At this point I think it’s clear that they aren’t actually trying to win them over, it’s just who they are

Hey. Our friends are over from Sweden so I've spent the week eating Plopp and Kex.

It’s actually quite impressive how nothing works here. I took a job 20 miles in the other direction because it was faster to get there than commuting into Oxford via any mode of transport.

You can find a benign use case for most things that are fundamentally anti-human, though. I know its easy to say but the earths resources being burned on AI could be better spent on things that could materially improve her overall quality of life.

Finally, I get to use this

He’s the dunce who tried to get ‘The New Elite’ thing going when the right basically controlled everything and won every election.

This is the banal 'do better' finger wagging I was talking about the other day

If someone paid me to shill crypto to my friends, I could see me rationalising it with ‘they are smart, they know it’s bullshit’ without completing the sentence with ‘or would they trust me enough to think it’s ok now?’. Just the once, mind. Then you’re just a shill rather than a temporary idiot

I wouldn’t worry about it. I started running and generally eating better and everyone now just assumes I’m on it anyway

Cyberpunk is people slapping janky things together to fulfill a need. This boring dystopia is tech nobody wants or needs being slapped on us.

It’s also very on brand that the settings in these instructions don’t actually exist

It’s because you don’t often get a chance to stick the boot in to SAP. All my homies hate SAP.

Same as I never miss a chance to tell people how much I hate peoplesoft/cloud

SAP is so bad our company threw a party after we finally managed a successful DR test.

But, yes, the thing it gets wrong is that it’s less the Germans can’t do software and more they can’t do cost cutting. They are noticeably cutting corners and everything is suffering from switches to software

Start on Shreksophone to ease yourself into it