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orcrist ,

Not sure what you mean by the question.

US aid policy on Gaza 'absurd' given military support for Israel, UN expert says (www.reuters.com)

A U.N. expert on Friday criticised U.S. efforts to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza, such as plans for a temporary port and recent air drops, which he said were “absurd” and “cynical” methods so long as military aid to Israel continues....

orcrist ,

We can wish for anything, but that doesn’t make it reality, or even realistically possible.

Donald Trump posts $91.6 million bond for E. Jean Carroll's defamation verdict (www.reuters.com)

Donald Trump on Friday posted a $91.6 million bond to cover the defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll, and began his appeal of the case that arose from his branding her a liar after she accused him of raping her decades ago....

orcrist ,

The argument is not his goal. Denying badness is. There is no end game, but then again, he is an old man, so that is one angle.

orcrist ,

The point here is government spending, especially with private partnership, not solving any problem. Classic corruption.

Uvalde parents lash out after new report clears city police of wrongdoing during 2022 school attack (apnews.com)

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb Elementary School shooting cleared local police officers of wrongdoing Thursday, despite acknowledging a series of rippling failures during the fumbled response to the 2022 classroom attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead....

orcrist ,

Emotions have cooled as much as they ever will, or should. Do you think parents will forget about children who died while the cops stood around and prevented the parents from going in to save them? They never will.

And parents whose kids survived, you’re wrong about them. They’ll never think “Thank god it was my neighbor’s kid who died, not mine.” That’s not how decent humans think.

orcrist ,

Ah, the classic “U” argument, that the fringes of the right and left are the same. It’s a cute but damaging myth.

orcrist ,

I think you’re wrong about personal responsibility and boot straps, or at least that depends on your field. Certainly my successes and failures at work are closely linked to my coworkers and customer base. It’s not all on me, for good or bad.

Also, these days in many countries, referees don’t dare say anything negative. Most companies have policies about that. Nobody wants to get sued or be forced to deal with the labor board. In reality, former bosses most likely to confirm employment history, and they might throw in a few generic positive comments. Or if it’s someone you know well, they might say something that makes you sound good.

References are not going to hurt you, unless of course you don’t have any halfway decent ones. But if that’s the situation, you probably ought to work a part-time job, volunteer, or take a class at community college for 4 months, if that’s at all possible given your economic constraints.

orcrist ,

I’m not OP, but of course that depends on the field, company, and country.

orcrist ,

Many middlemen are getting played, too.

orcrist ,

Actually I don’t see any reaction. Two major newspapers don’t mention the story at all, at least not yet. We shall see.

Didn’t check others, got bored.

orcrist ,

Yes. It varies by topic, but on many topics now it’s 100% useless.

AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)

an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded....

orcrist ,

This is not any kind of modern “AI”. This is a fancy version of “key word filtering”. It’s been done for decades. Why, tech writers, why must you not use your brains when writing these articles? … We aren’t going to believe a word you write if you can’t get basic facts figured out.

orcrist ,

You can. It’s just not new, not news.

Jury convicts Iowa police chief of lying to feds to acquire machine guns (apnews.com)

The jury convicted Adair Police Chief Brad Wendt, 47, of conspiring to make false statements to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making false statements to the agency, and illegal possession of a machine gun. He was convicted on 11 of 15 charges....

orcrist ,

FBI Omaha Special Agent in Charge Eugene Kowel said in a statement Thursday. “When so many law enforcement officers in our country are working to protect our communities and uphold the law, Brad Wendt did exactly the opposite.”

No, Eugene, you got it wrong. Here’s what you should have said.

“When so many law enforcement officers in our country are working toward their own ends, and ignoring the law, Brad Wendt did exactly the same.”

orcrist ,

Your explanation is wrong, though. People might have experience, but you don’t know who, because they can lie. And if you think about it, a lot of what we learn is stuff we haven’t experienced directly, for a variety of practical reasons.

orcrist ,

For me, the question is why I should add an extra layer of complexity. If the things I use already work well using apt, and if most things are bundled in the default distro install, then my life is already good.

This all depends on your software needs, if course. Some people are using a lot of new stuff, so the above setup leads to annoying situations.

orcrist ,

I don’t think it’s simply a question of knowledge. A lot of people make money by supporting the status quo, especially the military industrial complex, and other people hold racist views towards all Palestinians.

orcrist ,

If you haven’t seen a slant, then those two news agencies are slanted towards things that you already believe. In reality, all news agencies are slanted somehow.

There’s no possible way they could cover every single issue from all perspectives, right? So even if you think that they’re trying to be as neutral as possible, the stories that they pick and choose to cover tell you what their values are.

And sometimes being neutral actually means you’re being slanted, because sometimes the truth isn’t in the middle. Sometimes some of actors really are so bad that you need to call them out on their bad actions, at least if you have any morals.

orcrist ,

I have zero idea what you mean when you say that it has destroyed society. Can you explain?

orcrist ,

Anyone who would actually say that quote out loud in front of a camera clearly means the latter. People who value public trust would never think of saying a sentence like that, because the focus would be on their relationship with the public and not on themselves.

orcrist ,

That’s one approach, but in the past military experts have cautioned against it because Iran has large missiles pointed at Israel, and Israel has nuclear weapons.

orcrist ,

It really isn’t though. This is a pretty weak stereotype. I have so many friends that are counter examples. Hey it’s okay to make a meme if you want to have fun but if that’s how you feel then your friend group is small.

orcrist ,

You don’t get to pick and choose what Fox News has said in the past. Their position is that climate change is vastly exaggerated and largely a hoax, and depending who you talk to they might have a stronger view.

