The technology isn’t there to accurately assess damage. It’s there to give Hertz an excuse to charge you extra money. It’s working exactly as the ghouls in the C-suite like.

Look, if you didn’t get it last time we told you, you won’t get it this time.

Are you lost? I didn’t talk about hiring practices.

Graceful degradation - pfft.

Progressive enhancement - yeah!

KissBee

First hit, confusingly, is this:

Further down I see a group of girls – Japanese pop music? That would have been more informative than ‘idols’.

It’s less about technology and more about evading accountability, I’d say. This would be a sort of cyberpunk version of “How dare you accuse the baron’s son of tipping your cows?! He’s a fine upstanding young man, so of course these accusations are groundless.”

I understand most of the individual words in your explanation, but it doesn’t really tell me what the point is. About all I got from it is people writing back and forth to each other, and since you mentioned ‘otaku’, probably a Japanese fandom thing?

I could google for ‘exchange diary otaku’ and maybe find a better explanation, but tbh I’m not that invested.

It makes me super uneasy. I can easily see this type of model being expanded and applied to more and more things.

Call for a refund because something you ordered never showed up? Wrong trust chain, you’re automatically lying, refund denied.

Report someone for T-boning you? Wrong trust chain, you’re now arrested for hitting them.

Etc…

90ies

I can’t help but “hear” this as “Ninety eez”.

Exactly

It’s Crusader Kings, not Kings of the Witcher!

subLemmy

Hey, I’m not gonna judge their kinks.

Sleep with one eye open. That cat will have its revenge.

So cozy.

For those keeping score in the audience, there was a 2013 episode of Ultimate Spider Man that used “unalive”, and Tik Tok launched in 2016.

It kind of surprised me.

I think it’s plausible right now. We have brain-computer interfaces under active research (for things like stroke recovery or limb-loss patients).

At the same time, neuroscience researchers have been able to switch off parts of the brain temporarily to study things like how the Wernicke area affects our use of language.

You could probably combine the two for something that fits the bill.

That being said, what I’m envisioning is more along the lines of “strap the victim into a chair and hook them up to a lot of fancy equipment for a reprogramming session” than “point a remote at the victim and press a button”.

Still, it’s pretty spooky to think about.

OTOH, I finds sopes delicious.

Oh, sure, and the spam box in my email might actually have a valuable offer for me!

That sounds backwards to me. If companies are paying all the taxes, why would you insert a second company into the chain? Then both companies would be paying a tax portion, and your salary would be that much less than if you just had a job.

Or were you thinking that you could bamboozle the government out of the tax revenue by saying “Oops, no profit! Salaries cost too much!”? I don’t think that would work unless the entire structure was built with one directive in mind: “Reward Hollywood accounting”

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