sky-high first-world minimum wage to have someone sit there in the building taking the orders over a headset from the cars outside and punching it into the touchscreen. Move that job to a country with low labor costs and no worker protections, and achieve economies of scale by having all the reps in the giant non-climate-controlled warehouse able to take orders from all client restaurants as needed. With a decent algorithm to predict the demand, and adjusting the staffing levels accordingly, all the reps will be taking orders as close to ALL THE TIME as can be managed, thus pinching even more pennies. They tried that 14 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/the-longdistance-journey-of-a-fastfood-order.html Still in the US, but they were piloting the tech. NYT in 2006 posted:Ms. Vargas works not in a restaurant but in a busy call center in this town, 150 miles from Los Angeles. She and as many as 35 others take orders remotely from 40 McDonald's outlets around the country. The orders are then sent back to the restaurants by Internet, to be filled a few yards from where they were placed.
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Sep 1, 2020 05:28
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PirateDentist posted:They tried that 14 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/the-longdistance-journey-of-a-fastfood-order.html Still in the US, but they were piloting the tech. that sounds like a nightmare even now much less in 2006. like what if the root beer line is busted and they didn't update the excel spreadsheet?
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Sep 1, 2020 05:30
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PirateDentist posted:They tried that 14 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/11/technology/the-longdistance-journey-of-a-fastfood-order.html Still in the US, but they were piloting the tech. uh, main reason they keep trying this is that it eliminates employee theft; if you ever had the dude taking your order ask ‘cash’s or credit’ it’s because if it’s cash it doesn’t get rung up. Same reason they backed off. Increasing use of credit cards.
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Sep 1, 2020 05:40
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Remulak posted:uh, main reason they keep trying this is that it eliminates employee theft; if you ever had the dude taking your order ask ‘cash’s or credit’ it’s because if it’s cash it doesn’t get rung up. I can't imagine that's the case now where almost every fast food restaurant has a screen showing you your order as you order it.
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Sep 1, 2020 09:05
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uber_stoat posted:just remembered Charles Stross' Accelerando, where the brilliant bajilionnaire tech dude protag gets to be so reliant on his Smart Glasses to keep his poo poo together, after the glasses get snatched in a mugging he can't remember anything about where he is or what he's meant to be doing.
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Sep 1, 2020 09:59
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LastInLine posted:I can't imagine that's the case now where almost every fast food restaurant has a screen showing you your order as you order it. also every cash register in every low end job is filmed at all times
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Sep 1, 2020 11:57
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Stross's sexbot post human cyborg society book has made expanding foam a forbidden but desired erotic experience thanks to one hilariously poorly written scifi erotica scene.
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Sep 1, 2020 12:02
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T-man posted:Stross's sexbot post human cyborg society book has made expanding foam a forbidden but desired erotic experience thanks to one hilariously poorly written scifi erotica scene. it's bad news to get horny for an experience that will kill you. that's how you end up having your dick eaten by an excitable German man.
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Sep 1, 2020 17:35
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uber_stoat posted:it's bad news to get horny for an experience that will kill you
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Sep 1, 2020 17:45
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Sep 1, 2020 17:46
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uber_stoat posted:it's bad news to get horny for an experience that will kill you. that's how you end up having your dick eaten by an excitable German man. It's nice that someone's excited to see it
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Sep 1, 2020 17:50
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uber_stoat posted:it's bad news to get horny for an experience that will kill you. that's how you end up having your dick eaten by an excitable German man.
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Sep 1, 2020 18:03
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https://twitter.com/benjysarlin/status/1300843425181446144?s=21
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Sep 1, 2020 18:43
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So if you've got $300 spare for the game and console* (since yuzu refuses to play nice) you too can have useless litter... IN CYBERSPACE *In the middle of like six simultaneous crisises that have been entirely unaddressed by dems obv
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Sep 1, 2020 21:30
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can't wait for the wacky yard sign edits
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Sep 1, 2020 22:27
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On the one hand, leaving behind an AI after your civilisation dies is very cool sci fi. On the other hand, the AI left behind after our civilisation dies is going to be clouds of Russian troll bots and the automated Right wing Twitter feeds sharing their fake news articles.
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Sep 1, 2020 23:36
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bike tory posted:On the one hand, leaving behind an AI after your civilisation dies is very cool sci fi. On the other hand, the AI left behind after our civilisation dies is going to be clouds of Russian troll bots and the automated Right wing Twitter feeds sharing their fake news articles. I think I played this video game.
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Sep 1, 2020 23:47
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Pokémon go to hell
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Sep 1, 2020 23:51
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Whoever is getting paid to build Biden's Animal Crossing island, congrats on the grift, you've earned it.
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Sep 2, 2020 01:49
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