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there is nothing a corporation hates more than having employees, but a close second is having to provide a good or service in order to make money. these two reasons concisely explain is why the ai bubble formed in the first place.

basuralindo

So I just simultaneously did, and possibly didn't lose my job today :)

Very much did in the sense that I literally do not know where my job is at the moment. But, for the time being I haven't been let go because nobody else including the store owner knows where it is either.

So, I don't wanna risk doxxing myself by posting pictures but goddamn am I tempted because this is not a believable event. This is a cartoon problem. For looneytoons.

But yeah, so, I work(ed?) at a kiosk selling boba tea, right? Freestanding kiosk in the mall with full water and electrical hookups and multiple fridges and sinks and a mini kitchen and the works. Fully functional tea shop. Very important to note that it was there last night, The work chat was discussing another issue last night at closing time. I'll get back to this.

It's been showing signs of being on the way out with how business is being handled lately and I've been considering other options, which is probably why I'm not as torn up about this as I should be, but maybe it just hasn't set in yet, but that's not the point. The point is there's been a lot of shit breaking and not being replaced and nobody mentioning anything about it until I walk into work in the morning and have to figure out why shit like the fucking cash register isn't there today. So I'm kinda used to having to ask questions about big things that nobody bothered to update me on. I was out for two weeks recovering from a surgery, so I came to work this morning assuming there'd be some kind of bullshit, yeah?

So, the question I had to ask the chat this morning was:

Not a text I ever thought I'd have to send in sincerity, but there it is. Because what I found instead was a fenced off patch of discolored tiles and a few holes in the floor where my entire place of employment used to be.

And the answer? Nobody knows! It was there last night when the mall closed, and every single trace of the structure and all its contents including drink making supplies and our safe and cashbox was gone when it opened again. And when I say nobody knows, I mean everyone from last night's closers to the actual (former?) owner of the store jad no fucking clue about this until getting that text from me this morning. For once I am actually the first to know. 🎉.

So. I guess I didn't so much lose my job as had it stolen. Not by AI, but good old fashioned hands-on human beings picking it up and carrying it away somehow. All mall security would tell me was that they were instructed not to tell me anything and have us contact our management. Who also don't know anything. And later on I came across some construction workers around the gravesite of the kiosk discussing filling in the holes, asked them about it, and was told that they "weren't at liberty to say".

So, not only is my job gone in the most literal physical sense of the word, but it was taken in some kind of super secret kiosk extraction in the dead of night without any warning or witnesses and nobody is allowed to speak of it. The store owner said she was gonna figure it out 10 hours ago and still no word back.

I don't know what else to say aside from I've been laughing all day and I'm gonna have a hell of a time explaining Schrodinger's Unemployment to the benefits office.

basuralindo

Update that is not an update because I'm basically certain this isn't what actually happened:

My mother in law thinks the FBI took it.

Not any of the other stores around the state. Just the one little kiosk.

Why? Because she loves a conspiracy and is just a little bit extra.

Also because she was around for the massive crackdown on Yakuza-owned businesses in Waikiki (in her homestate) that did actually involve the FBI seizing stores (no confirmation of making kiosks cleanly disappear in the middle of the night though).

Still no word from my job on what's actually going on, but the most likely theory so far is that maybe the kiosk was on lease and got repossessed? The mystery continues

(also shout out to the person who proposed Carmen Sandiego)

basuralindo

ACTUAL (partial) UPDATE:

According to the owner, based on what she's been able to find out, the kiosk was not removed legally and they're starting a potentially long process of legal action. I hope she gets to sue the shit out of whoever did it but for now at least I know for sure I'm unemployed.

Really hoping for more details in terms of who/why/how, so I'll keep updating if I learn anything.

For now the summary is: An unnamed entity that is most likely mall management (on account of mall security cooperating with them) stole an entire kiosk and all the contents including money and machinery with barely a trace in the middle of the night grinch-style, with zero warning or explanation, and ensured the silence of both security and the construction crew, in an action that was definitely preplanned and illegal, and as far as I know nobody knows its whereabouts.

