Don’t let them watch Severance. They’ll get ideas

My parents, in their 70s, started receiving a guaranteed income supplement (they’re Canadian). They’re still poor, but finally they can afford the basics of survival without having to work full time.

It’s such a huge change.

Fair enough, but endless feeds and short form videos are also widely regarded as dangerous to mental wellbeing, so I agree with them on that point.

But I’m more interested in getting people away from the adtech platforms, so also happy to see decentralised alternatives pop up.

The great thing about decentralised social media is I’ll always have my anti dark pattern folks in one corner or other.

^^^

Pirates now the only ones preserving this culture, yeah

Ok let’s hear your take

So hard to pick… But I love those bushy dark maples with the leaves that are so blue they’re almost black in certain light. I call them goth maples.

Found a picture:

EDIT oops wrong post

Agreed

Oh I didn’t know that, they can’t just wave it away?

The email is 100% optional though. Also customer can decline a receipt.

… they’re just underpaid and under a lot of pressure from management to try multiple times and in some cases they even get written up for not doing it because it’s deemed part of their job. They hate it just as much as you.

I’ve worked retail and call centre jobs and I can assure you this is many people (at least those who are not too exhausted to care). These workers are constantly pressured to enshitify their service at the expense of theirs and the customer’s experience.

I haven’t worked a counter in over a decade, so can only imagine it’s got worse.

This is sadly very common where I’m from, except you don’t even get a discount from it. I’ve taken to just politely declining, since I’m sure the person working the cash is probably pressured to get people to give their personal info.

“And can get your email?”

“No thank you”

“I need your email for the receipt”

“I appreciate it but no thank you”

It’s a slight non sequitur while still being polite. Saying “no thank you” when someone is pressuring you works well in many situations.

Ok WTF. Unencrypted PII on prem, just out in a hostile public environment???

Or religious sludge

Condolences

How so? I don’t know anything about him personally

There are ways, yes

I’ve definitely been this level of stupid, just luckier, so I have enough sympathy for the both of us.

Yeah I was being obtuse

Google has a browser now?