You never know. Maybe the next place you find will allow the dog.

I'm sure there must be some good ones left but it's a shit show atm. Expect frustrations ahead.

Part furnished really is the rental sweet spot. Expensive white goods that break down are the landlord’s problem, but you still get to pick your own comfy chairs. Winner.

Does part furnished mean you need to put in your own sex dungeon?

It’s probably the bit you don’t want to share.

Wooooooo!

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Original place now bowed to my insane demands of stuff, I did push it. So dependent on agreement when it's sent and I've read it, sorted!

Landlord has handed over the deed, and is now paying DS to live there.

I expect nothing less than full capitulation.

The company I used to do the supermarket research crap for was doing eye tracking 10 years ago.
It's shite, tells you absolutely nothing of use.

Definitely not the harbinger of the apocalypse.

Yeah. Everything people worry about with smart cities and surveillance, supermarkets are waaaay ahead on.

Should say actually, shopping in Aldi/Lidl is better for it. They still use a lot of the tricks but are well behind the bigger supermarkets on them, mainly because it's all funded by the brands and Aldi/Lidl aren't as close to them.

Edit: yeah that Amazon thing was hilarious

The AI startups are a bit much. It's like the wild west out there with so much funding for every crazy idea and most are going to fold. Again this is the short term hype train, which we overestimate. We underestimate the long term applications though.

This is different to what supermarkets used to do, which I'm presuming was basically spend a shitload on market research and psychologists. I'm surprised to hear they used to use eye-tracking 10yrs ago as the tech was not great so I'm presuming it was very basic at best. Maybe have key products at the head of isles and so on, but it's not how they're going to be doing in the future.

Now insta facial recognition is a thing they can probably auto-buy all your Google data for the price of setting you up with a clubcard. That's everything you've ever bought or looked at on the internet, your geo locations and all your emails and contacts. Once they build their own AI models they can do all sorts of nefarious shit with that.

AI has mainly been an area of research so far and big tech is hovering up all the talent for a big bucks. This has started to shift as industry is pulling these folk away with an even bigger wage once they've 'graduated' from learning AI at these big tech firms. This has yet to filter through to good business product because there's a shortage of decent chips and available talent, but it's starting. AI has yet to move away from research for larks because they could to a mature industry, but capitalism will swiftly take care of that.

We can only hope legislation steers us away from this rather frightening AR glasses bullshit but given what's happened to mobiles I'm not optimistic.

Yeah, ultimately we won't see any legislation that puts a country behind when others are certainly doing it so it's a bit of a race to the bottom. It's not unlike the nuclear arms build up we saw.

I have zero faith in our governments ability to put anyone but themselves and profit first.
In our society, money is power and power corrupts

You don't have to wear them.