So now I'm officially out of a job. Because my workplace was literally stolen in the night.

basuralindo

Actually fuck it let's share some photos cause I wouldn't be inclined to believe this myself. It's not like anyone can stalk me at my job now and I'm not gonna have to see any coworkers that might find my tumblr.

Enjoy the unintentionally funniest text I've ever sent in my life

Aaand a close-up:

The last remains of a once Very Much Solid And Immobile Workplace

basuralindo

HEY HI HELLO THIS ONE'S MY FAVORITE

via @kagaminilen

mysteryteacup

[cut to a kiosk on legs, sipping a boba, while wandering into the nearest forest on chicken legs]

ardanelvilyafeanturi

Here you go @a-bit-too-dyscrasic

rainwasheseverythingaway

homodiogenes

zennagreenwitch

dovecaisdrawing

drawing some of my friends as characters of wings of fire

#dragons!

thememedaddy

the-final-sif

So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.

Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?

The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!

This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.

Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:

Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or

Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.

The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.

The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).

Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.

So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.

straawberries

can ppl pls reblog this version

us-nowhere-girls

Well damn. I was also like wtf is this stupid slime tank and then I read the rest and my mind got blown

kristina100000

incredible picture found on the interwebs i had to share with everypony

asparklethatisblue

children of any species are very good at being annoying and very cute while doing that

a sphinx child based on this post

derinthescarletpescatarian

Everything the trump administration does reminds me of all those times a bunch of people who have never run a convention before are like "a festival can't be hard" and try to run a festival and they completely fail and people end up without accommodation and dehydrating on an island or whatever because the whole thing was a quick cash grab by a handful of idiots who assumed that it would be easy with zero experience and zero knowledge and zero professional advice.

Except instead of conning a handful of nerds and instagram influencers, they're doing it to the most powerful country in the world.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Also they have the power to ruin the lives of citizens who they think don't respect them enough. The best that incompetent festival organisers can usually do is try to cancel them online.

the44th

do you think Trump will give us an extra hour in the ball pit?

derinthescarletpescatarian

He's arresting people for going near the ball pit because a scam artist buddy of his fucked it up and now it's full of dead ducks and algae

findchaos

We visited an old glass factory that was converted into a park and the photos can get very surreal.

sourcreammachine

virtualgirladvance

first one looks like the dogs gonna n64 mario jump into a painting

grumpyjesterr

on another note, watched The Mummy (1999) the other day and I couldn’t help feel like the O’Connells and the Addams (Addams Family Values (1993) would get on really well ya know? The O’Connells are basically the pastel adventure version of the Addams, surely they would just be vibin’ over tea and crumpets in an extremely haunted mansion having a ball of a time

grumpyjesterr

Morticia: “So what is it you do for a living my dear?”

Evelyn: “We dig up dead people who often have monstrous curses placed on them!”

Morticia: “fascinating”

grumpyjesterr

Gomez: *leaping out from behind a pillar which is encrusted with ominous looking runes* en garde!

Rick: *grabs sword from equally ominous looking wall full of weapons one of which seems to be glowing* fantastic I was getting a bit rusty

Gomez: *nearly in tears* oh he’s screaming nonsensically, what spirit! what reslove!

grumpyjesterr

*Rick and Gomez, still frantically sword fighting*

Rick: Have I mentioned how wonderful my wife is yet, I really feel like I haven’t really expanded enough on how wonderful she is

Gomez: do go on, I would be delighted to hear about how wonderful your wife is, I strongly encourge all men to extoll the virtues of their wives with rapturous praise, however I should perhaps mention my wife is in fact better

*sword fighting intensifies as both men rapturously extoll the virtues of their wives*

digitaldiscipline

Jonathan and Fester and Cousin Itt watch from the bar, where Lurch and Thing are making the drinks.

lemonsharks

Jonathan and Thing knew one another from The War; each thought the other to be dead

Their reunion is highly emotional

burntcopper

Rick, whilst swordfighting: My wife resurrected an ancient evil that brought about the plagues.

