candybrie
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- Comment on 29% of US households have jobs but struggle to cover basic needs: They are 'one emergency from poverty,' one expert says 5 days ago:
It doesn’t include the 11% who meet the definition of poverty. Based on the definition on the ALICE page, it’s 29% of households above the poverty line who still can’t afford the basics. It doesn’t include people with inadequate savings who are making ends meet, albeit paycheck to paycheck, but who aren’t trying to choose between rent/food/transportation and racking up credit card debt.
- Comment on Day one and done 1 week ago:
Sure, but more pizza places than people doesn’t seem feasible. It would require something like everyone in NYC works multiple pizzerias by themselves.
- Comment on Day one and done 1 week ago:
From a blogpost i found there are aparently some 70-ish pizzerias per person in NYC, whereas there are 400+ per person in sweden
There are more pizzerias than people? Or is it 70 people to each pizzeria in NYC and 400 people to each in Sweden?
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 2 weeks ago:
If he was hospitalized for the influenza, getting MRSA while there isn’t all that surprising.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 2 weeks ago:
On my phone if I hold down on the suggested word, I can delete it from “learned words.” This is only really helpful if it’s a typo that isn’t also a real word.
- Comment on It is truly magic 3 weeks ago:
North America and South America are 2 continents. What definition are you using that has them as one?
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 4 weeks ago:
How would that possibly wipe out all government revenue for a year? The government didn’t have to buy the stock. There is no way they’d be worse off revenue wise than the current situation where there is no tax taken on these held stocks.
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 5 weeks ago:
As long as you’re in the good US of A.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
Most researchers I know welcome difficult questions. Like that’s the whole game. Finding the difficult questions about your work and answering them.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
If we’re talking about home desktop users (I’m including laptops, but not phones/tablets), I think that number is on the decline. 10-20 years ago, you generally needed a computer to function. Now, I use my desktop for some games and to do taxes. And last year, I actually did taxes on my phone (I had newborn twins so sitting down at a computer for any meaningful amount of time was not happening). It was a little bit of a pain, but totally do-able. My mom didn’t bother getting another desktop after hers died a year ago.
Mobile devices usually don’t encourage tech savviness and it seems to be the direction most personal use of computers is going.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
The people who can’t tell the difference between 720p and 4k seem like the least likely to try changing their operating system.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
As for home users, with each newer generation, they become more tech savy
Pretty sure the opposite is true at this point.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
They’re not nuking every copy of windows 10 when the service or ends. They’re just not working on it anymore. If you think the regular maintenance is just updating the spyware and ads, you should be stoked.
- Comment on Study featuring AI-generated giant rat penis retracted entirely, journal apologizes 2 months ago:
Right? Even when skimming papers, it’s usually: read title & abstract, look at figures, skim results & conclusion. If you don’t notice that the figure doesn’t have real words, how is anyone making sure the methodology makes sense? That the results show what the conclusion says they show?
- Comment on US Senate passes Ukraine aid, but House Speaker refuses to hold vote 2 months ago:
That’s the opposite. Not bringing a bill that won’t pass has the same basic outcome without wasting everyone’s time.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
What do you mean by specifically searching? Because it totally comes up for me. Image
- Comment on 'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology 3 months ago:
Do yours freak out when you put your re-usable bags in the bagging area even when you tell it you’re using 4 of your own bags? Or have two barcodes on packages and if the wrong one scans (either because you aren’t sure which needs to be scanned or because they’re next to each other and you don’t get a gun), you need a cashier to override? Or have weight sensors that are just wrong about how much items should weigh? Or only have enough room for like 2 bags of groceries but it isn’t ok to take any out of the bagging area?
I don’t think it’s just customers.
- Comment on Pick your poison. Dystopian style 4 months ago:
Most are a lot more like Uber and a lot less like taxis of 15 years ago now.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Often, there will only be one pharmacist and everyone else will be pharma techs. I think it depends on your state what education the techs need to have. But there are definitely just certification programs (less than a year long) rather than full blown degrees for it.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 4 months ago:
No. Google will not deliver at all a lot of email. It doesn’t even make it to your spam folder.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 4 months ago:
No. I definitely prefer email with good spam blocking.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 4 months ago:
Some of the time it is though. Like Gmail has a pretty large list of IPs it won’t deliver email from. When self-hosting, it’s something you really do have to worry about.
The reason most people don’t worry about it is that most people only use a handful of free emails and organizations that provide email addresses for their users, spend time worrying about it so users don’t have to.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 4 months ago:
Only if you tried searching first and didn’t find anything. If it’s on the first page of Google if you just try searching the claim, then other people shouldn’t need to link it for you.
- Comment on I'm now concerned about the billions I flushed in my teen years... 5 months ago:
Even for the morning after pill, the main mechanism is to prevent/delay ovulation that cycle. It can reduce the likelihood of implantation, but it’s less effective at that mode of prevention. And if the embryo already implanted, it will do nothing.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 5 months ago:
Do you have a source for that? What are you basing it on?
- Comment on Funny how it became bathroom use and imaginary things drag queens do... 5 months ago:
If you don’t vote for anything, you aren’t actually voting, just wasting time. No one cares that there’s a spoiled ballot. It has 0 impact.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 5 months ago:
$10-$30/1,000 views doesn’t sound like much. Except the people who make a career out of YouTube are regularly producing 100k+ view videos. It adds up. It’s one of the things you can pick and choose to leave out of a competitor. But it is a major reason why people put videos on YouTube.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 5 months ago:
Not sure. But it is one of the cornerstones of YouTube. Also tiktok does pay creators.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 5 months ago:
Yes, things get easier when you take paying creators out of the mix.