Huh? Every Canadian I know has a coffee tin full of pennies for the exact reason they were never used. Just checked mine - weighs about 25lbs and like most Canadians, I’ll keep it for sentimental value only.

Standoffish you say? Well, she's clearly never been to Morocco then (or other Muslim majority countries I assume), where both the men and women would spit on her (or worse) for being in public with their hair uncovered and/or unaccompanied by a man.

It's probably pointless to weigh in to these American politics as everyone already has their minds made up on their own version of reality, but I read that article and it's worth pointing out it's completely insane. "The mere act of investigating—or even criticizing—a media company's actions, whether they involve objective journalism or a DEI policy, can have a chilling effect.". Isn't that the exact job of the FCC when it comes to the matter of election advertising? Second, anyone who thought that edits of the interview with Kamala was "objective journalism" is delusional.

You speak as if dollars in the billions range matter to these companies, and that’s enough to upgrade any local infrastructure. Has everyone failed to notice the companies involved are worth TRILLIONS now? California’s edge has always been the weather and Human Resources. Perhaps they are similarly in a FAFO situation?

Tell me you don’t understand politics without telling me you don’t understand politics. The “people are scared of trans kids” is an issue because the democrats allowed it to be one and got suckered into taking full-retard positions that is costing them elections. How hard is it to just agree with the position that clear biological men are obviously physically superior and should not be allowed to compete against women in sports?? I agree the instances are mostly rare, but that’s politics and the Republicans correctly saw it as the wedge issue to make the Democrats look even stupider than their side. For claiming they’re so intelligent and the R side is full of uneducated idiots, that sure doesn’t look to be the case from where I’m sitting. You either realize this and strategize to it, or you’re the even bigger idiot.

In a decade and so from now, univ kids will be writing papers on just how badly the Democrats have been utterly owned in the game of politics during the 2020’s. I say this as someone who would never be a fanboy of one particular party and I think a healthy two (at the VERY least) party competition is mandatory for democracy. I WANT the Democrats to do better.

Everyone knows politics is a game of lies and spin. Watching the current NHL playoffs has reminded me of this (don’t hate me for the sports analogy neckbeards of /.). Meaning one team frequently gets accused of being “dirty”, but those are the people burning bitter at facing the old adage of “they don’t ask how, but how many”.

Thing is with this story, is the Republicans may very well be trying to cut some aspect of Medicaid, but I don’t believe it. None of the stories I read go into any detail on that and sure as hell I’m not going to read the bill (I could really give a fuck less about that as a non American, so perhaps there’s better articles but as I know politics, Democrats surely don’t care about facts and reasoned discussion vs sound bites like every political party, so they’re not promoted). What I do see is the Democrats hanging their hats on issues that are SURE losers amongst the electorate: begging for a gang member wife-beater to be brought back to the country, or that clearly physically superior “men” should be allowed to enter and dominate women’s sports because they say so. Don’t even get me into parental rights - the position parents should not be notified of significant changes in their child’s life is the dumbest political position I’ve ever seen and that says something.

Again, politics is all about spin and I know there’s spin in this Medicaid statement. They are probably making some sort of cut somewhere. But when your party is focusing on sending their reps to a foreign country to bring back a non-citizen gangbanger, you’ve lost!! I know their real argument is around due process, and it’s even one I support more than anything else. But the Democrats are pure stupid shit at the moment and getting eaten up by DONALD TRUMP and his admin. I hope this goes on for a long long time until all the rabid Democrats here see just how fucking badly they’re losing the game.

Only a handful of smart people have figured out one of the keys to a successful website (for nerds anyway) is how easy to can punch in the URL using a QWERTY keyboard. The muscle memory of typing google is strong - DuckDuckGo (even as I type that it feels wrong), why do I have to type the same word twice? You’re using a children’s rhyme to adapt to a digital world and that not a good strategy.

I noticed this on a two-word news site I frequent, the last word which is “standard”. Save for two Ns in a 15 character URL, it’s all on the left hand side of the keyboard. I’m a lifelong computer user and I say expert keyboardist. It’s the only URL I constantly mistype because of the one handed bias. Even with one hand, Canadian sites like Kijiji figures out ease of typing is a huge factor. Fuck, get rid of one duck already.

You botched the math here - it's about 0.6% of the population.

You forgot the Classic versions of all of those.

I feel those voting up this comment haven’t read a lot of history. The old Soviet Union (and basis of 1984), had the lower classes absorbing what they knew were lies but parroted because they feared the party. Now they are on the side of the party - what is said may not be true but it is at least *believable*. Perhaps if there’s a problem with illegal foreign gangsters committing demonstrated crimes in your country, the other side best address that before it becomes an overblown “raison d’etre” of the other?

Even more interesting, isn’t this the dictatorship of the proletariat that all the Soviet communist trains of thought agreed was inevitable (they only argued on process)?? The majority sides with the government and believe in a common cause, isn’t this what the left fight for?

Right, so block all pictures of women with uncovered faces because there is surely some Islamic majority country threatening over that? Block anyone advocating for immigrant rights in the US too, anyone who supports a trucker parking in downtown Ottawa, and anyone who says anything negative about Trump of course. You people that rationalize silencing and even criminalizing of opinions because you don’t agree with them make me sick.

Seething hatred of trump aside - at least in the US you have courts as a recourse.

Though IBM is shit and part of this will no doubt provoke the political rage arguments around WFH , I’ve worked worked in IT for decades across many technical and customer management roles and lemme tell you

Humans are humans. In terms of getting your contract re-signed, extended, or increased, literally everything else is a far, far, far second to going to meet with the contract signer face to face on a regular basis. Take them out for lunch. Ask about their kids and remember their hobbies. Teams or Zoom video calls don’t cut it - many of the IT nerds don’t really understand this. All of your technical masterpieces and failures matter so far less than the human relationship you either maintain or you don’t.

Disagree. Telomeres are programmed senescence.

I worked with a number of Indian outsourcers who I also agree are all terrible, and I did notice one thing relating to their education: they seem to be taught one single thing as it relates to "IT" and then are churned out as "ready to be employed by Infosys/Wipro/Accenture/TCS/etc...".

An example is I've seen those companies hired to maintain and support web apps a few times. There was always one guy who knew SQL (barely), almost as if he knew nothing about computers at all but the moment he could identify a table and write a simply SELECT statement, boom he was put into the hiring grinder as a "SQL expert". There would be another who seemed no know nothing except being able to start an IIS web service and perhaps assign a subdomain. Obviously, very few problems can be solved knowing only one of these domains, and it's the years-long North American education programs that do provide this cross-domain education.

Just another anecdotal story, but in my first year as a manager I was called in to review from C code from one of these newly offshored "C experts".. the problem was he didn't know how to instantiate an array with an unknown amount of elements (eg. putting empty brackets after the type). Was shocked and in many years haven't seen anything that shows more promise. Outsource to Indian at your own extreme risk and cost.