Gomez: What. A. Woman.

okapiandpaste

Favorite things that canonically happened in the Pokemon games:

-Rival Green/Blue takes a picture with your HGSS character because he thinks you’re cool

-he’s also feeling pretty peachy

-Erika talks crud

-someone was like making out or something in Bill’s yard in GSC

-Giovanni literally ditches his son because he’s upset about a 10 year old beating his butt

-Silver tears a layer of your clothes off

-Children hate Steven Stone because his obsession with rocks is weird

-Prof. Birch runs away from his wife because he thinks she’s a pokemon

-There’s a tv show in Hoenn called the “Hoenn Rangers”

-There’s a magazine about exposed champions

-Characters who act attracted to you usually act the same no matter what gender you are

-Rival Barry gets distracted by a crogunk cutout when the world is ending

-Team plasma + stuff bad for team plasma= plasbad

-N knows the lyrics burn baby burn somehow

-N shouts “that’s an ugly formula!”

- Prof. Birch runs away from his wife because he thinks she’s a pokemon

(add your own bc this is just getting good)

tumblunni

- Cyrus randomly stands around monologuing at statues, a lake, a mountain wall, etc just so the player can hear his evil plans

- Cyrus adds space wallpaper to his office between D/P and Platinum

- Trash grandpa Charon has a secret room behind a false wall containing nothing but household appliances and a diary about hugging pokemon

- Professor Rowan beats up some galactic grunts and lectures them on proper manners when conducting an evil scheme

-Professor Rowan subsists entirely on candy bars

- If you refuse to take the pokedex, Professor Rowan gives you six dialogue boxes worth of “…” and says “I’m a very patient man, I can stand in one spot asking you this question all day”

- Looker is introduced running between lampposts over and over

- Looker refuses to let you leave the town until you get a Poketch, because its ‘secret police style’

- Looker gives you handmade tickets of his own face, covered in glitter

- Looker sits inside a giant paper mache rock for hours in a volcano, just waiting for Charon to come along

- Charon’s evil plan is foiled by being punched in the face by a small frog, commanded by a man in a rock costume

- Looker tells you that removing the Magma Stone summons Heatran, outside the mountain holding the Magma Stone.

- Pouring condiments on trees attracts hexagonal bees

- Actual playboy bunny pokemon

- Actual hedge hog pokemon

- A galactic grunt says “Cosmic energy for the win!”

- The galactic nap room. The entire existance of the galactic nap room.

- You have to talk to 32 people on wifi to turn a rock into 108 evil spirits.

- Everybody goes to hell.

darkeiya

- Looker dresses up as your mother.

- Team Flare’s employee roster includes Pitbull and a member of the Bee-Gees.

- A concerned NPC addresses Rowan as “old dude.”

- Taking a photo of yourself with a death weapon behind you.

- Your progress out of one city is impeded by a fUCKING CONGA LINE

weavileonmute-deactivated201606

- Whenever you beat rival Barry, he never runs toward a Pokecenter. He either runs to a Route, or towards the local Gym (in Canalave City)

lilac-mage

- Brendan denying that he bought dolls when seen at Lilycove Department Store, even though you never question him, only for a Swablu doll to be found in his room after you battle him

kingofdinosaurs

-Professor Kukui has a part time job as a wrestler

-Team Skull took over an entire town

-Nanu, the kahuna of Ula'ula island, lives in an abandoned police station outside this town with at least 8 meowth

-Colress’s hair

-Grimsley refers to himself as ‘Uncle Grimsley’

-Archie’s zipper unzips past his crotch

-When you beat Maxie his glasses fall off

-You can go on what basically amounts to a date with any of the kahunas

-Zinnia spends half the delta episode trash talking Steven

-An old lady refers to Steven as ‘that silver haired dreamboat’

baconflavouredshotgun

- The SuMo Rotom dex calls the trial captain Ilima a dreamboat.

- Nanu in the background of your champion party. He didn’t HAVE to be there, but he is. Doing the goofy dark z-dance, behind a tree somewhere.

- “Hey guess what?” “I know!” “I didn’t even ask you a question yet…”

- Professor Kukui, a man known to be shirtless all the time, can somehow survive on top of a mountain,still neglecting to wear a shirt.

- Team Skull are the only people in the series to make you pay for a Pokemon Center, and they only do it because they’re broke and have barely any power. They’re not being mean, they’re just low on funds.

- Multiple people have attempted to fuse with Pokemon.