Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Man Shares Joke With Dalai Lama, Endless Laughter Ensues


Rumor has it that the Dalai Lama is still laughing to this day. 

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Interviewer Being Incredibly Condescending To Tiger Woods


Kudos to Tiger Woods for standing his ground and fielding that aggressively condescending tone with some stern professionalism. Tiger didn't seem fazed one bit. 

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Cheating Ex Tries To Land Partner With Phone Bill, Mom Intervenes


Those cheaters never win. In this case, we have a cheating ex who tried to land their poor partner with a hefty phone bill. Well, soon as mom heard wind of her son's immoral antics she handled the situation quickly. Getting the money back was nice, but you can't put a price on the value of having that last laugh. Good for them. 

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Text - r/pettyrevenge u/captainduckworth • 20d + Join 1 Cheating ex tried to land me with a huge phone bill so I ratted to his mother This was a good few years ago now but it still puts a smile on my face. I'd been in a relationship with a guy (let's call him Steve) who seemed super nice on the surface but turned out to be pretty manipulative and a habitual cheater.

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Text - While we were together I took out a phone contract for Steve in my name, as his credit score was poor and the company wouldn't give him one. It was all fine and I never had any problems with him paying me back, even when we broke up. Then, a month before the contract was up, I had a bombshell dropped on me by a mutual friend who had found out the extent of Steve's cheating and lies and thought I deserved to know. I'd once been suspicious about Steve's relationship with a particular woman,

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Text - Needless to say, I confronted Steve (though I did it as coolly as I could). I was pissed, l'd wasted literal years of my life being taken for an idiot. Not only that but the manipulation had continued long after the break-up, as we'd stayed "friends", and I was finally done with it. I told him that I was cutting him out of my life, and that I never wanted to hear from him again.

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Text - My confrontation didn't go down well, but by this point he'd already sent me the money for the final month of the contract so I thought it was all ok on that front. I was wrong - turns out Steve could still rack up a pretty big charge if he went over his data allowance, something he'd always been super careful not to do. That's why I was pretty sure it was deliberate when I was sent a final bill for close to 80 dollars. I could have covered the bill and kept that door closed, but it would

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Text - I contacted the company to make sure the charge wasn't down to some overseen contract clause, and that he really had stacked up that bill in excess charges alone. He had. Seems he didn't like no longer having control over me. Determined to get my money back, I tried to get in touch with Steve - but he'd blocked me on every single avenue of contact I had for him. It was then I realised that I still had his mother's number in my contacts.

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Text - Immediately I texted her with an outline of what had happened - that l'd confronted her son about his treatment of me and that I was convinced he'd deliberately landed me with a big phone bill as some sort of petty pay-back. While she wasn't impressed that her son's drama was landing on her doorstep via me, she asked for proof of the bill and said she'd sort it. The money landed in my account within an hour and I was free of him forever. I wish l'd seen the look on his face when his mothe

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Text - I know he occasionally still stirs shit about me years later, as the odd petty comment on his social media sometimes makes it back to me through friends - if anything, this makes my petty determination even sweeter. Having the money was nice, but getting the last laugh was better. TL;DR, my cheating ex didn't like being discovered and tried to get his own back by racking up charges on a phone bill I managed as a favor - I ratted to his mother and got every cent back, like to think I embar

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Students Have Stupidly Genius Solution to Group Presentation


Doing a group project and presentation is hard enough, but having to prove that each person did a totally equal amount of work during the presentation? These guys figured out a stupidly genius way to handle it. Reminds us of this lazy genius approach to a school project. As annoying as this teacher's rule was, many teachers manage to say much more wild junk.

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Text - r/MaliciousCompliance · Posted by u/Thedepressionoftrees 20 hours ago Everyone must present equally. Okay, you got it oc s Way back in my junior year in high school, me and three of my friends had this one teacher that we all hated. One of the main reasons why we hated this guy was because if you didn't follow his instructions to the T, he would give you an F on the assignment. Cast: Me: me Friends I'll call Dave, Sam, and Ben (not real names)

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Text - That year, the teacher told us that we had an oral presentation to do in groups of four, and that every member must give the same amount of the presentation. He said that if the amount given was unequal, we would all receive an F. My friends and I came up with a plan. We wrote our presentation so that the number of words in it was divisible by four. The day the presentation was due, we stood at the front of the class.

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Text - Teacher: okay, go. Мe: so Dave: our Sam: project Ben: is Me: about Dave: nuclear Sam: power Ben: and

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Text - Me: the Dave: benefits Sam: that Ben:it Me: offers We did the whole presentation that way. It was pretty great. We all got A's 1 1 2

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Text - ipod55g Score hidden · 23 hours ago Like a beastie boys presentation.

