I generally disagree with everything else you’re saying but something that hasn’t been called out is that The Indies was never used to refer to India, the country. In current day, there’s the West Indies, which are annoyingly next to North America. In the past, East Indies or ‘The Indies’ referred to the greater Indian peninsula, but not the country itself, and not West Indies. By using this example, you’ve highlighted a flaw in your argument that the term ‘America’ has to encapsulate North America and South America, as ‘The Indies’ doesn’t even encapsulate West Indies.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?
1·16 days ago1 is crying out for help instead of yelling at someone
2 doesn’t do anything
3 is a good example. Warning someone of imminent danger is a place where yelling at someone actually helps
4 again doesn’t do anything except serve the same purpose as 1
5 again doesn’t do anything. Nobody’s joining ICE with their conscience intact
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?
1·19 days agoOkay, tell me about one situation where yelling at someone achieves anything. I can’t remember the last time I yelled at anyone.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?
1·21 days agoIdk how strict you guys are with the 40 hours a week. Does 39 count? 38? 35?
I also struggle to see why travelling out of the country is not allowed. Unless it’s some sort of really secretive and sensitive work, why can’t employees leave the country? Are we talking vacation? Time off?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?
1·22 days agoGen Z and I work in customer service. The average consumer has become such an entitled, idiotic, immature prick that you cannot reason with. Guess what age range these pricks tend to be?
If people are consistently breaking an internal rule, that means the rule should probably be looked at. I work with gen z, I manage gen z, they’re just people that society has kicked in the balls over and over and over again and their will to do anything has been eroded since they were conscious. Their primary social years cut off in the middle of a global pandemic. Maybe work with empathy and someone will want to work with you.
Oascany@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?
1·22 days agoIt’s like there’s never a good reason to yell at anyone, let alone a minimum wage service employee who’s barely scraping by.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing?
91·22 days agoHey man if you’re going around yelling at service employees I think it’s clear who’s in the wrong.
On some days, I hate having eyesight
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Technology@lemmy.world•HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good supportEnglish
2·30 days agoCurrent gen omnibooks are really good if you can ignore or cover the AI branding. They’re also a really good value especially with how often they’re on sale. Source: I bought one a year ago and it’s been very good.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What kind of car do you drive, and what kind do you wish you did?
2·1 month agoI drive a 2024 VW GLI 6MT, bought it as the best bang-for-buck MT available new. Fantastic car all around. What I wish I drove is my dream 2-car garage. The first would be a classic Cooper S, or any decent Miata, or any decent Boxster. MT on all of them. The second would be a Giulia Q4, or Volvo S60, or an Audi RS2. Any combination of these is dream material for me.
I’m pretty sure this is a prank because I’ve gotten tested for colourblindness, but this is a hilarious prank.
Oascany@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some of your favorite songs in a language you do not speak?
1·2 months agoAnda inn by Ouse Idk what it means but by god is it catchy
😭
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•No wonder Reddit has turned to shitEnglish
11·3 months agoThis is so funny because I’m Indian and I’ve never come across a Hindi sub on Reddit.
I use Ecosia’s browser
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Technology@lemmy.world•Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"English
34·3 months agoTrying to isolate out “emotional baggage” is not how language works. A term means something and applies somewhere. Generative models do not have the capacity to hallucinate. If you need to apply a human term to a non-human technology that pretends to be human, you might want to use the term “confabulate” because hallucination is a response to stimulus while confabulation is, in simple terms, bullshitting.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"English
28·3 months agoIt doesn’t, it generates incorrect information. This is because AI doesn’t think or dream, it’s a generative technology that outputs information based on whatever went in. It can’t hallucinate because it can’t think or feel.




What an insane way to report on any type of news