Every other queens of the stone age record is an instant classic. They’re probably my favorite band and I genuinely dislike half their stuff.

Counterpoint: congress does their jobs exactly how their corporate owners want them to. Congress does not serve the best interests of the people.

I think it’s pretty scary. Completely overwhelming the media and internet with near-infinite variations of their propaganda is the most powerful way I can imagine for them to carry out the stuff you’re more worried about, with even less resistance.

It’s not the lack of AI safeguards themselves that worry me, it’s the constant stream of propaganda drowning out reality that worries me.

I’ve tried a couple and they all return worse results on average. Scrolling down past the LLM garbage and paying attention to which results are real is less work than re-querying DDG 4 times to get a decent result.

I haven’t tried kagi, but I’ve heard similar anecdotes here on Lemmy. I’m not opposed to paying. The ad model is unsustainably at best.

Not currently. Except for starvation wage retail. Tech hiring is still mostly frozen and smaller companies tend to just copy larger ones.

Thanks for posting regularly! This detailed write-up is super appreciated.

Corporations effectively run the government.

Yes, absolutely agree.

This is the part not being reported in the news.

Many of us are simply working half as much as we did when we were remote. It’s not worth trying to impress these people. They hate us.

Do you have a source for any of these claims?

Moo Deng is an international treasure.

You can get very good stereo speakers and a quality amp for a few hundred bucks.

The idea that you need to spend thousands is a myth. It’s more about form factor than specs. Sound bars suck. Full range woofers don’t.

Sizzling hot take, lol

Came here to say:

• thyroid medication
• obstruction surgery
• cancer surgery and treatment
• cardiology to treat dilated cardiomyopathy.

Probably cost $25k over the years. I’m extremely grateful our pet insurance covered 80-90% of that.

Dude just turned 10 and he’s healthy and happy enough to start treating his arthritis.

Casio sucks now, sadly. The bands especially are abysmal quality.

Lazy people with tech salaries. I have a tech salary but I’m not lazy enough to enjoy spending 80 dollars on dinner for two that would cost 35 if I drove my damn self.

You can’t get anything from Uber eats for less than $30 in my city.

$10 wouldn’t even cover ONE of the service fees.

You couldn’t be more wrong.

All my teacher friends wind up working 10 hour days on average.

They work during breaks.

They work during summer.

Good teachers don’t just show up for classroom time then disappear.

Teaching.

College degree mandatory, graduate degree preferred.

Yearly continuing education costs.

Out of pocket expenses for classroom materials.

Sometimes providing food for kids who don’t have it.

Famously low salaries and very long hours.

It’s so much worse when you lay it all out like that, haha.