They will if they want to do business in Europe. Of course, given the privacy laws maybe they don't.
Facebook is bad enough, but no one beats Google for harvesting and tracking. Install a script blocker, It might be a little distressing though as you plow through the results.
So an article talking about spending patterns and the economy somehow isn't related to the actions of the President, including huge tariff increases which directly affects amazon sellers? Really? Can't make this shit up.
Talking about Orange Jesus is fine. Buy you people are at the point of being unhinged. You apparently believe every article is about The idiot.
I hold both Republicans and Democrats in utter contempt. You are slowly going insane, while he lives rent free in your mind, and if someone takes a shit you'll make it about Cheeto's gold toilet. For you see, there might be a better path. There is no doubt that the Democrats got a curb stomping. Whine or bawl, and make everything in your life about hating him and anyone who voted for him, and without introspection double down. Let us know how that turns out for ya.
Introspection on what created that drubbing might be in order.
America didn't suddenly turn into mid 1930's Germany. We elected a man of African ancestry - twice. Mrs Clinton would have been president after the 2016 election- she got 3 million more votes, but lost due to a quirk. Biden beat Trump fairly handily in 2020.
Even the Dems have come to understand that groups they considered in the bag eroded. Young males, Hispanic men, Men of African ancestry. middle class women. Organized labor. All shifted to the right or better stated shifted against the far left. - Find out why.
And in a bizarre response, the Dems spent 20 million to figure out why they lost the presidency, the Senate, the continued minority status in the house, and the previous loss of the Supreme Court.
How to talk to American men the result! https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fpoli.... And it isn't going all that well https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2F.... It is pretty simple really. Young men understand quite clearly that the Democrats do not in any way represent them. In an op-ed for The Hill, Anna Greenberg responded that the party was right to focus on women. She wrote, “Carville may not like it, but the Democratic Party is the women’s party. Sixty percent of self-identified Democrats are women.”
So good luck now that the Democrats are a woman's party, and are pretty clear about it. Anyhow, I'm preaching to a person who will never ever change their mindedness, and won't take telling. Good for you! I sure as hell didn't vote for Trump.
What a load of tripe. NASA continues to run groundbreaking missions. "Competition" from the private sector is nothing more than the private sector taking space technology from Nasa, then getting huge government kickbacks (SpaceEx), and using that.
Spacex is following in the tradition of companies like:
First stage of the Saturn V: Boeing
Second stage of the Saturn V: North American Aviation (which has since become part of Boeing)
Third stage of the Saturn V: Douglas (also now under Boeing)
Instrument unit for the Saturn V: IBM
Engines for the Saturn V: Rocketdyne (now operating as Aerojet Rocketdyne)
For the Apollo spacecraft:
Command and Service Module (CSM): North American Aviation
Lunar Module (LM): Grumman (now part of Northrop Grumman)
Service Propulsion System (SPS) engine and Reaction Control System (RCS) engines for the Apollo spacecraft: Rocketdyne
Descent engine for the Lunar Module: TRW (currently part of Northrop Grumman)
Ascent engine for the Lunar Module: Bell Aircraft (now Bell Helicopter)
Launch escape system: Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin)
Sauce: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapollo11space.com%2Fapol...
Seriously, the cult thinking that Spacex is using Elon's personal money and never taking a subsidy are delusional, and the idea that Spacex is somehow special, a first, never before happening thing, a paragon of perfection, and that they should be the sole provider, and NASA eliminated - well that's extra delusional
And let's compare the vaunted Starship to say, the Saturn V. One has never made it to space, and one had no launch failures. Which one was which?
And yet it's been private companies like SpaceX that have done far more to advance humanity's space faring capabilities than NASA has of recent.
In launch services yes but outside of manned spacecraft NASA has always relied on contractors and even those were all NASA designs built by contractors. Titan rockets the Voyager probes flew on were a product of Martin Corp.
Also SpaceX was built on the foundations of all that NASA knowhow built over decades. Did they have to material science their own heatshield material? No, NASA said here take our PICA and use that.
Not to discount what SpaceX has done which is very impressive but it's a sterling example of the power of public/private cooperation, not "free market private actors".
What pure science has Spacex done? I mean to hear the cult talk, Elon Invented the Rocket. Granted, he designed and built the Voyager probes, the Saturn rockets and landed the first people on the moon/
When are people going to realize that we don't need NASA any more, only Spacex
Tell us again how you don't know what a recession is...
Tell me again how “society” always patiently waits for it to fit perfectly inside your tiny definition of one.
Economists can prevent a Recession about as well as a teenager armed with girl math can prevent financial ruin. But by all means wait until profiteering liars tell you when to start worrying. I’m certain those defining recessions are looking out for YOUR best interests, right?
Only one thing I know for certain.
Slashdot is now AI articles, and people turning g every discussion to be about Orange Jesus, and how the US won't exist soon because Republicans.
It isn't even clever now - it's how a story about prime day is Trump's fault.
Y'all are forgetting the saturation of "They are cleaning out the fireplugs by flushing water through them, Trump is trying to kill people by making a water shortage.
