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ShepherdPie ,

I’ve worked in lots of places with random drug testing that were full of drug users. For almost everything but weed, drugs are out of your system within hours or days. Being subject to random testing doesn’t mean he isn’t using drugs.

Boeing jetliner that suffered inflight blowout was restricted because of concern over warning light (apnews.com)

The Boeing jetliner that suffered an inflight blowout over Oregon was not being used for flights to Hawaii after a warning light that could have indicated a pressurization problem lit up on three different flights, a federal official said Sunday....

ShepherdPie ,

Especially two just days before the incident.

ShepherdPie ,

What kind of company has such a bad drug problem that they need to bring in dogs to find it? Absolutely ridiculous.

ShepherdPie ,

I don’t find the drug use abnormal so much as them bringing in drug sniffing dogs to catch it rather than dealing with it on an individual basis.

ShepherdPie ,

Don’t forget the corruption.

ShepherdPie ,

With Florida’s moronic leadership, this position probably specifically prohibits anyone with a medical degree from serving in the role.

ShepherdPie ,

Based on what?

ShepherdPie ,

I wonder how much of their state economy is driven by government welfare paid to farmers?

Clarence Thomas must recuse himself from ruling on Trump’s 2024 eligibility, Raskin says (www.theguardian.com)

Supreme court justice Clarence Thomas must recuse himself from ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility for the 2024 presidential election, a prominent Democrat said Sunday, warning that the leading Republican candidate is seeking to become a “political martyr” as he pursues a second presidency....

ShepherdPie ,

Lifetime appointments is why.

ShepherdPie ,

I’ll trade you two Betamax, an HD-DVD player, and one 8-track of PeeWee Herman performing “Tequila” for your 3D TV.

ShepherdPie ,

Totally agree. The smartphone market is wayyy to homogenous. All they compete over is price and what alphanumeric digits the chips contain. Give us foldables, sliders, cheap phones, high end phones, phones full of ports, small phones, and big phones. This is what the phone market used to be about until the mid '10s

ShepherdPie ,

I thought the same but they’re great for using at home. My wife watches movies on it in the kitchen, my kid loves it for games, I like it for controlling house stuff like IoT, smart home stuff, and apps for home electronics. It’s not too different from smart watches where you don’t need anything it offers, but it makes things more convenient.

Now the people who take their tablet to Disneyland to take pictures are just plain crazy and shouldn’t be lumped in with the rest of us.

ShepherdPie ,

I think people like tablets a lot more than virtual desktops judging by the sales numbers.

ShepherdPie ,

Was this joke found on road dead?

ShepherdPie ,

Are we questioning the intelligence of a person stealing vital medication from patients and swapping it for something else?

ShepherdPie ,

Handbrake will be what you want. I would just Google the recommended quality settings for it for DVD.

ShepherdPie ,

Probably just fine since every phone comes with a lightning or USB C port already and all have their IP65 ratings

ShepherdPie ,

Nobody is talking about recalling old products to swap out USB ports and redesigning for USB-C is trivial. They mean for future purchases, it’s nice to use a single standard.

ShepherdPie ,

So you can hear the same 5 songs on repeat interspersed with tons of commercials?

ShepherdPie ,

I’m also curious as my MIL wanted me to add one of these telanovellas but they’re impossible to find thus far using the popular public sites and whatever Spanish language sites I could find through Prowlarr.

ShepherdPie ,

My state jacked up registration costs for EVs and fuel efficient ICE vehicles and is piloting a pay by mileage program. I admit they have to do something, but currently they’re just incentivizing people to buy gas guzzlers because they pay the least amount out of anyone tax wise.

It’s “shakeout” time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5 billion | Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers. (arstechnica.com)

It’s “shakeout” time as losses of Netflix rivals top $5 billion | Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers.::Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers.

ShepherdPie ,

Implying that these companies are entitled to earn billions just for existing?

ShepherdPie ,

I don’t know how old you are but if you’re close to 40 or older, you may remember the '90s when music studios were in the same position and completely controlled production and distribution, forcing us to pay $20-$30 per CD (in 1990s dollars) for 13 tracks of mostly filler music. Once MP3s and broadband internet became common, the entire industry was decimated, yet there is more music produced now than ever before.

You’re seeing the same thing happen with tv/movies today. I think it will once again be the studios that suffer not the content.

