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American business culture has never valued employees unless they have some leverage. It should surprise no one that a company which is planning to replace all its people with AI in a few years is perfectly happy to piss every single employee off by ganking their raises and bonuses and actually telling them it's to pay for the AI...

businessinsider.com/teradata-p…

A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI

Cloud software firm Teradata has told employees not to expect annual salary raises in 2026, and says it is putting the money towards AI instead.
Polly Thompson (Business Insider)
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Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

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@Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪 I thought you had it already after reading your post yesterday... it's sad. But It's like that yours is regulated and also a max grams you can buy. I found a site in Holland and they bring it to your door for 50 grams you pay 6$ for 100 you pay 4$ so my friend takes the 6 once a month for me and him and we took Silver Haze for day time as well 25/25 that service you must command by using Wire app and he comes to your door and you open aand taste and pay him in cash.

edit: they have 10 menu cards like you go to Amsterdam to a coffee shop and it comes from there around a little further. Menu's are sent tou your Wire App.
If you ask me that is not secure. better use Session or another I can't find the name again without mail or number
And it's more than 4 years we do it this way, never has a problema

WickR.me is the other that is good for this!

@Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪

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Let me ask you a question. Using your personal, for real situation right now: If Cloudflare decided to ban all the IP's from VPNs and flagged your home and work IPs as bots, along with all the devices you personally own, identified by device fingerprinting, what would your life be like? Could you really get on with any kind of normal life?

Well, governments just started talking about banning VPNs in service to "Know Your Customer" and "Child safety". Do you think they'll try to hunt down every piece of VPN software on the internet, or will they use their "mandate" to force a choke point corporation to use their already ubiquitous scanning to block suspects without any due process or chance of appeal?

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People get this s*** wrong all the time
Honestly the thing that would heal our country most is getting all these boomers out of their seats and replacing them with younger individuals who have better mental acuity. After that's been achieved, then maybe we could do the whole representation for marginalized groups thing. We shouldn't do the marginalized thing first because we will get just as many problematic individuals who just happen to be boomers just saying

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We no longer have the ability to govern ourselves, and the people who do have the ability are using it to destroy our civilization. This all ends in technofascism or luddite terrorism (or a mix of both). I can't see any other outcomes...

" The $16 billion data center... was flat-out rejected by both the town’s board and its planning commission in September. But those votes turned out to be only minor bumps on the project’s path: The developer quickly sued, the town settled, and the construction vehicles rolled in."

finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli…

A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began

The AI boom is coming for rural America. Inside one town's effort to fight back
Sharon Goldman (Yahoo Finance)

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Secretary of Forever War and barely closeted Neo NAZI, Pete Hegseth, has been recruiting his own pernicious kind into the military. #ShockedITellYouShocked

Xeltuwas (@illcitvirus115.bsky.social)

Did the Gotham City Police Department turn a blind eye to recruiting officers on the Mob payroll? [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Xeltuwas (@illcitvirus115.bsky.social) (Bluesky Social)
#ShockedITellYouShocked

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This isn't probably going to reach the right audience here, but seriously, if you are still paying to be productized by Windows, just stop.

ZorinOS , which more or less looks and feels just like Windows from an interface and organization perspective, runs wildly faster on my four year old laptop than Windows 11. I didn't have to install a single driver (exception: I needed to get my browser to control my USB ports, which is a weird, uncommon requirement, but I did have to install a driver for that.). It has an app store that actually has things in it I want, unlike the windows store, it boots in thirty seconds, and I found a Linux app to replace every program I commonly use on Windows. It even comes in a "Lite" version for even older tech.

I even got Linux Lite to run on my twelve-year-old laptop in under an hour, and although it's a little bare-bones looking, it plays video and loads web pages just as well as my newest laptop running Windows 11.

I'm no fanboy, but I feel like maybe we're approaching consumer-level Linux...

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Unus Nemo

@Blaise

Gnu/Linux will never be consumer grade, it is professional grade 😀 😉. Users that take their computing seriously have been using Gnu/Linux, BSD or other 'nix (Unix Derivative) for decades. MS/Windows has always been a play OS for beginners in my opinion Now, with its built in spyware people have more reason than ever to upgrade to a real OS.

Zorin is not a bad Gnu/Linux distro though I hate the DM, I do not care for anything resembling MS/Windows though I know that was likely the reason you chose it. I prefer Gnome, it meets my needs perfectly. I am currently using Fedora 44 though that may change when OS level verification hits the scene full force. I may go back to building my own systems.

@Blaise
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Wayback is vital to preserving our culture and history. It needs to collect current events to work. Now, the big news outlets are specifically blocking the archive, crippling the archive's ability to preserve data. This has to stop. We're losing big chunks of our history...

savethearchive.com/newsleaders…

Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!

Fight for the Future

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youtube.com/watch?v=0nt1CgQsgp…
which facilities deep on Russian sole were hit by Ukrainian? Gas & Oil.
Same fact that Ukraine was the pipeline of Gas from Russia before the War and other details .
Lybia, Syria, name it.

The Petrogas-Dollar: The Secret US Strategy Behind the Iran War

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Richard Medhurst (YouTube)

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It's probably true for most services today, but if you want to see the ultimate evidence that Meta is dangerous, check out what happens if you use their products!

bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy…

Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films

Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.
Chris Vallance (BBC News)

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The only constant is change.
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Know your adversary’s tools, techniques, and motives,and know your own systems’ blind spots. Otherwise, you are doomed to fail.

from the original Sun Tzu's Art of War

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will stand in peril.

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