"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

Also Jersh please consider Guide to Success by Joe Iconis for a MATI end song. Honestly it would have been a good end song for a Keffals episode but in general it's just a great song.
 
Plaintiff is fat said:
The reason Pat doesn't put up a sign to avoid getting his patio furniture taken as Null suggested is because he runs an AirBnB at his home and his guests (or AirBnB) cannot find out about the address being the target of "terrorism". Being a maid is his main source of income and he can't risk losing that.

"it's not practical to advertise the problem"
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"How do I stop the water leaking from my ceiling????"
"Better keep mopping it up"
Either he's genuinely retarded or he just purposely does this in an attempt to garner sympathy points.
 
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I want to respond to this because I know this is false.

Medical providers still use these fucking call centers to get bill status on claims from insurance carriers. Essentially they give the call centers a list of claims with carriers and make them call and find out where the claim stands from the carrier. These guys get redirected to my department all the time and I have to listen to George with the thick accent that cant even read English and what sounds like a hive of bees in the background poorly try to convey that he needs to talk to billing.
 
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AnOminous said:
I prefer the butter that goes into the dough to be well chilled and folded in with a pastry blender or, if you don't have that and are doing it by hand, grated in with a grater. That or chilled lard. Lard does a really nice job. This makes it nice and airy.

Usually with biscuits I prefer to fold it somewhat but these are better as irregular globs.
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Freeze the sticks of butter, grate them using a food processor. Much faster, easier, less mess. I also prefer to tri fold, roll and cut over drop biscuits. Cut biscuits tend to be fluffier and have a better rise. But to each their own.
 
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A vtuber sang to a crowd of baseball people who may or may not have had any clue who she was.

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You know I try to occasionally be understanding with the weebs but this is the kind of shit that make me hope the Japanese get so overrun with pajeets and niggers that they eventually nuke themselves in shame.
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There are 2 million people without power in Houston and they’re having to use the whataburger ap to track what areas have power because the provider there doesn’t have an interactive map to show service outages.
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Why is Texas generally so shit at what are arguably now basic things like this?
Lidl Drip said:
Supermarkets are also making record profits, while Americans are paying more and more money for groceries. There's no supply shortage or anything, it's just greed and big supermarkets having a monopoly.

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I get the feeling we’re all being squeezed one last time before slaughter.
 
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CHARizard said:
Medical providers still use these fucking call centers to get bill status on claims from insurance carriers. Essentially they give the call centers a list of claims with carriers and make them call and find out where the claim stands from the carrier. These guys get redirected to my department all the time and I have to listen to George with the thick accent that cant even read English and what sounds like a hive of bees in the background poorly try to convey that he needs to talk to billing.
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There could be some truth to it, a large server supplier (and 2 other suppliers to the southern US) we use recently switched its entire call center to Canada, though now I'm not sure that would make much of a difference.. Medical/banking always seems to move the slowest when it comes to industry trends. Not sure if the call migration is because of scams, or just because there's much more cheap labor on our doorstep, most call techs I talk to have Spanish accents now
 
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Microsoft is running because the biggest monster for AI again is Copyright & IP rules.
Microsoft Quits OpenAI Board As Regulators Crack Down On Big Tech’s AI Dealmaking

TOPLINE Microsoft has relinquished its seat on OpenAI’s board and Apple will no longer assume an equivalent role, according to news reports Wednesday, an unexpected move from the tech giants as they jostle for AI supremacy amid increasing scrutiny from regulators over their investments in artificial intelligence.
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Microsoft has reportedly relinquished its nonvoting observer seat on OpenAI's board.

“It is hard not to conclude that Microsoft’s decision has been heavily influenced by the ongoing competition/antitrust scrutiny of its (and other major tech players) influence over emerging AI players such as Open AI,” Alex Haffner, competition partner at U.K. law firm Fladgate, said in a statement to Forbes. While Microsoft may have “scored a ‘win’” in June when the EU Commission said it was dropping its probe into Microsoft and Open AI, the powerful regulator made it clear it was still looking at the relationships between companies in the AI space and it remains “very much focussed on the complex web of interrelationships that big tech has created with AI providers.” With that in mind, Haffner said there’s a need for “Microsoft and others to carefully consider how they structure these arrangements going forward.”

While Big Tech thrived under minimal antitrust scrutiny for a decade, Silicon Valley’s giants have found their immense influence and size under pressure from global competition regulators in recent years, including the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S. Investigations and enforcement have focused on areas central to the digital economy and include the way tech companies like Apple and Google dominate online marketplaces and apps; the way firms like Meta approach privacy and advertising; and anti-competitive acquisitions, such as Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of gaming studio Blizzard. The boom of interest in generative AI, kickstarted with the launch of OpenAI’s chatbot assistant ChatGPT in late 2022, has prompted a race to develop increasingly sophisticated AI tools that has consumed tech giants and upstarts alike. It has produced tools like OpenAI’s Sora, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, Adobe’s Firefly and Anthropic’s Claude and sparked fears of the technology’s implications on jobs and its ability to spread misinformation. Antitrust regulators are concerned over the potential of giant players like chipmaker Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon hindering smaller players. Microsoft, for example, has found itself under scrutiny in Europe and the U.S. for its AI dealmaking, which includes a $13 billion investment in OpenAI and its $4 billion “acqui-hire” of startup Inflection, Google faces a probe over plans to preinstall its Gemini AI on Samsung phones and Amazon for its $4 billion investment in Anthropic.
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Terrifik said:
Microsoft is running because the biggest monster for AI again is Copyright & IP rules.
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Just off the top of my head another potential reason may be that they do not want to jeopardize the Apple deal. Apple is putting ChatGPT on all its phones next ios version and Microsoft being on the board could cause conflicts.
 
Just a point on the audio yesterday, I was listening on VK, and I didn't hear the issue you were having until I watched on the archive later, so it might be platform specific
 
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