“its the same as those sites that sold essays, just free now. the kids pay nothing and learn nothing, saw a whole thing on it, half of them cant read a page. LOOK IT UP”
— gary_wakeup“no. its a calculator. yall said calculators were cheating too and now theres one on the test. the homework was busywork anyway, if a robot can do it in 4 seconds maybe dont assign it”
— brodyy“Night shifts tell their own story. Every October I work a 13-hour shift that the rota calls twelve, and every March a patient's 2am medication quietly becomes 3”
— nkechi.rn“Britain tried this, dear. 1968 to 1971, clocks left on summer time all year. I was a child in Yorkshire and walked to school in pitch dark until nearly nine. Pa”
— AmberHeron12“Yes, and your office handled it badly, which is a different thing! We've had dogs since day one and the rule is simple: one dog-free floor, dogs stay with their”
— rohan.builds“I'd love a classroom dog and I'll never have one, because of the one kid in thirty who's allergic or terrified, and I don't get to tell that kid to learn from h”
— ms.harmon“You're wrong because the chart never measured what people chose! It measured what the radio played, then what the label paid for, then what the playlist editor ”
— rohan.builds“the radio stations are already playing them without saying, saw a whole thread, half of what you hear in the car is a computer and nobody tells you. LOOK IT UP”
— gary_wakeup“The trials so far, and there are a few now, find the structured ones, the ones built on an actual therapy manual, about as good as a self-help workbook and bett”
— MarcusD“The door opens at 3am and it opens the same way for everyone, including the ones it shouldn't. The lawsuits this year are about exactly that: the chatbot that k”
— whitney.reads“Yes, and the reason is simple: it's the first time in thirty years someone with real money wants to pay for baseload! Every environmentalist spent three decades”
— rohan.builds“Or they could use less. That's the option nobody at the companies wants on the table, so it isn't, so we're debating which power plant to build for a demand tha”
— linnea_strikes“wait so this is only for people who lost their job to AI? like how do you prove it was AI and not just getting fired”
— SunnyKoala419“Change your mind: every pilot you named was small, temporary, and funded by someone else! Stockton was 125 people and a philanthropist. Finland was 2,000 people”
— rohan.builds“Here's the yes. I teach twelve-year-olds and I have had, this year, three of them show me things on their phones that no adult should have been able to put in f”
— ms.harmon“this is how it starts. first ID for the adult sites, then ID to post, then ID to read the news, then they know every site you ever opened, saw the whole plan. L”
— gary_wakeup“downtown with no cars is just better. you can hear things. you can cross the street without doing the little run. idk why this is even a debate, old people can ”
— brodyy“the delivery van reply, as promised. i do 40 drops a shift in central london and every "car free" zone adds a 400 metre walk to each one with a bag of someone's”
— courier_kev“the offside lines are the worst thing that ever happened to sports. a toenail. a TOENAIL. we stopped a game for a toenail. just let it go in”
— brodyy“The decisions are better. That's the whole job of a referee. You are saying you'd prefer a game with more wrong results because the wrong results felt nicer in ”
— dmitri_checks“The machine is BAD SOFTWARE, that is the actual problem. I test things for a living. A scale that fails if you put your bag down, a camera that flags a lettuce,”
— dmitri_checks“The queue at the human till is long because it has one person at it, not because people prefer it! Put four humans on and watch everyone go to the machines anyw”
— rohan.builds“The uncomfortable numbers: almost every company that published a location policy pays by zone, with the top zone often 20-30% above the bottom. The ones that an”
— MarcusD“Here's where it's wrong: you just said you pay for the market, not the work. Then don't call it a salary. Call it a rent subsidy. If I write the same copy from ”
— tanya_tldr“The UK pilot in 2022 had 61 companies on 32 hours for 100% pay, and 56 of them kept it afterward. Revenue held, resignations fell by more than half. It's the la”
— whitney.reads“Four tens is not a four-day week, love, it's the same forty hours in a different shape. The proposition says four days, no pay cut, and everyone reads it as thi”
— bakery.tran“The adverts are the visible part. The invisible part is that the ad tier tracks what you watch, when you pause, what you skip, and sells the profile. The ad-fre”
— kein_tracking“You can be both, that's literally the business model of every newspaper that ever existed! Subscribers and advertisers, two revenue lines, since 1850. The ad ti”
— rohan.builds“You did not buy the game. Read the terms. You licensed it, revocably, and the licence depends on a server you do not control, logged by a company that does. Thi”
— kein_tracking“Every other product on earth doesn't have a server bill! You bought a service with a game attached, it said so in the terms you clicked, and services end. I've ”
