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      they should do 1 20 minutes episode revival where it’s just the 3 of them (not kramer obvs) talking in the booth about new tech

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        It’s human to lose your shit sometimes. I think he sincerely apologised.

        Edit: ok I’ve done some soul searching and I’ve realized that I don’t really care who they are off set. Be they racists, communists, or nazis IRL, if what they say on the show is funny to me, I’m gonna watch it.

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          I’m usually like this if it’s a one time thing. In his case IDK I just said that because other people still say he is an asshole. But I won’t support people that we know are not sorry and would still do it if they could, even if they are famous. Like the unhinged Kanye.

          • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
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            I see. Very unfortunate. Racism is complicated and more deeply rooted the most will realize and accept. What he said isn’t okay and never will be. I hope he’s grown since then and made amends for his mistakes.

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              I think he has moved on from what he did. He was in a semi-recent episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry and I seem to remember they spoke briefly about it. Maybe not, though.

              Unfortunately for him though, there are no take-backs. Nor should there be. He metaphorically hit the lottery, and wasted all his winnings right there on that stage.

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            Nope sorry, you’re not allowed to learn from your mistakes anymore. Unless you rationalize that boomers made your actions unavoidable.

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    Never hand a boomer your phone. Especially an elderly boomer, and especially if that boomer is your mother. They will always start swiping. It’s like their brain just deflates. Their eyes glaze over. They get this wide, tranquil smile, as if to say, “Hot dawwg! This boundless collection of photos I’ve been handed is going to be a real treat!”, and they just start swiping. They just start fucking swiping.

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      I love that my gallery app has a “guest view”. I can select some photos, tap “guest view” and hand someone my phone. They can then only swipe across these photos, and if they try to leave the app the lock screen comes up.

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        I apologize for any offense I may have caused, but I believe your presence here is no coincidence. You have to be the messenger. Please pass it along to the others via email chain letter, or perhaps more effectively, state that Mark Zuckerberg has changed the rules of Facebook and requires all users to automatically swipe when handed people’s phones. That should be effective in getting Aunt Joyce to do the exact opposite.

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          Pass it on yourself, I haven’t used FB in at least 10 years. I’m guessing you don’t eat avocado toast either. Stereotypes are stupid aren’t they.

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            Stereotypes are stupid, but also I believe that the user you’re replying to is being facetious and already making fun of the stereotypes.

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            The other guy is right, I’m just goofing on the stereotype. You accessing Lemmy is plenty of proof that the stereotype is a bad generalization. Sorry for pissing you off!

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        Then they zoom out and start swiping. Just turn on Guided Access mode on iOS or Screen Pinning or App Pinning on Android. In those modes you can disable touch.

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      I’d love if they made this a tv show, and shot it with “Kramer” still being a character. However, Micheal Richards is not part of the show.

      They get a voice actor who can do a voice impression of Kramer, but there’s no actual human body. The 3 actors interact with air.

      They rig the door to open as if he were opening it, and they all act like he’s there.

      They could even do a scene where Kramer explains his physical absence.

      K: “Oh, Jerry, it’s the newest thing! Yeah it’s called AI. You just replace your whole existence with an artifical intelligence! Isn’t that wild???”

      J: “Yeah, for you that would be an upgrade having any intelligence at all!”

      E: “Kramer, I don’t think that’s what AI is. I don’t know WHAT this is, but it’s not AI.”

      G: “Yeah. Where’s your body?”

      K: “Oh, I’m out there, baby!”

      J: “You certainly are out there, that’s for sure!”

      K: “Jerry, you gotta get in on this! It’s the wave of the future! I’m telling ya! By 2032 nobody is going to have a physical body!”

      J: “Remember when you said I should invest in Enron?”

      K: “Hey, that wasn’t my fault. They were making CRAZY money!”

      J: “Yeah, it WAS crazy! Crazy illegal! And remember when you said Vine was the next big thing?”

