I don’t know if you’ve been to a American strip club.

Rules often tend to be more like ‘guidelines’, that don’t actually exist as long as you appear to be following them, appear to understand the concept of plausible deniability, and/or are throwing around enough money to make people look the other way.

Pay the cover, play it cool, don’t ask stupid questions, don’t get caught?

I can absolutely see this happening.

Grok, undress her, render this entire scene as if she had no clothes… or was only wearing cellophane, whatever.

… Its still wild to me that people will do something like that, when you can literally just go to a strip club and look, or look at the vast, uncountable amount of erotica or porn that people freely post of themselves.

… Oh dear god.

Somebody is going to wear these things into a strip club and sell it like a fucking virtu in cyberpunk 77.

Damn you for making the intro theme play in my head.

I got 5/7 of those, will be 6/7 in a few months, hopefully 7/7 by the end of the year.

Holy shit, I have never seen that before… that may be the best recovery I’ve ever seen in any fight.

Just… holy shit.

Potentially critical error -> I win.

In approximately one second.

Damn.

You can record a video of someone shopping, and then feed it to a visual AI.

Blamo presto, now they’re a shoplifter, or at least everyone on social media thinks they are.

The possibilities are endless.

Because they are immensely cheap.

The answer is that the people behind this game are fucking idiots who say shit that makes no fucking sense.

Ah ok, so it is approximately the same as ‘subbing in’, temporarily doing the work that a more established worker usually does.

I think it means like uh… substitutes in, as a temp worker.

Like how a susbstitute teacher ‘subs in’ for the normal teacher, Jucika is a trainee who got their first chance, due to someone else being on sick leave or what not.

Well technically, you could have your legs shattered, and then stretched out, casted up.

You know, just a simple lifestyle change, nothing major, no chance that could horrendously backfire.

Like, uh, its looksmaxxing for your… legs… or something.

‘There is a form of socially acceptable discrimination against a subset of people based around a fundamental intrinsic element of those people that they are totally incapable of changing.’

‘Chin up, be strong, don’t let the bastards get you down!’

Oh so … not a situation where we maybe need or could benefit from a serious society-wide discussion of this problem, the solution to this form of bigotry is uh… its a personal responsibility.

Got it.

I mean, its econ/business lingo.

Its not an argument, its just a description of what is happening.

Weak demand pretty much means ‘less people are buying this thing’.

Its a pretty well known phenomenon that if you raise prices too high, or all your customers become broke in some other way, have their purchasing power diminished… that’s referred to as ‘demand destruction’.

You could also destroy demand if you maybe worsen the quality of the thing you’re selling, but keep the price the same or even raise it.

(cough AAA video games cough)

But, but… I will give you that this kind of phrasing does sound, to the average person, as if it is grammatically obscuring what’s going on, or shifting the blame to consumers.

A lot of business/econ lingo is subtly insidious in that way.

They are less expensive.

EDIT:

Sorry, I misread the parent comment.

You would use them for literally anything you typically or potentially could use a phone for.

If you are not playing video games on your phone… there is basically no common reason to have a top spec brand new phone.

What do I want my phone to do?

Make calls, send messages, run a web browser, check emails, take a picture or video every once in a while, act as a notepad, check a weather forecast, have some map explorer, use some entirely 2D proprietary apps for things like… groceries or hailing a ride or checking my bank balance.

Pretty sure that right there is about 80% of people’s phone use case.

You do not need top spec hardware to do any of that.

You have the gaming thing to do the gaming stuff.

I don’t know what number that is, but it is a bad number.

Ragnorok.

A most fowl accusation!

I was an executive level data analyst for an international logistics middle man company, based in Seattle.

Yes, correct, you cannot infact outsource that just as easily, it is, as I said, an entirely different animal, with many different kinds of problems and costs, and potential problems and potential costs.

An enormous amount of logistics ultimately comes down to who knows, who, who introduces who to who, and who has what kind of reputation, with who.

You either pay a firm like the one I worked for a considerable premium in order to have them manage every single step of the process, every single link in the chain… or you try to do all that on your own, maybe hire a few new expert people to figure out how to do that.

I am arguing as if Valve is not a logistics company.

You are arguing as if you do not know anything about logistics at all.

It would seem we shall have to wait a bit then, to continue our attempts at science.

… it is a good thing, that science is fun.

Oh.

Thank heaven.