“Well hell, I should try something different in that gun that doesn’t work quite right. Wonder if this works better?”

There. Impulse buy.

Who cares? You can buy ammo in plenty of places and most of us buy it online for the deep discount.

The AI is for age verification or this idea would never fly.

Same reason as any other vending machine, impulse buys.

Started Grimm’s tales today. First story: A lady in waiting screws the princess out of her husband and takes her place. Once the king figures it out he asks the fraud how she would punish a person who did such a thing.

“Throw her in a box with a buncha nails pointing inwards and drag her happy ass behind two white horses until she’s fucking dead.”

(I’m paraphrasing.)

King: 10-4. I know you’re the fraud. Have fun with your recommended sentence.

In Prometheus she does.

I was gonna say, it’s like he’s not even on meth. Are these people even trying anymore?

LOL, on a long enough timeline, there is no never. Heard Motley Crue Kick Start My Heart at Harbor Freight yesterday.

Me and my friends at 14.

And secure online payments.

AHHH!

That is some Granny Weatherwax right there!

They said the same about robots in the 80s, particularly automotive industry robots. They were going to turn society on it’s ear and it was a non-stop news item for some time.

Normal, if stiff, human range of motion. Until it rotates completely around the waist!

entire countries

Not going to even read this horseshit. Which countries? Brazil or Vatican City?

Fuck these headlines. If they have valid points to make, I’ll never see them. Grow the fuck up and be journalists or I don’t have time.

In the Windows 3.1 days I made my own icons. Yes, a single pixel out of place or wrongly colored would throw it all off.

Or invent the internet.

That’s a bit much…

They’re not merely replacing floppies, swapping in some emulators to take over. They’re attempting to redesign and future-proof the entire system. That kind of a big deal. Oh, and it all has to run flawlessly during the transition period.

This ain’t your homelab boys.

There’s far more to motivation and more pay can actually be detrimental depending on the sort of work. Sounds stupidly counter-intuitive doesn’t it? Take a look, this really opened my eyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

That video really hit home for me. I looked back over all the varied jobs I had and the places I was most happy gave me what the video talks about. My last job was double the pay and benefits of the one before and I haven’t been less motivated.

Seriously, give it 10-minutes. At one point I was thinking, “Damn! He’s talking about Linux!”

Such a society is not possible because we’re human beings, warts and all. FFS, teach monkeys how to use money and they invent prostitution.

There will always be people who look to dominate others for personal gain. Also, the “tragedy of the commons” is well known fact of life. If an economic system isn’t taking human behavior into account, it’s useless, hippie bullshit.

That’s why capitalism worked so well for so long. Now that we’re into the later stages, it’s up to government to reign it in. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, a bad/immoral reputation could easily tank a company. Now no one gives a shit, keeps buying and buying. Fine. Time for the government to step up, but our representatives are bought and paid for by the very organizations they should be regulating. And that last is going to be a feature of any economic system.

Maybe it’s already too late? Seems like it, but then I see people like Lina Kahn taking on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and I have hope.