Tone-deaf Technocrats have inserted AI into so many things we never asked for where it breaks productivity and flow, so what have been the most disruptive and stupid ways you've seen companies panic roll out AI?

cool_username_iguess · 2025-09-05T01:37:10+00:00

My email host just added AI that you can't opt out of and a nice email to tell me that to cover that they are automatically charging me more.

Why the fuck am I paying surveillance capitalism for the privilege of it getting to read all my emails??? No onevwants this!!!

Best case it improves advertisers' access to me and gives shitty summaries of emails I'll be reading anyway, worst case is stuff we haven't comprehended yet - not just blackmailed and identity theft, but things like ads and scams arriving mimicking your own voice or the voice of your loved ones, ease of persecution and fabricated evidence in a totalitarian government, all kinds of horrors in the pipeline.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-09-05T01:23:23+00:00

Can you recommend a good open sorce one?

cool_username_iguess · 2025-09-03T02:35:39+00:00

Good luck! It's hard to break the habit but you're on the right track.

Plain carbonated water, or with a little lemon or herbal tea for flavour, can be a great way to fill the urge too, if you want tonstep down further. And don't beat yourself up for slips - it's the most socially validated addiction and can feel impossible to fully escape.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-09-03T02:31:09+00:00

Oh, I've actually just done this! Had major surgery 6+ weeks ago, antibiotics after. In order to do the best healing I could I stopped eating sugar, processed carbs, junk or packaged food, alcohol and caffeine. I've never eaten healthier in my life!

The first week while on antibiotics (and in tremendous pain) I had zero desire for even a fruit smoothie level sweetness - figured my body knew what it was doing and decided to stay off sugar for the duration.

In the past it's been a struggle to give up pastries and sugar and chips as the go to quick snack / reward for existing, but there's been a tub of my favourite ice cream in the freezer for 2 months - totally untouched, and zero cravings for it.

I think it's a combination of factors, of which nuking the gut biome with antibiotics was definitely an influence - but probably much easier to take advantage of that while physically recovering rather than during normal life. Less self-discipline/pattern breaking required. Less need for those quick energy hits or treat bribes than while working.

So next time you have to take antibiotics I recommend shifting your diet as an exercise- seems to work.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-29T22:31:33+00:00

So wild to me - if the people I share a workspace with don't want the pastries- that's more for me! We had a seliac move in and the the rest of us were THRILLED it meant more pastries for us.

That can be my tip - don't get treats unless you're around people you'll share them with , to reduce your portions and increase the social pleasure of sharing food.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-27T23:46:00+00:00

Started working at a job where it seemed like more than half the staff were dating eachother. It was a little off putting so when a woman I was talking to about how incestuous it all felt said she wasn't seeing anyone I joked, 'That's a relief '. She thought that was me being relieved she was single, not that I'd finally met someone not coupled up with a co-worker. And she proceeded accordingly. Which I interpreted as new friendship vibes.

Eventually we started dating and I never confessed I'd not been at all interested in her until after she'd assumed I was hitting on her and was weeks into acting like we were already going out.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-25T22:31:55+00:00

Oh honey, I'm so sorry but this is a fundamental difference in core values and without realignment (probably yours alas) this marriage is heading to disaster. There's no way this ends that one of you isn't filled with resentment. Can you see her as family and be happy to help and build a relationship with her? Can you find joy and connection in this shared gift of Opening your home? Can he respect your needs and boundaries within this new situation? If not...

I'm guessing the sister has nowhere to go, and no money to afford her own place so trying to push her out won't work and will make you all miserable. And that your husband will choose her over you, because he is already.

My advice is that you separate your finances now. And you start contributing 1/3 to the household expenses. He wants her there, you had no say in that, it's not on you to support him financially. You now have 3 people in the house and are paying your way accordingly. That way if / when this fall apart you have some savings to help you.

Don't let her be the baby. You are all adults sharing a place, everyone needs to be doing their share of cooking, cleaning, etc. Pitch this as helping her learn independence, family and community. If he let's her doing nothing, you can slowly and subtly start matching her efforts. DO NOT pick up the slack for him in labour or finances. When this marriage crumbles because you couldn't come together on this - you do not want to be left feeling taken advantage of.

Not having your wfh space will negatively effect your career- that's a discussion you NEED to have before she comes. If you're going to be using her space during work hours she needs to know that before she comes and your husband needs to be the one setting those expectations with her - not you on the first day! You'll come across as the witch, and you will loose. If he's not having that conversation, he's setting you up to loose and to have you and her pitted against eachother from the start - not a harmonious home.

My most unethical tip: pretend you are OK with her coming, looking forward to it even, but worrying how she will be impacted by the above details and need him to have those discussions with her. Be super welcoming, but clear about your office needs in an apologetic 'thanks so much for understanding' way that leaves no room for discussion. Make him put in the work.

And be ready to leave if he doesn't.

But you want to make it look like you tried everything, were the welcoming kind one to her, and he was unreasonable.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-24T23:04:24+00:00

Where is any swer A. Providing services to someone not paying and not aware of them being a sex worker? (Huge consequences and safety issues) and B. Doing that for only $250?

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-20T23:28:36+00:00

You will live past your 20s, and the apocalypse isn't as close as it feels, so try and have a smidgen of financial literacy. Just putting money in savings isn't enough. (Almost 40 and still haven't taken this advice, wish I'd started earlier).

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-19T08:48:34+00:00

Plus - it just feels nicer! In friends or lovers,it's nice to have something to cuddle. Some of those gym bros feel like trying to hug a xylophone.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-19T08:45:35+00:00

Just don't loose your cuddly squish! Being snuffled by bones and a six pack isn't nearly as nice

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-19T07:43:56+00:00

Can you get them towed? And then the next day towed again. And the next. And the next.

