There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Steve

@[email protected]

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Steve ,

I Do! I’d spend hundreds for it.

Could do all sorts of things with it!
Accept donations for all the groups Inforwars insulted or hurt in any way.
For yucks, put up a poll for how terrible a person Alex Jones is.
Add a form for recommendations on other fun things to with the site.

Steve , (edited )

Which isn’t the individual single use plastic bags every single item comes in.
It’s just the one final plastic bag, all the other plastic bags are carried in.

I don’t have a problem with the move myself. I’m single, with a supermarket just up the street. I use my own hand basket for my groceries. I never even use a cart.
But this policy always strikes me a tackling the smallest, least effective part of the problem. Banning plastic packaging would be FAR more effective. But also much harder. So this is just a way for politicians to seem like they are doing something, when they really aren’t. In other words it’s pandering.

Steve , (edited )

I do exactly the same all the time too.
Then I walk back out to my car, grab my basket, and curse silently at myself the whole way.

Steve ,

I’m sorry.
If you want to make them, for the sake of making them. As an art project or something, that’s fine I guess.
But as a functional blanket? That seems like the worst thing I can imagine.

Steve , (edited )

I’m saying it shouldn’t be praised as a solution, but recognized as a very small step forward. Afterwhich we ramp up the pressure for real solutions.

Steve ,

All the more reason to advocate for it, and not be distracted by a nearly meaningless win.

Steve ,

Excellent! That should be bigger news than this little stuff.

Steve ,

I wouldn’t limit it to plastic packaging. Micro-plastics come from all plastic.

Steve ,

I have a hand-held basket I got more a decade ago from Staples. I just put all the loose fruit and veg in that.

Steve ,

Think like what? Think this is just one small pice. Small enough that it almost doesn’t matter, and shouldn’t take any energy or news inches from the larger problem of plastic packaging? Because honestly, it sounds like we’re on the same page there.

Also plastics aren’t much of a climate issue. They’re part of a more broad environmental issue.

Steve ,

It seems easy to argue liter is part of environmental concerns and policy. Environment is a very flexible term.

Steve ,

That’s why I was thinking.
“What makes this one news?”

So…
What makes this one news?

Steve ,

Sometimes people do the right thing, for the wrong reason. While not ideal. I’ll accept it.

Steve ,

If Israel doesn’t need the free weapons that cost us hundreds of billions of dollars, then lets stop wasting the money.

Steve ,

Hard disagree.
Running your own social media server for official accounts, so you’re not beholden to the whims of other providers, is kind of an obvious thing to do for online organizations.

Steve , (edited )

We’re not talking about individual people, but whole corporations and organizations.

For example. Instance.social is shutting down. Now the whole Org needs to migrate 150 accounts to someplace else. Oh and the old posts are being deleted, can’t migrate those.

And the support community you created on there, is going away also. Again, can’t really migrate all the old posts and comments. But the FAQ documentation we put there when people asked about it, can be manually copied to the new place. So that’s something

That’s not a situation any company would want to be in. Better to have their own social home, that they control.

Steve ,

As a stepping stone to an octo-fold phone? Yes.

Steve ,

I started buzzing my hair down to an 1/8th inch when I was 14. Then much if it fell out in my 30s also.

Steve , (edited )

Not surprised. Dems haven’t done enough lately for workers. They used to be THE worker party. But since Clinton, they’ve been nearly as deep into corpo pockets as Republicans.

Even Biden sided with the railroad corpo’s over the union.

I’ve said it before. Many Trump votes, are votes to blow up the system hoping for something new. Because it’s not working for the average person anymore.

Steve ,

Yah, it’s not smart.

Steve ,

The worse system is the blowing up. When things get bad enough, people will revolt to build a better system. The Jan 6th protesters imagined that’s what they were doing. But they were deluded or dumb or both. We’re not there yet. I hope we can avoid it.

Steve , (edited )

I said “enough” not “nothing”. The Inflation Reduction Act goes to corpos first. Then whatever they can’t manage to skim off for themselves, will go to workers. It’s still a corpo first policy.

Replacing the parliamentarian to push through the $15 minimum wage would have been better.

Steve ,

And that temporary disaster would have forced permanent improvements to pay and working conditions. Some pain now, for gains later. That’s how most everything works.

Labor day is a holiday for all the people who died fighting for better working conditions.

Steve ,

Not well. But nobody (including Trump) ever expected him to win, and there was no real plan. Now they have Project 2025. This time things will go real bad if he gets elected.

Steve , (edited )

Yah. Eventually they got a raise, and 4 whole days of paid sick leave. They still work skeleton crews on unsafe trains, with no power over their own schedule.

Again. It’s not enough.

Rather than taking another several months it could have taken a few weeks, and they likely could’ve gotten much more.

Steve , (edited )

I can be mad about more than one thing at a time.

But Biden trying to help some after fucking them over. That’s kind of the bare minimum. I’d say I’m only a little disappointed in that.

Steve , (edited )

Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes.

Steve ,

Don’t forget the RR workers union, and their members. It’s not just Biden

Steve ,

That depends on how bad things need to get.

Steve ,

This idea only comes from people who have never seen what this is like or how it works.
I’ve done this kind of work, as a direct care staff helping the disabled.

