givesomefucks
@givesomefucks@lemmy.world
- Comment on Wildfire phone alert was 'entirely appropriate', government says 1 day ago:
I don’t get why it’s “all or nothing”…
They can push silent notifications first, have a “reply Y within 24hrs to prevent further notices”
And accomplish the same thing.
There’s no reason to jump straight to the loud ass “the sky is falling” notifications that override silent mode.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Raise your standards.
I’d love for my standards to be a “normal house” worth over a million dollars…
But my uncle didn’t start a giant media company and name it after genocide a to hand me a platform…
But to be honest I probably would have turned it down and wouldn’t have been interning for him in the first place
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I wish people cared as much about what politicians had to say as nepo twitch streamers who claim to be communist while streaming from a literal West Hollywood mansion…
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
They realized someday people pay off mortgages. No one’s ever paid so much in rent that they stopped having to pay.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’d be pissed if Lemmy was making it easier to feed our comments to chat it’s,
Autocorrect on “chatbots”…
But when anyone says:
I’d be pissed if
They don’t mean “if I found out” the part that would piss them off, if the “if it was happening” part.
Like:
If I found out you didn’t take the trash out
Would you hear that and think the solution that person wants is for you to hide that you didn’t?
That they would be absolutely fine with it as long as they didn’t catch you?
I’m genuinely asking, and am hopeful to get a real answer about how you seem to have interpreted my comment.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Why would you ask lemmy users how to do something most Lemmy users are pretty vocally against?
I’d be pissed if Lemmy was making it easier to feed our comments to chat it’s, the main reason a lot of us are here is we don’t want scrapped by chatbots.
And you just want to do it for funsies?
- Comment on Theft 1 week ago:
Ken Paxton just keeps doing his best Rafael Cruz impression and running away from anyone who asks him a question…
Talarico signed up for three debates and said he’ll show up even if Paxton doesn’t.
Cruz is slimey, but he’s a legitimate master debater, he can slime his way out of shit most people can’t, and Paxton is just expecting it to work out.
As long as Talarico doesn’t start talking about taking people’s guns, he’s got this in the bag.
- Comment on South Carolina and Nevada Fight to Kick Off Democrats’ 2028 Presidential Calendar 1 week ago:
SC is a stupid decision.
It needs to be the biggest states, or what I’d really really like to see:
The state that voted D for president by the highest margin, and then working down in order.
Let the states who turned out the most set the tone, but run every primary to the end and let every state get a say.
We’ve been in a weird bizzaro land where if state could be counted on, it got ignored, which hurt our turnout, and can make a safe state into an upset state.
We need to be showing Dem voters that the party wants their opinion who to run, that’s the entire point of a primary, and Martin has a proven track record of doing those in Minnesota
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
My numbers are made up,
At least we found some common ground
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
None of that makes any sort of sense, it just sounds like you heard some “business words” and are saying them without knowing what they mean…
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
Why the actual fuck would anyone think admin fees per employee would be percentage of salary?
That makes no sense.
It’s roughly 17k/year, regardless of if you pay $5/hr or 5k/hr.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
It adds up…
It adding up is the problem.
Because it means “job creators” who do nothing but posses titles to land and company stocks are syphoning off money.
If they need 3 staff for 21 kids, they’re going to pay as little as they can to keep 3 staff. And charge as much as they can to keep 21 kids.
There’s no correlation between what staffing costs and what prices are charged, why would there be?
Both are just line items, and the person in charge just wants the profit line to have the biggest number.
The larger the company is, the worst that becomes. Or if the company is small, but owned by someone with a dozen other companies.
Expecting salary to match what people pay is toddler logic, sure it would be great if it worked like that, but any adult thinking more than 2 seconds can see why that’s not related in the modern age. Hell, its been decades since the “if we pay workers a living wage a value meal goes up $0.02!”.
Americans literally all said they were fine with that, almost zero companies increased pay, and all of them.increaswd prices anyways
There’s obviously no correlation
- Comment on We Can’t Afford Not To Be Able To Deliver Consequences 2 weeks ago:
“Terrorism is an insidious descriptor… denoted by the use of extreme police powers, long prison sentences, isolation, medical neglect, and of course overseas bombing campaigns and gun-running” and which has “always been used by the ruling classes to designate threats to the status quo, and in doing so intimidate them into silence.”
