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That requires the people at the top to have the intelligence to hire a competent IT department and keep frequent enough back ups. This is a line of though most of American civilian leadership rejects outright. They see IT as nothing but a huge cost that can be cut at a moment’s notice and then offshored to some third world country to “save money.” A move which invariably costs them more money, but that’s next quarter’s problem.

Wait, didn’t you just describe a fair chunk of the US?

I get your anger, but if they no longer have the license to play the song, they cannot allow you to play it, even if the file is on your device. I don’t find it scummy in the least. You didn’t own the file, you were renting it from Spotify.

It’s almost like most of the time in history cutting edge tech tended to be unusable by the public until it matured enough to get businesses interested. Then they’d invest in a usability layer that was unimportant to the cutting edge research.

Lol. I think I still have a bunch of the old Slackware floppies somewhere.

I’ll tell you what they’re missing - maturity. They’re acting like a spoiled child.

Won’t happen in Texas. There are so many people in this state convinced that unions are a horrible evil. Then they complain about how their job mistreats them, doesn’t pay them enough, etc, etc, etc. You know, all the problems a union fixes. These people here are the very definition of sheeple.

Yeah, that half would be perfectly fine with throwing them in a deep pit and forgetting they exist.

Yeah, people shouldn’t look to their government to protect them from this. Hell, I’d be willing to bet no small amount of taxes go to purchasing the leaked info at places like the CIA, NSA, and FBI.

You were never their intended audience to begin with. If you’re going to balk at a mere $1k, you’re not the customers they want.

Fines need to stop being set amounts and start being percentages of revenue. We live in a world with companies that can make almost nothing and others that make more money than God does. This requires a more flexible solution. It’d also incentivize the government agencies to go after companies, especially big ones.

Meanwhile their algorithm identified a post of mine about chicken breeds and another that leaned leftist as spam and silenced me for a day.

Yes, you are. If you have to ask, you are.

Threads is still a thing? I thought it was heading down the G+ road - lots of fanfare at the beginning but quickly dropping off to irrelevance?

The idea that whoever is already driving around could handle the increased load is laughably naive. You cannot increase load without increasing capacity.

Also, I’ve used my local chain’s version of this. It’s okay for prepackaged stuff but absolutely awful for fresh produce. They also regularly botch orders, because, well, the pickers aren’t paid a livable wage and their metrics are all about quantity not quality.

You think they’re going to spend more money on the biggest money sink in a business, humans? They’ll do away with self checkout and not increase their cashier count, maybe even decrease it, because if they get rid it of it, it’s a cost saving move, not a customer satisfaction one.

I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. This system has been designed to minimize the use of human operators. As such, you will need to explain your problem to me and I will decide if it warrants the attention of a human operator.

It hurst people not rich enough to be in the 1% or above. The 1% or above will benefit from it in the short term. In the long term it is going to hurt them as fewer and fewer people will be able to buy their products and services. At least for this quarter it’ll look dynamite.

Capitalism is going to eat itself.

I’m not even involved in a STEM job any longer but I still see tons of STEM employed men spewing manosphere bullshit all the time. I’m also starting to see more and more well educated, articulate women parroting it. These women also tend to be overwhelmingly conservative in their political positions, too. Especially well educated white women.

Last I checked you had to be a Walmart+ member to do that. It used to be available to everyone, but then they put it behind paying them a monthly fee to be able to do it.