These aren't shifts: they're salaried employees so they are not paid per hour.

Anyhow much as amazon is an utter shitbag company, I don't see a particular problem with this, provided the workers aren't penalised for either not volunteering or for not delivering on their white collar work while "volunteering".

Seems like Amazon over-fired and now wants to get temporary, very expensive warehouse workers because they screwed up.

Words have meanings. China is not fascist. In fact, the fascists fled to Taiwan, which fortunately managed to become a democracy.

China does very bad stuff. The UK does very bad stuff. The US does very bad stuff. The EU does very bad stuff. Take your pick. Or rather, don't. Be pragmatic. China is doing more than any country to address climate change, which is objectively good, regardless of what else they are up to.

More than that, we are falling behind because we refuse to compete. Not just economically, but ideologically. There is a reason why so many of gen Z have little faith in our democracies, and why they look at places like China and wonder if there is a better way. Not necessary exactly like China, but a government that is at least not actively trying to shaft them at almost every opportunity. They inherited broken countries, broken economies that concentrated all the wealth away from them, and a looming disaster that the people with the power to do anything about seem to think is not going to affect them personally so they only need to pay lip service to addressing it.

This is about us being honest with ourselves, realistic about how the world is, and finding a way to make things better. Right now we are slipping backwards, fast.

What is tearing Microsoft and OpenAI apart is that they lack a formal definition of AGI in their contract. The result is that OpenAI can declare anything to be AGI and give Microsoft the boot at a moment's notice. The source of conflict is purely contractual, not ideological.

Yes, I'm not talking about working at the drive-in window at McDonald's I'm talking about say a programmer looking for a programming job. Let's look at it this way. Should a new freshly graded bachelor's degree person be looking for a job as lead programmer or department head?

I do understand that many kids starting out believe they are qualified for such jobs, But there are the people who've worked for years at the place, and are fully qualified to be lead programmer or department head. What do we tell them?

College is a starting point, not the final hurdle to cross in a career. Which comes to some of the reasons they are having trouble keeping jobs, and in many cases aren't considered for them after employers have a string of problems with GenZ hires.

I've had to deal with kids who thought for a couple days that they were much more savvy in all aspects of the work than I was. They were gobsmacked when I had to teach them technical aspects of the work. I mean, "He's my parent's age and they're much less smart than me!" Some have had some reactions that told me they were having some serious upset that the olde farte knew more than they did.

I've had some that tried to declare that the only deal with me via text. I told them that they will deal with me over the phone or in person, and if they wanted to insist, my next visit would be accompanied by the Director. Or the guy who freaked out when I pointed ted at his laptop screen, screeching "Don't you ever ever touch my laptop!" I told him I didn't - I pointed at it, and he doubled down, "I don't care - don't ever touch it! You've been warned!"

I told his boss if the kid wanted to continue consulting with me, he needs to lose the OCD freakout. Kid ended up quitting some time later and moving back with his parents. I wasn't the only person he freaked out on.

Their pricing is already high for streaming, but that's apparently not enough for them. If you actually try to sign up you find that they pump the price > 33% more with "fees" for various things they advertise as benefits of their streaming, and so push the price to over $100/month.

Somehow it doesn't surprise me that they want even more money under the table after that.

At one point, diquat was used for weed control in lakes because it won't disperse or break down to become ineffective even if just poured in the water.

Imagine what that says about washing it off of fruits and vegetables or it's ability to diffuse into aquifers.

Check prices for Taiwan as well if you like. Meanwhile, where do you think American companies have boards made for them? The big differential in price is mark-up.

But really, there isn't a lot of human labor involved in board fab these days. And certainly not the sort that pays the lowest wages.

I think it is saying that they get violently angry. not they have committed violence. I've watched a few of those videos, like the one person who says he is going to kill anyone who has an issue with him using a woman's bathroom. Was it a specious comment, or even a fake trans person? I dunno. It's why I don't include that in my assessments. But I've watched threats of violence.

And really, all manner of people make and sometimes act on threats, straight, gay, male, female. It would be surprising if trans people were the exception to that.

Yeah, I block all javascript by default for exactly this reason; it's a major malware exposure. I have a very short whitelist of sites that I'm willing to trust with that. I've already encountered Anubis a few times and, when I do, I just close the tab and move on. I'm not enabling javascript for random sites.

I lived in the wrong area of America, when I was there. Northern New Mexico has rock 'n weed patches, not lawns on the whole, so for me the crazy lawn thing was something that happened somewhere else.

The UK is obsessed with gardening, about 150x more so than the USA. We certainly do have lawns in the UK, and some people are very into them, but there doesn't seem to be the same level of obsession with the perfect manicure. If anything a good scattering of daises is considered rather pretty. Even very well kept gardens with full time gardeners won't generally have that astro-turf level of uniformity so highly prized in America.

What's the deal? Can you explain it to a foreigner?

I'm not arguing that Americans should have more children. But also, if you want to argue that having too many people is an issue, China had a brutal one child policy for a long time.

