It’s not about remote vs office work, but working remotely all the time reminds particularly painfully about not having a SO or many friends. When working from office, covertly texting a good acquaintance 2-3 times a day kinda replaces that. When at home, you could do much more of that, or probably bunch together to work, but you don’t. Just sit there, smell your socks, sip tea, get distracted for nothing good, and feel how your life passes into abyss. When in office, you at least have the stress of many loud people around to distract you from that.

The problem with the statement from the title is that a non-violent movement that big won’t happen in many countries, or sometimes won’t happen without turning violent. Both should be accounted for when talking about this.

I’ve been fed up with logic, common sense and such as opposed to stats at some point, because I was mostly reading ancap stuff and ancaps are a bit too detached in that direction.

But it’s rightfully said often that throwing stats is just another kind of lies. Interpreting statistics is too complex, most people can’t do that, common sense and logic are indeed more important.

Ah … As someone with clearly different expectations (living in Russia) I’d say everything except being unable to march in lockstep and showing Coinbase ads was kinda fine, the big costume show in Russian parades doesn’t really cause any feeling of reverence and such.

US military doesn’t have to show anything big on parades, because it, ahem, has modern jets, nukes, air carriers in bigger numbers than some countries have infantry vehicles.

Probably a military ceremony should be organized better, but … it’s a theater anyway. A kind of that falling out of relevance, too.

Yep. Also Catholic official “recommended ideology of state” was distributivism last time I checked, which is something of a holy mix (can’t be unholy mix in this situation) between anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-syndicalism with a conservative touch.

It has its downsides, but the upsides are that limiting immigration, legal inequality, racism and fascism are in theory not allowed there.

(Just in case someone thinks Peter Thiel and such people’s ideas are what Catholic church recommends, and they surely want to make such an impression, - no.)

Probably because they are. Could have made it a text otherwise.

And next you lose them

It is exactly that. One may have a backtest. You’ll see that real calls will be falsely detected.

What “modern AI” even means, you are arguing about taste of oysters with the people who have eaten them, unlike you.

Oh, of course you can’t have a backtest with a proprietary centrally hosted model until it’s deployed. Shit-shit-shit.

They have job openings that people simply aren’t applying for, it’s not a question of funding.

It is. Double the pay, see how many people there are. If still too few, double it again.

I’m certain it’ll be less money wasted that on this bot done the lawful way, with proper compensations to victims and their families. We are not considering the situation where it’s not.

They’re getting too many phone calls to handle and many of those phone calls should not be going to them in the first place. What should they do?

Hire more operators.

Contact centers have not been invented yesterday, it’s just plain bullshit this simple task is somehow hard today, when it has already been simplified far beyond what people in year 1977 dreamed about.

It’s the actual job of the government, BTW, and not playing Caesar with real armies or playing Master of Orion with real systems.

There’s nuance to this, though. Iran will lose the war. Cheering or not.

Where Israel can’t be good enough, others will step in.

Maybe the ability to court-martial them for things non-criminal for civilians.

I remember it when good websites didn’t have any business model at all because there weren’t anyone busy with inventing it, all people involved spent their effort on making the website valuable.

The business models were in TV and radio outside of the web.

I’m not old, I’m 29.

An argument in favor of having a gun, at least if you’re a democrat politician.

OK, seriously every era is unique and the same as all others at the same time.

Reminds me of that anecdote about Napoleon and a respectful young soldier offering to help him with something cause he’s taller, and the answer.

“That can be straightened out.”

XMPP is a standard and doesn’t have mandated UIs.

If you want a voice chat, then Mumble. It’s very narrow, just for games.

In cyberpunk dystopia you could buy normal things, just most wasn’t it.

OK, guys, now what you have to remember for the next 4 years is that papers and documents are not what forms a society. People are. And if the system was built well enough, people will be able to restore it after the next election.

Ah, yes, of course. That’s also the distinction of Russia’s situation from more classical kinds of fascism. Bad things happen, but the regime doesn’t put them under your nose. Intimidation happens, but there are no public executions Nazi-style. Propaganda happens, but it’s boring and one would think ineffective, except it still sticks, similar to advertising, - they’ve learned some lessons. Nazis were more interesting and imposing, but less efficient. This is state of the art.

Same with today’s monopolies, oligopolies, rotten electoral systems, censorship.

Everything has been optimized to the last cent. Not the good old days, when the bad guys were generous with impressions.

Reminds me of Boussenard’s sentiment on new uniforms in his children’s book on the Boer war - no more nice glares and colors, just khaki everywhere - a symbol of efficiency, because camouflage now is treated seriously enough.

Like Intel’s tick-tock. Worker movements and fascisms 100 years ago were the “tick”, and now is the “tock” - boring, depressing, deadly efficient.

I think I’ve read US military and navy etc have their own parallel Internet, a few actually.

Not in the sense of it being an American company, but in the sense of it being a bit less of a mess.

Intentional spying yes of course.

Has been done before by whom and for what?

Say, the particular case could have been a failure because of Android not being a very good desktop OS, or the hardware being too weak. I can’t think of a precedent though, even such.

Deemed impractical by whom and for what?

Say, if it was a braindead monkey or an Apple fanboy, then irrelevant.

I’ll dare note that in the beginning of the previous century financial implications of such a strike for a worker were not just that, and it involved also possibly serious physical damage (without easily available surgery and care) and detention.

I would really like to find it in myself to do something like that, it takes a certain state of mind and a certain feeling in the air, because how do you start when nobody is yet doing it.