LOL *NSFW* *The new Demote thread*

A year or two ago, a bunch of startups announced what at least one of 'em called "lifehouses:" little cylindrical prisons in which you could trap an anime waifu powered, of course, by ChatGPT and its ilk. Like, they were literally marketed as a waifu of your very own, permanently locked in a tube.

Well, apparently Razer thought that was a wizard idea... and has announced one of its own at CES. It's not leaning quite so heavily on the anime waifu side of things, though one of its main marketing images is embedded below for your edification... but it's decided the best partnership for powering the thing is Pedo Guy's Grok. Yes, the Grok that is currently getting dragged through the media for being absolutely rammed with people creating naked and sexual imagery of real people without their consent... and simulated child sexual abuse imagery.

(SFW clicks, they're only to Auntie Beeb, don't worry.)



(That's "Kira," apparently, "the loveliest gaming partner that's supportive, sharp, and always ready to level up with you." Uh-huh.)

Brave timing on that announcement, Razer. Let's see how that works out for you!

 

Oh, it's much more stupid than that: it's an autoresponder on the official press contact address. All it says is "legacy media lies," that's it. That's all you get.

Hey, it's better than it was: when Pedo Guy first took over he had them set it to respond with a single poop emoji. Comedy genius(!)

 

Eh, not so much. The vast majority require manual updating: there's no battery, the power required to update the display comes from the NFC writer you use to program the new pricing in. They can't be updated without someone physically poking 'em with the writer.

There are systems for true instant-updating fully-wireless hands-off dynamic pricing, but they're usually LCD rather than ePaper and have a battery in 'em.

 

Greatly reduced risk of mispricing errors: each tag has a unique ID, and you can set the reader so it won't update the tag with a new price unless the ID matches. No risk of sending promotional pricing live early: the writer won't update the tag if the offer hasn't gone live yet. No need to ship tens of thousands of tickets around the country (they're not printed in-store, usually). No need to print tens of thousands of tickets to ship around the country. No need to dispose of tens of thousands of tickets that you just replaced with tens of thousands of new tickets. Faster to update: poke and beep, no picking at the stupid plastic cover that always seems to wedge itself in place and fishing out the old ticket then making sure you don't get confused about which was your pile of old tickets and which was your pile of new tickets then putting the new ticket in place and pushing the plastic cover back into place why yes I did work in retail no I don't want to do it again thanks. And, yes, you can respond to last-minute pricing changes quickly 'cos nothing needs to be printed, just send Steve round to the shelf with the writer.

The biggest benefits - for the retailer, not the customer, I hasten to add - do tend to come with the battery-powered wireless ones you can update with a single click from Head Office, tho'...

 

Right, so, in case you were wondering where we're at in the UK's goose-step march to the right, this is UKIP's new logo.



Yes, that is the Iron Cross. The Iron Cross that was stolen from Prussia and introduced as a German military emblem in 1939 by a certain Adolf Hitler. That Iron cross.



No, this is not a joke. Here's the official party registration update.

Now, OK, the application describes it as "a crusader cross with a circle in the middle and being diagonally crossed by a spear with the head facing upwards to the right," but that's not a thing. The "Crusader's cross" is a thing, but it looks like this:



That is not what UKIP has selected. What UKIP has selected is, unambiguously, the Iron Cross.

So, yeah, that's where we're at. A mainstream(ish) political party just made its official logo a piece of actual honest-to-goodness no-fooling Nazi iconongraphy.

Yeah.