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Kiernian

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  • Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist

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  • Do they?

    I don't even know what an "ultra processed food" •IS•.

    How is it different than the "processed cheese product" that passes for most individually wrapped "American cheese" cheese slices? Or is that ultra processed?

    Are Doritos ultra processed or just the regular kind of processed?

    Which kind of ground beef qualifies for "ultra"? Only the pink slime or anything that's been chemically treated?

    I'm not being a pedantic contrary asshat, I legitimately do not know what qualifies something to be in this category and why it's worse than normal processing.

    Bpa from plastic tubing used in the processing of Annie's organic leeched into the food. Is that considered contamination or a side effect of processing?

  • Analysis: The fertility crisis is here and it will permanently alter the economy | CNN Business

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  • I personally felt like it was a reference to the complete lack of corporate loyalty to it's employees.

    It's hard to have a "career" in the classical sense the way my 90 year old grandparents did.

    You can still choose a field of work and if you're lucky you'll get to stay in it for most of your adult life, but between outsourcing in IT, fields being made redundant as technology advances/changes (from cashiers and retail to journalism and marketing, accounting, and phone work) and whole fields of manufacturing work getting shipped overseas, the number of lifelong fields of work available is rapidly shrinking, facing fierce competition for jobs, and becoming a moving playing field faster than most people can retrain for.

    "HR" jobs could get halved or more with chatbots providing benefits and payroll adjustment information. "Big data" is doing most of the "market research" that advertisers handled manually 30 years ago.

    Big money is still trying to sell us the "career" dream because it leads to the school loan debt they feed off of and temporarily gluts fields with workers to reduce salaries, but only a few handfuls of fields of work really have "career" style options anymore.

    I took it not as an insult to the people trying to have one, but as disdain and disgust at how the word gets bandied about like so much bait on a hook when the reality is fastly becoming far different for the 20- and 30- somethings of today.

    That might be just me being both charitable and jaded, though.

  • Supreme Court Upholds Law That Bans Domestic Abusers From Owning Guns

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  • Seriously. ^That's the important bit.

    I would be shocked if that was on any of the judge's minds, but it's the primary concern in cases of domestic abuse.

    Domestic abuser plus gun owner is the "my boyfriend choked me during sex without my consent" red flag for upcoming potential future death.

    it's not a guarantee, but it' statistically waaaaaay more likely to end that way.

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    What do you think about my Linux Tierlist?

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  • I think you mis-spelled "biased".

    :)

  • Trump Turns Bitcoin Into Test of Patriotism

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  • Safe deposit box?

    Everyone who has one, I hope.

    It's called a Bitcoin "wallet", too. If someone else is holding yours, it's not your money.

  • its crime time

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  • Me too!

  • its crime time

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  • I thought it said "Grimes" and it was making a joke about how ugly and comical the cybertruck looks.

    Oops.

    LOL

  • Trump Turns Bitcoin Into Test of Patriotism

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  • But they're almost all using it STUPIDLY, aren't they?

    How many people who purport to have Bitcoin actually hold their own private key?

  • What I thought some abbreviations/emoticons meant vs what they actually meant

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  • I think it was the original meaning when it was brand new and still very niche.

    Part of me wonders if it made it onto one of those "Parents! Know these abbreviations!" memes where they purposely list the acronyms incorrectly (LOL--Lots of Love) and then got more popular that way.

  • Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill

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  • (strike)Frank from IT(/strike)the cleaning crew

    I jest, but I've seen more facilities maintenance teams cause power issues than IT teams.

  • What I thought some abbreviations/emoticons meant vs what they actually meant

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  • Back twenty years ago when I first started seeing "SMH" it was "So. Much. Hate."

    As in "I really dislike that."

    As in "So, everybody unanimously said they want sheet cake for office birthdays and management decided to double down on the day old donuts again anyway? So Much Hate."

  • Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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  • It's aready possible to flash a phone ROM in two clicks

    That's precisely the kind of access that a web browser should NEVER, EVER have.

    If you think 2 stage download keylogger apps getting into app stores is bad, wait until it can be done with a banner ad. Or by viewing a comment on a post.

  • A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

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  • Thank you for your service to this thread.

  • Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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  • "WebUSB is a JavaScript application programming interface specification for securely providing access to USB devices from web applications"

    Holy Hannah, NO!!!!

    Might as well allow a website to direct write to your hard drive unprompted again.

    Does noone see how BAD this stuff is?

    Stop creating attack vectors with glowing neon signs on them.

  • Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

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  • This is also why there's such a a prevalence of flashing warning banners, fake pseudobluescreens, and other scary shit disguised in chrome notifications.

    The notifications in chrome are as close to on by default as you can get and with the right code snippets you can make it look like the FBI locked down your workstation and you need to call them.

    Firefox should start hardening against this behavior now because popularity gets targeted even more specifically.

    Make it an end user safety feature.

    Force every notification to have

    "This is a notification from a website that you elected to receive by allowing notifications. You can disable these notifications here"

    with a link to the setting on the frame of of every one, no fullscreen allowed, no flashing, double-check and prohibit the words FBI, CIA, NSA, TSA, IRS, Social Security, Microsoft, etc.

  • Google AI making up recalls that didn’t happen

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  • What do you use now?

    I work in IT and between the Advent of "agile" methodologies meaning lots of documentation is out of date as soon as it's approved for release and AI results more likely to be invented instead of regurgitated from forum posts, it's getting progressively more difficult to find relevant answers to weird one-off questions than it used to be. This would be less of a problem if everything was open source and we could just look at the code but most of the vendors corporate America uses don't ascribe to that set of values, because "Mah intellectual properties" and stuff.

    Couple that with tech sector cuts and outsourcing of vendor support and things are getting hairy in ways AI can't do anything about.

  • Content Warnings Do Not Reduce Distress, Study Shows

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  • Thanks, I was sitting here thinking the warnings were so you could AVOID shit you didn't want to see and the headline had me questioning my perception of reality on this.

  • California Passes Bill Requiring New Cars To Beep At You When You're Speeding

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  • Nope. Realistically speaking, in more than half of the cities that have some form of public transportation in the U.S., the public transportation is so inadequate that it's not an alternative.

    At one point, a few years ago, to go from the northwest suburbs of minneapolis (maple grove/brooklyn park) to the north central suburbs of minneapolis (eden prairie/edina) by bus, on a weekday, it took 11 hours, a trip farther south into the city proper (spoke routes coming out from a central hub) and mutiple MILES of walking between stops. For a 20-ish mile trip.

    This is FAR from uncommon for anywhere with a bus system if you get anywhere outside the absolute center of the infrastructure. The spoke methodology meant you could get from the suburbs (and farther) to downtown and back just fine, but as soon as the busses stopped running every ten to fifteen minutes, you were looking at hours of switching routes and waiting to get from anywhere not central to anywhere else not central.

    That's not an alternative to using a car, it's a marginally available, occasionally usable, limited choice alternative to SOME walking, SOME of the time.

    Until there are 24 hour, regularly and frequently scheduled public transportation options going everywhere there are roads to, public transportation cannot be a viable alternative to all car use.

    I'd settle for it being a viable alternative to SOME car use, but much of the time, outside of a handful of MAJOR cities, it's not.

    ...and I took the bus in Minneapolis for years, despite having a car and a license. It makes sense when you live and work downtown, but that's about it.

    The public transportation in most cities is only functional in the sense that the ignition works in the busses and they occasionally drive between a few points in a few areas.

  • Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

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  • Yeah, I'm no marketing guru, but I feel their actual point would have been better conveyed by a pile of all of the things the iPad replaced slowly gathering dust, spider webs, and eventually archaeologists.