AI friends?

You’ve never heard of ADP? OK, I’ll bite because we should all know more and you can be one of the lucky 10,000 today!

They process payments around the world for many of the largest (and smallest) companies. They either integrate with ERP systems of record to do so or directly provide the tax calculation, union dues, deductions and local country/state laws applicable, not to mention calculate what you should be paid in the first place. Some places have insanely complex payroll requirements. Global companies even more so as they have to typically pay thousands or 10’s of thousands across dozens of contries (and their laws). They are a massive company and Publily Traded as ADP. There’s no secret deep state corporation here. In fact they are helping with transparency in an unprecedented government move to hide results of catastrophically poor leadership of our economy. So you are absolutely correct that we should be getting these numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (and I believe GAO for congress and the like). Trumps administration is blocking numbers being released as they have been done for like 50+ years.

Edit: Oh! I almost forgot… they literally are a payment processor for companies, so they are sending direct deposits to worker’s bank accounts as an authorized agent of their business customers or cutting direct checks (literally mailing them, or sending to a store or office to be handed out) and handling all the bank transfers and financials reporting for those companies.

The top brass who aren’t full on MAGA, but didn’t leave now have clear proof that they are expendable and will be scapegoated to protect Trump and his croneys. Honestly showing their hand at this stage gives me a lot of hope that any coup won’t happen now and resistance will be strengthened from within. I smell leaks coming!

Ukraine is still in Europe no matter how you spin it. Russia has also invaded NATO aligned airspace, cut infrastructure lines in the ocean, likely blew up a critical fuel pipeline, continues aggressive cyber warfare, bombed a railway in Poland, and pays for bots and misinformation campaigns and supports right wing fascism in the US and EU. They rattle their nuclear sabre constantly and have also had illegal incursions across borders like Finland… Tell us again how Russia isn’t a nascent threat to all Europeans after invading a sovereign country twice, downing passenger jets and sending proxy ships for covert unconventional warfare? The EU is under attack already and at least Poland is awake to it.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” Upton Sinclair

Yah, it was a joke (perhaps not a great one) and /s was implied. https://lemmy.world/u/Hawke has it correct - the martinis were fully implied by “business lunch” often known as a “liquid lunch”. No apology necessary internet friend - it was strictly in jest and not being snarky to you or your comment.

Isn’t that just repeating what OP said?

Oof - that reminds me - I have a LOT of scanning / digitizing to do.

Yah… that’s enough internet for me for the day.

I think I needed that. Thanks!

1000x yes!

TIL ads are content!

He meant remove Democrat politics, not GOP ones.

this is the way

Have they tried not being spyware?

Probably more like “I can’t do that anymore”

How are we with Trust of Lenovo after their previous shenanigans?

RAM Trucks have entered the chat.

Which laptop? All AMS here as well. ROG was what I found but there’s a very l in muted set of laptops with AMD GPUs, so I’m curious

Possibly - I’m in no position to say - I was just responding to OP about why and there was a likely reason. If they could continue blocking a quorum I’m all for it!