by abusing other people in a politically symbolic way?
where is my industrialist hat and curled mustache, I need to visit my handicapped friends for a business proposal...
Trump got elected President by abusing people. And his cult still continues to give him money that he and his family are taking for things that those people did not intend the money to go.
It's the dark side of humanity.
the entire deal was set up by a corrupt Republican governor and legislature. It would have been full of get out of jail free cards and slush. It would be nice if the voters would learn this time, but I suspect they'll be building a Simpson's style escalator to nowhere in 20 years while some other politician lines their pockets. People never learn.
Yep. Socialism for the rich - capitalism for the rest of us.
They can get free sports stadiums, off the hook for taxes and their promises NEVER come true. A billionaire baseball team owner cried poverty and got my county to pay for his stadium. Well, the economic benefits promised never happened, the county has a budget shortfall because of it, and guess what? We poor slobs are gonna have services cut because of welfare for billionaires. I have to dodge potholes to and from work because there is no money for repairs.
Our system is rigged but yet people keep voting for the same assholes.
Yes, that was my first thought as well. They have 100 satellites so far. Heck, SpaceX sends that many up within a matter of months. A total of 648 satellites planned? At their current deployment rate that will only take what, another 7 to 10 years or so. Yeah, not seeing an advantage here.
Can I join in? I have my pants down, jerking-off and saying: Elon Musk is awesome! He does everything better!! He is soooo good! Space X is the leader! Oh!!!! oh! Oh!!!!
It is called Public Relations. When I was in college I had A job in PR and it was to make my employer look awesome and challenge any and all critics. We used to have emergency meetings when the media would say something bad about the bosses
This whole bullshit about the shorts making shit up about Musks enterprises was the PR staff trying to neuter stories that stated facts.
Yes, that was my first thought as well. They have 100 satellites so far. Heck, SpaceX sends that many up within a matter of months. A total of 648 satellites planned? At their current deployment rate that will only take what, another 7 to 10 years or so. Yeah, not seeing an advantage here.
Can I join in? I have my pants down, jerking-off and saying: Elon Musk is awesome! He does everything better!! He is soooo good! Space X is the leader! Oh!!!! oh! Oh!!!!
Seriously Slashdot?!?! A few exclamation points flagged me as ASCII art when assholes can post that Not-See (And to have the lameness filter out the German National Socialist acronym of the 1930s shit?!) You people are retards.
See, whenever business blames government regulation, I get suspicious. Just about always, businesses use government as an excuse when they are really looking for cheaper labor. You can get talent just as good as Silly Valley where I live for a fifth of the cost. The only thing is that people with Stanford degrees are hard to find - and I have found that there is this snobbery in SV where if you did not go to Stanford/CalTech/or even MIT, the only thing you are good for is janitorial duty.
"A lack of diversity is a sign that you are either not hiring properly or your environment is so toxic it is driving away the diverse people you do get."
Right, so please explain why there's a lack of diversity in virtually all STEM positions. I suppose it's because every company is toxic.
There is a bias and snobbery in STEM. I am White and Male but I went to state. My high school buddy went to Tech.
He got offers that I NEVER got because the recruiters made a bee line to Tech.
I was told to go to the webpage for recruiting when I asked for a job.
I got better grades that he did in high school but his parents were able to afford to send him to Tech.
I can go on about fast-track management positions where they are only recruited from Ivy League schools. So, if you are a legacy, you get in regardless of your talents.
Technology is not above the rest of society. It is not a meritocracy anymore.
When I started, a smart poor had working kid from State had the same opportunities as someone from MIT or CalTech - mostly. And someone who busted their ass to learn tech while they worked as a dishwasher to better themselves could move up. I witnessed the beginning - you cannot program without a four year degree is what I heard when recommending someone who had no degree.
But now, the snobbery
If you are good at science and math and do not know what to do, healthcare. STEM is a DEAD END.
Why not commute the sentences of all non violent drug offenders in federal custody then?
Oh right, because this is about money and/or influence (not necessarily doing the right thing) and they have neither.
More than money - moralizing to appease his pseudo-Christian Evangelical base.
I need to write a new New Testament where Jesus turns hay into Weed.
