The talking points are integrated in their personality.

Eh, a wife doesn’t ask. She’ll hint, insinuate, glare and talk around the subject all day long but without outright asking, until hitting a breaking point to then get angry why it’s not done yet.

Government tried to reduce the amount of light pollution. People walking their dogs at night complained and many folks just didn’t feel safe anymore without light everywhere.

In the past, there were many places where your success is measured by how much you can give to others.

The weirdos that now roam the internet making furry fanfic and whatnot were the ones making up fairy tales in the past. Same fuck ups, different medium.

It really blinds my sneers

The main character has arrived! Heat up the meteor fragment. It’s time to forge his new blade!

If it doesn’t look right, change the way the data is presented and projected.

That’s exactly what they did with the Hollywood writers and one reason why they went on strike, so it was a given corpos would try that in every other industry.

Then they start talking about the capsule wardrobe for minimalistic living. Every season, throw away half and replace it with the latest fashion. In the end you still buy a lot.

My clothes fall apart before I throw them out, and those that don’t will be used for gardening.

The game you play until you run out of other people’s money.

“You fool, your have doomed yourself!”

"Look, I know, but it’s the end of the month. It’s buy now, pay later or nothing.’

$30 and a $5 discount when picking up at the shop

The system is notoriously bad at identifying African American people and the cops like it that way.

And if they do talk to each other, the different departments need to go through the whole hierarchy for everything and each manager puts their spin on it, so you get answers back from questions that were not asked.

Google did something similar. They made search worse on purpose so people would do more searches and see more ads, boosting revenue.

But yeah, diminishing returns means investor money drying up means squeezing customers and hoping all that putting AI into everything translates to lots of paying customers.

They had one trick: scaling. And that trick is getting diminishing returns.