Let me tell you how well this is going over in /r/Austin.

Not well.

“We must be more vigilant about our ratfucking.”

(and yes, I did that)

I guarantee this is akin to cockroaches. Knowing about this one instance is bad, but I’m sure other groups keep a tighter lid on such operations.

I’ve of course heard of Labubus, but do you not pick one to purchase? Like, are people literally paying without knowing what they’ll get?

I can’t imagine going to HEB and buying a random box that contains “some kind of food.”

You’re making me feel very old. Reality TV was what permanently turned me off of linear programming. I gradually started learning about the Kardashians via memes in comments.

If you’re starting with “people with several jobs,” you’re not addressing speakerphone use but rather the collapse of the social contract.

Shhh … the cloud is the only way forward. Heresy!

I’ll forgive it this once.

Most phone glass is oleophobic at this point and has been for years. So that’s a shit excuse.

I can see where you’re coming from on that at least with speakerphone, you know no one is addressing you. When I was at my ex’s last week, she said something from the bedroom, prompting me to loudly say “What?” Her son had just called, and if he’d heard my voice, we’d not have parted ways on good terms.

Sure, but like, use your phone at home instead. It’s like people bringing dogs to grocery stores and restaurants (we have something of an epidemic of dogs shitting in food places when they’d have been fine in the yard for an hour here in Austin).

I’m aware. I was referring to the initial editorial judgment by the pub.

It was amusing in Star Trek IV, but that seems quaint now.

I can totally get behind speakerphone in that precise situation.

Given that copy desks were being gutted more than a decade ago just with little things like Grammarly, it absolutely will replace knowledge jobs. It won’t be better, but it will mean more share buybacks.

I’d not have put the clickbait “shocking” in the hed, but regardless, we’re running out of things to take off. Masks, gloves … they want us totally naked, and preferably underage.

The fucked part is this junta would welcome attacks on California. Now, if they hit Texas, the nukes come out.

But where’s the profit in a society that is housed, fed, healthy and happy?

I’d be totally fine with either a system like drug patents that expire in (comparatively) short order or just the rest of the creator’s life. Life plus anything is an absurd construction that upends copyright as a means of encouraging artistic works. “I’ll make another album so my kids don’t have to work” is not the correct motivation in any situation.