Polygraphs provide authoritarians the excuse to get rid of people.

The same way that scientology uses auditing. The point is to instil fear and doubt into whomever you’re measuring so that you can manipulate them.

So, they are extremely useful.

They wanted someone with experience, who can hit the ground running, but didn’t want to pay for it, either with cash or time.

• cheap
• quick
• experience

You can only pick two.

Brazil could appeal to the World Trade Organization, propose international investigations and “demand explanations”,

Yeah if there’s one thing this administration really respects is investigations.

Going way too far is the point.

This is about oppression, not about justice.

• the most felony convictions
• the most state and federal criminal investigations that are still open
• the most amount of diapers worn during a presidential term
• the first president in what 20 years to puss out and have his inauguration indoors
• the first president to have been a confirmed rapist

I’m going to speculate:

• the smallest penis
• the most obese
• the shortest

I was having just this conversation with a friend of mine the other day. There is a level of net worth that once you hit it, it becomes exponentially harder to get out of poverty than someone who isn’t poor. And absolutely no amount of money can help them because unless you can stop the churn, all that money will just go toward the black hole of fees and other expenses.

He’ll never admit it. He’ll blame immigrants or the gays or the trans or the woke or the Jews or the liberals or Biden or Obama or the Clintons.

Never himself.

I exclusively use ZigBee. It automeshes.

Pft. Rookie numbers. I’ve been leaving work 1-4 hours early as meetings allow.

Be careful with that question because they will blame everything except themselves.

Oftentimes, though schools don’t have many options because they simply need bodies to supervise the students.

And sadly, this is why schools are being defunded and requirements for teachers are simply “a warm body, but don’t be woke”.

Red states especially only want baby sitters because they want “education” to occur at church. With the DoE almost completely gutted, this problem is going to get worse and we’ll pay the price in about 10 years.

I think what makes enshittification is “give users less and charge more”. It’s about returning shareholder value instead of customer value.

Netflix is a great example. They have pulled back on content, made password sharing more challenging, and increased cost. They still report increases in paying users.

They’ve done the math. They know they can take lost in users because they know they’ll make up for it. That’s the sad part in all of this.

This is a great compromise honestly. More OSS devs need to be paid for their work and if an anime character helps do that, I’m all for it.

Two months is what DeBeirs, the assholes who hold a monopoly on diamonds, arbitrarily told people to spend on a diamond.

Ultimately it should be what makes both parties happy.

The line demands you cut costs but also increase service.

The line demands it go up. It doesn’t care how you get there. In many cases, decreasing service while also cutting costs is the way to do it so long as line goes up.

See: enshittification

For the lazy: https://hiddenpalace.org/Animaniacs:_Hollywood_Hypnotics_(Prototype)

I don’t understand why the billionaire class is scared. Can’t they just leave? That’s what bootlickers always say will happen if we raise taxes on them.

“many titles are designed from the ground-up to be rent seeking”

I don’t understand how the credit card industry is okay with this. Credit cards are unsecured debt that can be discharged through bankruptcy. Not only that, usually tangible purchases can be repossessed. If someone is addicted to an online game and uses their card to purchase digital assets, how are they going to make their money back?