It’s a good flick, I enjoyed it

If you’re an avid Asimov fan, you should know it’s only loosely related to the iRobot stories.

Open-plan office spaces are pure torture.

Get him some cheap 90’s era headphones (you know with the ribbon head band, and the shitty foam pads,) and leave a passive-aggressive note informing him his listening happens suck.

(totally not profanity 😉)

I don’t believe you. <checks> eh. coulda been worse.

that’s so they can say they tried for the H1B visas

like I said. the squeaky wheel gets the grease because it’s annoying as fuck. Keep doing it. Keep documenting it. Keep filing civilian complaints naming the officer explaining how difficult it was just to get them to do the report and they won’t do anything else.

it sucks. It’s awful. it certainly shouldn’t be this way.

its apple to apple or android to android, I think.

I know IOS does it, though.

You know, that’s a good point.

I just checked. Victims are also entitled to speak to a public defender- or anyone interacting with the court or the justice system- including cops. (a private lawyer will be way more effective, PD’s are… stretched thin and overworked. yet another thing that needs to be changed.)

I wonder why somebody thought it was a good idea to make cell phones nark by default. read receipts was a dumb idea crafted by some middle manager from hell.

another option is to block unknown contacts from sending messages. IOS, the android/google messages and most messaging apps have a way to filter messages and just block anyone not in your contact list.

Just a word of warning… don’t lie to cops…

That’s actually a crime and they love dinging people for whatever they can.

in any case, it’s not untraceable. it’s probably pretty easily traced. but it’s a matter of filling out some paperwork to get started and cops hate paperwork. (I hate this I hope OP stays safe.)

Go to the police. File a report.

They’ll probably bs you saying they can’t do anything and to come back when something happens. and try to weasel out of a report.

But they’re legally obligated to take a report. start documenting this everytime it happens and get the courts involved. Cops are lazy. They have ways of tracking this down, but won’t unless they absolutely have to. Squeaky wheels get the grease because they’re annoying as fuck.

This- I assume it’s a dude- Is not safe and he can’t take a hint.

well, there’s that too.

Kind of a “we need to put this out there anyway” kind of thing…

The way they verify you’re human is how you respond, but they’re also getting you to train AI’s while they do it.

it’s not meant to deter hackers, but spam bots and web cralwers, and such like. Possibly also meant to stop people hitting the service as a way of breaking the service.

but mostly they want to know the person looking at it is a human so they can feed it advertisements.

and if you fail too many times and they collide then you’ll initiate a cascading reaction of ever-more-destroyed chess pieces, invalidating entire orbits, and rendering every possible orbit uninhabitable.

So, it’s a little known fact that captchas and such like no longer test to see if you can solve something, because the bots have evolved to pass those kinds of tests.

They also tried to set them up to succeed where humans failed, but then bots evolved to pass those, too.

So now they look at how you fail or pass, or how you keep trying. Basically, they’re checking if you’re human by seeing how you respond to frustration.

“No? take a vacation.” - your fantasy boss.

Considering “Violeta” is Spanish… it’s probably in pesos. About $650 usd.

I’m not a robot. I’m an android. There’s a difference.

Mostly, it started with small startups and then big corpos thinking “hey they were successful! And their team looks happy!”

So they emulate it. The thing is something that works for groups of 5 doesn’t work so well for more than that.

Also, yeah. There’s probably somebody in the corporate decision tree that realizes it’d increase opportunities for middle management to suck the soul out their minions, but usually the people pushing it are just stupid, and trying to be “hip” and “cool”, and all “how do you do, fellow kids?!”-ish cuz they read about it in a Forbes magazine.

They ain’t called fundays.

it’s hilarious how the idea of open concept office is “to encourage cooperation and stuff” when in reality all that happens is that it drives people to get noise cancelling headphones so they don’t hear Garry chewing gum as noisily as humanly possible, or all the “hmmmm Mmmhhmmhhh” sounds he makes while eating lunch at his desk. (Seriously, Garry, you’re not making love to it.)

Or Chatty Kathy on the phone gossiping about this or that.

People are weird. the world was a better place when we didn’t realize how weird.