Amid the FTE layoffs, are there any stats on how many contractors FAANG+ have been laying off? I wonder if contingent workers are the first to go, or the last.
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Doesn't Estonia have its own E-Estonia X-road system that already does these things, using cryptography for verification and non-repudiation?
So why do we need this newer, more expensive, dystopian stuff made by some private company? How do I vote against this? Oh wait, it's the EU...so I can't.
We knew this was coming when all the tech companies jumped on the opportunity to implement the pass sanitaire because of some virus that sort of escaped from a Wuhan biolab.
No more required mRNA bullshit. No more shots. No more mandates. And no digital identity...or I'm moving to Florida.
You sound very confident that each year is going to be hotter and hotter. On what basis do you make this claim?
Chicago police will no longer be allowed to chase people on foot
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Why are we blaming Republicans here? The ARP cost US taxpayers $1.9 _trillion_. Such spending causes inflation. [1]
[1]https://www.vox.com/23036340/biden-american-rescue-plan-infl...
Also it bears mentioning that the president's brain is actively melting, and yet our VP is so undesirable and unlikeable that I don't want anything unfortunate to happen to Biden, or for him to get 25th amendment'd. All I can do is vote for the opposition, and by God this is the first time I'm voting Republican/Independent/Conservative.
It's like they are cheering us on to buy Teslas with money we don't have.
> If Republicans control congress what will be different? I don't know, but anything is better than what we're looking at now, so I'm excited about all the protest votes we're going to see. Biden's disapproval rating is about 56% [1], near or worse Trumps was around the same time. That's when Democrats got the majority in the House and Senate, from protest votes against Trump. Since Democrats and the "Biden-Harris administration" are NOT handling control of congress very well, or anything at that matter, the pendulum will swing the other way, as it always has throughout American political history.
[1]: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/
Let's elect fiscal conservatives into power. Remember when the Ukraine aid bill was $30B, and then Democrats raised it to $40B? Rand Paul questioned the purpose of this spending, and MSNBC smeared him as a Russia sympathizer. Republicans tend to sometimes care about getting spending under control. But with the state of the economy being directly impacted by inflation, I have more confidence in Republicans to take on this challenge.
All-time high for U.S. inflation
All-time high for gas prices ($6/gal in Seattle!)
All-time high for food prices
Needless to say, elections in November are going to be VERY interesting.
This administration is a failure.
I love the Bear design and interface and curious about using it! Is dark mode available, or custom color schemes/fonts?
How is this significantly better than the parent comment of attaching one filter to a box fan?
Is that enough for allergens, smoke, and pet dander? I don't care about virus filtration (which is not going to happen anyway, if it's something I'm making out of cardboard and duct-tape)
Important to know. I think it's obvious what the reason was - stoking fear in the populace.
Fucking Microsoft. Why can't things be simple and standardized?
Exactly. Ever since the covid "vaccine" hysteria emerged, the media have drawn extremely rigid lines between "institutionally-approved medical views" and everything else that doesn't fit neatly into what Big Pharma and its governmental collaborators want to disseminate. And if you question that, you're "putting people at risk". No one should be reading WaPo anymore.
>Health misinformation or unsound opinions that can be interpreted as medical advice shared by influential public figures, such as Musk, could have wide-reaching repercussions, said Steven Hoffman, a professor of global health, law and political science at York University in Toronto who has published research on how celebrities influence people’s health decisions.
Oh no! Someone said something bad about a pharmaceutical product! This is extremely dangerous to our democracy! /s
Seriously, I don't get why some comments on Twitter "put people at risk". This is rather disreputable of the WaPo, but par for the course to cheerlead for greater censorship of "misinformation", which to me appears to be the angle of this article. I do not want greater machinations of the state empowered to police peoples' opinions and shitposting. I would love to see evidence that this puts people "at risk".
It used to be that it would just mist for 6-7 months out of the year, instead of rain. And now it hardly even rains at all anymore. No longer a rainy city/region.
Last year, summer lasted from April to October.
Holy shit, Mikhail Gorbachev is still alive?
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