There aren’t many principles in my corporate life that I am proud of, but I am very proud of the one I have used and taught to guide self-service strategy:

Don’t outsource your labor to your customer.

If self-service isn’t purely about empowerment and improved experience, customers will see through it eventually, and the money you thought you saved on efficiency will be spent somewhere else.

Narf

This might be artfully crafted ragebait.

Seems Ukraine has some new Long Range sanction capability.

I’ve viewed it as artistic progression, plain and simple, similar to the Beatles, but I think we’re basically saying the same thing.

I kind of split the Beatles into before and after Revolver. Revolver is a truly brilliant album that also acts as a nice bridge between the two major eras that I think of the Beatles run. Their Beatle-Mania Pop Sensation era culminating (masterfully) in Rubber Soul on one side, their Concept era on the other. And Revolver an era unto itself; the Beatles Fully Embrace Getting Weird era.

I feel like OK computer represents a similar point in Radiohead’s artistry to Revolver.

But in both cases, I think these are more milestones in their artistic ability than an intentional shift leveraging their previous success. But I’m not sure you meant that this was intentional on their part, so I may just be agreeing with your nonopinion in a ruminative meandering way.

I might almost consider if we were to pretend OK Computer was their debut, but even that just don’t feel right. I still love most of what they’ve put out since then and they can still kick it on stage.

This is pure ragebait for a certain (my) demographic and I love it.

Crazy is kind of his schtick from what I have seen.

IIRC one of the big evolutionary advantages of Homo Sapiens as a predator at least was stamina - or our ability to run for comparatively long periods of time.

I’d love to know what you think Lemmy points are. I take the signals that are given, and so we’re done. Peace to you.

Israel CAN be wiped off the map without murder. Will you admit to that?

Will I admit to that? What kind of question is that? Of course I will ‘admit to that’, since you’ve backed me into a rhetorical corner.

Now, since we’re admitting things. How often do you think the historical use of the term is describing a non-violent process?

Fuck Zionism, and Free Palestine but the language of erasure is just too close to genocide for my comfort, as cathartic as the thought may be in the moment, and I’m hesitant to normalize it.

Other people don’t have that sensitivity and that’s fine. You do you.

I’m truly not disputing your point, and I don’t assume that you support genocide as a matter of belief.

But the top level comment started with the assertion that we ‘need to erase israhell off the planet’ which is a genocide. Your point was deployed in response to someone saying, in so many words, ‘maybe we shouldn’t do a genocide because not all people of a nationality believe the same thing’.

Then you come in with, in so many words, ‘yeah, but most of them do’ - as a further reason to…not do a genocide?

What point is your comment serving other than to soften the reason not to do a genocide?

Honestly fish and chips in terms of a meal.

As part of a meal, Yorkshire pudding is unlike anything I’ve had in America, and nothing like what it evokes in the typical American.

More like popovers almost.

You qualified and minimized the statement of the person you were responding to, and they were responding to someone espousing genocide.

The person you were responding to expressed the idea that a big number of Israelis oppose genocide and colonialism - in response to the suggestion of genocide.

You seem to have assigned yourself the role of making sure to clarify that it’s actually a very small number of people who maybe should not be genocided, so it walks and talks like a duck at this point my friend.

Answering a genocide with a genocide is really not it though.

You honestly seem more bothered by the offense people take, however much you try to pass it off as surprise. Clearly you feel threatened by criticism of nazis so what’s that about?

I debated this longer than I care to admit, and I don’t have strong convictions about where I landed.

Wanna know what, so do you.

Yes. I am definitely misremembering the exact words but if anything it was longer than this. I am traveling but when I get home later today I will post a photo of it.

Glad I got one with open source firmware before it all goes totally to shit

Right to Try Act

I’m going off rip here because I haven’t educated myself on it, but this seems suspiciously like the Citizen’s United of human testing at first glance and because Trump is promoting it.