Most schools get budget based on attendance. Snow days are lost income, for an institution that already can't afford to pay teachers, get textbooks, or fix that cracked toilet in the boy's change room. Maybe schools could afford more snowdays (and the "professional development" days teachers used to get when I was a kid) if they could afford stuff like more than one teacher per 25 students.
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: rachel on May 24, 2021, 03:52:38 pm
lol bird grinder go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Post by: tawd on May 24, 2021, 06:30:04 pm
'Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim—for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives—is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again. For long periods the High seem to be securely in power, but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they lose either their belief in themselves or their capacity to govern efficiently, or both. They are then overthrown by the Middle, who enlist the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice. As soon as they have reached their objective, the Middle thrust the Low back into their old position of servitude, and themselves become the High.
Presently a new Middle group splits off from one of the other groups, or from both of them, and the struggle begins over again. Of the three groups, only the Low are never even temporarily successful in achieving their aims. It would be an exaggeration to say that throughout history there has been no progress of a material kind. Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer. From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.'
• Emmanuel Goldstein, THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM, Chapter 1 (
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: Mozai on May 25, 2021, 04:49:41 pm
... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.
Yeah, nah, just two: those the law restrains but does not protect, and those the law protects but does not restrain. You can recognize the latter in our culture as those who can "buy their way out" of suffering police action.
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: rachel on May 25, 2021, 09:38:36 pm
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Post by: here cums the fuck truck on May 27, 2021, 03:19:59 pm
... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low.
Yeah, nah, just two: those the law restrains but does not protect, and those the law protects but does not restrain. You can recognize the latter in our culture as those who can "buy their way out" of suffering police action.
i would argue the middle is restrained and protected
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: here cums the fuck truck on May 27, 2021, 03:21:28 pm
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Post by: rachel on June 07, 2021, 10:58:02 am
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Post by: rachel on June 12, 2021, 01:42:38 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3inYD0WQAAY_Ke.jpg)
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Post by: here cums the fuck truck on June 14, 2021, 01:53:13 pm
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Post by: Mozai on June 23, 2021, 07:04:23 am
"Friend Computer reminds you that Happiness is mandatory." https://petapixel.com/2021/06/17/canon-uses-ai-cameras-that-only-let-smiling-workers-inside-offices/
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Canon has always advocated the concepts of ‘laughing’ and ‘big health’, therefore a new experience of smile recognition is specially incorpora
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Post by: rachel on June 24, 2021, 03:32:59 pm
your life is worth $4 million to the govt when designing safety equipment
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Post by: Ozmiander on July 03, 2021, 04:30:37 pm
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Post by: rachel on July 13, 2021, 12:42:22 am
Not really a meme, just food for thought
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01:23 < meeseeks> rachel proposition: the west very badly needs cultural production again that is not tied to or resultant of capitalistic enterprise or the profit motive. 01:24 < meeseeks> and the reason modern society feels darn soulless is because we lost that and it wasnt very long ago that we lost it, all things considered 01:25 < meeseeks> internet meme culture was a resurgence of it, actually, but it got taken over by the brands again
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: rachel on August 10, 2021, 12:50:53 am
(https://i.redd.it/sbdaers2ahg71.jpg)
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: rachel on September 06, 2021, 11:07:26 pm
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Post by: here cums the fuck truck on September 11, 2021, 05:48:38 am
https://twitter.com/bcmerchant/status/1436421222854631425 (https://twitter.com/bcmerchant/status/1436421222854631425) "Simply incredible—all 5 of the "third party" privacy and consumer groups Facebook said it consulted before rolling out its Ray Ban AR camera glasses to ensure privacy was "baked in" from the start are *funded by Facebook*. Every single one of them.&quo
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Post by: kayimbo on September 14, 2021, 08:49:21 pm
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Post by: meleeman on September 14, 2021, 11:08:09 pm
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Post by: rachel on September 16, 2021, 07:04:25 pm
Google is reportedly encountering an increasing number of government agency requests for user information. In response, the tech giant has put a price tag on complying with legal requests for data like emails, location tracking information and search queries, according to a Friday report from The New York Times. Starting this month, Google will reportedly charge $45 for a subpoena, $60 for a wiretap and $245 for a search warrant.
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: rachel on October 26, 2021, 11:48:03 am
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Post by: rachel on November 07, 2021, 07:58:04 pm
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Post by: Mozai on November 18, 2021, 08:41:19 am
We see a fashion model -- or maybe a painter's model for romance novels -- wearing only pyjama bottoms and hair that is gel'd and mousse'd into that "just woke up" tussle. Yawn, stretch to flex his chiselled stomach and he pads down the hall of a New York loft. He turns into a door, and the door closes on the camera so the view shows the "Man/Woman" icon that is universally recognized as a bathroom in a public building (despite this being an obvious private home).
