Rants

Page 325 of 595 [ 9513 posts ] Go to page Previous 1 ... 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328 ... 595 Next

Previous topic | Next topic

RetroGamer87
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 30 Jul 2013
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 11,160
Location: Adelaide, Australia

14 Apr 2017, 8:22 am

Raleigh wrote:

I'm creepy, icky, wrong and silly.

I hope you were being sarcastic.

_________________
The days are long, but the years are short

LjSpike
Pileated woodpecker

Joined: 23 Dec 2016
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Posts: 188
Location: About 55° N, 3° W

14 Apr 2017, 2:51 pm

RetroGamer87 wrote:

^ Yeah. Online banking and similar online things are so annoying. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier but it ends up making our lives harder.

I think online stuff isn't really supposed to make our lives easier, it's supposed to make us do the jobs that used to be done by staff ourselves. A computer isn't a labour saving device. It's a device that takes the labour that used to be done by a bank teller and makes you do it yourself.

Automation and outsourcing have made us go from a manufactoring economy to a service economy. But with online banking and self-serve checkouts, we're moving away from a service economy to god knows what.

If we've lost the manufactoring jobs and we're losing the service jobs, what will replace them? The middle class boffin jobs will still exist but this could be the end of the working class. Those automated service machines will need an army of boffins to program them. Eventually we'll reach a watershed were paying the boffins to program the machines is more expensive than just hiring a minimum wage shmuck to perform the task manually.

I think technology can make our lives easier, but only when used properly... A computer can handle a repetitive task, perform complex arithmetic etc. etc. but when something in a computer system goes wrong, the computer can't fix itself, and nobody seems to be in place to really sort things out.

RetroGamer87
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 30 Jul 2013
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 11,160
Location: Adelaide, Australia

14 Apr 2017, 4:46 pm

When something goes wrong you get a late fee or a fine. If you're late in your payment because their computer system fracked up they will blame it on you.

Then you spend an hour trying to make the fracking think work. How much do you get paid per hour? That's how much they should compensate you for your hour of lost time.

_________________
The days are long, but the years are short

Raleigh
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 7 Jul 2014
Age: 125
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 34,609
Location: Out of my mind

15 Apr 2017, 1:17 am

RetroGamer87 wrote:

Raleigh wrote:

I'm creepy, icky, wrong and silly.

I hope you were being sarcastic.

No.

_________________
It's like I'm sleepwalking

RetroGamer87
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 30 Jul 2013
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 11,160
Location: Adelaide, Australia

15 Apr 2017, 3:24 am

Raleigh wrote:

I'm creepy, icky, wrong and silly.

^ says you.

Because that is the story of Raleigh.
That is the story that you wrote in your mind, that you now believe is true.

_________________
The days are long, but the years are short

Raleigh
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 7 Jul 2014
Age: 125
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 34,609
Location: Out of my mind

15 Apr 2017, 7:24 am

RetroGamer87 wrote:

Raleigh wrote:

I'm creepy, icky, wrong and silly.

^ says you.

Because that is the story of Raleigh.
That is the story that you wrote in your mind, that you now believe is true.

Not at all.

_________________
It's like I'm sleepwalking

Raleigh
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 7 Jul 2014
Age: 125
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 34,609
Location: Out of my mind

15 Apr 2017, 6:14 pm

The paint I used yesterday has given me a skin reaction, even though I bought the low VOC kind and covered up exposed skin as much as I could.
I've scratched areas of my face raw.

_________________
It's like I'm sleepwalking

Midnightstar16
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 13 Apr 2016
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Posts: 4,204
Location: Vaniville Town, Kalos Region

15 Apr 2017, 8:40 pm

People need to stop trying to stir up controversy just to get attention. All I'm doing is trying to show that that's EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE DOING.

_________________
☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪
Uhhh what do I put here now?
☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪☆♪

Lillikoi
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Jul 2013
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 11,797
Location: The Mid-West-East-South.

16 Apr 2017, 8:59 pm

I feel good, actually. Really good.

Not sure when was the last time that happened. :cry:

Not sure what... 'normal' is like.
But is this 'normal?'

...I think it is.

jrjones9933
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 13 May 2011
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Posts: 13,144
Location: The end of the northwest passage

17 Apr 2017, 8:39 am

It's probably me.

I don't know what's going on. I assume the worst. That's idiotic and rather ungenerous.

_________________
"I find that the best way [to increase self-confidence] is to lie to yourself about who you are, what you've done, and where you're going." - Richard Ayoade

Raleigh
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 7 Jul 2014
Age: 125
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 34,609
Location: Out of my mind

17 Apr 2017, 2:24 pm

I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't care.
Don't give a s**t.

_________________
It's like I'm sleepwalking

jrjones9933
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 13 May 2011
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Posts: 13,144
Location: The end of the northwest passage

17 Apr 2017, 8:44 pm

Nothing has been easy today.

_________________
"I find that the best way [to increase self-confidence] is to lie to yourself about who you are, what you've done, and where you're going." - Richard Ayoade

Lillikoi
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Jul 2013
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 11,797
Location: The Mid-West-East-South.

19 Apr 2017, 10:59 am

I'm really stupid. :cry:
stayed up late for a long time,

falling asleep during class,
meltdown,
embarassed myself in front of students and math teacher. :cry:

Lillikoi
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Jul 2013
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 11,797
Location: The Mid-West-East-South.

19 Apr 2017, 11:14 am

Can't learn in class because meltdown,
I don't know what to do to get caught up,
I literally don't have enough time in the day to study to get caught up,
Teachers so unhelpful, not telling me HOW I can get caught up.

I don't know what it is I need to know! :wall: How am I supposed to be able to get caught up if I don't know what it is I need to learn?? :roll:

Lillikoi
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Jul 2013
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 11,797
Location: The Mid-West-East-South.

19 Apr 2017, 11:20 am

Don't like the feeling when all of the things that have been hovering over you are just collapse on top of each other, and then it's like a big deluge of problems at once. :cry:

I'm not an efficient machine; it sucks. :cry:

I'm not good at planning, and I'm slow at learning;
and I make stupid decisions,
and I have really bad meltdowns,
and it sucks.

(can see how those things would be bad when mixed together, right?
:cry: )

Lillikoi
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 22 Jul 2013
Gender: Non-binary
Posts: 11,797
Location: The Mid-West-East-South.

19 Apr 2017, 11:51 am

Lillikoi wrote:

Don't like the feeling when all of the things that have been hovering over you are just collapse on top of each other, and then it's like a big deluge of problems at once. :cry:

life used to be nothing but a series of collapses,
cruising period followed by a big collapse.
and then collapses started happening every day. :cry:

And then, I didn't know how to get out of the rubble. :cry:

(Nyah, I'm talking about schoolwork, like the above example.

)

Page 325 of 595 [ 9513 posts ] Go to page Previous 1 ... 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328 ... 595 Next

Jump to:

Rants Post Reply New Topic

Rants