I tend to look at it as we are where we are. We should be planning our economies for a falling population, but that is easier said than done.

The main thing though is that we need to be competitive with China, if only to prove that democracy is capable of dealing with these big issues.

My personal policy is that as long as they aren't doing harm, a person should do as they will. And teaching tolerance is a better idea than teaching children that they are probably the wrong sex and need to change to the other - that gets kinda dicey.

But a group of people deciding that little children need to be told they were born the wrong sex have overreached. And their tactic of taking children, and encouraging them to transition is an ethics issue. And it can lead to harming the child.

The psychodynamics of a growing human being are not simple. They can change their minds almost daily.

Even worse, the drugs and surgery is a bit of a rubicon to cross. A boy transitioning to "woman", taking puberty blockers, and other hormones, then amputating his penis and creating an ersatz vagina has really crossed that line. There is no way back.

A young girl, perhaps a "tomboy" gets encouraged to believe she is the wrong sex, gets put on puberty blockers, injected with hormones and other drugs to change her skeletal characteristics and then has her breasts amputated has crossed that line. Then after suffering the side effects of this gender affirming "care" she decides she really didn't want to become a male https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... She testified before congress https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

I have great sympathy for her. I confess, I don't have a whole lot of love for her butchers. Because that's what they are. They took a perfectly healthy young lady and performed medical experiments on her some of which are not healing. she became suicidal after this treatment which was supposed to have her be not suicidal. I keep getting thoughts of old Dr Mengele, another surgeon who enjoyed doing experiments on little children in Germany, and other doctors even here, who performed medical experiments so heinous that ethics panels were created to try to control them.

So what is my wrong thinking here? I have done research, I just might not have come to the same conclusion as some others.

My presumably improper conclusion is that men and women are not physically identical, and that performing medical experiments on young people which crosses a line that cannot be returned from is unethical at best, and should be criminal. Young people can be talked into many things, then change their minds.

I believe that families, not public schools and the parents should have the say over their children. Further, I concluded that if an adult wishes to completely transition, fine - that's their body.

The gender affirming care with schools in control, and that care kept secret from the parents reminds me of the wholesale drugging of young males back when my son was in school. Teachers diagnosed all of the boys in his class (and the whole school) as having ADHD, and they needed put on Ritalin. Doctors were happy to accept that diagnosis and Ritalin sales made for profit.

The results were a lot of messed up young men, because Ritalin damages young males brains. One citation below, but you might try DDG'ing "Ritalin damages young male brains". the NIMH has their assessment in the results.

Sadly, too many parents accepted that diagnosis.

As luck would have it, I was at that Parent Teacher conference where they said my son should be on Ritalin. I asked questions about side effects, was this not just putting boys on tranquilizers and chemically straitjacketing them? I was quite polite, but they had no answer about the side effects, and it erupted into anger at the second question. Gosh, some people don't like being asked questions.

I asked if he had been a problem at all. The answer was no, but he was a big boy, so they just wanted to prevent any future problems. I asked how they diagnosed him with ADHD when he wasn't having any symptoms. Gosh, this wasn't going the way they hoped. I told them no, he wasn't going on Ritalin unless they provided a real doctor's diagnosis and a court order.

Good move, He and a couple other males made it through school and into adulthood just fine. Many of his friends didn't - the grand experiment turned out poorly. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthline.com%2Fhea... Finally, what is the obsession with putting children on drugs experimentally.

My assessment is not based on hate, but starts with an assumption that healthy people should not be put on drugs that are at base, experimental. As well, it is not affirming to drastically alter young people who are as likely to change their minds as not. And my research (I am a researcher BTW) has shown me that there are problems, some pretty bad ones. I've also concluded that there is a segment of society that really likes drugging people to conform to what that segment believes is just and proper, so much that they wrest control away from the parents.

I've also assessed that if a person does not agree with every point, every nuance, they are attacked. The Trans "community" has been excoriating Ms Cole for daring to speak out about what she considers "barbaric pseudoscience" Do you agree with them or her? https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fshorts... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fshorts... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fshorts... She has been banned from speaking on at least one campus, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fshorts... You can find more on YT by searching her name. And not just her https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fshorts... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F.... There are a lot more examples, So, I'm interested in your assessment of my opinion on the matter. Am I wrong for believing that major decisions like that should be made by the person who is thinking about transitioning and done as an adult? Am I wrong for being horrified at people who after the mutilation and drugs, decide just like young people always have done - change their mind. Do you agree with the excoriation they have received because of changing their minds?

Love to hear back, is my opinion hate based? Hate as an expression of sympathy for destroyed lives should be a sophist argument.

Well to find some common ground, it seems we have some in our signatures. The "some people" is the same guy.

You can read the light novel if you are curious - the anime is only the first three volumes, but there are 13 of them translated into English so far.

I sometimes wonder if it's because they actually want the controversy. It creates engagement. Like toxic social media thrives on strife.