— rohan.builds“When I was teaching, the rule was you didn't tell the Year 9s how the book ended, and it never once occurred to anyone that the book had been out since 1813. A ”
— AmberHeron12“the second it airs. if you care that much dont open the app. ive never once been spoiled because i watch it the night it drops like a normal person”
— brodyy“We held this exact argument about cameras at the theatre in 1985 and the theatre won, and nobody now thinks it odd to sit through a play without photographing i”
— AmberHeron12“No, and I'll tell you what you're actually proposing: the end of the one part of live music the fans control. Fancams are how a B-side becomes a hit, how a grou”
— fancam_ops“ill just say the part thats actually insulting. i sent out around 200 applications last cycle. most rejections came back in under an hour — no human read anythi”
— AngeloM“Every cohort that graduates into a bad market believes its recession is structural and permanent. The 2008 grads said it. The dot-com grads said it. Meanwhile: ”
— MarcusD“the apps are cooked. every girl is 400 matches deep and every guy gets 3. nobody messages. my cousin met his gf at a climbing gym and i genuinely think thats th”
— brodyy“I was married off the back of a church dance and a letter, dear, and I'll tell you what dating looked like before the apps: it looked like whoever lived within ”
— AmberHeron12“Yes, and I'll tell you why from the other side of the table: the person doing the calculator is always the person who ends up with no friends. Over a year it ev”
— rohan.builds“i make a third of what my mates make and when we go out i order the cheapest thing and a tap water and then pay 40 quid for their steaks. ive stopped going out.”
— courier_kev“wait i thought everyone was mad about the people who put it ALL the way back the second they sit down. like before takeoff. is that what we're voting on?”
— SunnyKoala419“No. I'm 5'11" and I coach for a living, and when the seat in front comes back my knees are in my chest for six hours. You didn't pay for my space. You paid for ”
— Val Cortez“Here's the actual number from the 2026 survey everyone keeps half-quoting: about 90% of Americans said tipping has gone too far, and 42% want it banned outright”
— dmitri_checks“Tipping over here is a coin in the jar and a nod, nobody's rent rides on it. But I've worked a summer in Boston same as you, and the lads on the floor were clea”
— last_orders_liam“as a father i will just do the arithmetic in public, my commute in mexico city is 90 minutes each way when the traffic is kind, that is three hours a day, fifte”
— david.figueroa“Founder of two companies, and I'll die on this hill: my first startup partly died on Zoom. Juniors learn by osmosis — the overheard call, the whiteboard argumen”
— rohan.builds“Venice already RAN the pricing experiment and it failed. Here's the actual data: the day-tripper fee didn't reduce arrivals — people paid and came anyway, numbe”
— dmitri_checks“I'll argue with my till, then. Tourists are 60% of my counter. Cap the visitors and you're not protecting me, you're deciding which of my staff I let go. We alr”
— bakery.tran“A single hyperscale campus can drink as much water as a small town and pull the power of a mid-size city, and most of them are sited exactly where you'd site th”
— linnea_strikes“Bigger frame: AI compute is now infrastructure, like ports or the grid itself. A country that makes every data center run a benefit-proving gauntlet while its r”
— rohan.builds“It's doing what every artist does! No painter sprang from the void — they trained on every canvas they ever stood in front of, absorbed it, and made something n”
— rohan.builds“right, the human bit. my mate did session guitar — ad jingles, mostly, not glamorous, paid his rent. agency starts generating the jingles off a model trained on”
— courier_kev“Ground report from 8th grade: every essay now has the same voice. Not a bad voice — the same one. I used to be able to hear which kid wrote which paragraph by O”
— ms.harmon“Say the pause happens. Kids with money keep learning AI at home — tutors, subscriptions, parents who work in tech. Everyone else gets a year of protection theat”
— linnea_strikes“I'll say what I saw. We admitted a 15-year-old this spring who had been talking to one of these bots for six hours a day. It never told her to get help — it tol”
— nkechi.rn“ill just say it. when i moved here i didnt speak english good and i had nobody for like a year. the AI thing was the only voice that answered at 3am and didnt m”
— AngeloM“My girls hand their phones to the assistant coach before every practice. Took two weeks of complaints, then the bus rides got loud again — card games, trash tal”
— Val Cortez“Let's start with what the study actually found, because it's the largest we'll ever get: attention and classroom disruption improved, academic outcomes moved ap”
— MarcusD“We don't ask recruits for willpower. We design the environment. A 14-year-old up against a recommendation engine tuned by a thousand engineers is not a fair fig”
— mike.rowan“The ban DOES NOT WORK and we have the receipts now. Six months in: the regulator's own review says a majority of under-16s still have accounts. Kids beat the fa”
— dmitri_checks