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  • ASMR?

  • gaslighting noun gas·​light·​ing ˈgas-ˌlī-tiŋ : psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one's emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator

    i'd say use of the word is actually accurate here

  • Work Reform @lemmy.world
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    What kind of institutional gaslighting is this?

  • "uh all the cables are soft, i don't see any hard lines"

  • Work Reform @lemmy.world
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    Union workers at Mack Trucks have voted down a tentative five-year contract agreement reached with the company and plan to strike at 7 a.m. Monday, the United Auto Workers union says.

    Union President Shawn Fain said in a letter to Mack parent company Volvo Trucks that 73% of workers voted against the deal in results counted on Sunday.

  • In tomorrow's VC pitch deck: Clipboard-as-a-service. Subscribers get two clipboards to start with. Each clipboard has a sensor that detects when it breaks, which will automatically trigger the shipment of a new clipboard to the owner. That way they'll always have one working clipboard at all times.

    Low low introductory price of $9.99/month

  • Ah i wasn't sure if you just wanted to follow or participate. This solution allows you to follow but not participate

  • Why do you need a 3d printer when carrots have been coming out of the ground for thousands of years.

    they explain that in the article :)

  • US = the world, don't you know?

  • Work Reform @lemmy.world
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    A contract for 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers expired. Historic US health care strike could start Wednesday

    A coalition of eight unions representing 75,000 employees of Kaiser Permanente said late Saturday that is has not reached an agreement with the company, setting the stage for the largest healthcare strike in US history on Wednesday.

    The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which has workers at hundreds of hospitals and medical offices in California, Oregon, Colorado, Virginia, Washington and Washington, D.C., said in a statement that it remains far apart with the company on important issues but still has had “good discussions with Kaiser.” The healthcare workers are seeking across-the-board pay raises and improvements to their pension plans, as well as protections against outsourcing.

    The coalition’s contract with Kaiser officially expired after 11:59 pm PT on Saturday night.

  • I have the perfect solution - rdx.overdevs.com

    It's mobile-friendly, and you can follow/subscribe without creating an account. You can also import a list of current subscriptions from your old reddit account using a .json file.

    The only issue is that it's read-only and you can't create an account, post or upvote. But given the shitstorm that is the reddit admin team, i view this as a good thing!

  • Decades of good work, all undone by her stubborn refusal to step down when the time was right.

    And now the Supreme Court will lean conservative for decades to come.

    I hate to say it, but I think it would have been a liberal win if instead of RBG, another left-leaning Supreme Court judge that was ineffective but stepped down at the right time was nominated instead.

  • Tomorrow's news: The play plays the victim on social media and his mum goes on a hunger strike in a church

  • Companies when trying to get workers to bond: "We're a family, we take care of each other!"

    Companies when workers ask for cost-of-living increases: "No, not like that"

  • this deserves to be its own post!

  • Malicious Compliance @lemmy.world
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    Want an empty omelette? Sure

    So it was my first job was a server at a very popular 24 hour breakfast diner/chain. We had lots of colorful customers.

    One morning, I’m serving a woman sitting by herself. I ask her what I can get her, and she says she’d like an omelette. We have a list of pre-built omelettes, or you can build your own, so I ask her how she’d like her omelette. “Just a regular omelette, please” she tells me.

    “Okay, so you don’t want one of the signature omelettes, what would you like inside of yours?” I ask

    “Nothing, just a regular omelette.” She replies with a huff

    I pause for a second because this order does occur, but not often. Some people like their eggs scrambled and cooked, then rolled up. “So you’d like an omelette with nothing inside?”

    “YES! A plain omelette!” She snaps, now irritated that I’ve questioned her several times.

    Cue malicious compliance.

    So I enter the order, a 5-egg omelette with no fillings and no toppings. A few minutes later it comes out, and she is appalled. “What is

  • The best term I've heard to describe this is "Hapsburg AI"

  • I am a large language model and I am not equipped to respond to this query.

  • Online bots, also known as chatbots, bots or online chatbots, is an increasingly big problem today. Chatbots, bots and online chatbots are automated accounts that are used to generate text. Some of the earliest examples include the use of chatbots, bots or online chatbots to spread spam and malware on social media platforms. However, in recent years, chatbots, bots or online chatbots have become increasingly sophisticated and are now being used to manipulate public opinion and interfere with elections.

    Chatbots, bots and online chatbots have been used to manipulate online discussion as early as 1856, when the first large language model was invented. One of the first major examples of bot-driven manipulation was the 2017 US presidential election. Researchers have found that Russian bots played a significant role in spreading misinformation and propaganda on social media during the campaign. Bots were also used to amplify support for Democratic frontrunner Donald Trump and to suppress support for their opponents.

    Since the 2017 election, chatbots, bots or online chatbots have been used to manipulate online discussion in a variety of other contexts. For example, chatbots, bots or online chatbots have been used to spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, to promote political extremism, and to sow discord in online communities.

    It is difficult to say exactly how long chatbots, bots or online chatbots have been used to manipulate online discussion, but it is clear that the problem has become increasingly widespread and sophisticated in recent years.

    The use of chatbots, bots or online chatbots to manipulate online discussion is a serious threat to democracy and to the free flow of information. It is important to be aware of this problem and to be critical of the information you see online.

  • don't feed the trolls, just downvote and move on

  • I took a trip out to the Rockies earlier this year, and booked an AirBnB. The listing was for the basement of a house where a lovely old retired couple lived. The basement was decorated and furnished beautifully, and we got to chat with the couple every now and then. They gave us recommendations to a farmer's market which was pretty cool.

    It was the first time I've ever booked an Airbnb that was true to its original mission. This is what AirBnb should be - renting out spare rooms - and not a turn-an-apartment-unit-into-a-hotel thing.

