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- Comment on Texas Needs Equivalent of 30 Reactors to Meet Data Center Power Demand 1 day ago:
For the same reason housing should be a speculative investment, and healthcare services available only to the highest bidder.
- Comment on Failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed Birmingham finances 3 days ago:
Oracle exists solely on inertia and big, dumb, uninformed customers. They were an early mover in the space for erp, and then they tried to develop everything else. I work in HR and filter out jobs where “PeopleSoft” is their product as it’s so monumentally unfit for human and operational use and eats up all technical, financial and employee resources to try to make it do simple, common things. Companies spend far more training, hiring consultants (because the product is unintuitive and limited in functionality) to operate the system and “customizations” that take years to build and a cadre of expensive folks to keep running is not the exception but the standard. If you see “Oracle” or “PeopleSoft” in the URL for a job application, run far, far away.
20 years ago only big companies had a need for the scale of an erp, and unfortunately many of them went with Oracle. SAP was the other dog and while similarly unintuitive at least worked well at what it did, bless the Germans. There are soooo many better, more flexible more intuitive, modern products that users can learn and use to choose from, only the truly hopeless are still using Oracle products for ERP and HRIS.
The most insidious part of Oracle is that because of how difficult it is to use, change, modify and learn, the people responsible for changing these systems experience Stockholm syndrome where they don’t want to change to a better system. All they know is failure, pain, lack of comprehension and lack of understanding of products and the thought of starting over in another system mortifies them, and so they become the barrier to telling Oracle to piss off.
- Comment on US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war 5 days ago:
Great. A Russian puppet state.
- Comment on Your Earbuds Are Gross. Here’s How to Clean Them Properly 1 week ago:
Life hack and Consumerist used to be two of my favorite reads and forums. Then they were absorbed into the Borg and stopped putting out anything useful.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 week ago:
It was dumb speculation until he took down all regulatory apparatus, and grabbed the national checkbook while trump made himself a puppet king. Now any money not in Tesla is crazy.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 week ago:
Divorced from reality? Teslas CEO controls Treasury payments as of a week ago.
I cannot think of an easier bet than on a dictator’s personal interests rising. Trump is just a sock puppet for a bit. Musk, Vance, etc. are the next Gen of uglier.
- Comment on Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces. 1 week ago:
Great article, you should x-post to !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz 1 week ago:
This is that certainty that businesses love that Republicans provide, right? On investment, trade, taxes? I’m sure the lost business volume will be made up in their tax refunds the government will surely provide them for all the services cut, right…?
- Comment on Microsoft Edge now has an AI-powered scareware blocker 3 weeks ago:
The last few years watching the hype train and thinking that Nigerian prince emails, lottery winners and everything else still makes it through their pathetic email filters and they want to launch rocket ships with their omnipotent AI? GTFO
- Comment on Protecting the US from hackers apparently isn't in Trump's budget 3 weeks ago:
Why have I not heard “Old Spice” before now? Much better than using that sack’s given names.
- Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits 3 weeks ago:
This is the opportunity the Fediverse was waiting for.
- Comment on Why Has Trump Gone Soft on China and Hard on Canada? 4 weeks ago:
Bullies only respond to force. They don’t bully others who are a threat to them, and also only stop bullying those who stand up to them.
- Comment on Top Republican on Senate health committee says he's 'struggling' to confirm RFK Jr 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile a “practicing Catholic”, he accepts Jesus and God existed with zero evidence. Makes sense. Think we should make him head of NASA too.
- Comment on Oracle and Microsoft are reportedly in talks to take over TikTok 4 weeks ago:
🤮
- Comment on Trump federally renames Alaska's Mt. Denali to mount mckinley, despite the objections from everyone who actually lives there 5 weeks ago:
The guy even gives the nouveau riche embarrassed with his desperate insecurity.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 1 month ago:
Patience with people trying to overthrow governments is not advised.
Ironically, An American
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 1 month ago:
They’re trying to ban tiktok. I’ve never used it but it’s just because it’s Chinese, social media from any other company based in any other country is just as fucked and unhealthy and unregulated in the US, but they are going to ban it specifically for its country of origin. China pills a lot of weight and the company tiktok is powerful and fighting it in court and all but it seems pretty obvious it’ll go through even under current admin watch–letbaloke when a direct competitor and owner of Xitter owns the White House.
While yes, you’re logistically correct it would be very difficult to shut down the whole Internet, that’s not the goal, the goal is to massively control it and enshittify it beyond your worst dreams.
Look to China and Russia for "internet"TM
- Comment on YSK: The US is currently giving away free COVID tests to all Americans 1 month ago:
Nah, I ordered in Oct and site said I’ve reached my limit. You are correct they add new limits every once in. While but they publicize poorly so it’s hard to remember.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 1 month ago:
Late 19th century. There was some pushback, some anti-trust laws with teeth, and then decades of bloody union battles to secure rights workers and their elected officials have thrown away for 50 years.
The concentration of wealth and influence of 10-16 people trumps that of hundreds of millions and is as bad or worse than it was during the robber baron era.
Political representatives are bought and paid for which means the poor have no voice against the wealthy.
We have a justice system that is incapable of prosecuting the wealthy and powerful, when it isn’t being stocked by ideologues.
Meritocracy is dead; Birth has much greater correlation to wealth and power.
Media is fully captured by the wealthy; they own the vast majority of media consumed: TV, film, news, social junk.
Nice country you got here.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 months ago:
You can’t triple stamp a double stamp.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 months ago:
Yeah, but what about the promotional and kick back opportunities lost? You have to think about profits…
- Comment on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moves to place Google under supervision 3 months ago:
Shirley it’s redundant when they have the blind US Justice system™ to hold all accountable equally
- Comment on USA | Fed chair says he will not resign even if pressured by Trump as interest rate cut 3 months ago:
So am I supposed to buy crypto then? Trumpcoins? ElonNickels?
- Comment on Spain seizes record 13 tonnes of cocaine in Ecuadorean banana shipment 3 months ago:
There is money in that banana stand for certain.
- Comment on The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems 3 months ago:
Realistically? Probably influenza or a pox after vaccines are outlawed or priced out of reach for enough of the species.
- Comment on A wind farm in Texas will help power Rivian's Adventure Network 3 months ago:
Wait I thought wind was the reason behind the power instability in Texas’s otherwise perfect, sufficient, competitive and independent power grid?
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 months ago:
You just need to buy the North America Animal Recognition AI subscription and this wouldn’t be an issue plebs, it will stop for 28 out of 139 mammals!
- Comment on Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers 3 months ago:
“the subscriber dashboard is no longer visible to employees”
Perfect, fixed the problem boss!
- Comment on Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads. 3 months ago:
“Action? Yeah…they got 4 new detectives working on the case…they got us working in shifts! Action, ha.”
Would love to see the allocation of resources in the stupid company toward crime prevention vs. developing advertisement money funnels
- Comment on If reality worked the way hiring managers and job interviews thought it did companies would have to fire everyone when they purchased new software since no one would have any experience using it. 3 months ago:
😂 that’s great