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I got 30hrs out of Animal Well and enjoyed every moment of it :)

Yes, though it was my sister in law who named her, and this was years before the Netflix version, if that might matter. I don’t know if it does or not, I didn’t finish season 1 :)

Adorable.

Can you pay the cat tax by providing an image of said cat? :)

We had a very special cat who did a lot of chirping and trilling, and at night in the summer we’d keep the back door open with the glass screen door shut, and all sorts of animals could come by and she’d watch them and make various excited noises to let me know when animals were around.

Possums, raccoons, other cats, groundhogs, they all brought excited trills to let me know we had a nocturnal visitor.

One night she was making agitated sounds, but before I got there to see what it was, she made a clear as day “uh-oh” sound, but with a meow. I hurried over to see a fox staring down through the glass at her, while she stared back nervously. Never heard the “uh-oh” before or after except that night.

Oooof, I hear that. Things are more political than ever at my work and it’s like, I just want to do my job and go home

Good thing that hype always delivers.

I hate how this is phrased as “redundancies”. IGN literally JUST bought these outlets, they haven’t had time to dig into and examine the organizations they acquired; it’s just straight into the Corpo playbook of “lay people off and let the dust settle where it may”.

These are people, not “redundancies”. They contributed in the old organization, and they could contribute in the new, but they never even got the chance.

Vaguely human-like

Boycott is a strong word, but I know that I and many, many others decided not to purchase Disco Elysium based on how all that drama went down. And I know I’ll never buy HiFi Rush after the way Microsoft closed that studio while simultaneously lamenting how they wish they had more games like that, because I don’t want to reward bad behaviour.

Same reason I haven’t bought anything from EA in a decade, and I’m really on the fence about supporting Ubisoft at this point too.

I’m 4hrs in and it’s been a very rewarding experience so far! More heart than the last Assassin’s Creed I played, which I don’t even remember which one it was

Yup, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine theme song as my alarm, 5 years and counting

I’m already amazing at emails and summaries, I can write my own code but rarely need to outside my job, I don’t have a use case for translation, I don’t use my current phone assistant and can’t see myself using a “true” virtual assistant.

Got any better scenarios? Cuz all those use cases fill me with apathy.

May I inquire what you think we’ll be using it for?

I don’t care about AI.

It’s not because of posts like this; it’s not because of the endless hype cycle. It’s not because hundreds of billions are going into it and it’s not because everyone’s doing it; it’s all these things combined with the fact that I don’t have a use case for AI in my life. I don’t need AI’s sanitized, corporatized opinion on anything, and there’s nothing a chatbot can do that a human can’t do better.

But that’s just me. If you and others like it, Cool Beans.

That’s some hostile workplace kind of BS, and shouldn’t be tolerated. Document everything, names, dates, info etc.

Build personalities from childhood onwards, so as they get older they already possess personalities instead of being vapid empty shells of humanity

Our civilization is more than capable, but those who have money and power are unwilling, because that’s not something they’re interested or invested in.

I absolutely, indisputably, 100% confirm that Purr receives All the petting she desires, and lets people know without hesitation when more petting is required :)

I was at the job

Coworker sees news on his phone, tells everyone

Goes room to room telling people. I do his job to cover for him. He comes back after an hour. Doesn’t say Thank You.

One of my favorite moments from last summer was sitting on my back patio watching a hummingbird flying circles around my back yard in the dying light of sunset, gobbling up insects with every lap. Adorable.

They also repeatedly killed wasps that were attracted to the sugar water from the feeder I set up for them, that was pretty fun to see