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by dfxm12 1y ago
for the first time in four years, the number of available jobs was lower than the number of job seekers Oof. This sounds particularly bad, not just for the economy, but for workers, no?
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Salesforce CEO confirms 4,000 layoffs ‘because I need less heads’ with AI - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/salesforce-ceo-confirms-4000...
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NFLPA has to fight tooth and nail to get 48% of the league revenue. Owners don't have to give up anything. Thanks to media deals and taking advantage of city-owned stadiums (with ridiculous parking fees and nacho prices, etc.), the tea
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by dfxm12 1y ago
Be wary that the article speaks of "bets", but then really only talks about the hits. Starting with $30MM, and having who knows how many millions in endorsement deals to fall back on, makes it easier to absorb the misses. It'
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by dfxm12 1y ago
Is there evidence that they are doing this to appease Trump? What if they wanted to do this anyway and recognize that at this time, they can use appeasement as a weaselly way to justify it.
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Kerrie Herbert has been awarded almost £30,000 in compensation and legal costs after an employment tribunal found she had been unfairly dismissed. Not without collecting damages.
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The snark is not Internet specific. It comes from the top down, whether it's the talking heads on Fox News, your favorite podcast/streamer or popular Twitter posters. A few decades ago, it might have been popular opinion writers o
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by dfxm12 1y ago
Like op says, fun and a nuisance. :) Modular stuff is fun, especially if it looks nice on a shelf, but it becomes a nuisance when your shelf runs out of room, or when you upgrade a system and you either have to re-buy some gear or find that
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by dfxm12 1y ago
I hope they don't make the staff finish off stuff, like Marmite and porridge ice cream, which makes all the contestants gag. A more practical approach in this case, where the concerns are probably slightly different than what we see in
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https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/mwave/ What about the kinesis mWave? Are there significant differences?
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by dfxm12 1y ago
Consider politicians like Graham Platner. Invest money, or even time, to help people who put working Americans ahead of the oligarchy get elected. If you're in Maine, even better, you can vote with your vote as well. Importantly, pay a
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You made the initial unsubstantiated claim. Please explore all the causes of inflation during the global pandemic: supply chain issues, (yes) stimulus spending, housing shortages, greedflation, the Russia invasion of Ukraine, etc. Why does
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by dfxm12 1y ago
The survey uses the term "unemployed" but it is a different metric than the "unemployed" metric. I'm looking at the pdf you linked. I did a ctrl+f and couldn't find anything for "unemployed". I then
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by dfxm12 1y ago
It is important to note that retired people are not employed. 31% of respondents were 60+ years old. Some chunk of the 18-29 year olds were likely full time students. There are also other people who can't or don't need to work. 4-
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We've had a decades long assault on the idea that hard work leads to economic gains for normal Americans. This poll goes back to the mid 80s. Since then, working class Americans have gotten less and less support from the government whi
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by dfxm12 1y ago
Look one layer deeper and likely the issues are classist. Of course you didn't mention where you were, but, in the places I've lived, it goes down like this: the people who are wealthy enough to not need to use use public transit
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by dfxm12 1y ago
In addition to what we see in the article, we've started to see the enshittification with monthly subscriptions to unlock more power or heated seats. The more this happens, the less likely I am to buy a car. A car is not freedom. It&#x
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by dfxm12 1y ago
around a third of senior developers with more than a decade of experience are using AI code-generation tools such as Copilot, Claude, and Gemini to produce over half of their finished software, compared to 13 percent for those devs who&#x2
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by dfxm12 1y ago
public health dollars at the very least might be better spent on quality of life as much as quantity. Improving quality of life often leads to improving quantity of life. Life expectancy is, in part, a policy choice. Be wary of those who
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by dfxm12 1y ago
You've concluded this from a single, brief, throwaway line? Any madness you perceive about this situation has been fabricated by you, based on the details we have.
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Most people don't want trains. Care to flesh this out? I can only find data that contradicts this: https://railpassengers.org/happening-now/news/releases/new-p... https://media.amtrak.com&#x
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by dfxm12 1y ago
Even if you are paying for it, you are still the product (I guess "a" product). Meta (or whoever) is not going to give up revenue streams just because you're giving them money too. Realistically, for consumer products like th
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This is probably not true. If it is, if your ties are so weak that they rely on an app, maybe it is ok to let them go and seek stronger social ties elsewhere.
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The argument for the walled garden is that Apple should be taking these options away from the developer in favor of user security. Yes, blame the developer, but also blame Apple.
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moving fast through the yellow light, with nowhere to go. My company has been preparing for this for a while now, I guess, as my backlog clearly has years' worth of work in it and positions of people who have left the org remain unfi
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Hey, I agree, but if this is what it takes to get it into the regular lexicon, or to get a foot in the door in Washington, then OK.
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These examples don't prove your point though, so they were easily countered. You even conceded this yourself when you admitted that Obama's tariffs were "nothing as sweeping or rushed as what is going on now". I'm n
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No, the parties haven't flipped. Republicans and lobbyists just keep dragging the Overton window to the right and mainstream dems just follow along for most of the ride. Biden, who actually walked a picket line, is probably among the m
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Maybe you could have hid behind the "vibes" line the first time around, but not anymore. We're way past where we could realistically give people the benefit of the doubt.
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It is clear that the government and wall street are generally of one mind on this. One recent specific way the government contributed to this is via the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, which increased tax burden of R&D. They'

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