Obviously…
That’s why citizens everywhere need to rise up against it together rather than everyone demanding everyone else join their personal crusade.
Making it any deeper than:
Everyone deserves rights, even “terrorists” because the government chooses who is a terrorist
Just makes it easier for the oligarchs to split the movement.
If people don’t unite, the governments will keep picking off demographics one by one.
This isn’t new
- Comment on Anthropic Confirms Claude AI Accessed Three Real Organizations During Cybersecurity Testing without authorization 2 weeks ago:
If AI told you it wasn’t a crime, it was hallucinating again…
You really shouldn’t rely on that for, well, anything.
- Comment on Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum 3 weeks ago:
This is probably the only time trumps actions will increase foot traffic…
People are going to want to get a look before he changes shit.
- Comment on Issues with AI Helper 4 weeks ago:
Is the post asking for help making “AI Helpers” (apparently just a generic name for chatbots) as a genre more useful?
That’s not what this community is for, but the answer is:
You can’t make them useful, they’re slop generators.
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 4 weeks ago:
It’s also important people understand it’s the same as “the cloud”.
That’s how the rollout started: “why pay for a hard drive when you can have it anywhere”?
Too many people fell for that, so the corps bought up all the hard drives, now storage is more expensive than when “the cloud” rolled out
They’re using startup accounting against us, they’ll buy up all the storage/compute power so consumers have no option but to go thru them.
The only way to win is wide scale boycotts till their investors give up. Don’t use anything you don’t own to store data.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 4 weeks ago:
They borrowed our real money from banks without us having any say in it, based on imaginary valuations of what someone would hypothetically spend for their mountain of shares based on the price the tiny slice for sale is worth…
A complete and utter disregard for supply side economics.
If any of them actually have to sell to pay back the loan, they go bankrupt and the bank can’t collect.
That makes every other bank individually panic and call all their loans in to try and get what they can.
Banks doing a run on banks. Then everyone’s going to try and pull their money out when banks starting going bust.
- Comment on American AI is expensive. Some startups are turning to cheap Chinese models 5 weeks ago:
The only way to “win” at tech is churn companies.
Create an environment where startups ride it out and have a chance to be independent companies.
Currently the big American companies will just buy out entire industries anyone that doesn’t sell get crushed by the lawyers and investors get scared off.
There’s zero real innovation, and we can’t fix it unless we break apart the giant corporations. There’s no other way around it, but the giant corporations can’t admit that’s even an option.
Legally, they’re obligated to act in the best interest of share price, that’s why it’s so insane to let corporations drive policy thru lobbying, it will always benefit them and fuck us.
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 5 weeks ago:
The only reason this is the setup. Was under FDR the top tax bracket was 94% of gross pay.
For the insanely highly paid, it just wasn’t cost effective to keep paying CEOs so much, so companies made amazing healthcare packages to stand out to potential employees.
That was 80 years ago, and all the good bits are gone and the shit remains.
We need to fix our healthcare, but absolutely nothing is more important than getting that top tax rate back up to around 94% or even higher. That has to be the highest priority, because that’s how we pay for everything and fight wealth inequality
- Comment on How The Times Reported the Graham Platner Story 5 weeks ago:
Then why did they wait till last week to drop the story?
Why hide it this entire time?
Why didn’t they try to verify any of the claims?
Why is the only “evidence” recent emails to a therapist where the patient says they don’t want to come forward but people (journalists) are pressuring here to?
The primary attempt failed, so they picked the case that could be proven or denied because part of the story was he was blacked out drunk
If you can’t see this as a politician hit piece and nothing else, nothing I say is going to make sense here. Logic, facts, and critical thinking won’t help you if you can’t see any issues with this already.
Someone needs to help you with fundamental reasoning skills, it’s not just this topic.
- Comment on How The Times Reported the Graham Platner Story 5 weeks ago:
The better question is why they only seemed to be concerned with getting Platner to drop out…
And that’s because he spoke out against Israel, and the NYT doesn’t like that.