You don’t get to forget what they said in the past and present and choose a totally new position, where the main focus is on hypocrisy. Because if Fox News believes what it has said for the last 20 years, then the actual reasoning is that Taylor Swift is acting hypocritically but it’s irrelevant. In other words, if they want to have integrity they would need to undercut their own story.

You personally are free to have a position that purely focuses on hypocrisy if you haven’t already made public statements on climate change. But Fox News is stuck with positions it has already endorsed and continues to endorse. I mean we know that Fox News has no credibility but if you thought that they should, then this is something they can’t avoid.

orcrist ,

This is not just Aso. His party believes it’s OK to think and act like that.

orcrist ,

Sure sure, I think we all knew this decades ago. Saying it again is fine, but talk is cheap.

orcrist ,

Headlines like that are weird and I think a bad way of using the English language. Loss of potential revenue is not the same as a cost.

orcrist ,

lol yes this was obvious a few decades ago … The years since were just propaganda time for the north and the south.

orcrist ,

I’m 100% feeling YouTube’s throttling. It has already led me to watch fewer videos.

orcrist ,

Let us not forget deregulation. The airline industry will save money wherever possible to make a buck, and they did the math on this type of quality control. In other words, it’s Boeing along with every single Boeing customer.

What games can you not get into because they feel too outdated?

Are there games that you tried but just couldn’t get into because they feel outdated? Games that, in theory, you would enjoy, but don’t because the controls, graphics, writing, or mechanics just don’t feel good anymore. Games that, compared to today, just don’t hold up to your standards....

orcrist ,

Betrayal at Krondor. What an amazing game, I love it, but if you imagine what the graphics would be like if it were made today, I think it’s hard to recommend anyone play it.

orcrist ,

If the main thing is PDF reading, buy an Android tablet. Of course research which one.

orcrist ,

In the united states, mainstream media and elected members of various congresses are very big on patriotism because it lets them turn off their brains and pretend that nobody else can use their brains either. Of course this meshes perfectly with the military industrial complex.

Patriotism, xenophobia, nationalism, racism, these are very difficult to combat and we need to be on the lookout for them.

orcrist ,

I wonder if you’ve gone out to look for things that have actually improved. So many quality of life indicators in many countries are far better than they were 50 years ago, and that should give you some measure of encouragement. And we need that encouragement because there’s a lot of problems that people are running into, and some of those problems feel insurmountable.

orcrist ,

How is the illegal cab company doing things right? It’s clearly monopolistic and therefore anti-consumer.

orcrist ,

That depends where you are. Many cab services have improved in various cities. Of course tech is a part of this. GPS helps avoid fraud. Uber didn’t invent that, but it helped advance implementation.

orcrist ,

Pizza Hut is throwing away financial independence. Get locked into the one or two private delivery companies. End up like vendors on Amazon. Oh well.

orcrist ,

Not just money, but definitely including money.

orcrist ,

“pilot shortage” meaning “pilot salary shortage”. Fixed that.

orcrist ,

Classic victim blaming. I understand you mean well, but what you wrote didn’t express that. If it were simply a matter of bad personal choices, legislation could easily fix it, right?

orcrist ,

Let us not forget apartments, which are invariably occupied by less wealthy folk on average, who definitely can’t afford the cost.

orcrist ,

They aren’t the only ones, though. The rich find more than enough write-offs.

orcrist ,

The thing is, if everyone rents homes, then there will be a ton of political pressure to fix pricing. Of course the system is so broken that there’s no guarantee of real change, but it could happen.

orcrist ,

That’s why I hedged a lot, because people do all sorts of things, and the status is not quo.

orcrist ,

I’m not sure what you’re arguing. The authors claim that voters hold Biden responsible for a rising cost of living, but they don’t even write the words “cost of living” or “consumer price index” so they obviously are not good at their jobs. In reality, “inflation” doesn’t tell us anything about the impact on the average person. So I think everyone agrees that the authors need to write better. If that’s your complaint, everyone agrees.

But what about Biden? I believe most people believe that centrist Democrats such as Biden are not serious about limiting corporate greed, because the Democrats have consistently failed to address the issue for the past few decades. Bank bailouts, unchecked private health care costs, train staff strike response, the list goes on. If Biden wants to score points with center-left voters, and certainly if he wants to get votes from far-left voters, he’s going to need to pass some legislation to show that the future will be different from the past.

In other words, if he’s all talk and no action, of course people are going to dump on him for it. He’s the president, and he’s certainly capable of doing something. Or you could argue that he’s powerless because of Congress, but then who cares what his image is, because he’s not doing anything, so good for him but the rest of us have other things to do.

orcrist ,

As we all know, the word “economy” means “rich people’s yachts”.

Bill Gates thinks of himself as 'very nice' compared to Elon Musk and Steve Jobs (www.businessinsider.com)

Bill Gates name-checked Elon Musk and Steve Jobs during a fireside chat on Thursday. The Microsoft founder said he considers himself “very nice” compared to his fellow tech leaders. But Gates acknowledged that a certain level of intensity is required in innovative fields. Bill Gates said he considers himself a more relaxed...

orcrist ,

He can get rid of his fortune any time he wants. If he’s trying to improve, he’s not trying very hard.

orcrist ,

We all agree dogs can hurt people and cops can kill harmless dogs. But you made a claim about the /frequency/ of incidents without any data to support it. That was irresponsible of you, especially because you were criticizing the article for a similar reason. Please do better next time.

And this is important. If cops are mostly killing dangerous dogs and occasionally killing harmless dogs, then we might be sympathetic to their occasional mishaps, provided that reckless and careless officers are properly reprimanded or prosecuted when they violate policy or law. But if most of the killings are unnecessary, we are less likely to sympathize.

orcrist ,

And why just houses? Why not apartments? Poor people can’t afford houses.

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