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- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 4 hours ago:
I think you could move somewhat towards having both. Let them gerrymander as much as they want, but at the end you also appoint additional districtless seats nominated by the winners, proportional to the number of votes they won by.
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 3 days ago:
That’s a specious argument. It might be technically true, but not by nearly a big enough margin for it to make any difference to the underlying point.
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 3 days ago:
I got into an argument years ago with someone who appeared to start on the conclusion that co-operatives must be bad and tried to work backwards from there.
There was this notion that it was somehow unfair for one delivery driver to earn $1,000,000 and another to earn $10,000 just because they worked for different companies, since it was mostly the efforts of other people in the company that gave it its value. He wasn’t able to then take the tiny extra step required to apply the same logic to CEOs and shareholders.
I realized there’s a kind of proximity bias; billionaires are so far removed from our lives that we just accept their existence as part of how the world works, whereas if a regular employee like us is getting something we’re not then the jealousy becomes palpable. It’s the same thing that drives hatred towards minorities and immigrants.
- Comment on TikTok appoints ex-IDF solider as its 'hate speech manager' 3 days ago:
JFC, it’s as though they were going out of their way to hire the most inappropriate person possible for the role.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
hur, hur, you said “willies”
- Comment on Great Advertise 4 days ago:
What’s crazy is I instantly clocked it as AI slop just from the thumbnail, and I’m not even wearing my glasses.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 5 days ago:
The consultant and artist who conceived and realized that sign both went to Yale. The company who holds a regulatory-captured monopoly on all Texas roadside produce stands paid their agency $6.5M for this design.
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 5 days ago:
Support callers for banks and ecommerce maybe, but Jira is a tool for educated professionals.
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 5 days ago:
The stupid thing about replacing staff with “AI customer contact” is that the AI can only really spit out the same stuff you put in its knowledge base, i.e. the stuff that in the documentation in the first place (and maybe perform limited actions that also would have had to be implemented as forms). All it does is save someone broadly 0 seconds on what it would have taken to do a regular search of the documentation.
If I’m actually phoning up Atlassian to ask something it’s because what I want isn’t available online, and AI doesn’t solve that at all.
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 5 days ago:
Six months’ pay isn’t bad. Certainly enough time to get together with your former colleagues to develop and roll out something far better than JIRA…
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 5 days ago:
Something like this appeared near the Miramax offices in LA, where if you showed it your bare feet it gave you a milkshake. It remains a mystery who put it there.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 6 days ago:
This comment highlights a fundamental misunderstanding on how society should tolerate companies operating.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 6 days ago:
Up til about ten years ago, doing mass layoffs was seen as a sign of company in trouble; it scared shareholders and it made talent less likely to apply to your company.
Then enough of them did it often enough that the stigma fell away and it became a thing you did to get rid of underperformers, scare people into working harder, and separate the wheat from the chaff. Now it’s so commonplace that I’ve heard execs talk about it like it’s just what you’re supposed to do as part of good governance.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Go on a linux forum and post “as a windows user…”
Go on PC gamers and post “as a console gamer…”
Would have a problem with being told “this is not for you” then? No, you wouldn’t.
This is a terrible example, because yes absolutely I would indeed consider the mods to be militant over-the-top a-holes if they deleted and blocked all comments from Windows or console users.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 1 week ago:
A fairly wide range of problems in modern society can be traced to the judiciary’s reluctance to both prosecute and sentence the rich with the same rigor they apply to the poor.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
VPNs are one of the core security measures of all large companies.
VPNs aren’t just a “hide your IP” tool, they’re a way of giving someone access to an organisation’s internal network. Sensitive servers such as databases, wikis, scheduling tools etc don’t have publicly exposed IPs, they only have connections that are accessible from inside that VPN. See also en.wikipedia.org/…/Defense_in_depth_(computing)
- Comment on YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation 1 week ago:
There’s also an astonishing amount of dishonesty about the way they operate more generally. They’ve convinced themselves that they don’t need to be ethical, because doing stuff nominally for Jesus is automatically the right thing regardless of the details.
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 1 week ago:
also some of the flimsy pretexts that ICE and border control are using to “prove” that people are members of criminal gangs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
For sure they’re bait; the ones that aren’t AI are still clearly written to a formula.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’ve been seen this fallacy over and over again ever since ChatGPT was first released. This model gave them the answer they expected, so everything will be ok if you just use this model for all your questions from now on.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
haha, I came here to post the exact same thing. The only times you see “YTA” are when OP is pushing on one of reddit’s triggers, regardless of any other aspect of the situation.
- Comment on Become back status quo 1 week ago:
Why does it have to be a bank card?
- Comment on Become back status quo 1 week ago:
Part of me kind of wants these companies to stick to their guns. Once people start to find alternative payment methods for their adult content, maybe they’ll start using those methods for everything else as well and cut Visa, Mastercard et al out of their lives completely.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The up/downvote history of your post was interesting. Seems like the downvotes all hit at the same time…
- Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 1 week ago:
It’s also why American global hegemony is bad; they all tend to move in lock step with each other. If there were a few more European and Asian payment providers out there we’d be a bit more diversity of policy and true consumer choice.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
It’s not so much the control aspect as the anti-porn stance. It also comes in at the same time as a series of anti-trans moves from them.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 1 week ago:
This is the second time in my life that Labour have gained power after a long Conservative tenure, only to dive straight into enacting policies that were more right-wing than their predecessors.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 1 week ago:
How about he-said she-and-25-others-over-5-decades-said?
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 1 week ago:
How about if 25 other women all accused you of the same thing?
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 1 week ago:
Yeah there was absolutely no need to include unfounded racist shit about “DEI hires” but it seems to be some sort of rule in 4chan that you have to be a bigoted fucknut in order to post