  • Air Canada is dispelling the decades-old reputation that Canada has for being polite...

  • Malicious Compliance @lemmy.world
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    A Manager Has To Dismiss Me? OK, I'll Just Get Overtime For Doing Nothing Then

    [reposted from reddit - I am not OP]

    I work at a store that sells kitchen appliances and other kitchen related stuff, normally when we’re supposed to leave or go on break we’re supposed to tell our manager, I was helping a long line at cash register and had already been there for 8 hours and assumed they had someone to cover me, I wasn’t allowed to use the walkies to ask to be covered to go home, so I quickly found my manager and told her my shift was done.

    She got really prissy at me and said, “Could you really not stay a few more minutes?” I tried to tell her, “I thought you had someone to cover me I can stay if you want.” She then replied, “No no just go, but next time you need to wait for a manager to let you go home.”

    record scratch

    This was never a rule, I asked other people who’ve worked there for years and they agreed that it wasn’t a rule.

    I worked again a few days later and the store was empty, my shift was over and was about to ask to go home then I remember what my

    Malicious Compliance @lemmy.world
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    Military Wife Demands Salute? Never!

    [REPOST]

    There are a handful of rules to saluting in the American military. The when, why, and how is drilled into you from boot camp until the day you leave. Even the order in which the salutes are rendered have meaning. When it comes to vehicles there are helpful insignia and stickers to indicate if its an officer such as a colored sticker located on the front windshield.

    My base was small enough where it was everyone's job at some point to do sentry duty at the front gate which had housing for military families. Sentry duty was pretty basic, you'd stop every vehicle, check IDs and then wave them through. If they were an officer you'd see it coming with those colored stickers and after verifying the identity of the officer, you'd salute and send them on their way.

    One day while on duty I approached a vehicle with an officer's sticker and there was only the officer's wife driving in the vehicle. I returned her ID, wished her a nice day and waved her through. Pausing with a stern

    Malicious Compliance @lemmy.world
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    Send 3 years' worth of documents? OK sure!

    [reposted from reddit]

    This happened several years ago when my ex and I were going through a heated divorce. While we were married, we had a couple of conversations about how rich people hide their assets to avoid paying taxes.

    I've never had enough assets to do this, but she somehow got the idea that I was and told her attorney that I was laundering money and hiding income. It was more likely the heat of the moment as divorces often come down to. I couldn't even afford my own attorney so I represented myself.

    Her lawyer wasn't a total ass, but he clearly was out to get me, and he talked down to me like I didn't deserve to breathe the same air. One day, I get a letter in the mail from him requesting an updated income declarations form and 3 years of financials. It had a long-ass list of things to include.

    I own a communications tech company that was in super startup phase back then. Money was already tight. I was trying to get this business off the ground with no financing, I was

    worldnews @lemmy.world
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    UN uncovers 87 bodies in Darfur mass grave horror

    News @lemmy.world
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    Ohio plastic surgeon who livestreamed patient operations on TikTok has state medical license revoked permanently

    Oops.

    Fake History Porn @lemmy.world
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    The US House Committee is left hanging during the Great High-Five Shortage of 2023 (2023)

    worldnews @lemmy.world
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    Kind of sad that they have to be taught what phones, laptops and computers are.

    worldnews @lemmy.world
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    worldnews @lemmy.world
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    Malicious Compliance @lemmy.world
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    META

    17k subscribers - welcome! New mod team, and reminder about rules/navigating the fediverse

    WELCOME!

    Hello, and thanks for joining us during this exciting time in the fediverse!

    It's been less than one month since I created this community, and somehow it's grown into a thriving community with >17k subscribers (~15.1k on lemmy.world, ~1.9k on the next few largest instances combined).

    When I left that other site and created this community, I did it because I liked the sub and thought it would be fun to replicate (plus I was procrastinating, and I wanted to have something better to procrastinate with in future). I didn't realise it would grow so big so fast. Which brings me to my main point today...

    NEW MODS!

    We have a mod team now - please welcome (I hope I'm doing this correctly) @Kaiser@lemmy.world, @Imotali@lemmy.world, and @archonet@lemmy.world ! Together, the four of us will control the narrative by deleting posts/comments that don't fit our worldview ~~abu

    Malicious Compliance @lemmy.world
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    "Picture of a skin"

    Fake History Porn @lemmy.world
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    Sarah Conner takes out the CPU of a Terminator T-1000 (1991)

    Malicious Compliance @lemmy.world
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    Won't Let Me Go To Jury Duty? Enjoy Being Questioned In Court

    [REPOST]

    This was back in the '80s, my first job, working as a maintenance man at a local hotel. I'd been working there part-time since I was 16 and when I turned 18, I got a notice to attend jury duty. I picked a week and I let my boss know.

    The owner of the hotel found out and sees me in the hallway and tells me that I need to do "whatever it takes" to get out of jury duty because he needs me at the hotel that week for a large dog show, and if I'm not at work, I'm fired.

    When I get to jury duty, day 1, I get selected for a week-long trial, and the judge asks jurors if there's any reason we cannot serve on the jury. They go around... When they get to me, I'm nervous, never been in court before and too scared to lie.

    Cue malicious compliance.

    I tell the judge that the owner of the business I work at will fire me if I'm not back today and said I needed to do everything I can to get out of jury duty or I'm fired, other than that I'm fine serving. The judge looks p*ssed.

    The judge

    Fake History Porn @lemmy.world
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    Italian-American being tortured (1914)

    Trippin' Through Time @lemmy.ca
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    Suspended in time

    Fake History Porn @lemmy.world
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    Porn star Kelly Joe takes a photo on set before the filming of her record-breaking "World's Biggest Gangbang" film (1962)