Costco and Loblaws in my area. Costco is even more annoying because it yells instructions on how to use the machine at you at every step. Every time. The moment you approach the machine it yells at you to scan your membership card. Then it yells at you to scan your items. Then it yells at you to put it in the bag area. Then it yells at you to use the PIN pad. Then it yells at you to thank you for shopping at Costco.

I’m wondering how many people got kicked out of the store already for snapping and yelling back at the machine to STFU.

One thing that has been annoying me lately are self checkout machines. They play the same pre-recorded message every time you’re done using them. Some pointless message in the lines of “Thank you for using self checkout” or “Thanks for shopping with us”. You’ve heard it a dozen times already from the surrounding machines by the time you complete your transaction and then it yells it at you. I feel terrible for the employee who has to stand there all day and have this stupid 3 second recording be the soundtrack of their day. I only have to listen to it for five minutes every week and I hate it already. This message must be playing in their nightmares at night.

Except cookies

The “mayo” text is differently blurry and doesn’t have the compression artifacts that the rest of the text has, just saying.

Yeah, we know why he decided to have his fists in the air like that.

They’re desperately trying to justify the absurd amounts of money they’ve been sinking into the AI bubble.

• Claims in an interview that he is qualified to handle a social media company on the internet because he has “put internet in space”
• Buys a financially struggling company for way too much money
• Dismantles everything that made it attractive
• Insults and fires the most competent employees who are trying to stop him from destroying the platform
• Doesn’t pay the employees he fired owed severance, further discouraging the best of the workforce from ever applying to work there
• Turned it into something so repulsive and toxic that the users and advertisers start to leave
• Told the advertisers to “go fuck themselves”
• Tried to sue the advertisers into returning, further discouraging any new advertiser from ever doing business with him
• Destroys the brand recognition by renaming it to a letter of the alphabet he personally likes but nobody else gives a crap about
• Abuses his admin powers to steal a handle with the name he wanted from its owner, further eroding the user’s trust in him handling the platform
• Continues ruining the platform, turning it into his personal soap box to push his (toxic) ideas and abuses his powers to reduce the visibility of those he doesn’t like while claiming to be radically pro-free speech.
• Alternative platforms have gained momentum and have reached critical mass and will soon become the new default platform people will flock to. High profile users leave.
• Whines and bitches about the company not making any money.

Hey guys, I’m starting to think that this guy’s fortune has absolutely nothing to do with his skills at running a business

Of course. It is an effective way to always have a huge basin of people desperate for work which you can then brutally underpay and exploit. And here’s the fun part: If you underpay them enough they won’t even be able to pursue better working conditions!

The US never moved on from their slave based economy mentality. They just replaced black people with poor people (who also happen to be overrepresentatingly black).

Maybe he’s trying really hard to be shot at again in hopes it would boost his popularity like it did last time.

The top one being placed impractically upright so people can see the label makes this picture suspicious. Or the guy just wanted to show off.

The photos of Mussolini’s body hanging upside down should become viral as a reminder to wannabe fascists.

Wow. I was willing to believe that the still pictures were just perfectly timed to make it look like something it wasn’t. But it totally is a Nazi salute.

Dafuq is this unelected dipshit doing at the podium to begin with? That should be the first question to ask.

I mean we all know why but I refuse to pretend this should be the “new normal”

The wiring in a house that carries about 2000W could start a fire if it gets damaged. Imagine what would happen if whatever carries the energy to power a replicator gets damaged.

I’m pretty sure a lot of scam calls use machines that call every possible phone number within an area code and see who answers. There is no way to avoid it.

I hope he got a cup of plain hot water for this.

And then he added “Nobody will believe you” and he was right.

Every time I see a thumbnail of that meme template I think it’s Winnie the Pooh

He did get caught in a lie by bragging to be a top Path of Exile II player with an extremely highly ranked character and then when he streamed himself playing it became obvious that he had not even a basic understanding of the game’s mechanics, essentially proving to everyone that he paid someone to grind up a character for him.

The guy is a compulsive liar in desperate need for praise. He’s now turning video games into pay to win games for himself.

Also, imagine claiming that you deserve all the money you make because of all the long hours of hard work you put in and yet you still have time to stream video games while being the CEO of several companies at the same time, each of which pay more in an hour than most people will do in a year. What a fucking joke.

Elon Musk is the living proof that meritocracy is dead.

In 2013 he said that his cars would be self-driving by 2016 and has been promising that it would finally happen “by the end of this year” or “next year” ever since.