ShepherdPie ,

Sounds like they’re delaying because their Exynos chip is wildly unpopular compared to Snapdragon and simply blaming it on the CHIPS Act as cover. They’re claiming it’s because they need this couple billion in subsidies while also claiming they plan to invest $200 billion here? Seems like Samsung should be able to cover the tab in the interim if they really wanted to build here. This bill is already signed into law so why wouldn’t they receive the funds at some point? Is this 1% of their total investment really that critical?

This is just like Walgreens and RiteAid claiming they have to close stores due to theft, only to later admit that was a complete fabrication.

ShepherdPie ,

TSMC can’t get their fab build because they think US workers should be receiving Chinese wages. Everyone is entitled to a share of the money of they build a US fab. Intel is already in the middle of building a completely new campus in Ohio even though they’ve had a terrible couple years financially and haven’t received their subsidies either. You’d think TSMC, the company that makes virtually every other companies chips, would be able to front a few billion on their own facility.

Would you rather it end up like Foxconn’s Wisconsin deal where the city demolishes an entire neighborhood of homes, kicks the residents out, and gives billions in subsidies only for them to scale back the plant and only hire a couple hundred people to build outdated products? These companies are already absolutely massive and can afford this stuff on their own. The subsidies are just supposed to be a small incentive for doing so, not their primary source of funding.

ShepherdPie ,

Even if it’s not due to Exynos, the rest of my comment holds true. These subsidies are just a drop in the bucket in terms of total cost. Samsung and it’s subsidiaries account for 1/5 of the GDP for the entire nation of South Korea while TSMC already produces leading edge chips for nearly every major manufacturer on the planet, including Intel. They have plenty of funds to begin production here in the US even if they have to wait a little longer for these subsidies.

ShepherdPie ,

Apples chips are made by TSMC and Samsungs size reflects how deep their pockets are. They aren’t holding back because they haven’t received 1% of funding from the US government.

ShepherdPie ,

I never said they did, but as a corporation, they make up 20% of South Korea’s economy.

ShepherdPie , (edited )

For tech and media companies, much of the money went towards building R&D centers, relocations of corporate offices and office campuses in certain states.

Not all such payments are though well received. Back in December, a subsidy to Apple from North Carolina, where the company is building a new campus, was branded 2021’s “Worst Economic Development Deal of the Year” by the Center for Economic Accountability (CEA). The arrangement is worth over US$846 million. John Mozena, president of the CEA, said:

A billion dollars is a lot of money for North Carolina’s taxpayers and communities, because that’s a billion dollars’ worth of public services not being funded. But for a company like Apple, which reported more than a billion dollars a day in revenues this past year, it isn’t anywhere near enough money to move the needle on a major site selection decision.

Seems none of this went toward any sort of manufacturing capacity. Furthermore, the article mentions Samsung received $1.2B in subsidies already from state and local governments, roughly in line with what they’d be receiving from the CHIPS Act. Of course they’re not a charity, but how is 1% of funding holding back the entire project if they’re paying the other 99% out of their own pocket? As I said originally, this is just a convenient cover to deflect away from their own poor performance as a company and put the onus on the government.

ShepherdPie ,

I already explained that TSMC can’t get their fab running because they don’t want to pay US wages to contractors and employees. This has been widely reported on already.

ShepherdPie ,

Samsung already has facilities here in the US unlike TSMC, so labor costs should be no surprise to them.

I do realize the reasoning behind the CHIPS Act and I also understand that it has already been signed into law, which is why I call BS on Samsung’s claimed reasoning.

The money is there and whether it gets paid out today or 6 months from now, they’ll be eligible all the same. To claim that they can’t afford to continue on with their plans because they don’t have the money in their pocket right now doesn’t make sense as Samsung has a ton of money already and this subsidy represents a miniscule fraction of their total investment.

My point all along is that their claimed excuse here is bullshit. If they can’t afford it without subsidizing 1/100th of their investment immediately, they can’t afford it with the subsidy either and that has nothing to do with the government. It’d be like claiming you can totally afford a $20,000 car but a $20,200 car is too far out of reach.

ShepherdPie ,

Probably because they’re new and the parent comment specifically referred to the cheaper, less energy dense battery types.

ShepherdPie ,

Dominating which market though? China is heavily subsidizing these cars like they do with a lot of new tech when they want to undercut non-Chinese companies. I guarantee if any other manufacturer had similar subsidies, the situation would be different.

ShepherdPie ,

I’m pretty sure certain instances actually censor out swear words automatically.

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