Shirasho

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Shirasho ,

I've never really thought about it this way. Good point.

"Outrageously" priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care ( arstechnica.com )

With the debut of remarkably effective weight-loss drugs, America's high obesity rate and its uniquely astronomical prescription drug pricing appear to be set on a catastrophic collision course—one that threatens to "bankrupt our entire health care system," according to a new Senate report that modeled the economic impact of...

Shirasho ,

Read the article. This is not a US product.

I agree with you though.

Shirasho ,

Because recycling plants are far and few between with many requiring you to be a resident to use the facilities. Many also charge for each piece brought in. They are also only open on weekdays when people have to work.

Recycling electronics and metals is good on paper, but there is very much a service problem.

Shirasho ,

So they either did not do proper finance analysis or they are hiding numbers from shareholders, neither of which inspire confidence.

Shirasho ,

These clowns still not realizing that wealth and trickle economics are mutually exclusive. By definition wealth is the hoarding of resources beyond one's necessities. One does not get wealthy by releasing their wealth.

These people will not make more jobs. They will reduce the number of jobs, pay less and expect more, and hoard the extra wealth created by the hard work of their workers.

This past year tech companies have reported record profits while also seeing one of the highest layoff counts in years.

Shirasho ,

This seriously stressed me out when I put my last computer together. I was patient and waited hoping it would fix itself (which it did), but my heart sank when I didn't see anything on the monitor.

Good to know this is what is happening. Some visual feedback would be nice.

Shirasho ,

I stopped using the site when they required me to provide data every few weeks in order to see anything on the site. Come on, Glassdoor. It isn't like I am job hopping or having salary changes every 30 days.

It has become useless for first time job seekers for this reason as well.

Supreme Court unanimously rules against government in No Fly List case ( thehill.com )

Fikre alleges that he traveled to Sudan in late 2009 in pursuit of growing an electronics business in his native East Africa. The FBI questioned him while in Sudan, according to court filings, telling Fikre he was on the No Fly List and could be removed if he became an informant....

Shirasho ,

Agreed. Public safety is making everyone aware and allowing them to make informed decisions. Public safety is not hiding information hoping the problem solves itself.

Shirasho ,

Very cool. !remindme when it actually happens

Shirasho ,

Bruh I'd be just as atrocious regardless of gender.

Shirasho ,

Why bother being committed if the DNC isn't going to support you?

(Despite what I just said these candidates should be committed and the DNC and GOP need to start acting in the best interest of their constituents and stop propping up unqualified candidates.)

Shirasho ,

Killing education has been a GOP cornerstone for at least a century now. Education teaches people to think for themselves and make educated decisions, and those types of people would never vote Republican. The GOP are grooming children to vote for them to let them stay in power.

Their politics isn't "support the next generation". It is "how can the next generation support us". Education is the antithesis of this ideal.

Knights among toner cartridges ( infosec.pub )

(Business people) speaking a language familiar and dear to them. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; executives walk among toner cartridges, caparisoned like knights. We should tolerate them - every person of spirit wants to ride a white horse....

Shirasho ,

Unpredictable: "Our requirements are constantly changing due to bad planning."

High energy: "There will be a lot of yelling."

Shirasho ,

I would argue there are differences between racism and xenophobia.

Shirasho ,

Aptly named because while they think they are living in the clouds the house sits on a rotting branch that is just waiting to snap under the weight.

Shirasho ,

One problem is I don't trust the asshole drivers around me to not damage my expensive vehicle. The other problem is that I don't have $800/m to throw away on a vehicle that loses that much in value every month.

I don't need all of these fancy features. I need a basic bitch car that gets me from point a to point b and has enough trunk space for groceries.

Shirasho ,

If I had to take a wild guess giving benefit of the doubt it checks the total bytes downloaded and CPU usage to estimate electricity usage.

Shirasho ,

It can be an unsung hero in many tomato-based recipes. I use a tablespoon of it when I make jambalaya and beef stew.

Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling. ( www.vice.com )

Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.::After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.

Shirasho ,

Nobody wants to invest 2 months paycheck into hardware that the developer is going to drop support for in 6 months.

Hardware is too expensive for the average Joe to buy and those of us who can afford it are tired of being burned by companies that provide subpar service then drop support for the thing. Cool, bleeding edge tech means little if there is little use for it or if nobody can afford it.

I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist ( www.msn.com )

I lost my job after AI recruitment tool assessed my body language, says make-up artist::A make-up artist says she lost her job at a leading brand after an AI recruitment tool that used facial recognition technology marked her down for her body language.

Shirasho ,

For a brief moment I worked in that industry as a programmer. The whole point is not to find the most qualified candidate but to find the one that fits into the company culture the most in order to reduce turnover. These algorithms will throw away applications from people of color because they have "behaviors not in line with the company culture" or applications from disabled people because they would "not react properly to certain situations".

Of course they aren't explicitly rejecting these people, but the questions and answers on the tests for applications are specifically and painstakingly crafted to filter out these people without making it clear what type of person the question is trying to filter out.

This doesn't necessarily have to do with the AI in question, but my point is that the entire hiring/firing process is totally fucked, and companies are constantly looking for ways to get around discrimination laws.

The GOP’s Great Betrayal: Congressional Republicans are blocking crucial aid to Israel and Ukraine out of sheer servility to Trump ( www.theatlantic.com )

On January 17, House Speaker Mike Johnson led a candlelight vigil at the Capitol to mark the recent passing of the 100th day of hostage-holding by Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Members of Congress assembled shoulder to shoulder with families of hostages. The Republican speaker delivered a heartfelt speech. “We must stand together...

Shirasho ,

The term betrayal implies they once had the peoples' best interest in mind and were working on their behalf. The party may have betrayed the people 200 years ago, but what we are seeing today is not a betrayal.

Shirasho ,

Look at this another way. If they force you to come in, that is illegal containment. If they yell at you for taking sick leave then that is a hostile environment that you should leave ASAP. Try to look for other opportunities. You should never have to feel guilty for taking off work due to illness unless that illness is caused by sheer stupidity on your side (like overdrinking or running naked in the rain for a few hours).

Shirasho ,

January hasn't ended yet and we are at 60% of the total layoffs of last year.

Shirasho ,

Hot take - your vote does matter....until it doesn't. You can win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote and the latter is the one that matters. Your vote only matters in your state.

Shirasho ,

I don't know about everyone else, but I still play at 1080. It looks fine to me and I care more about frames than fidelity. More VRAM isn't going to help me here so it is not a factor when looking at video cards. Ignoring the fact I just bought a 4070, I wouldn't not skip over a 4070 Super just because it has 12GB of RAM.

This is a card that targets 1440p. It can pull weight at 4k, but I'm not sure if that is justification to slam it for not having the memory for 4k.

Shirasho ,

For most things, yes. This is absolutely not one of them.

Shirasho ,

There are a lot of people who like saying pretty things when their name is visible but when it comes to the anonymous vote they will not vote the same way. This goes down both sides of the aisle, but people don't stand back and take an objective view of their parties and what their mouthpieces actually stand for.

Shirasho ,

I was going to applaud you explicitly saying it was for your use case, then I noticed the description is a bunch of merch shilling.

Shirasho ,

Looking in Lemmy the advertisements are the very first thing I see, and all I see. Im not against a guy feeding himself, but you can't hold it against me if I don't click on something because I am bombarded with a literal wall of advertisements without anything else.

Shirasho ,

Well, yes. The heroes are generally the average people who don't do stuff for attention. The "pretty" ones who dress themselves up and try to get media attention are generally the villains.

Shirasho ,

I wish they would pull out of the American market because they are by far the worst chip we have. Overly greasy, no character, and just as expensive as premium chips.

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