Seconded, I use a Define 7 and it’s fantastic. Best big black box I’ve ever owned.

Have you checked out United Allergy Services? They claim to have self-administered allergy shots.

Thank you. I was just wondering why the hell anyone would work for AA to begin with. This helps explain some of the draw.

So Google Search, even back in 2000, was an AI?

Looks like Reddit is leaking again.

Don’t forget for some of the spells and skills. How can I forget late nights full of “Indiguneishon! Indiguneishon!”?

As someone with a rare disease that took seeing literally dozens of doctors over 20 years to get a diagnosis, I’d prefer an AI doctor for diagnosis and maintenance. I’d prefer a human doctor working with AI for treatment.

In my experience, critical thinking is lacking in the medical profession.

This you?

Please stop spreading misinformation. You’re on the internet. Kindly fact check yourself in the future. It’s better for everyone, including you!

We had ours during the pandemic. While my friends and coworkers griped about toilet paper shortages, it was like having a hidden superpower.

Don’t forget that executive compensation is often significantly comprised of stock or stock options. By feeding the shareholders, they’re feeding themselves.

I know they make terrible shirts.

Whoa, that post history. Now I have to wonder if this is a fetish or if OP has an obsessive/compulsive disorder.

You can save $1000 a month? Damn!

Seriously. If these “media pros” are actually concerned, it appears my personal server adheres to higher standards than their industry.

Check out OP’s post history. They whine a lot about women, especially feminists and the pay gap, and Muslims in that cringy way boomer men more often do. Pretty sure they’re a boomer.

Vote inertia and dog piling. I’ve seen it happen so many times. If you are voted to the negatives, it’s less likely you’ll receive many positive votes unless you receive enough to tip you back into positive numbers or someone points out that other, similar comments aren’t being down voted. The converse is also true, although the follow up comment phenomena seems not to hold.

I’ve even experimented with it on Reddit, way back. I’d leave a comment I know would be well received, then edit it to make it poorly received, but not so awful that it’d get mobbed. It’d usually keep going up, albeit less quickly, or sit stagnant.

On the flip side, I’d leave a shitty comment, then change it to a paraphrasing of a different, very well received sentiment once it was around -3 to -5. Despite the notion being well received elsewhere, the negative votes kept rolling in unless someone pointed out the collective hypocrisy in a follow up comment.

Tl;dr: Lemmy is run by bipedal, social apes whose behavior and opinions are biased by the perceived opinions of their fellow apes. This bias can sometimes be overcome by pointing it out.

Right now, many are! Fight back and retake our rightful place as people with rights above those of corporations.

No no, you really weren’t off base. Even if they were owned by Walmart, I doubt they could do worse.

That’s great, I’m glad you got some deals!

The thing about them is their low wages and reluctance to train their employees meant high-end goods were often priced very low. Levi’s jeans were $10-15 a pair while designer jeans were priced at $5. I recall someone donating a batch of Hermés scarves. None of the pricers knew the brand, so they put them out for $1 each. I bought them all for 50% off (employee discount!) and hit eBay. This kind of thing happened weekly so the employees were always looking for things we could resell. We made less than $20k/year, that’s how we scraped by!

I’m not sure how other stores are, but mine was a great example of being a penny wise and a pound foolish.