And making themselves look even worse by some celebrating the dead children in the Texas flash floods. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyournews.com%2F2025%2F07%2F0....
I mean right? Democrats are the party of love inclusion and compassion, amirite? A Freaking pediatrician posted that Texas got what it deserved. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews... Did you ever wonder if a person who celebrates dead children while being a pediatrician might treat conservative peoples children differently?
And that, my friends is why Amazon Prime sales plummeted. Trump. Can't make this shit up.
Well, and if your father spent those 30 seconds with something more productive instead - like taking out the garbage for example, there would be fewer retards around to pick on.
Dood! Me old man was yencing your mother at the time! We might be brothers, although she was quite popular.
What geoblocking is SuSE doing? You mean the *option* to restrict support contracts to avoid the overreaching US jurisdiction like the secret courts that can order silent compliance?
Geeze, Wheezy, if the US was as bad as you claim, you'd be visited by a militarized drone in 3, 2, 1....
I always wondered what you and the turn every thread into an anti US rant crowd think you are accomplishing. A lot of us laugh, and fun to troll y'all back once in a while.
But my mamma taught me not to pick on retarded people, they can't help that they are dull. But tell Kim you've done your job. You'll get an extra 50 calories at dinner tonight. Just don't get used to it.
You have to pay to get all security updates in Ubuntu.
The quality of Slashdot trolls has gone way down.
You can run Ubuntu for free and run free apps not store ones. you could run Centos or other free Red Het derived distros
but instead you whine. The enshitification of the entitled Karens continues
Your post demonstrates how on Slashdot, the truth gets modded down. I've deployed a number of Linux systems, and never used Red Hat once. Nor do I intend to. No matter how mean the "toxic community" is to me.
Red Hat requieres accounts just like Windows 11, plus runs a locked down package system. So has Canonical with imposing a proprietary app store and SuSE with geoblocking. Linux is enshittified, and if you try "alternative" distros you usually get your motives questioned by the toxic community. Like it or not, I know so many people who would rather suffer with Windows 11 and telemetry than deal with the logistical nightmare of Linux. Plus the fact people would rather keep using the Nintendo Switch under the constant threat of bans rather than the Steam Deck is also something to be looked at.
Oh no, if I use other distros, people will be mean to me? Meh.
Apparently Moa were very tasty, hence why they became extinct not long after humans came here.
After you had Moa once, you want Moa and Moa and Moa.
Problems with poor communication skills, lack of professionalism, bad time management, lack of organization, and having no idea how to dress for work.
Well what did you expect when you gave them the internet as a babysitter? Actions have consequences, and that particular one is going to be with us for quite awhile. Best get to actually addressing those issues unless you want your business to be inundated with employees of such caliber. (The older "proper" employees won't be around forever.)
What I expect is having some concept of how to act at work. And you are correct about actions having consequences. At both ends however.
I do want the GenZ kids to do well. But they have to help in that effort. Much of what is needed is pretty simple. Show up on time for work and meetings, speak intelligently and clearly (I don't know why so many mumble) and dress appropriately. Then understand what is work and what is not work.
But what is concerning is that schools are apparently not teaching that sort of thing. Do they not teach public speaking any more? I took speech classes, and that has multiple trainings, communication, presentation, and confidence building.
As a poor kid from the wrong side of town, I was supposed to fail in life. Screw that! Anything they didn't teach, I looked up.
But even if not, a little curiosity about the business culture of where they end up and adapting is pretty important. I know what I did for myself back in the day was to study successful people and workplace etiquette, communication, and dress mores in workplaces. Then I applied it to myself. That isn't some kind of subjugation. No more than seeing a "No shirt, No Shoes, No service" sign on the door of a store.
And it wasn't always dead simple. I might be doing something messy and dirty in the morning, yet have a presentation in the afternoon. I kept a change of clothing and a suit at work. Used the showers and looked good. Oozed confidence and professionalism. Fortunately, most people do not have to go to that extreme. But the right people noticed.
And the kids are going to need to learn that they are not going to change working culture. Especially true if they keep getting fired.
They aren't stupid, just have some holes in their education that they can take responsibility for, then learn them, and eventually be successful. Step one is coming to grips with the fact that we are not the center of the universe. Step two is to not blame others, and use that as an excuse for not doing well. Step three is taking responsibility and learning and applying what they need to learn. Yes, they probably spent time learning things in school and college that might have turned out to be useless, but there is nothing stopping anyone from learning useful stuff.
I don't believe that new hires should be looking for entry-level jobs, unless you mean the sort of jobs that basically require a college degree in order to even do the entry-level work.
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.
Oh yeah? What search did you use to find all these violent trans people? Why haven't they been arrested if they are committing violence? Don't be an asshole.
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.
ok, it sounds like you have opinions on certain policies, although you probably don't understand them entirely and should do more research. But basically there's no problem with that. I don't expect you to be omniscient and I'm not.
The problem is when you go around hating people. Don't do that.
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.
"There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." -- Mark Twain