People with disabilities aren’t doing normal productive jobs that anyone else would do. They are being paid $1.5/hour to stuff gift bags for kids birthday parties, and the like. And they have direct care staff earning $15 to $20/hour, working right next to them to help out and keep things safe.

These laws sound good. (Accept the carve out for prisoners, not sure what’s up with that) But they won’t do anything for the disabled, beyond forcing them out of somewhat normal life routine. These jobs aren’t productive work. They’re a mental health treatment, simulating a job.

Steve ,

You can’t have? Or you can’t be sure?
Because you certainly can have. Just because you pay, doesn’t mean they will log your searches. In fact Kagi claim they don’t. And since their only income comes from paying users. If anyone ever found out they’re lying about that, they’d quickly loose a big chink of subscribers and income. As well as get sued for fraud. So it’s rather unlikely they do.

Unlike every other search provider, Kagi is the only one with a business model that ensures it’s users are the customer, not the product. When actually using it every day, that’s quite obvious in the results. Even when you search for a company directly, it’s Wikipedia entry is usually the first result. The the company site is the second.

Steve , (edited )

Not being sure was part of my point. We can’t be sure. But all their incentives are aligned in the right way. That’s the best we can hope for. And better than any alternative right now.

Are currency/monetary base economic systems coming to their logical end?

I get the history as to why we got to our current economic situations, but no one is arguing for a system that casts off current economic issues that are pushing humanity towards destruction. I’m not saying this can happen over night or even within our current life time, but it’s obvious that capitalism and even socialism...

Steve ,

It really is the most efficient way to manage and trade scarce resources. Going back to a barter system wouldn’t be possible with the size and scope of a global economy.

Steve ,

I’m not sure you know what post scarcity means.

Imagine a world where nobody needs to work, but everyone can still have any material desire filled at any time.

Think Star Trek. Unlimited energy resources, combined with replicators which use that endless energy to create unlimited stuff without any labor required.

Steve ,

It works in cycles.

The last Guilded Age (think Roaring 20s) ended with the great depression. Which then triggered the creation of all the great economic policies the boomers enjoyed as children, which they’ve been dismantling since the 70s.

Once things get bad enough, (very nearly there now) the cycle will repeat.

Steve ,

Those are very big questions. This Wikipedia Page is a good place to start.

The simple answer is, everything humanity does happens in cycles.
But you can think of it as roller-coaster passing through an infinite series of loops. We keep going forward in the long run. But but the repeating loops take us up and down, even upside down and backwards along the way. In every case, coming down each loop gives us the momentum to reach the next one.

Trump Says He's Done Debating: 'THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!' (www.mediaite.com)

When a prizefighter loses a fight, the first words out of his mouth are, “I WANT A REMATCH.” Polls clearly show that I won the Debate against Comrade Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ Radical Left Candidate, on Tuesday night, and she immediately called for a Second Debate. She and Crooked Joe have destroyed our Country, with...

Steve ,

Sure they ask for a rematch.
Unless they’re afraid they’ll get humiliated again.

Steve ,

I’m generally not a sit com person.
But that sounds cute. I’d give it a chance.

Steve ,

The most profitable league in all of sports…
Is being killed?

I don’t think that means what they think it means.

Steve , (edited )

I think they underestimate the marketing value of a halo product.
That, or it’s just spin to account for the fact that they don’t have one.

Steve , (edited )

I’m not sure I understand why they don’t.

I thought bringing chiplets to GPUs, meant they’d be able just add as many CUs and cash dies as they needed to get on top. Even if it’s $3.5k and 1000W, they should be able to. They could sell 100K units as some limited edition special thing, and pull mind share away from nVidia by having the undisputed top card.

But they don’t. Which is why I think they undervalue having a halo product. They don’t think it’ll push units further down the product stack. I think they’re clearly wrong about that. People buy cards that fit their budgets. But they buy brands they know to be the best.

TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials (www.techspot.com)

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has reached a significant milestone in its expansion into the US. Recent trial production at the company’s new Arizona facility has yielded results comparable to those of its established plants in Taiwan, according to Bloomberg, which cited a person familiar with the company who requested...

Steve ,

As I recall that was a significant concern early on. And part of the deal was that they recycle their water, and keep the fresh water consumption below a certain level.

That way they don’t have to deprive the farmers growing water hungry crops in the desert with 80% of the local water supply.

Steve ,

According to Limbaugh, his decision came as a result of the campaign’s “failure to include any statute or provision that will be repealed, especially when many of these statues are apparent”.

Is that a requirement of amendments in Missouri?
What if an amendment doesn’t repeal any current statute, but makes new law?

Steve , (edited )

For a narrow definition of law that may be the case.
But it could also be thought of as a set of laws, which specifically govern law-makers.

In this case it’s making certain pre-existing statutes illegal, effectively nullifying them.
Why this judge thinks those statues need to be specifically mentioned, I don’t understand. As a judge you’d think that would be their job.

Steve ,

Government capitulation to threats or concerns of a violent mob, is always bad idea. It only serves to embolden the mob.

Steve ,

Individuals aren’t governments. The best choice is almost always quite different for the two.

Steve ,

Verizon didn’t like spending money on its fiber network. Cellular had better margins. So they sold much of it to Frontier.

Now Frontier invested in the fiber, and is making money, so Verizon wants it back.

This is an example myopic management, with no long term vision. Share price should drop, but it’ll probably go up.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •