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Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Recruiters and HR departments are the laziest fuckers in the market. Why read job applications when you can have a linkedin analysis bolt on screen them for you and narrow down further with a ctrl F for keywords. In this scenario you don't actually know what your company does but you're fairly sure it involves spreadsheets of some kind.

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Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

bossy lady posted:

I sat on my roku remote and accidentally clicked on a Jeep Wrangler (TM) ad then got a text message from Jeep (TM) on behalf of roku reminding me to buy a Jeep (TM) Wrangler (TM)

So have you remembered to buy a JeepTM WranglerTM??

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
... see you in six weeks :evilbuddy:

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
It's a lol from me, Kent

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
lmao at the idea of ever paying a penny in fees to your bank.

They pay you to deposit money with them. They are the borrower. It's called Interest, stupid!

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
A supermarket where I grew up just installed an exit gate that only opens if you scan your receipt (or force it open). Lmao :fuckoff: never going back there

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

teen witch posted:

Oh those are a thing by me in a ton of grocery stores, especially self checkouts.

I’m inevitably behind the older person who crumples their receipts immediately after checking out and has to unwrinkle it to try to scan it several times

I can’t not go to these places for the most part because we have 4-5 massive companies who own the grocery stores and a scant amount of independent stores.

Nonetheless, I want to see someone Kool Aid Man through the glass barrier one of these days.

If you push the gate open it will just beep and as far as I have ever seen no one will care :)

Er I dunno in other countries you might get shot or something

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Touchscreens in cars are absolute garbage take em away

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Excuse me that's racist, and please ignore foreign product tiktok immediately complying with all requests from the American Reich

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
I wouldn't dream of potentially scratching my paint by putting stickers on my car. That's what driving through country lanes is for.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
A person who makes clothes is called a dropshipper

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
God I wish

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
I have always thought that HR as a profession don't have a single clue how to locate 'talent' and will just adopt any shiny tool that reduces the number of applicants they have to think about

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Philthy posted:

You can't find anything about food anymore really unless you watch a video. It's all AI garbage, all of it.

I guess if this kills the internet in some way, then oh well. Yay?

The main 'AI' use case for 95% of us is to parse all the garbage AI generated search engine results back into something usable :thunk:

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Biplane posted:

???? what in the world

lol what for a few golden moments I was the koolest kid in the office for moving mine to the side the screen, we all had tiny laptops :sigh:

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Out: vocal fry

In: vocal air fry

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Agreed, where's the button to talk to an AI assistant?? Awful.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
I would totally go to the cinema if they seemed to release any films I want to watch... Last was D2NE I think.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Store all your music on a passport drive at least as a backup. Bandcamp and Amazon at last still allow a straightforward download of a file into your downloads folder.

Definitely don't let something as close to your soul, and as important during the bad times, as your music be at the mercy of subscription service tech scum!

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Trying to get concert tickets abroad on Ticketmaster was great fun. Oh well you must verify your account, oh well we can only send your code to an in country mobile number, oh well we won't state that on the form so you just need to guess...

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Taear posted:

It costs companies more to make you call than they'd make upselling you most of the time - they want you to go online, they don't want you ringing.
So that's insane, at least in the context of UK call centres/companies.

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Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Messaging only? No, social media!

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
I just cancelled prime in the UK; it doesn't refund money but you keep all your subscription benefits until the next billing cycle?

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Connecting to your bank on hyper public library internet sounds like a very bad no good security time?

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
No way am I ever listening to a voicemail, after five minutes of

Welcome to our Voicemail
We recommend you record a personal message to let people know they've reached you
To record a personal message, please press 1
To listen to your messages, please press 2

Your messages - message 1 at 0 9 3 5 - Monday 12 September from 0 7 7 1 2 3 4 5 6. To listen to this message, please press 1.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Book Bond drives a Saab :sweden:

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Barrel Cactaur posted:

I thought I was going crazy and had just done the typical ADD thing of watching 15 seconds of something, bailing, and then going back a few seconds later to open it again.

E: The star wars prequels would have been great movies with a better editor and no connection to the cheese fest of the star wars franchise between the original trilogy and the Disney hard cut of legends. Star wars got tone mapped hard to its fans.

You can even see how in trying to remove the look at how facism grinds itself up and overestimates it's power that was present in the originals Disney lost the ideas of the series in the sequels for weak drama and pointless hyjinx. They turned the empire from a relatively believable state with clear internal contradictions to a giant space flea from nowhere of infinity soldiers and superweapons with 3? characters who matter at all.

I still think the first Star Wars sequel nailed a very true to the 2010s look at the space fascists.

All the jackboot imperialists from the 20th C are dead or disappeared and the mantle is taken up by fanatical 20something men screaming at each other, barely in control of the empire and barely in control of their own daddy issues. I don't think it was an accident that there was barely an extra over 25 strutting around the star destroyer.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Old enough to run, old enough to hold a gun

Jesus what a weird puritan society

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Supermarket theft is a giant paper tiger because 'shrinkage, shrinkage, theft, theft, theft' is what grocery stores claim every time they fail to hit targets. Their bosses are professional managers so they have no practical knowledge to tell the difference.

$80m for additional security and all goods in locked boxes? Yeah, sure, approved, whatever

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Yeah any store with an exit gate I'm barging straight through and not shopping there again. And like gently caress I'm going to keep a paper receipt for inspection, mr high vis can go read the till 21 audit logs if he wants but I'm not waiting while he does it.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Sounds like time for armed customers! :911:

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Musicolet is another decent music app, it will pull from the folders you tell it to use.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

redshirt posted:

Umm, actually, the Sun won't explode. It will expand out like a fat Suburban Dad, then shrink away in old age.

Welp, we get the sun we deserve

:sicknasty:

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Captain Hygiene posted:


"Hey, you know what'll get people to give us more money? Repurposing our selling points as a popup quiz users have to go out of their way to respond to" - some youtube marketing genius, apparently



In fact that's borderline patent infringement; get em McDonald's! (Home of the McSummer McRib TM, for four weeks only!)

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Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
And, like, a lot harder and many billable hours to make a legal disclaimer more specific but still effective

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
If the customer wears the clothes incorrectly, they are committing anti-advertising for your product. You can see the phone in her pocket - ew!!

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Also the AIs would have to work in some sort of lockstep between competitors. 90% of the time I'm putting the flight in an aggregator site and slam picking the cheapest one.

Not that price fixing is unheard of, presumably not even illegal in the US

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Oligarch propagandists are very real but we should also remember that 90% of advertisers are sitting in an western corporate environment, coming up through grad schemes and earning qualifications with names like SAPFRoL MBAads. Most of what they do is corpo busywork for moronic clients, justifying their own existence and believing their own hype all the way. The remaining 10% yes are scary.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Hunter Biden's laptop

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Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012
Can you imagine being such a loving loser as to fire up your Merc :smaug: and then loyally log into teams

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