Nobody Cares: PRS

[detrius]

Anyway, this place is gone now.

 

[Soen Eber]

Anyway, this place is gone now.

Good sendoff

 

[Noodles]

Omg this poor man. He just wants to share his love for geology.
Just let him mumble flatly in peace.

See, this is why I don't like doing voice. Because people don't like flat quiet mumbling.

 

[detrius]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

God, that is so devastated it looks like a badly textured sim.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Many Americans do by now know Aldi, which has been growing quite rapidly in America since years by now.

Aldi just means "Albrecht Diskont", and was founded by the Albrecht Brothers back in 1961. What many of you might now know is since there brothers could not agree on certain topics how to run a store, there are in fact 2 Aldis - Aldi Nord (North) and Aldi Süd (South). For example Aldi Nord has been selling cigarettes from the beginning, Aldi Süd though started doing so in 2003. Both are separate companies with comparable revenue and profit. They divided Germany, and also the rest of the world between the two entities back then.

Aldi US is owned by Aldi SÜD.

Now the heirs of the founders are considering a merger of both companies. This would make the Aldi empire even more powerful than it already is.

Handelsblatt

www.handelsblatt.com

 

[Veritable Quandry]

In the US they are Aldi's and Trader Joe's.

Aldi's is known for cheap foods. Trader Joe's does higher end prepackaged meals and has cheap beer/wine.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

It might be more humane to other workers, it would certainly save a significant amount of money. They will never turn it upon themselves while they salivate about replacing so many other workers. They need to have another yacht or two and a bunker in New Zealand to hide from those angry ex-workers.

Should we automate the CEO?

There has been a lot of buzz around AI eventually replacing lower-rank workers. But why not start with the highest-paid corporate executives?

thehustle.co

 

[Isabeau]

So much cheaper.

 

[Noodles]

It might be more humane to other workers, it would certainly save a significant amount of money. They will never turn it upon themselves while they salivate about replacing so many other workers. They need to have another yacht or two and a bunker in New Zealand to hide from those angry ex-workers.

Should we automate the CEO?

There has been a lot of buzz around AI eventually replacing lower-rank workers. But why not start with the highest-paid corporate executives?

thehustle.co

I think the problem would be, what goal do you give it? Maximize profits? How long until it turns the universe into paperclips?

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Gender affirming surgeries.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/06/05/dc-plastic-surgery-jawlines-trump-00380485

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

It might be more humane to other workers, it would certainly save a significant amount of money. They will never turn it upon themselves while they salivate about replacing so many other workers. They need to have another yacht or two and a bunker in New Zealand to hide from those angry ex-workers.

Should we automate the CEO?

There has been a lot of buzz around AI eventually replacing lower-rank workers. But why not start with the highest-paid corporate executives?

thehustle.co

I've long thought about how senior leadership in many companies actually might be much easier to automate than they expect. At a very high level, they mostly just spout generic business advice that is often very disconnected from the ground work at the company.

Of course... this would never actually become a common thing since Wall Street wants to be able to yell at a real human when things go wrong and that's much of what a CEO is really for.

The article does a good job of pointing out how it's very hard to justify how much they get paid even from a pure free market capitalism perspective. Supply and demand curves don't explain it at all.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I couldn't decide where to stick this, then I gave up and got lazy. U of N Texas, guest speaker was Transphobic candidate Jeff Younger. You know it would end up like this, why didn't Jeff?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

It might be more humane to other workers, it would certainly save a significant amount of money. They will never turn it upon themselves while they salivate about replacing so many other workers. They need to have another yacht or two and a bunker in New Zealand to hide from those angry ex-workers.

Should we automate the CEO?

There has been a lot of buzz around AI eventually replacing lower-rank workers. But why not start with the highest-paid corporate executives?

thehustle.co

Well it is already happening at Microsoft: Satya Nadella is making himself obsolete with AI.

According to Bloomberg, Nadella uses at least 10 custom “agents,” or LLM-driven bots, to summarize messages, prepare for meetings, and do research during the course of a workday. The CEO joked that his job has already been reduced. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella told the reporter. He also copies podcast transcripts into the Copilot app, and during his commute, he listens to AI summaries—he even has a back-and-forth with the voice assistant while he drives.

At least the executives are subjecting themselves to the same attention-span deletion they have served to us. We know what will happen if too many of us decide we prefer our podcasts hosted by humans. “Up to this point, shareholders have lauded Nadella’s performance, making Microsoft the most valuable company on Earth,” Bloomberg’s Aaron Carr and Dina Bass write. “If he falls flat, though, his may be one of the first jobs threatened by AI.”

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Explains How He’s Making Himself Obsolete With AI

The longtime software executive told reporters how he uses his company’s AI app Copilot during his commute—and it looks a lot like talking back to the radio.

www.vanityfair.com

 

[Essence Lumin]

Well it is already happening at Microsoft: Satya Nadella is making himself obsolete with AI.

The CEO joked that his job has already been reduced. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella told the reporter. He also copies podcast transcripts into the Copilot app, and during his commute, he listens to AI summaries—he even has a back-and-forth with the voice assistant while he drives.

What a bunch of nonsense. If all he does is copy podcasts into the copilot app and listen to the ai summaries he could hire someone for $30 / hour or whatever to do that and dispose of his job. And good riddance most likely.
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[detrius]

In the US they are Aldi's and Trader Joe's.

Aldi's is known for cheap foods. Trader Joe's does higher end prepackaged meals and has cheap beer/wine.

I mentioned this before, but when Walmart tried to expand to Germany in the 1990s, they got absolutely trounced by discounters like Aldi.

They also failed to do proper market research and broke the law, so they had to leave after just a couple of years. That mistake did cost Walmart about a billion dollars.

That probably made Aldi and other discounters realize Walmart was a giant with feet of clay, causing them to put more effort into colonizing the US market.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Essence Lumin]

For at least five years.

NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government — The Shovel

An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.

theshovel.com.au

 

[Free]

Apparently, new marching orders were sent out yesterday (I assume directly from Lubyanka).

 

[Free]

Mike Johnson suggests Gavin Newsom should be ‘tarred and feathered’

Republican US House speaker Mike Johnson advocated for a brutal form of vigilante justice to be performed on the Democratic California governor, Gavin Newsom, on Tuesday, saying he should be “tarred and feathered” for his opposition to immigration agents’ enforcement actions in the state.

Newsom replied: “Good to know we’re skipping the arrest and going straight for the 1700’s style forms of punishment. A fitting threat given the [Republicans] want to bring our country back to the 18th century,” when what is now the US was ruled by a monarch.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives is calling for the illegal assault of a U.S. governor.