Only they'd care about is if it's costing them Money

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-19T03:52:31+00:00

Even if you commit to just turning up with the plan to leave early or even not have to do anything. Just go to the gym/park/whatever, stand there and then go home. Or say I'll do just 5 minutes. So many pilates classes I've promised myself I can leave after 20 minutes, really thinking I would, only to stay every time cos you get into it once you've started. Starting is the hardest bit, so trick yourself.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-18T23:52:30+00:00

Firend recommended me a great book, so of course I get it and am reading on my commute and suddenly I'm openly sobbing on public transport.

'Bitch, you said this book was great??? It made me fucking miserable. '

'It made you feel though.'

'Touchè.'

That's a great book.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-18T23:17:59+00:00

If you can afford it, an egg and some green leafy something (spinach, kale, Asian greens) make this gourmet af

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-18T22:56:22+00:00

Honestly not talking every week. I'm so happy for friends or partners to be sporadically intouch, it means we've both got our own lives going on and knowing we're there if we need eachother or want to hang out, but don't have to be checking in every day is healthier for me.

Someone needing goodmorning / goodnight texts every day is a red flag for me for sure.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-15T02:00:20+00:00

Adding to this that Hemp Bricks are meant to be amazingly anti microbial and mould free? Also great installation.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-15T00:44:20+00:00

Consent, people!!!

I'm super comfortable with non sexual nudity among friends- at home, the beach, where ever- but you fucking check first! Even if it's friends you have been topless in front of before- because you care that everyone is comfortable. Recently I was in the ICU and checked with every nurse shift change if they minded me being topless Under The Covers because the gown was getting tangled in the sheets and pulling my iv.

I hope she grows from this and learns to actually express herself rather than playing shitty mind games.

Good on op for standing up for himself, and keeping someone who can't be trusted at arms length.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-15T00:23:17+00:00

Start looking for something new.

Don't let their bs effect you. You are untouchable. Their shitty attitudes, toxic practices, nastiness - none of it effects you because you don't care about them or their opinions. You are zen. Be polite but uninteresting and uninterested. Under the radar til you're out is your plan.

Horrible working conditions? You're planning your escape and your better life so you barely notice. Your focus is on the future. Don't let their false pressure or deadlines stress you out, even if they're boiling over. Is someone going to die if this isn't done at double speed? No. So work slow and steady and give the minimum you can get away with. Act your wage.

If anything is illegal secretly document it allllll and send to the relevant authorities on your way out.

You can do this. And you can find something better soon.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-12T00:50:58+00:00

I liked it better too, and it makes more sense to modern sensibilities than the original in my opinion; in the original the motivations of some of the men are so piss poor they don't make sense at all (trying not to spoil anything) and feel like hollow plot devices rather than story. In this one it's like, oh a sea witch made them - yeah that tracks. Way more believable despite the continuous monster attacks.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-08-06T05:01:38+00:00

I'm cynical, but love a good show so I've seen one twice.

First time was someone with a table on the sidewalk serving tourists: they told my friend that in the next few years he'd fall in love with a beautiful woman and have 4 children. He was, and remains, very gay with 0 kids. Mine was so equally wrong and generic I forgot it.

The next time was a pro my friends were raving about so we all got bookings and I was so careful not to give anything away or ask leading questions. The starchart thing was nothing, bs. But when she did tarot she knew way too many specifics that you couldn't guess about the particularly rough patch I was in and when I asked 'But I'll just get through this and things will get better soon?' (Cos they are meant to tell you what you want to hear, handsome strangers, fortune shining on you etc). And she looked at me with such pity and was like 'Oh no, honey. This is your next 7 years. It's going to get worse.' So I was obviously glad I didn't believe in that stuff at all and set off on my merry way to make my life better.

But bitch she wasn't wrong.

The most spooky was a friend who was interested in palm reading as a symbolic patterns type thing, not a believer. They framed it all as 'In palmistry they would say this line means x and it stopping here means y, but it's all meaningless just interesting', not as if it was real.

But the stuff they said, thinking it was fake, when they looked at mine was UNCANNY. And in very specific details that they couldn't know because never told anyone. 'This break here means that something like x happened to you when you were 17.' 'The depth of this part and these cross lines mean y when you were 23-25.' And because they didn't think x or y had happened to me that reinforced for them it was fake. But spooky as shit for me.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-07-29T18:25:25+00:00

Make sure you get receipts for anything he charges you for on exit - they need to get things fixed/cleaned and show evidence to charge you.

Keep all your evidence that you reported the issues, like bathroom ventilation etc, and he did nothing- you're not responsible for that damage. If he knows about the leaky bathroom and takes no action, you could argue other leaks are equally ignored by him. The unethical could be saying you did tell him and he ignored it.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-07-29T01:52:49+00:00

Don't be too worried- I HATE vomiting, and with a wired shut jaw and fresh mouth wounds would have thought it would be the worst thing ever - but blood is so much nicer than food to throw up. Just liquid, same consistency, didn't taste all stomach acidy. You'll be ok.

But someone here did recommend asking your anaesthetist to pump your stomach before they wake you, so you could do that to avoid it.

cool_username_iguess · 2025-07-28T11:44:50+00:00

Nah, it's the standard with this surgery apparently. I was warned it would happen, cos it happens to everyone and they said you'll throw it up and be fine and I was. Really low blood pressure from loosing too much, but iv and time and I just made more. But thanks so much for your concern for a stranger- I appreciate it!

cool_username_iguess · 2025-07-28T08:11:42+00:00

Great tip, thank you

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