Cut to the loft's kitchen, all white paneling with black marble tops and shiny nickel fixtures that have seen no use. A beautiful thin woman is pouring generic-brand breakfast cereal into two bowls, with flawless hair and makeup despite the carefully-careless man's shirt she's wearing as pyjamas (too large for the fashion model we saw earlier). The pretty man walks in from stage left, gives her a chaste peck on the cheek and moves across to the fridge.
"The usual?" she asks, looking at the cereal so the audience knows what she means and the production company can minimize the woman's speaking role.
"Nah, need more fibre, and my potassium count is low," says the model in a voice suspiciously clear for facing away from us. He turns around and places oatmeal and two bananas on the counter next to the woman's pair of offerings.
Cut to the bathroom door again, which opens and the camera pans in to the spotless and unused bathroom. The camera continues to pan on the spotless toilet, until an Apple® logo is visible on the top of the water-tank.
"Apple iToilet™; high quality output comes from high quality intake. Now with iCloud™ compatibility so you can get the same improved service when you need to go on the go.&
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: Mozai on December 10, 2021, 06:08:48 am
Speaking to NPR’s Hidden Brain programme, Mr Chen said the amount of battery users had left was “one of the strongest predictors of whether or not you are going to be sensitive to surge” – in other words, agree to pay 1.5 times, 2 times or more the normal cost of a journey. Uber knows whether a user is on low battery because the app needs to use that information to go into power
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Post by: rachel on December 13, 2021, 10:34:48 am
holy fuck it's real https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17
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Stolen property.
If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless you return it to its rightful owner in the same year.
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: Mozai on January 15, 2022, 06:16:21 am
To get a true/false result, you must install unknown software in your personal digital assistant, and upload data you don't know into our cloud servers... (https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/8084def7-6616-4484-68bf-16b4b3c58f3b.jpeg)
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: Mozai on January 16, 2022, 09:01:24 am
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Post by: Mozai on January 21, 2022, 05:35:05 am
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, buy the pond, tell him he can't have the fish but he can fish for you and you'll sell the fish and give him a very small cut, and he'll say stuff like "I am hungry and my teeth hurt" because nobody wants to fish these days. -- Tim Ross
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: kayimbo on January 23, 2022, 09:49:20 pm
To get a true/false result, you must install unknown software in your personal digital assistant, and upload data you don't know into our cloud servers... (https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/8084def7-6616-4484-68bf-16b4b3c58f3b.jpeg)
i tried to get a covid test locally at rite aid and i couldn't without creating a google account. my last two i didn't need to do any of that nonsense the results were texted or emailed to me. fucking bull shit i dont need an advertising agency ruining my health history or spreading it around or even storing it.
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: rachel on January 29, 2022, 09:07:51 am
To get a true/false result, you must install unknown software in your personal digital assistant, and upload data you don't know into our cloud servers... (https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/8084def7-6616-4484-68bf-16b4b3c58f3b.jpeg)
i tried to get a covid test locally at rite aid and i couldn't without creating a google account. my last two i didn't need to do any of that nonsense the results were texted or emailed to me. fucking bull shit i dont need an advertising agency ruining my health history or spreading it around or even storing it.
yeah I'm really glad I was able to take a completely analog at home test with no fucking app or anything. I just unscrewed the bottle and put it into the test and swabbed my nose
Despite the convenience of not needing an app, the fucking at home test didn't even work and gave me a false negative when I did in fact have covid lol
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Post by: here cums the fuck truck on January 31, 2022, 07:24:59 am
To get a true/false result, you must install unknown software in your personal digital assistant, and upload data you don't know into our cloud servers... (https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/8084def7-6616-4484-68bf-16b4b3c58f3b.jpeg)
i tried to get a covid test locally at rite aid and i couldn't without creating a google account. my last two i didn't need to do any of that nonsense the results were texted or emailed to me. fucking bull shit i dont need an advertising agency ruining my health history or spreading it around or even storing it.
yeah I'm really glad I was able to take a completely analog at home test with no fucking app or anything. I just unscrewed the bottle and put it into the test and swabbed my nose
Despite the convenience of not needing an app, the fucking at home test didn't even work and gave me a false negative when I did in fact have covid lol
god that fucking sucks. i thought tests like this were supposed to have a little control strip that told you if the test is good? i have no idea how those work
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Post by: rachel on January 31, 2022, 02:54:46 pm
god that fucking sucks. i thought tests like this were supposed to have a little control strip that told you if the test is good? i have no idea how those work
it did have a control strip, however I got sick with omicron which apparently is harder for at-home tests to detect
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Post by: rachel on February 02, 2022, 09:36:44 am
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Post by: Mozai on February 03, 2022, 10:29:21 am
(https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/bd572eb6-20ec-9586-48e7-ab8da57dfde9.png) (this is not far off. Not far off enough.)
