LouisianaLady

Screw AI for making everyone thing that using em-dashes means you used AI! I've been using em-dashes for years, and now it looks like I didn't write what I said.

I'm pretty anti-AI in a lot of the ways I see it used. Like our company did AI generated headshots, and while it was nice to have it done without having to leave my home or put on real clothes, I don't look like myself in the photos and it is embarrassing.

Two things I will admit AI is good for:

I am long-winded, and I can copy/paste my wordy email and ask it to make it more concise. It still looks like me because I wrote the email to begin with. It's just pared down.

I often have to find very niche regulations buried in the Code of Federal Regulations, and AI can point me right to the spot it lives. This used to take me ages prior.

Eh. For conferences, I get it. While I normally go out for dinner somewhere local, I don't leave for lunch. That would defeat the purpose of being there.

When visiting clients in decent cities (or even suburbs with local options), I always go out for a glass of wine and a good local meal. But our workdays are short when visiting clients, and they're almost always in good cities, so that makes a difference.

This is funny because I worked there and at their sister store (Hollister) in college, and it was the polar opposite. To the point that I believe the brand got a lot of backlash years down the line.

We only sold up to size 9 in women's jeans. When a woman would come in needing anything larger than a 5, we had a large ladder to grab to reach the upper sizes higher up on the wall. We were encouraged to make a big show of getting the ladder (I did not do this, but ladder in and of itself is probably not a great feeling).

We had strict requirements for employee appearance and basically only hired attractive young people. The position was actually called "model" for front of house people, and many of us were asked to come in and pose for advertisement shoots for the brand.

We were never spoken to directly about our weight (this was not the case when I worked as a cocktail girl at the casino, LOL), but they also didn't hire overweight people and we were a lot more clothed than the casino gig, so it might have been a non-issue.

Anyway, they've worked hard to try to scrub their history, and they've apparently gone wildly in the other direction.

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I eat dinner at 6pm every day so I wake up starving.

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I eat dinner at 5pm and don’t eat again until 12:30ish the next day :dunno:

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BTW, 5 mutual friends on FB

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I have 22, and it’s almost entirely people I’d expect to know someone in that sort of going out circle. :lol:

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The thread on the OT said Cadillac Cafe was reopening in the Earl's spot.
Earl's is moving down toward the Perkins Overpass.

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:lol:

Anyway, if I owned successful businesses elsewhere and had been dealing with Earl's for years, I'd let it go too. Freeing.

Last year we made it about halfway or so into the month, but this year it’s coming down tomorrow.

We have a real tree, so I don’t want to be the neighbor everyone judges for putting my tree to the street when it’s long behind us.

You poaching answers for your Kalshi bet? :lol:

I can't believe you're even awake. Don't you wake up at some ungodly hour?

If you pour wine from the glass of someone who is sick into your clean un-sick glass, do you get sick?

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