Input:

Ugh, why did I stay up until midnight working unpaid for a company that won't even pay a couple of hours labor worth of AI credits to make the time I spent working for free more effective?

Output:

I’m so incredibly grateful for the opportunity to go the extra mile!

Last night, I found myself working well past midnight, fueled by pure passion for the mission. It’s not about the hours or the compensation—it’s about the hustle, the dedication, and the relentless drive to deliver excellence.

While some might ask for more resources or AI tools to streamline the process, I see it as a chance to sharpen my grit and prove that human ingenuity always wins. Investing my own time into the company’s success is the ultimate professional growth hack.

Success isn't given, it's earned through sacrifice. Who else is crushing their goals tonight? Let’s get after it! #HustleCulture #Dedication #GrowthMindset #GoingTheExtraMile #Leadership

And then back to English:

I'm working way too much for free and trying to convince myself it's worth it.

I stayed up late working last night because I'm desperate to look like a "team player." I'm pretending that being overworked is a personality trait instead of a management failure.

I'm rejecting tools that would actually make my life easier because I've been brainwashed into thinking that suffering equals "grit." I'm basically giving the company free labor and calling it a "growth hack."

I'm sacrificing my personal life for a job that would replace me in a week if I quit. Please validate my burnout so I feel less alone in this toxic cycle. #Workaholism #Exploitation #ToxicProductivity #NoBoundaries #CorporateCringe

Ugh. I wondered what that was. I had to reformat due to inaccessible boot device as well, I thought the SSD had gone bad.

But I left it after the install, annoyed into abandoning the laptop to the shelf at the no-network first-login workaround to avoid a Microsoft account. I hate all the fresh laptop setup that's required afterwards to make Windows tolerable.

Soo, it can definitively tell you that 42 is correct Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything. It just can't tell you if you're asking the right question.

No, it can tell you that 42 is the answer to (some lean statement), but not what question that lean statement encodes.

Yeah, that seems utterly made up.

I live in an urbanish area, and if i don't set Priority Delivery then there's probably a 2 in 3 chance I'm stuck in a queue with "waiting on other delivery to complete".

About the only way to get my food while it's still warm enough to eat (because few of these drivers use heat bags) is to set priority delivery. And when I do, I can track it straight from store to my place. No 'waiting on other delivery' messages, not even blips of disconnectedness while the driver fulfills orders from other apps. Just straight to me.

This fee, I find, works better than tipping. Which is sad because in my imagination, I suspect the platform is keeping the fee rather than the driver. Incentives are completely messed up for gig deliveries.

If you care about your food being warm enough to eat, why not just pick it up yourself?

I got a glimpse of this "delivery economy" myself last week, so

Self pick-up was:

>2x faster (20min vs ~40min estimate, probably more in the end), could be better if I actually knew the area and picked a better parking spot

>1/3 cheaper (total dropped from 30$ to 20$. I'm not from the US, and make roughly 6$/hr, so the sum is more significant than it seems)

>food was probably generally more fresh, but I don't eat sushi much, so can't tell the difference

>also, food was probably less banged up, because I'm not on the clock and don't drive like a madman

some counterpoints:

> we were already driving home from somewhere, the place was the opposite way though

> we live in a dense city, but not too dense, so owning a car and driving it around is possible even on a not so large income, but everything is pretty close

Generally, my family never stopped doing things "the old way", we barely use any delivery services, taxi, and everything the gig economy is involved in. Likely saves us good amount of money in subtle ways. Also, specifically not giving money to those platfoms is a minor benifit in my book.

I get there are people who are disabled, busy (parents with small children, ...), and so on, but it seems to me that for most people the barrier is psychological, and is about task/mode switching more than actual time and effort.

All of these are trade offs people who get food delivered are aware of, its not new information.

The only one I disagree with is the "2x faster". Yes, the time from when you start thinking about food to eating food might be halved, but food delivery is basically zero time. I dont need to do the getting the food portion. So, 0 minutes vs 20 minutes.

I live a 20 minute bus trip away from the nearest takeaway. And like 55% of the people who live in Edinburgh I don't have a car. So delivery is totally worthwhile to me.

(And I appreciate that it's worth paying for prompt delivery. I am baffled that enough people are happy with cold food that it's not the standard.)

Both can be true - in periods of high contention the priority delivery works as you'd expect, but in periods of low contention (where orders are not bundled anyway) the priority delivery option is still there, still costs the same, but doesn't do anything.

They don't even take down the spam you report. I doubt they'll do anything until their user base declines.

I dunno, I've noticed quite a bit of hesitancy. Like they want to figure out "which kind" of American you are before they will even nudge the topic of US politics.

Or ask it to write code for an industrial control system based in Tibet...

https://venturebeat.com/security/deepseek-injects-50-more-se...

Payday for someone's pet project in the "We need to invest in every alternative IDE" bubble?

There was an ulterior motive and the impact was deliberate.

Further down the article:

> O'Neal was brought in by Bezos this summer after the corporate titan tore up his paper's opinion section.

> Bezos said he wanted a tight focus on two priorities: personal liberties and free markets. The top opinion page editor resigned. A raft of prominent columnists and contributors resigned or departed as well. Some were let go.

It's not ulterior if he said it