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: rachel on February 03, 2022, 10:57:24 pm
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Post by: Mozai on February 05, 2022, 09:18:44 am
I know where my next Shadowrun adventure's gonna be: the Taipei 101 building. (https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/c6af5288-ff9c-304b-2a84-d6e31cc98c85.jpeg)
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Post by: Mozai on February 13, 2022, 09:34:49 am
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Post by: Mozai on February 16, 2022, 07:40:22 am
If you do nothing, and we do nothing, you owe us money. (https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/90cd44f2-1356-dacd-9ecf-d3d3aa16ad65.png)
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Post by: Mozai on February 17, 2022, 07:42:18 pm
friend told me the name of a subreddit full of people "who miss the point by a Planck length" (https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/b6288f58-fdc8-c306-54e6-f00c5c72a61b.jpeg)
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: rachel on February 22, 2022, 09:58:01 am
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Post by: Mozai on September 15, 2022, 09:33:18 pm
"Kids these days aren't like when I was young." (https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/3cf635dc-1ce8-e003-02c3-3c6af0c34967.png)
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: Mozai on September 21, 2022, 08:33:43 am
(https://mltshp-cdn.com/r/1NYJA.jpg)
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: Mozai on October 17, 2022, 05:52:53 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfEHoRIXgAAuQXX.png)
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: Mozai on October 19, 2022, 09:49:01 pm
another civic official who didn't play Simcity... but at least he knows longer commutes are terrible. (https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/73553dda-e48d-c223-4bcb-3085566ad400.png)
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Post by: rachel on October 19, 2022, 09:54:25 pm
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Post by: nepnep on February 03, 2023, 08:23:07 am
From a year-old article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719) (https://wiki.wetfish.net/upload/0c86d49a-721a-6cfe-2f10-ecf5ef09c269.jpeg)
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Post by: Mozai on February 05, 2023, 07:48:51 am
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Post by: nepnep on February 28, 2023, 12:58:50 pm
i have anxiety about youtube or other big sites shutting down. we rely on them so much, and they can close at the drop of a hat should they choose to. they're not like government facilities -- they don't stick around 'cause the law says so, they just stick around for the money. if the money ever goes elsewhere, god knows what could happen!
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Post by: rachel on March 08, 2023, 08:33:09 pm
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Post by: nepnep on April 01, 2023, 10:24:42 am
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Post by: Mozai on May 03, 2023, 09:22:41 am
"Like, I'm not saying that this is a good thing, but it's kind of bleakly entertaining how over the course of my life my skill set as an online researcher has gone from being:
1. Hugely valuable in the late 1990s and early 2000s because the discoverability of information in public-facing databases was fucking terrible and nobody knew how to organise anything; to
2. Effectively useless throughout the 2010s because search engines enormously and rapidly improved and computer literacy was at an all-time high; and
3. Back to being hugely valuable once again because SEO bullshit and the proliferation of AI-generated content have degraded online discoverability back to pre-2000 levels and computer literacy is in accelerating decline due to mobile devices deliberately obfuscating basic functionality so that app vendors can sell it back to you with embedded advertising.
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: Mozai on May 17, 2023, 05:40:16 am
A cool thing about cyberpunk coming true is we got ALL the cyberpunk futures:
* China: universal surveillance and social control
Has he considered that by refusing to drive to his job any more he'd be hastening the collapse of society?
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: Mozai on September 05, 2023, 08:12:02 am
why do we bother with I hate my partner jokes when your boss is right there. s/(wife|husband|spouse)/boss/gi;
Me: I feel fat, can you give me a compliment? Boss: Can you stay late tonight?
- If you were my [employee] I'd poison your coffee. - If you were my [boss], I'd drink it.
Arguing with a [Boss] is like reading the software licence agreement; in the end, you'll get in trouble anyways so you just skip to the end and say "I agree."
- Where's your [boss]? - In the garden. - I don't see him. - You have to dig a little.
Want to know what it's like being [employed]? chain yourself to a bear then kick the bear.
Title: Re: Megacorp dystopia memes
Post by: Mozai on December 11, 2023, 07:48:01 am