Customer services are intentionally so toxic that they turn engaging helpful and authentically nice people into chatbots. It makes sense to simply use chatbots at the outset rather than starting with humans and converting them.
I hate COBOL with a passion - it seriously hurts my brain - but even I will grudgingly admit it's good for the things within its area of specialization.
An attempt to get rid of a COBOL system that works is an obvious attempt to uselessly re-write something with the fad of the week in order to funnel money to contractors.
It's easy to believe you're getting diverse perspectives when you see stories on Facebook
I have to disagree. It takes a certain amount of active disregard for reality to confuse Facebook with a diversity of opinion. The fact that 'like' is not the same as 'dislike' is not a difficult concept.
Of course, wilful blindness does come easily to some people, but I still think 'easy' is not the right word.
Maybe they think it's easy because the "journalist" is in his own confirmation bias bubble.
I realize that people are emotional about abortion, but objectively this is no more creepy or unethical than anything else in the advertising industry.
Though some people will throw out words like 'sexist' or 'misogynist' when someone points out the obvious fact that men and women are not biologically identical.
There's a reasonable argument that discrimination and other negativity directed towards women is more frequent, more pervasive, and more harmful, and that it's an efficient use of their energy to prioritize fighting that.
There are, however, people who think misandry does not exist, or worse, who think discriminating against men is perfectly fine, and in fact men who complain about it aren't "real men" in the first place. These hypocrites are utterly blind to their own bigotry.
Google and their like sound more and more like addicts. They keep escalating the intensity and obnoxiousness of adverts but getting less and less satisfaction from them. And unable to even conceive that the problem might be their own behaviour.
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Customer services are intentionally so toxic that they turn engaging helpful and authentically nice people into chatbots. It makes sense to simply use chatbots at the outset rather than starting with humans and converting them.
I hate COBOL with a passion - it seriously hurts my brain - but even I will grudgingly admit it's good for the things within its area of specialization.
An attempt to get rid of a COBOL system that works is an obvious attempt to uselessly re-write something with the fad of the week in order to funnel money to contractors.
It's easy to believe you're getting diverse perspectives when you see stories on Facebook
I have to disagree. It takes a certain amount of active disregard for reality to confuse Facebook with a diversity of opinion. The fact that 'like' is not the same as 'dislike' is not a difficult concept.
Of course, wilful blindness does come easily to some people, but I still think 'easy' is not the right word.
Maybe they think it's easy because the "journalist" is in his own confirmation bias bubble.
Darn, a word is missing.
All these silly cell phone studies are hurting my brain, that must mean something.
All these silly cell phones are hurting my brain, that must mean something.
It's not meant to replace regular surface buses, it's meant to replace building a hugely expensive subway line.
As near as I can tell, "pro-life" just means bitterly jealous of people with better sex lives than them.
The advertising is long since way past "just advertising". The pure evil is just a little more obvious in this case.
Spreading misinformation and lying
So... the *same* as the rest of the advertising industry.
I realize that people are emotional about abortion, but objectively this is no more creepy or unethical than anything else in the advertising industry.
Just because someone says something sexist
In fairness, sexist is frequently misogynist.
Though some people will throw out words like 'sexist' or 'misogynist' when someone points out the obvious fact that men and women are not biologically identical.
No less ugly than any other cartel.
There's a reasonable argument that discrimination and other negativity directed towards women is more frequent, more pervasive, and more harmful, and that it's an efficient use of their energy to prioritize fighting that.
There are, however, people who think misandry does not exist, or worse, who think discriminating against men is perfectly fine, and in fact men who complain about it aren't "real men" in the first place. These hypocrites are utterly blind to their own bigotry.
It's always good to have quantitative data, though the definition of misogynist seems a little vague and unreliable.
But I hope they don't expect anyone to be surprised by this.
Google and their like sound more and more like addicts. They keep escalating the intensity and obnoxiousness of adverts but getting less and less satisfaction from them. And unable to even conceive that the problem might be their own behaviour.
PR flacks probably believe their jobs are immune to automation.
Oh, come on, there haven't been humans in that kind of work for a long time.
If you have to choose between SJW's and Nazis,
The scary part is that the Nazis really believed that they *were* social justice warriors.
But the argument will be far more persuasive if someone credibly *tries* to bring the jobs back and is unsuccessful. It has *not* been tried yet.
we have several.
We have too many.
If you are going to work your balls off, you might want to also consider other lines of work.
It's calories in versus calories out.
It's not quite as simple as that - not all calories are the same.
That said, number of calories is a pretty big part of it.
Shrimpy McShrimpface, obviously.
We didn't respect regular-sized Australians.
We have only ourselves to blame.
If, however, the nude female actually is asking for it, she's wielding vastly more power than any man could ever dream of.
Indiscriminately throwing money at problems doesn't create solutions, it creates well-funded problems.