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Text - runningkraken Score hidden · 21 hours ago Ben's words are shorter than everyone else's. You all get Fs. /s As a former teacher, I would've probably thought this was funny and clever and given all As too. Thedepressionoftrees, Score hidden - 17 hours ago Lol, thanks!

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Text - PedroHicko Score hidden · 15 hours ago I thought you were going to say you all had 0 words and therefore met the even presentation criteria

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Twitter Thread: Star Trek and the Inhumanity of Gig Economies


Twitter user _danilo uses an example from Star Trek to explain some of the dangers of having an industry that lacks face-to-face interaction with its own workers. It's scary enough to imagine your job being done by a cold, calculating robot, but what if your boss's job was done by a cold, calculating robot? For something with more Star Trek fun and less technocratic dread, here's an awesome Tumblr post on how hard humans go in Star Trek.

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo After the premiere of Picard name checked Bruce Maddox, decided to head back and watch Measure of a Man, TNG S2E09. And it turns out Maddox is a bit of a tech bro. Startling how well this holds up three decades later. This kind of guy is still a problem. 6:25 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo As a refresher, The Measure of a Man was TNG at its hammiest, most thought provoking best. A courtroom drama where the fate of Data hinges on the question of whether he is sentient being deserving of what we'd call basic "human rights." 6:30 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - After Riker delivers a devastating presentation that proves Data is an elaborate machine, Picard joins Guinan for a drink. Guinan warns Picard that civilizations love nothing more than to create "disposable people," to do the jobs no one else wants, with no recourse. 6:33 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Guinan's point is that by creating a special category that allows Data to be property by an arbitrary distinction, the Federation risks creating a permanent underclass. This was the lever Picard needed -he wins the argument by appealing to Starfleet's high mindedness. 6:38 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS.

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo This got me to thinking about Silicon Valley innovation. Today, androids are far beyond our technological capabilities. So what the Valley did was build it lean. Rather than building artificial laborers, the tech industry invented artificial supervisors. 6:40 PM · 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo When the algorithm determines who gets fired, when you work, what you get paid, and everything else about your daily life, there's no limit to the cruelty of the workplace. The human needs of the laborers are invisible to the software. 6:42 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo You don't need to invent an entire android under this model, nor do you need to bear the costs of manufacture. The software becomes an abstraction around real humans, but the owners of the business never need see them or interact with them in a supervisory context. Rows in a db. 6:44 PM 24 Jan 20 Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo We're left with "algorithmically disposable people." Entirely commodified labor that can be discarded at will. No one has to look them in the eye when they're fired. No one need think of their kids or dependent parents. No one has to worry about a thing -except the workers. 6:46 PM 24 Jan 20 - Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo Gig workers are precarious not only because they lack benefits, but also because the everyday bedrock of their work is determined by a black box algorithm designed to extract maximum profit for a distant corporation. They are raw material to be optimized. 6:51 PM: 24 Jan 20: Tweetbot for ios

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo And what is so dark about this is that the software is perfectly suited to this task. Software perfectly shields the humans profiting from this one-sided equation from confronting the personal toll it takes on the algorithmically disposable people the company is chewing through. 6:54 PM : 24 Jan 20 - Tweetbot for ios

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo One of the most striking parts of @Mikelsaac's Super Pumped is how OPTIONAL it was for Uber management to interact with drivers. They could hide away, pop out to interact with the drivers IF THEY WANTED, and go back into hiding again, and the machine kept working either way. 6:56 PM 24 Jan 20 Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo This isn't just a function of software. This is also an outcome of an unequal economy. You can't treat workers as disposable if they they have more appealing, more reliable, more humane alternatives. The gig economy depends on economic desperation and limited opportunity. 6:59 PM : 24 Jan 20 · Tyweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo So this isn't JUST Silicon Valley's fault. It's a a symptom of an enormous broken system. But it illustrates how this industry can use software to extract value from vulnerable populations with limited recourse. We have a lot of work to do to make this right for people. 7:01 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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Text - Frisco Uplink @_danilo All of this is an inversion of the drama Star Trek imagined. But its warning is still important: Automation can be used to hide our cruelty from view. But we're still responsible for it. 7:06 PM 24 Jan 20 · Tweetbot for iOS

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"Not My Job" Moments of Impressive Unprofessionalism


"Hey, all you told me to do was change the sign, it's not my problem that now it just says "Sign Changed." For every person who's good at their job, it seems like there's someone out there who's incredibly good at not doing their job. The resulting "not my job" moments are a testament to buck-passers everywhere.

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