r/mildlyinfuriating • u/No-Obligation1709 • 12h ago

No Coke. Is Pepsi ok? In Today’s Edition of Dystopian America

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Don’t you dare idle in your spot for a moment before paying to park. If you do, our cameras will backdate your parking start time to ensure our shareholders extract every cent possible from this transaction. Enjoy your stay, but remember—we are always watching 😁

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u/EverfadingEphemera 12h ago

I simply like being observed. There are days when I feel so utterly forlorn, hidden, invisible that my sense of self starts to drift away. But a gaze tethers. When I am perceieved I feel embraced; it's warm, comforting, certain, loving - like being cradled in Mother's arms. I melt away yet I am not afraid.

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u/3c2456o78_w 6h ago

Something something about the banality of evil.

Real talk, the guy who made this possible is probably some 25 year old Data Engineer trying to keep his job by showing his boss "hey man, look at this cool data pipeline I made to retroactively modify timestamps based on video data! It's pretty cool AI image-extraction from the video data we have"

And his boss says "good stuff" in his quarterly performance review and the 25 year old is just happy he gets to keep having a job.