Basically in store credit, and it’s totally legal
Basically in store credit, and it’s totally legal
I heard that while reading it. Like when someone says “Good news [everyone]!” and it sounds like the professor Farnsworth. God I haven’t thought about that episode in ages.
It’s a little out of order, but I just wanted to mention that I don’t disagree with you, and I don’t find your tone dismissive at all! Further, I have no intention of convincing anyone of anything specifically, just raising points of interest. We’re just having a fun little back and forth!
Misinformation and falsehoods are as old as time, absolutely. What is new is the lack of trust in the authoritative bodies that would typically provide that ballast of truth, to measure against. People distrust the government (and if what I’ve read about the history of US politics is true, there might be something to that). They don’t typically associate government information with “good” information as they would have in the past. Even official publications are not immune, as per my previous example with vaccinations. Lastly, I believe you and I have the ability to search something and find a suitable result to cut through bad information; at least better than most. Passing the “smell test”, if you will. We take that for granted. The vast majority don’t realize how to find information effectively. They may search “vaccines cause autism” as a question, but that may very well return many fringe articles with that exact string in it, providing validity to the statement where none was before.
Basically, the game is rigged. We’ve figured out how to navigate those waters with a reasonable amount of success, but it’s a skill we’ve invested in. Most people do not possess that, and are unwilling to acquire it (those same people that will put in a support ticket before trying literally anything to resolve a technical issue they may be encountering). For them, the information bounty we are enjoying is a minefield of confusion.
Verify it against what? Additional information of dubious quality? Case in point, the whole “vaccines cause autism” thing. That finding was published by Andrew Wakefield in Lancet and cited everywhere. Only thing is that is was debunked almost immediately, but people kept citing the publication.
My point being that few people have the gumption to check sources, and if they do, fewer still are going to keep tabs on them more than once, or verify the validity against… yet additional sources. Every step in the process has the end user trying to determine if what they are reading is true, against other information they don’t know is true.
To your point, more people have access to information than ever. Good and bad. Look at all the crap around COVID. You have medical professionals releasing studies and vaccine, and some douche named Q saying “Nah, it’s poison. Drink bleach instead”. Obviously this is an easy example to differentiate what’s good and bad info. But people still tried bleach. Countering good information with a malicious, self serving narrative seems to be as easy as saying “That’s what the establishment wants you to think”, and people fall for it all the time. In huge numbers. Over every little piece of bullshit that gets published somewhere. Politics are a huge centre of misinformation and disinformation, making it very challenging to pick out what’s not total crap. And that’s the point.
I’ve got an original Pi running PiHole, I’ve got a Pi4 running my Plex + Servarr Suite, and a Pi2 B running a LAMPP stack and dev environment.
I work on the enterprise apps team at my university. We’d dump that so hard you’d think we were using it to get liftoff. Definitely complain. Also, it’s not inclusive to students without smart devices (they exist!).
If they do still have the option for manual use (with ID card scanners), there are a number of membership card / ID card wallets that are free on most platforms. You can just type the barcode into the app, and it’ll make a virtual card that can be scanned. Same convenience, no physical plastic. If you’re not offended by Google products, Google Wallet works pretty well. Or Stocard, but I’m not sure what level of tracking they implement. Granted, you’re still installing an app, but you get to pick your poison a bit, instead of being railroaded into Facebook shenanigans.
My dude, essential is an antonym for expendable. Literally opposites. By definitions of both words, something cannot by both expendable and essential. But logic aside, calling a person essential to the point of denying their own safety to perform their job, but saying they can be replaced at any minute is frankly cruel.
Two years ago, they were “essential”, and the idea of them getting any kind of benefit to prevent harm was unthinkable. Shafted at both ends of the spectrum.
Mythbusters did a bit on that. I seem to recall that unless you’ve got an MRI in your pocket, it should be fine.
It’s good on paper, so long as a critical number of them aren’t bad actors. You kinda got the same problem with US politics at the moment. It works until it doesn’t, like everything else.
Technically that’s what a board of directors is for. They are the ones who can axe a CEO and hire another.
I don’t think they’re worried about the logic of it. Logic doesn’t really matter when you’re getting sued, and the media industry are a litigious bunch. Being in the right doesn’t matter if you go bankrupt defending yourself.
Never profits, always revenue. Profits can be gobbled up by some internal bonus or “future investment in a project”, thus making it $0. Revenue is all the money generated before allocations and expenses come out. Much harder to weasle out of.
My union kicks ass, and always has my back. Blanket statements are useless my dude.
That said, POLICE unions are a bit of a special case. They seem to be… Parasitic to society.
People quit managers, they don’t quit jobs.
Subscribe to the communities you like the look of, from any instances you want. You’ll get your own curated list of things you like. You can then see everything on your front page, or scroll through your subscriptions if you just want a specific meme community or something.
I would have upgraded a while ago if my hardware supported it. The kernel upgrades are pretty zippy.