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Not for the side OSF is on.

Conservatives fear immigration, liberals largely don’t care. A small amount of people care deeply, providing a good enemy to bash who are sufficiently few to not cause issues but also sufficiently loud to keep the flames going.

Open Society Foundations, Center for American Progress, stuff like that, I guess.

As I see it, they are more active on idpol and immigration than the economy and the issues that were decisive in the US election this time around.

We will have to fight for it though. At this rate we will have to vote down chat control yearly for the next century, and Macron and Scholz are not infinitely better than the US dems either.

At least now, they see that immediate rearmament and asserting ourselves as an economic and geopolitic power is a necessity, even if our industry doesn’t feel like it and never wants to change.

The ACA, which brought US healthcare from an 18th century level to a 19th century one in 2010, was a half measure under Obama, he got reelected for it, he was president for 7 more years after he signed that.

First time voters today were 4 years old when it happened. What else has the Democratic Party been doing? How about the housing crisis? How about inflation? Oh, they got that one 1400 USD stimmy check passed after Trump looted the coffers for corpos big and small.

Look, I’m not saying Harris wasn’t the better, less destructive choice. I’m saying something had had to happen, and people didn’t turn out for a candidate who said the past four years and the way the world is going is good. Not as well as for someone who saw problems and proposed - admittedly monstrous and ineffective - solutions.

Are you drunk? Just because I would understand if you were drunk.

Fuck, are we really becoming the last beacon of freedom and liberty?

Yes. The Dems lost this election more than the Reps won it.

And no, it’s not just Harris. It’s the fact they haven’t accomplished anything substantially changing the lives of people for dozens of years, and they fought more against people like Sanders than people like Cheney.

There are devs who work in QA, automated tests absolutely need software developers.

So while not all QA are devs, but some QA absolutely are.

Unironically, I think that was the thought process.

Hard to vote for someone who is telling you all is well and the people that got the country here are competent and mean well, when the country is going through 5 different crises, all preventing you from living a decent life.

Yeah, the real difference is that Iron Man did more work in a 3-hour movie than Musk in his whole life.

Life is Strange co-creator and Don’t Nod creative director Michel Koch has taken to X, “The Everything App”

Here you go, some Leon-sucking as well.

The article is actually advocating for segregated E-bike categories that more people could have a go at, since it would be more about technique and less about raw stamina.

So like the BBC?

As an uneducated Eastern European, what is the difference? Honest question, I come from a political culture where what TASS is doing is normal.

I think EU law already prevents this, at least this has never been an issue in the multiple member states I lived in.

Mine Linuxes it herself and has strong distro preferences.

They will pay for enterprise licenses and be able to disable and delete it.

Only us plebs get whipped.

Well of course hardware of arbitrary performance can do more than hardware of specific performance.

The real news here is that Rockstar actually gives a damn and makes a setting that takes advantage of the platform’s superior capabilities.

Take the case of self-checkouts.

Money is missing from the tally at the end of the day.

In one case, you have an employee as cashier. You can reprimand them, in some jurisdictions even take it from their pay.

What do you do with a machine if money is missing? It may be a tricky customer/thief, it may be just that the machine is not always 100% accurate in certain circumstances, maybe you skimped out on maintenance one too many times. Who do you blame?

That’s why there are no vending machines for certain types of goods, or no self-checkouts at car dealerships or “bad neighbourhoods”. Sometimes the risk component is too high.

Obviously, automation is changing work, and you can make cheaper robots that will be cheaper than working someone to do the same thing. All I’m saying is there is a significant component next to the direct “pay vs. machine maintenance costs” question.

My point is that companies and employers have got used to a ton of leeway with workers, where they can offload a ton of risk to people just because they are employees.

See for example that one case when that US airline wanted to weasel out of honouring a deal offered by their chatbot. That’s them realizing they can no longer just say it’s been a mistake made by an employee, as there is no separate legal entity to push responsibility on.

The same with paying a wage lower than living wage. If they pay sub-living wages, then the onus to make up the rest needed to lead a life that enables you to work long term, thus the risk is on you instead of the employer. If they replace you with a robot, and skimp on its requirements, it will break, and there is nowhere to push the responsibility.