That will appease those people. They have NO problem with wine, but weed; which is a mush safer drug? Nope.
And we can go into relatively recent history and get into the race aspects of weed. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2020%2F06%2F19...
Calling him a shitbag is a complement.
One lesson to take away from this is the example that, yet again, tragic problems go un-acted upon for a long time because people who dare to criticize the porn industry in a forum like
Evil gets a free pass when moderate voices who would speak against those evils are silenced.
But I'm sure that won't happen with other fundamental rights, like free speech or religion or legal firearms ownership
Ironic much?
"I'm gonna make a strawman argument to accuse others of making a strawman argument."
Your circular reasoning has given me the spins and I have to go puke in the toilet now.
For decades, businesses have been getting just about everything they want. Especially with the Trump administration.
And our standard of living has been declining. Wages have been stagnant - mostly because of the shrinking unions.
In the meantime, we get less and less and less.
The Baby Boomer generation is the last generation that was able to live the American dream.
And prop 22 is yet another chip in worker's rights
So fuck Uber. Who cares if they leave.
Anything business gets does not end up in the little people's pockets: it ends up in the CEOs' and billionaires. Our economic system only benefits a small minority who take it without earning it.
You people HATE Democracy and HATE the USA and yet you call yourselves PATRIOTS?! How fucking sick and retarded are you people?! We - the majority who are not Trump retards - KNOW you are fucking lying sick motherfuckers. To deny a valid election and refusing the results is treason. This has NEVER happened before.
No you fucking cunts, bitching about results like Democrats did in 2016 or in 2000 in NOTHING like what the Treason and UNAMERICAN shit Trump and ALL the Republicans are doing now! You fucking Republican Lying Cunts.
And that is why we are being offshored so much.
If any of you locals had any brains, you would be screaming as to why you need to be in the office talking to your colleagues.
Too bad, 1997 called and said, "You snooze; you lose!"
I was back there. It was "send shit to India for code monkey work and at half price!"
Then it became, "they are pretty good. We don't need competent Americans anymore."
And now I am seeing, "We got Rock Stars in India! Bally Stars! for a third the price!!"
Boiled frog does exist. But it's cross generational.
Gen-X here. I heard the wonderful things from Boomers about working hard and studying.
It's all about the bottom line. Us "average" (in CS) people have no chance anymore. We used to be able to be maintenance programmers, test, admin, fuck - even cable runners
But that's gone now. If you're not A+ Material at a top ten school, just fucking give up this profession. Most employers won't hire from State because they only hire from "Top Schools.". A 4.0/4.0 from State means a dead end test job - at best. And you will never get out of test. The snobbery of this god forsaken profession was there when I started decades ago.
I wish I had constructive advice - but I don't.
There are what? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebalance.com%2Fcur...
Almost 11 million unemployed? I do not know about you, but I haven't noticed. So as far as I'm concerned, 11 million people have bullshit jobs that add nothing to our economy. Now, I'm NOT saying their LIVES are worthless but just their jobs.
As far as I'm concerned, it throws much of what I learned about the efficiency of the Free Markets. If millions can be put out of work without notice to our way of life - then millions are redundant.
And that thought leads me down a VERY dark rabbit hole.
I wish when they had these new COVID strain stories, they'd report if the strain seems to be more/less deadly...that's the main thing I'm concerned about.
A more virulent, but less deadly strain might actually be a good thing.
It might impart immunity without killing.
I am mostly concerned about surviving and being stuck with the co-pays and out of pocket expenses.
I die and my healthcare providers can all peck at my feeble estate after my student loan providers take everything.
Everyone else is shit-out-of-luck. I'm dead.
Now, a better healthcare system that every other Western country has and adopted would greatly mitigate the problems that we the USA are having.
We are also paying the price for "Freedom of Speech". While Alex jones, our President and other lying cunts are spreading bullshit that stupid people BELIEVE (belief is for the intellectually lazy) , we are getting sick, crippled, disabled, and out of work - with very little safety nets thanks to the Republicans (they are 100% to blame because they put corporation's protections above us all - thanks Moscow Mitch!).
If Trump REALLY wanted to drain the swamp, he could use his bully-pulpit and get Moscow McConnell in line.
The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
