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halcyoncmdr

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  • I still can't believe they're not related

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  • The meetings are only there when higher level decisions have to be made, or they need out of the box brainstorming. Because even the enlisted are trusted to be able to make determinations themselves, otherwise they wouldn't have made it through the academy and been assigned. Theoretically of course.

  • Grand jury declines to reindict Letitia James

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  • Also a good reminder that this Justice Department failed to indict the guy that threw a sandwich at ICE twice, then reduced the charges to a misdemeanor to bypass the grand jury, and still failed to get a conviction.

    Normally federal charges aren't brought unless there's a strong case. The Federal conviction rate is usually over 90% because they don't bother going after things they probably won't win. They seem to have thrown that out the window in their haste to target political enemies. Turning the entire department into a laughing stock for anyone paying attention.

  • Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough

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  • Well considering the article is about a product launch in the US... seems relevant. Carrier locking isn't illegal at all in the US.

    They didn't even used to have to unlock it once a contract was over, not that most carriers at the time would allow unlocked phones on their network anyway, they do at least have to do that now.

  • Democrat announces articles of impeachment against Hegseth

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  • The first step is ranked choice voting for everything from local to federal elections.

    First past the post is literally the worst way to operate a voting system of your goal is to get an accurate representation of the populace.

  • Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough

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  • Granted this was 15 years ago. The market was a lot different than it is now.

    That being said, most people still buy their phones through their carrier. So whatever the carrier sales reps get paid the most to sell is what they push people towards.

  • Condoms and contraceptives to become more expensive in China as Beijing accelerates push to lift birth rate

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  • 36 years of government policy with harsh penalties for having more than one child doesn't disappear quickly (1979-2015). They've trained two generations not to have kids, and the looming global climate disaster affects everyone worldwide. And while I haven't looked into it, I think it's a safe bet that in large Chinese cities the cost of living has also outpaced wages, like in nearly every other major city in the world. None of that is conducive to wanting to have kids.

  • UK jury trials for crimes with sentences under 3 years to be dropped

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  • Ah yes, the best way to remove the backlog is to get rid of having the community of peers decide. No other way.

  • Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough

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  • Eh. Apps were still fairly new in 2010. It launched around the same time as the iPhone 4. Heck, the iPhone was still officially only available from AT&T at the time.

    It looked like a knockoff iPhone 3G with a slide out keyboard, so it was at least twice the size. Lack of apps and social media weren't what killed the Kin.

  • The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling

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  • They used AI until they had to deal with the bullshit that comes from inevitably using an auto complete that hallucinates and even lies directly to you about what it did.

  • As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’

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  • That's socialism. Can't have that. Can't even have part of that. Then people want more. And you can't exploit them anymore.

  • As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’

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  • I like the idea of setting maximum wage as say 50x the lowest wage. Including bonuses and stock.

    I don't think the CEO does 50x the work or even the value of the janitor.

  • GOP frets ‘dangerous’ result in Tennessee

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  • The entire system was designed around landowners being the only voters. So that meant only rich white men. Who had the time, personal desire, and societal expectation to stay current on social changes and the economy. They also had every reason to vote whenever possible. The core electoral system is based around these expectations and has had very few changes since it was created.

    As voting rights were extended to more groups, the built-in structure of the system wasn't updated. The rich landowners have every reason to vote, and the free time to do so and travel if needed. The system relies on an educated voting populace, which was already an expectation of those that were allowed to vote.

    Modern Republicans have used those built in structural expectations to their advantage. And since lower turnout tends to go their way, they try to force that however they can, and regularly have courts throw their egregious shit out. So for decades now they have focused on replacing judges with sycophants in every state and federal opening they can. If those judges won't throw out the bullshit, then they can do what they want.

  • Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars, Gutting Biden’s Climate Policy

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  • Just in time for China's 400% increase in gasoline vehicle exports since their citizens are buying EVs instead.

  • Removed Locked

    15 Year Olds are Children and they Need Protection

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  • Trump releases fraudster executive days into prison sentence

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  • As long as the media keeps telling them he's not. 35%+ of the population has been very successfully brainwashed by right-wing news designed specifically in the aftermath of Watergate to gaslight the public into believing whatever agenda they want.

    Nixon was going to be allowed to get away scot free until the media started actually educating the public, who then demanded their politicians do something about it. Fox News was created in the wake of that with the goal of preventing that from happening again.

    And with first past the poll voting, the system is designed to inevitably allow a minority to rule. When it was created, only a handful could vote, and being kept up to date on political and economic events was essentially a requirement of their place in the country. Wealthy white land owners were already basicallt required to stay up to date on current events and politics, and the effects of various changes. The voting systems were designed with an educated electorate like that in mind. Those systems have been hijacked as voting rights have expanded and an educated and up-to-date electorate is no longer an fundamental feature of who could vote.

  • Luigi in court

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  • So did anyones live get saved by his action?

    Yes actually. Insurance companies across the board suddenly started approving claims at a noticeably higher rate immediately after. A large enough increase that it was immediately felt by consumers and the media even covered the change. Thousands of lives were demonstrably improved by not having to deal with bullshit fights over claims being systematically denied by default like they had been.

  • TSA announces $45 fee for travelers with no REAL ID

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  • I mean that's obvious. Otherwise you're just paying $45 to ignore the security checkpoint if you're guaranteed to get through with payment.

  • TSA announces $45 fee for travelers with no REAL ID

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  • One could argue surveillance and tracking is about security. They'd be wrong. But they could argue that.

  • AWS data centers' water use tied to spike in cancer and miscarriages in Oregon

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  • You seem to have missed the massive sections of the Internet that effectively disappeared recently with AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare outages.

    Not sure how since all of those happened in the last 2 months, and nearly every part of the internet was affected between all three.