The only exemption is their opinion pieces, because that doesn’t go thru their political or special Israel editors.
Everything else even tangentially related to Israel is propaganda that they publish
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 5 weeks ago:
Nothing political about it…
He can be “alive” like Terry Schiavo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case
And they can likely keep him like that for years, because it’s machines doing all the work.
No one can pressure the hospital to do anything, as long as the checks keep clearing, they’ll keep the machines running.
What can (and is) being done, is the Governor requesting proof that McConnell is capable of fulfilling his duties from McConnell’s office
They want to stall till August 4th, because if McConnell is declared incompetent before then, it triggers a special election which allows Maise to run as an independent after losing the Republican primary.
On 8/4/26 they can say McConnell is incompetent to hold office, and the normal election will happen which Maise can’t run in.
This entire show is because Trump doesn’t want Maise to run, because if he does a Dem will likely win and if not it’ll be Maise.
But Beshar (KY governor) asking for Mitch’s status is what prompted all the Republicans to spend 20 minutes talking at his unresponsive body over a phone. That’s why they reacted
- Comment on He was no friend to the middle class 5 weeks ago:
Shit, it’s Kentucky hospital too…
They’re not exactly the best at making that whole “alive or dead” call.
Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.
She quickly realized something wasn’t right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.
“He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Miller told NPR in an interview. “And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly.”
The donor’s condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.
"The procuring surgeon, he was like, ‘I’m out of it. I don’t want to have anything to do with it,’ " Miller says. “It was very chaotic. Everyone was just very upset.”
Miller says she overheard the case coordinator at the hospital for her employer, Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA), call her supervisor for advice.
"So the coordinator calls the supervisor at the time. And she was saying that he was telling her that she needed to ‘find another doctor to do it’ – that, ‘We were going to do this case. She needs to find someone else,’ " Miller says. “And she’s like, ‘There is no one else.’ She’s crying — the coordinator — because she’s getting yelled at.”
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 5 weeks ago:
An NDA doesn’t force someone to talk/not talk about anything. It just creates a strong incentive to not talk about the topics included in the NDA or anything that might arguably fall under those topics because it opens one up to penalties. Many people can and do use NDAs as an excuse not to share information, with some even using a false implication that an NDA exists which prevents them sharing inconvenient information.
…
You…
You thought I meant an NDA was a magical spell that literally and physically prevents someone from speaking about something?
I have zero idea where you got the idea that a NDA can make someone talk about something tho, that’s even more random.
An NDA with the federal government means felonies and long sentences.
But yes, someone can physically violate an NDA, it’s not fucking magic.
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 5 weeks ago:
At this point I think you may not even understand what a NDA is.
Are you under the impression if someone doesn’t want to talk about a topic, they just “sign a NDA” and don’t have to talk about it?
- Comment on In a hearing on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed a non-disclosure agreement? Officials refused to answer 5 weeks ago:
but sometimes government officials have to perform official duties that require confidentiality.
If by “sometimes” you mean “they’ll make you sign a NDA to tell you 8 hours before everyone else it’s Taco Tuesday”…
Yeah, that’s pretty close
NDAs aren’t rare at all, and I wish it was surprising no one on Lemmy seems to have actual governmental experience.
- Comment on Last woman to be hanged in the UK pardoned 70 years on— Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in United Kingdom, has been granted a conditional pardon following the Deputy Prime Minister’s advice 1 month ago:
One thing rightwingers always ignore when they get mad about women being able to initiate a divorce, is that without that peaceful option, we had a shit ton more widows…
Some got caught and tried for murder, but you’d have to be very ignorant to think most weren’t getting away with it thru less obvious means.
Back someone in a corner long enough, and they’re gonna take the only option they have. That’s human nature.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Bruh it’s literally how tech advances…
When resources (compute power) is cheap, there’s huge leaps in tech. When resources are scarce, the fat gets trimmed.
It’s not optimism, it’s pattern recognition.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 1 month ago:
Steam very successfully destroyed the resale and lending of PC games
What?!
You think before Steam people could resell and loan PC games like console?!
Why just make shit up? You know Steam ain’t that old and people remember pre-Steam…
Right?