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Do you think that sitcoms today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older shows?

I think there are two kinds of new sitcom episodes airing today:

  • The ones on 'over the air' network, which are largely unfunny and cringey and have horrible laugh tracks.
  • The ones on smaller 'cable' networks that are more edgy and usually don't have laugh tracks, and which are usually genuinely funny.

For me the sitcoms of old were mostly the unfunny, cringey, laugh-track plagued ones. So I don't think the need cringey ones are really any worse than most of the older ones.

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Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

Now, the company says it imagines an "Uber-type of setup" to fill their ranks, with gig workers logging in remotely to argue with customers from the comfort of their own homes.

So they're using their spectacular failure as a chance to exploit their new 'employees' via the gig economy.

Fuck them. They have learned nothing about respect or decency, and I hope they continue to crash and burn.

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

Ah yes, a classic tale...

"We're going to take this perfectly efficient and functional COBOL code base and rewrite it in Java! And we'll do it in a few months!"

So many more competent people and organizations than them have already tried this and spectacularly crashed and burned. There are literal case studies on these types of failed endeavors.

I bet they'll do it in Waterfall too.

It's interesting. If they use Grok, this could well be the deathknell for vibe programming (at least for now). It's just fucking tragic that their hubris will cause grief and pain to so many Americans - and cost the lives of more than a few.

Edit: Fixed some typos.