A friend came to me in my dreams to tell me he was dead. And he was. At least a decade prior (his death was a surprise) he told me that if he died first, and it was possible to get a message through, he would.

They look so fucking stupid I can’t imagine them ever being worth the resources wasted on development.

NY AG is about to take it anyway, no bombing required. Win-win!

I don’t know what JC means, junior college? One thing that helped me figure out what to do with my life was to go through a printed (if you can still get one) college course catalog and look at every single degree program my local community college (same thing?) offered. There were career paths in there I had never considered until prompted, and some I’d never imagined. I was in my 40s, btw. So while you’re better off figuring it out now, it’s never too late.

Platforms should be held responsible for the content their users publish on them, full stop.

It’s back up as of last night.

While all people deserve to be treated with respect, I can’t help but wonder why they thought they would be? They’re probably getting longer shelter stays, better access to services, and more respect than the homeless population that isn’t made up of migrants. The barriers migrants are facing are meant to be a deterrent no matter how wrong that might be.

They don’t get paid enough to care.

Always, always, ALWAYS select “do not substitute” for everything. Substitutions always cost more and I’d rather go without than take my chances on what they charge me for.

Which countries are those?

Why does this guy think he invented the web? I don’t know enough to say he didn’t, but why does he think so?

Wasn’t it a multi-person/org effort? Isn’t that why everyone laughed at Al Gore when he implied the same? After going on about the need to decentralize, this guy wants to take the credit himself?

No. No it’s not.

It’s about tf time.

If you’re interested, try this: https://mvmt10k.org/

After a race scandal involving the CEO at my job, we’ve all been taking DEI training. The latest one took months to complete. They aren’t one-off “be nice to each other” bs webinars. They’re deep dives into the history and origins of racism, from the feudal lords in Europe inventing indentured servitude and how that morphed into slavery, to redlining and how that impedes generational wealth.

The only reasonable conclusion you can come to, if you honestly engage with the material, is that capitalism and its interests lie beneath all forms of discrimination and inequity. Corporations were all into DEIA when they thought it was good PR that made them look good to customers and improved staff morale. But then, the material starts giving those employees ideas. That’s what this recent push-back on DEIA is about.

They aren’t punishing either one for data gathering. It’s pretty clear that the powers that be deem that acceptable. The punishments (and whether you think it’s valid or not, FB has been punished) are for what each does or can do with that data. Facebook has legal limits on that. China has no legal obligation to adhere to those.

My kid fell for this. They promise you’ll get paid while you learn. What they don’t tell you is that IF you manage to pass the entrance exam (he did) you get put on a list for open apprenticeship positions, waiting to be called in at any moment. While you’re on that list you don’t get paid. If you do get a spot, contracts only last a couple of months. Then you go back on the list. Rinse and repeat. And the longer you’ve been in the union the higher up you get placed on the list. So the older members get placed before the newer ones no matter what number they were in line. This “join a trade” push is similar to the charter school scam, siphoning up state and federal training funds without delivering results.

You’re just shifting responsibility to the population that has no real control over the matter. That’s completely unethical.

Idk, I’m a woman approaching my senior years who had to have someone else install it. My whole household is on Linux. None of us are in IT.

But they’re banning printed books in libraries instead…