Ask a finance pro why they went into finance. If you don’t get the same answer, they are lying.

Anyway, I fell involve with computers and programing at 13 years old, and nothing else appealed to me, so guess what I became?

But, I thought Modi was a leader for true Hindi! I thought he was not at all authoritarian! It can’t be true! (Yeah, /s, just in case)

Most would know them through the infamous name “palantier”.

I got a notification on my phone, opened it, and was hit with the privacy practice update. Clicked deny, was hit with a warning my device would be crippled. Port forwarding and other features would no longer work and I would not get feature updates.

I’m getting ready to install the Merlin asuswrt ROM to give them a huge “fuck you” and possibly get access to features I chose not to use due to the data collection they have. Basically, they probably noticed that few activated the honey pot features and chose to just force the surveilance on us all.

There’s a part of me that wants to cringe from the conspiracy thinking clear in this response. Unfortunately, the logical, observational part of me is much bigger. I see the patterns on this one.

I just this morning got a privacy update from my Asus router. They’re going to start collecting my usage. I clicked disagree, and it went to another popup warning that I will lose most of the features I rely upon, with a button “re-read”. How is this not extortion?

Now I have to go through the traumatic process of installing wwdrt and hope I don’t brick my internet access entirely.

Several months ago, my brother scanner software would not work until I gave it permission to send my scans to their server. I no longer use that software.

The surveillance state is expanding at an exponential rate. We are amidst the " great reset" the right wingers warned of, but it is driven by their “great” leaders.

Well, that’s rather cruel and self a destructive. Millions die immediately and billions die of starvation, leaving only the wealthiest, least compassionate people alive.

That graphic might be underestimating the damage. The last documentary I saw said a major global extinction was caused by the last one and areas similar to the ones here were scortched, not ash covered. But again, it was a while ago, and memory tends to make things bigger.

That’s Wyoming - Yellowstone. Though given it’s size, I suppose it could also be there.

I don’t put much faith into these charts. They are usually someone’s opinion.

Given that, I started with Slackware in 95 with the intension of learning Unix-like OS. I think I went from newbie to pro quickly, then switched to Ubuntu years later because I decided I didn’t have time to micro-manage my OS anymore. I tried a few others first, like Open Suse.

As much as I dislike the muskrat, is this fiber actually real?

You literally questioned its existence, why are you confused?

Now, everything else you said I either knew, or agree with the assertion.

Btw, I’m definitely not young.

I got fiber last year. It halved my bill and quadrupled my throughput. It’s real, and since then another vendor arrived and is competing with the one i have. This is hiw it is supposed to work.

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Nope. It’s hate driven authoritarianism using Capitalism as a weapon.

The visuals are priceless. Screaming, agonized pears flying from building to building with California raisins singing in flight amongst them. I think i just found a reason to play with AI video generation!

Cue the calls for us to man up and pull ourselves up by the bootstraps.

This is exactly what happened to manufacturing and chip making of 40 years of “free trade”. We lack the skilled staff for these jobs.

Continuing on the nursing topic, well before covid there was a shortage of nurses, then the media blitz convinced many people to get degrees… There were so many looking for work that wages plummeted.

It’s all a shell game. The goal is to make the labor suplly huge so they can dictate wages, which they did.

They did it with programmers overthe last ten years… Now nobody can find a job.

I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!

If your job involves any analysis, you’re next. Once they work out the remaining robotic kinks, labor intensive jobs are cooked. You will not escape.

Already on that. In progress.

I have to concede that i believe you might be right about that, sadly.

When the only goal by law is maximize profits, the motivation tends to favor minimizing cost. Change the rules, and enforce a new set of values. Only then will the situation improve.