Or option B.

Which is to punch them in the face. Which does tend to be effective, but also carries legal risk.

You do raise a good point. Boomers tend to be sheep who have the worst beliefs.

I feel like at the time that was not commonly known, but today it is.

I’m fairly sure the person you’re replying to is referencing the last time McDonalds tried this.

A man with a dash cam tried ordering a big mac meal large with a coke, no ice.

The AI system instead tried charging him for 83 dasani water bottles.

When he tried to cancel the order, the AI confirmed his order.

He wasn’t trying to prank anyone. The dash cam was for accident protection when drivers try to brake check you, and then say you hit them.

The dashcam recorded everything, and he just hit “save past 20 minutes”. Then later edited it down. This was in 2024.

Oh…oh you must be new here. And by “here” I mean Earth.

To be fair…most of the general population are indeed suckers.

Oh. Ok, yeah. In that case the ticket “owners” don’t have the moral high ground I thought they did. I hate to have to side with fifa, because fuck fifa.

That being said, yeah, I agree with your last statement. They should just write off the 60 tickets, and not even give people like me the bullet to aim at them with.

But, look how this entire fiasco of a world cup has gone. I don’t think they care whatsoever about being the good guys.

Then they should do everything they can short of paying to keep FIFA on the line for reserving the tickets. If everyone does this, it will lead to a portion of those tickets straight up not being sold.

They still won’t get free tickets, but, fuck fifa.

Uses jet engines for power?

Welp. Guess we know what happened to the old Spirit Airlines fleet.

…stop being right!

So many people go to years of business school to get specialized degrees in very specific aspects of business.

When I was younger, I thought they must know what they’re doing.

Since then, in the past 20 years I’ve watched so many huge companies that are too big to fail, go under and cease operations.

I mean for christs sake! How the fuck does SEARS go under???

For any Gen-Z people who may not be firmiliar with Sears, I want you to imagine if you get to age 40, and Amazon just stops existing and goes out of business. Personally I think SEARS in its day was bigger than Amazon is now. You used to be able to buy HOUSES from Sears.

So now I’m older, and I realize one thing. These businessmen with all their degrees and training and world of knowledge don’t know the simple fundamental basics of business.

Step 1) Sell a quality product for a reasonable price.

Thats it. There is no step 2. You can try all day to fidget with the numbers, and raise prices, and shrink portions, and decrease quality. All you’re doing is nickle and diming your customer base. You’re destroying any good reputation you once had. You make an extra 5% profit on that singular sale…and then lose a customer.

I once worked at a hotel. Every week this guy would come in, and rent a room. He barely used the room. Housekeepers always said it was like 5-10 minutes of cleaning (as opposed to 30-40 minutes). He always paid his room for the night in cash. And never was a problem. I charged $60 a night, which was on the low side for our hotel.

One day he comes in as the owner is with me. He decides to check in the regular. He tries charging $90, and demanded a credit card to be put on file for incidentals. Which is a rule we apply to most guests, but we know this guy isn’t going to be a problem. I told the owner we don’t need that for him, and he’ll pay $60.

The owner argued, so I backed out. Then he and the guest got into an arguement. He didn’t pay the $90, he never came back.

I told the owner “When I run my shift, I make sure these housekeepers are providing clean rooms. I make sure the maintence man is on call to fix any break downs. I make sure on my end the computers are functional, and I pass these guests through the checkin process with speed and efficiency. All while doing my best to make you the most money. The tools at my disposal are selling a quality product for a reasonable price. That may sound boring to you. I’m not maximizing profits on short term sales. I’m retaining regular customers through company growth and hospitality. Now I can’t do much to make this hotel any higher quality, but I can at least satisfy the reasonable price aspect and try to retain repeat customers. But if you come in here and argue with customers, and run your company with a short sighted mentality, you’ll run your hotel into the ground.”

He argued with me. And thats when I knew I couldn’t stay there much longer. I immediately started looking for a new job. I think a month later I left.

Within 2 years the city shut the place down because they failed a city inspection. Instead of saying “Yes, ok, I’ll fix the violations”, he instead decided to argue with, and threaten the mayor. Which is when they just straight up shut the property down. He paid 2 million for the property. I know for a fact he didn’t make that money back. Then argued with a mayor until he threatened her, which resulted in him losing any chance for a profit.