      K: “And it was!..for about 12 seconds.”

      J: “How did you even DO this anyway???”

      E: “Yeah, I’m confused what’s even happening here. We can’t see you, we can’t smell you, we can hear you somehow, but we can’t touch you.”

      K: “Oh you can touch me alright!”

      Elaine gives disgusted face

      G: “Well hold on, maybe theres some merrit to this. Let me ask you this, Kramer. Could I use this to NOT be at my job, but my bosses think I am?”

      J: “Oh, here we go…”

      K: “Well I don’t see why not. They can’t see you. You pop your head in at the start of the day, they hear your voice, and pop in at the end of the end of the day, who’s to say what you were doing the rest of the day?”

      J: “That’s so stupid!”

      G: “No it’s GENIUS!!! I can get 8 different full time jobs, with 8 different pay checks, not do ANY of the work, and do about 30 minutes of effort a day! I’M BACK BABY!!!”

      J: “There no way THIS plan could go wrong…”

      door opens, nobody enters, Newmans voice

      “Hello Jerry!”

      J: “Oh, now Newman is doing it too???”

      Newman walks in carrying an oversized postal package

      N: “Doing what? I just brought this package you ordered. Sign here.”

      J: “I thought you were invisable…Hello…Newman.”

      N: “I was wondering where that was. Invisable? Why would I be invisable?”

      K: “Because why WOULDN’T you want to be invisable???”

      Newman screams and falls backwards over the couch

      N: “Kramer??? You’re invisable???”

      E: “Ugh, don’t ask. It’s a whole thing…”

      N: “But how?”

      K: “It’s called AI…”

      E: “No it’s not…”

      K: “Alright smartypants! Why don’t YOU tell us what it is then?”

      E: “I don’t know. It all feels like a jump the shark moment, like Pickle Rick.”

      J: “Pickle Rick? Oh, you mean that guy who had a deli on 8th street until he went crazy trying to forcefully sell people his own brand of pickles.”

      E: “Yeah, that’s Pickle Rick. What else would I call him?”

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        That sounds odd.

        edit: Also, while I’d love for lemmy to get huge, it’s cool that our community allows for recognition of people with whom I’ve interacted previously.

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    The League already did something about this…and yes it was basically a more modern version of Seinfeld.

    It used what I call the “four psychopaths” format. Seinfeld invented it and…it’s always sunny in philadelphia uses the same format.

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      By did something about this I assume you mean did an episode on this subject, not did something to stem the tide of illicit swiping.

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        More like a little bit about it in one of the episodes. The League was based on a fantasy football league if you never watched it, and the episode featured one of the people discovering something due to “illegal swiping” and one of the NFL referee people guest starred and called him out on it.

        It’s a pretty funny show even if you aren’t into football.

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    It would be fun to make a “No Swipe Image Viewer” app that lets you pick an image to share - and then presents some searing penalty like a screamer to anyone who swipes to the side.

    Just be warned, not for the elderly or faint of heart.

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      This already exists. Probably several of them.

      I had one back in the day that would allow you to pick an arbitrary selection of images from your gallery and would only display those. Ninja Snap, I think it was called. If the holder tried to swipe beyond this it would respond by taking pictures of whoever is holding the phone via the selfie cam (inevitably pictures of them up their nose, given how they’re likely to be holding the phone) and eventually start admonishing them for being an assmunch and violating the trust of whoever’s phone it was.

      Anyway, Focus lets you do this in a less trollworthy manner. It also has an option to lock you phone if someone hits the home button trying to get to other apps or snoop around in other stuff. Several other Gallery replacement apps do, as well.

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    I was thinking and I could totaly see george showing up at the wrong time only to get dragged along with a mass shoplifting crowd and being the only one caught

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    I was watching a cpl episodes of Seinfeld last night, and it seemed like half the plotlines would have been moot if everyone had a cellphone.