Had a similar encounter with a wasp. Little bastard was blind drunk, I enjoyed seeing him trying to fly and failing out of sheer intoxication. Bumped into the umbrella stand a few times before it decided that walking was probably the better means of locomotion.
Mostly because of Murdoch.
Companies that once shared productivity gains with workers through higher wages now capture those gains entirely as profits for shareholders and executives.
My own employer used to be a mid-sized company excelling in the specific service they offered. I worked there for five years while they kept growing and things just kept getting gradually “better”. Then, during Covid, the owner decided to sell to a multinational and almost immediately we lost bonuses, incentives, perks and tools. They kept growing the sales department (and the actual sales) without growing support or backoffice.
As a result we are massively overworked, have less tools than we ever did before (or they just don’t work anymore) and our deadlines have tightened significantly without new hires in the dept.
Our choice is to grin & bear it and keep a roof over our heads, or to protest it and lose all income.
No, it’s none of that. It’s that in my over four decades of life, I’ve never once lived up to my OWN potential, and despite trying my best, giving up, trying again, … countless times, I’ve still never managed to markedly improve my station in life, or my enjoyment of it.
I know I have everything I need to be capable, smart, confident person, but I’ve never BEEN any of those things, even fleetingly, so I can’t really even imagine how it would be like.
Pathethic, I know.
Have you ever lived in the projects? As a (former, but still) poor person, living there is… challenging. Your opinions of your fellow humans regularly have to be adjusted, especially if you’re prone to being an optimist.
Not ghetto but simply very basic, rural living. The house I grew up in did not have indoor plumbing. The toilet was outside in an outhouse, just a plank with a hole in the middle above a cesspit. My parents were split up and my mother got the absolute minimum pay and my father wasted his wages on alcohol and women. So there were few luxuries during my youth.
Today I’m 41 and I’m BARELY above that level of poverty. If I lose my job for whatever reason it’s back to that kind of life.
That was in the '80s in Western Europe, by the way. Today this situation has become a lot more rare but it’s not gone yet.
My only remaining ambition after age 40 was to be a worthwile human being at the very least (because that bar is very low) and I can’t even do that.
Some people are born broken, not necessarily through any fault of their own. But maybe I don’t even clear that barrier and am simply useless to anyone. Oh well.
Let’s be real; everyone on board knew there was no chance the ship would be allowed to moor and offload its goods. It was a photo op. But still a good one since it helps show what Israel is doing in Gaza. They also knew there was very little chance of them actually getting hurt as Israel does care about optics when it involves high profile foreigners. The second they kill someone like Greta all hell would break loose. Which is in sad, stark contrast to the thousands of innocents they’ve killed with nary a peep from the rest of the world.
I’d say that Lemmy’s current userbase is highly reminiscent of early Reddit’s userbase (pre 2012ish).
Good luck; this is textbook fascism and one of its features is that it’s totalitarian and will sink its claws into every single aspect of your lives unless you fight back at every level.
Even just H and O on their own can be quite scary. Throw them together and BAM, ubiquitous lifegiving liquid.
Man, I miss Nintendo’s Iwata/Reggie age. Those guys had vision beyond just endless profits.
Acknowledged! Dead children will now spawn in your game as requested. …you weirdo.
What I’ll NEVER understand is that the plans were just there, out in the open. Anyone could visit the websites and see in explicit detail what they planned to do (“the revolution will remain bloodless as long as the left allows it to be”), project 2025, and people STILL voted for them.
4Chan? This seems to be like… a decade too late, at best.
Love the sentiment, curious about implementation.
Nah. A mattress though? You bet!
User data has been the internet’s greatest treasure trove since the advent of Google. LLM’s are perfectly set up to extract the most intimate data available from their users (“mental health” conversations, financial advice, …) which can be used against them in a soft way (higher prices when looking for mental health help) or they can be used to outright manipulate or blackmail you.
Regardless, there is no scenario in which the end user wins.
End-to-end encryption should cover you, but anything that can set up man-in-the-middle attacks is poised to defeat that.
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.