Now for the kicker.

That story happened in 2019. Just last year the Cleveland Browns announced they were going to build a new stadium. That stadium would be built on land that was on the other side of a highway from where this hotel was.

Meaning, in 2029, once the stadium opens, you could walk out of your hotel room, walk to the end of the property, walk under the highway bridge, and now you’re at the stadium. No need for a cab ride, it’s a 3 minute walk.

During football season, he could be charging $400 per room, per night, and still be sold out.

Or, maybe the Haslams (owner of the Browns, and also will be the owners of this stadium) would maybe want to buy his hotel. He could have sold it for 20 million. He could have had a highly profitable hotel which is sold out every weekend during football season.

Instead, he took a loss. Because every businessman right now wants to direct the world around them with ego and stuborness.

Just sell a quality product, at a reasonable price. You can use that as a baseline to grow your business.

“Our competitors only have 1G; we have 5G. Don’t you want to have the most Gs? We have the best Gs, no one has Gs like us. Don’t settle for inferior Gs, call today!”

Sounds like a commercial for that trump phone.

As a mod for the Enshitification you hate to see Enshitification in any form.

As a mod of Fuck_AI, I’ll make an exception in this one case.

COMMENCE THE ENSHITIFICATION!!!

Which completely goes against my Enshitification mod mindset, but here we are.

So…nobody told me life was going to be this way…

clap-clap-clap-clap

You just described the entire stock market since the dawn of currency.

AI is just the newest buzzword.

Ha ha! Thats what you get for supporting them financially.

I remember in the 80s when I was 5 years old, I’d spout off all these crazy ideas, and say how one day we’d get these things.

My parents disregarded everything I said as rubbish.

Today most of what I said is just common shit that doesn’t even seem futuristic. You’d think I’d be happy to be validated.

But it’s a monkeys claw situation.

I said that one day you’d be able to get McDonalds delivered to your door. Wish granted. It cost 4x the normal cost, comes to you an hour later, usually cold and soggy, and theres no way to know that your driver wasn’t snacking on your fries. Monkey paw curl.

I said that you could watch tv on the go. Wherever you are. Now, at the time, it’s possible that portable TVs existed. I was 5. They didn’t exist in my world. I knew nothing of them. So from my perspective, they didn’t exist. Now you can watch your favorite tv shows, or news, or sports, or movies, or whatever. Live or pretaped. Anywhere. But you need 5 different services, each costing a shitload, and each constantly raising prices. Monkey paw curls.

I also said you would be able to answer your front door from anywhere in the house using video screens and cameras. I was envisioning those security cameras you see when you walk into walmart. When you see yourself on camera. I was imagining that, but on your porch, and a TV/camera in every room with a button to answer the door. Well thats real. The video quality is way better than I imagined. And you can actually answer from anywhere in the world. But also these cameras are linked together, spy on people, and contribute the death of privacy through a police state network of corruption. Monkey paw curls.

Which makes me genuinely terrified for one of the only ones that hasn’t come through yet.

I imagined a paralell dimension with an exact 1:1 clone copy of everybody in our world. Except there’s a massive wall that runs the line of the equator. And every single clone person is shackled to that wall naked. And I could visit anytime I wanted, and torture people until they agreed to be my friend. But they’d have to stay chained there, because otherwise they’d leave me, like everyone else.

I was a weird kid. But how do you monkey paw THAT ONE???

Depends on context. You could be calling her weak and submissive. Or you could be calling her an aggressive drama starter.

Really just depends on how you use it.

None of this makes sense!

With 3G, we had clearly defined speeds, and what constitutes 3G.

4G mostly defined itself, but it left a bit of grey area.

Then 5G was posting speeds slower than 4G’s top speed. There was never a defined speed range. The term 5G is nothing more than marketing. It means nothing.

I haven’t even heard of 6G, but given how shit 5G’s handling went right from the start, I assume 6G has to be inserted anally.

Oh, yeah, I get the orgin. I still don’t like it.

Jet fuel melts rotten shitbags!