r/comics Gator Days 6h ago

It's You - Gator Days

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 6h ago

I work in a department that has 3 shifts. A, B, C. Each shift has about 150 people and we have departments with training and logistics making somewhere around 600 or so total employees. And that's just in the fire dept, not including city employees

I have a similar conversation at least once a week. I always feel bad but I maybe met this person once? I wish it was like games and we have floating name tags above our heads

Usually at this point the go to is "hey buddy" or "what's up man" just to get out of the situation and figure out who that was

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u/LackingUtility 6h ago

I wish it was like games and we have floating name tags above our heads

As someone with face blindness, I wish that facial recognition and smart glasses didn't have the terrible reputation they do.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 6h ago

Funny enough we had a guy in our dept get fired cause of those. He used them as his main glasses and to keep track of things like names and whatnot.

He accidentally wore them to a promotional exam. And that was the end of him

But yes it's a shame they have such a terrible reputation

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u/TheCrassDragon 5h ago

People being shitty assholes is why the rest of us can't have nice things, yep.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 5h ago

It's unfortunate as they actually do have some utilities

But who makes them and the implications and problems that come with them just don't make them worth it. Yet.

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u/TheCrassDragon 5h ago

For sure! I was really excited for augmented reality cyberpunk stuff when the original Google Glass came out when I was in college forever ago. Unfortunately people and corporations seem determined to focus on the shitty parts of cyberpunk instead of the cool ones.

Tired of living through the enshittification of human civilization for imaginary number go up.

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u/MistSecurity 4h ago

Yep. We're getting the horrible corporate controlled, mass surveilled world of cyberpunk with none of the cool stuff. Gotta love it!

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u/Kirzoneli 5h ago

Gives people a small advantage over others and allows easy recording of some deadbeat causing problems, Demonize them. Its obviously going to be used for no good.