#latestagecapitalism

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/FranklinH3000/status/1491078491907198980

[chronovore]

I like chatting with the register clerks in the USA. They are responsive and cheerful. No-one speaks to the clerks in Japan. It's sad.

The self-checkout machines in both countries are horrible experiences that cause stress.

Choose a cheerful clerk. Chat (or not) based on local custom.

That is all.

[benjipwns]

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For clarification, what this "company" apparently does is subscribe to YouTube Music as you or I could, then download the music, issue a NFT to "claim ownership" and then re-stream it from their own servers.

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[OnlyRegret]

UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA
PLEASE WAIT FOR ASSISTANCE

[Potato]

UNEXPECTED ITEM IN TEA BAGGING AREA
PLEASE WAIT FOR ASSISTANCE

FTFY

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/kevincollier/status/1491108695606181888
https://twitter.com/HodlModel/status/1491120430224388097
https://twitter.com/jackdwagner/status/1491140930090717184

https://vimeo.com/348396244

Before it got privated on YouTube:

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LIFE HACK: You can save time and money by doing this without a GPS tracker or a bicycle.

have you no morals, joe  then the people you rob may be innocent. it's morally superior to entrap them and then punish them for it 

[Uncle]

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/foster_type/status/1491467846257311753

[BIONIC]

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LIFE HACK: You can save time and money by doing this without a GPS tracker or a bicycle.

have you no morals, joe  then the people you rob may be innocent. it's morally superior to entrap them and then punish them for it 

You think one becomes an internet janitor by having morals? 

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1491443638160994304

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[Uncle]

https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1491443638160994304

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I see eyes and mouths on the original! 

[benjipwns]

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For clarification, what this "company" apparently does is subscribe to YouTube Music as you or I could, then download the music, issue a NFT to "claim ownership" and then re-stream it from their own servers.

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UPDATE:

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/AlisonFisk/status/1491503286540812296

[Uncle]

one of my aunts used to say "a bee bit her" 

you absolute dumb motherfucker

[Cauliflower Of Love]

You know they have teeth right?

[Madrun Badrun]

[Uncle]

You know they have teeth right?

have you ever been out for a walk and you look down at the sidewalk and you see something glinting in the light and you're like "oh what's this" and you pick it up and it turns out it's a bee tooth

[Tasty]

Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates; revenue forecast light



Forcing user to pay for access to a 60-second fake "edit" (actually just a time delay) isn't working out???

[Potato]

Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates; revenue forecast light

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Forcing user to pay for access to a 60-second fake "edit" (actually just a time delay) isn't working out???

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Giving a bunch of lunatics blue check marks and allowing them to make the place a toxic shithole is not helping with growing your userbase?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1492604443023474688

[Joe Molotov]

Bringing my wire cutters to Wal-Mart.

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bondage steaks 

[benjipwns]

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1492205086180876292

[Tasty]

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So it's Tamagotchi.

[benjipwns]

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So it's Tamagotchi.

I think it's more like SmarterChild with some bad CGI slapped over top.

[chronovore]

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Can you imagine the type of data they're able to farm from that app?

[Joe Molotov]

How many times the average user ejaculates per day?

[who is ted danson?]

How many times the average user ejaculates per day?

https://twitter.com/VlCTORIANCHILD/status/1493072507385036800

[Nintex]

I ran into this ad today



 

[tiesto]

I ran into this ad today



 

Just what I wanted, interacting with my coworkers in what looks like a beginner's RPGMaker game.

[Tasty]

They should respect the OG.

[chronovore]

https://ovice.in/

Yeah, a partnered company is using this as their virtual office solution.
It makes about as much sense as Facebook's Walmart simulator.

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[chronovore]

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Explains a lot, that.
There are so many Chinese e-money options in Japan to support their tourism, rampant prior to COVID19, it makes sense that those ventures would now be viable.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/boztank/status/1493661545426870277

How deep can you be in your own ass? 

[Pissy F Benny]

Thanks for the clarification, Boz m8

[Joe Molotov]

https://twitter.com/polearmguy/status/1493583435767685126

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/hollykmichels/status/1493398987474276352

[BisMarckie]

When I feel hungry for pasta I go to some Italian village for 3 days, not to tourist infested Rome

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1494068088047902721

[Uncle]

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete

Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum. “I was about to go down the stairs, and all of a sudden I heard a little ‘beep, beep, beep’ sound.”

It wasn’t her phone battery running out. It was her Argus II retinal implant system powering down. The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished.

Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. He got the first-generation Argus I implant, made by the company Second Sight Medical Products, in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. He helped the company test the technology, spoke to the press movingly about his experiences, and even met Stevie Wonder at a conference. “I went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers.

Yet in 2020, Byland had to find out secondhand that the company had abandoned the technology and was on the verge of going bankrupt. While his two-implant system is still working, he doesn’t know how long that will be the case. “As long as nothing goes wrong, I’m fine,” he says. “But if something does go wrong with it, well, I’m screwed. Because there’s no way of getting it fixed.”

