Ron doesn’t have nearly enough charisma to get the nomination. He tanked hard in his previous run.

Ha, that would be excellent. Don’t forget Sony and PlayStation.

Okay, yeah your comment wasn’t very clear.

I’m not sure I understand. Why would that make sense for taxes? If it’s overtime, it should be overtime…

No, it’s avoiding paying overtime for when they had you work overtime… Here, I’ll be even more explicit for you. Imagine your company has an event and has you work 60 hours one week, but then only gives you 20 hours the next week. You worked 20 hours of overtime in the first week, but they then avoided paying you overtime by giving you less time the second week. Do you not see how averaging out the time over a longer period is in the interest of the company and not the worker?

Right, but they can abuse you for short stints of time. Compare that to something like the laws when I worked in California. Anything over 8 hours in a day was overtime, anything over 12 hours in a day was double time, and anything over 40 hours in a week was overtime. This means if they overwork you even in just one day, you’re getting paid extra. With something being worded 160h in 4 weeks they can overwork you for a big event and then give you a bunch of time off and never have to pay you extra.

Canonical is mostly a leech on open source.

Sure, that’s why they keep adding features people don’t want. But gimping one of their key paid features makes no sense to me.

Every update they’ve made for just about the past decade has made the product worse for the original users who just want to stream their own media. This last UI update killed my favorite download feature. They deserve the hate they’re getting.

The update makes the download feature objectively worse. So, that was a stretch to praise both.

They seriously enshitified the download feature. You used to be able to set it to download X number of unplayed episodes. Then it would manage downloading fresh content for you as you watched stuff. Now you have to manually download each and every episode yourself. This was literally the killer feature Plex had over Jellyfin for me.

Yeah, it is an obvious reference to the fact she was hired for her looks. Is the sexism the comment or the reason she was put in the position she is in?

Is Barbie inherently sexist? I think here it’s implying that she’s just there to be the good-looking face of corruption. She is being used as a toy. Is calling out the sexism by referring to her as ICE Barbie sexist, or is using her as an ICE Barbie sexist?

Edit: I think the answer can be and is both. I don’t support the use of ad hominem attacks. It just makes your argument easier to dismiss and is completely unnecessary when you have so many easy legitimate arguments to be made against this administration. However, I do think the bigger issue is the administration using her compared to the crass comment.

Yeah, I see the same things. Even though I’m making that money, I think I end up saving something like 30% or more of it. After all that saving and my mortgage, I do have enough for toys, but I still keep those even modest. I have a small truck the Hyundai Santa Cruz, a 1965 15’ boat, and a small motorcycle. I realize I have more than most and I’m more comfortable than most, but I feel like I’m at the level everyone should be at. What I mean by that is everyone should be able to afford a comfortable life and modest toys. It shouldn’t be only the high earners. I wish everyone could have this lifestyle. And they probably could if it wasn’t for the greed of the ultra-wealthy.

It seems like entering any field but particularly IT now is harder than it’s ever been.

It’s certainly not the golden ticket it once was. It still has high potential, but it’s just harder to get now. Even for us that are in it already, there aren’t as many opportunities to jump over to a higher paying company because your raises didn’t keep up with your growth like there used to be.

Us older millenials only recently started buying homes. I don’t know if gen z, or let alone gen alpha, will ever get the chance outside of the obscenely wealthy.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I meant by it’s both a lot and nowhere near enough. I also work in tech and I know I earn more than most, I own a duplex, I max my retirement accounts every year. I have well over the $130k, but I’m still 20 years away from having enough to retire. It’s crazy that we have to essentially be in the top 10% of earners in the country to feel like we can actually retire one day. The system is fundamentally broken.

The thing is, they didn’t say earn $130k, they said have $130k of wealth. If your retirement account is below that, you’re not retiring for a long while. With the exception of the few that have pensions.

That’s just about everyone that owns a home. And, you better have something much more than that if you plan to ever retire. In the US, $130k is both a lot and nowhere near enough.

Yes, but also they still maintain them. Even the new Air Force One 747-800s that are being fitted right now are from a canceled order.

Broadcom is doing an excellent job convincing their customers to stop using VMware. Such a good job that at Red Hat we’ve shifted strategies with OpenShift Virtualization to pick up those customers. For the longest time our Virt play was just a stop gap to containers, now it’s a full blown product.