Imagine being such a shitty person you get fired from a job you hired yourself for.

That’s what the word “furry” means, so yes.

Notably, I refused to play Fire Emblem until they added an opt-out on permadeath in Awakening.

This is such a culty reply. 

FAIR

I do 3D modeling and animation professionally, and a couple months ago some dude I worked with over ten years ago sent me a LinkedIn message, asking if I could “teach him 3D ASAP”. It turns out he’d read an article about Beeple getting rich, and he thought “I’ll ask this random dude I worked with back in 2009 to teach…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

To be fair, anyone who pays MENSA is also a sucker. 

Nothing says, “all scarcity is manufactured” quite like literally manufacturing scarcity to prove how cutting edge you are.

I don’t think anyone buys these because they actually want them. I think they are just speculating that they will be worth something in the long run. However since no one actually wants them (other than more speculators) then those prospects are pretty grim.

The crypto community’s “thinking I’m smart” / “being a colossal dumbass” is fucking unmatched. The biggest suckers in the world thinking they’re pulling MENSA shit.

That’s the beauty of AI; train an AI to produce numbers, and as long as you don’t do any analysis of what the numbers actually correlate with, you can claim that they “measure” whatever you want.

It’s like the old stories about company A complaining about the programmers from company B being unproductive because they’re only writing a tenth the lines of code that the company A programmers are for the same tasks. CEOs rarely have any real understanding of the metrics they use to make these decisions (or even…

Capitalism is an unwinnable game. 

“Human capital”

This is cancer at every level. Firing your 10% least productive rather than supporting them to improve? Cancer. Firing people based on an analysis of a vague ‘engagement’ dataset rather than far more obtainable and reliable metrics/performance reviews? Cancer. Firing people for input rather than output, basing the…

Call it Johnny 9 - 5.

This is why our economic system is so destructive. Perpetual growth is not a realistic or feasible idea, so making that the main factor that causes stock prices to go up was bound to lead to things like this.

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/companies/2021/04/ceos-are-hugely-expensive-why-not-automate-them

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