Ross Doerr, another Second Sight patient, doesn’t mince words: “It is fantastic technology and a lousy company,” he says. He received an implant in one eye in 2019 and remembers seeing the shining lights of Christmas trees that holiday season. He was thrilled to learn in early 2020 that he was eligible for software upgrades that could further improve his vision. Yet in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, he heard troubling rumors about the company and called his Second Sight vision-rehab therapist. “She said, ‘Well, funny you should call. We all just got laid off,’ ” he remembers. “She said, ‘By the way, you’re not getting your upgrades.’ ”

These three patients, and more than 350 other blind people around the world with Second Sight’s implants in their eyes, find themselves in a world in which the technology that transformed their lives is just another obsolete gadget. One technical hiccup, one broken wire, and they lose their artificial vision, possibly forever. To add injury to insult: A defunct Argus system in the eye could cause medical complications or interfere with procedures such as MRI scans, and it could be painful or expensive to remove.

  jesus

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/hollykmichels/status/1493398987474276352

 

[Potato]

https://twitter.com/hollykmichels/status/1493398987474276352

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It's like people who get into hospitality business after watching MasterChef or other cooking shows.

[Uncle]

[Nintex]

It's true, I had two murders happen here. One in the parking lot close by, and a guy stabbed his girlfriend to death about 2 appartments to the left.
I slept through the whole thing but it was pretty gruesome from what a neighbour told me and she had recorded her own murder because she feared it would happen.

Whenever locals checked it out, they quickly realized it was 'the place' and they bolted.
Some people also quickly moved away shortly after it happened.

Now I have a neighbour that grows 'medicinal' weed for his girlfriend (he's a chill guy tho, obviously) and some various East European migrants living in the block.
My rent still has gone up, but not as astronomically as it would have without those murders.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/1494298199208734724

[benjipwns]

[Nintex]

 

[headwalk]

before i moved out there had been three separate stabbing deaths and a someone put in hospital with a baseball bat on my road within the last couple of years.

i left because the landlord was jacking up the rent. during a pandemic.

[chronovore]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1494068088047902721

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida

They've tried this before. It didn't work out that well:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/celebration-florida-how-disneys-community-of-tomorrow-became-a-total-nightmare

[benjipwns]

This is a pretty good Disney failure too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America

[Joe Molotov]

BidenDisney's America

[Tasty]

This is a pretty good Disney failure too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America

This only failed because the American public fought tooth and nail against it. The populace these days only suck Disney dick, and when someone as revered as Scorsese dares to say something critical they try to soft-cancel him.

Disney's America would absolutely succeed today.

[Uncle]

This is a pretty good Disney failure too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America

This only failed because the American public fought tooth and nail against it. The populace these days only suck Disney dick, and when someone as revered as Scorsese dares to say something critical they try to soft-cancel him.

Disney's America would absolutely succeed today.

uh I don't know about that...if it had succeeded it sounds like it would be #cancelled today

This is not a Pollyanna view of America. We want to make you a Civil War soldier. We want to make you feel what it was like to be a slave or what it was like to escape through the underground railroad.

— Bob Weis, Disney Senior Vice President (November 1993)

Peter Rummell, president of Disney Design & Development, stated the park was designed to be a one-day experience, and the goal was to make history "real but also make it fun." Rummell acknowledged that creating entertainment around historical events such as slavery and the Civil War could be controversial, but he elaborated that "an intelligent story, properly told, shouldn't offend anybody ... But we won't worry about being politically correct."

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/jenny2x4/status/1495839709486284800

[Transhuman]

This is a pretty good Disney failure too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America

This only failed because the American public fought tooth and nail against it. The populace these days only suck Disney dick, and when someone as revered as Scorsese dares to say something critical they try to soft-cancel him.

Disney's America would absolutely succeed today.

Killers of the Flower Moon is gonna shit over whatever disney pops out this year, i'm not worried about Scorsese losing to cartoons

[Tasty]

This is a pretty good Disney failure too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_America

This only failed because the American public fought tooth and nail against it. The populace these days only suck Disney dick, and when someone as revered as Scorsese dares to say something critical they try to soft-cancel him.

Disney's America would absolutely succeed today.

uh I don't know about that...if it had succeeded it sounds like it would be #cancelled today

This is not a Pollyanna view of America. We want to make you a Civil War soldier. We want to make you feel what it was like to be a slave or what it was like to escape through the underground railroad.

— Bob Weis, Disney Senior Vice President (November 1993)

Peter Rummell, president of Disney Design & Development, stated the park was designed to be a one-day experience, and the goal was to make history "real but also make it fun." Rummell acknowledged that creating entertainment around historical events such as slavery and the Civil War could be controversial, but he elaborated that "an intelligent story, properly told, shouldn't offend anybody ... But we won't worry about being politically correct."

I think you underestimate the amount of fervent cheerleading Disney receives these days.

Even Mulan filming in concentration camps or whatever barely made a blip of difference.

[Uncle]