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jacksilver

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  • "Heads should roll": Congress erupts over Trump administration's Signal leak

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  • Yeah, I know why the guy came clean, but it would have been so much more useful if we stayed on the chat. Really a big missed opportunity.

  • Bro, is that a hole?

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  • I thought it was okay. It's pretty cheap at $5, but is probably only a few hours long.

    That being said, digging a hole is a little thereaputic.

  • As Economic Indicators Point to Recession, Trump Moves to Hide Key Data From Public

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  • Thanks for adding the additional context!

    What's funny is the covid drop isn't even that bad either compared to some other recession. So the 2022 blip is really inconsequential.

  • As Economic Indicators Point to Recession, Trump Moves to Hide Key Data From Public

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  • That's a fair criticism, if things can get worse for people when we aren't in a recession, then why would we care about recessions.

    The truth is that a recession is just one metric that we use to track the economy. However, the economy is a big complex system and things like recession are there to track a global state, and aren't refined enough to track things like inequality.

    One failing in recent times for economic data is around "full employment vs part time employment" and other things like "is this person making a livable wage". The hard thing with a lot of inequality or livable wage discussions is they are inherently political and not something that is as easy to track/detail/communicate/etc. vs numbers like GDP.

    So, yes having better numbers would be great, but most likely this admin will fudge and hide numbers making things even more difficult to track (both now and in the future). Additionally while people are hurting now, during a recession even more people will be hurting (and most likely hurting worse than they are now).

  • As Economic Indicators Point to Recession, Trump Moves to Hide Key Data From Public

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  • I don't disagree. My point was that we weren't in a recession. Things may have been bad for many people, but that was when the "economy" was doing well.

    Current indications are that the "economy" is heading for a downturn. If things were already rough for people, it certainly isn't going to get better if that happens.

  • As Economic Indicators Point to Recession, Trump Moves to Hide Key Data From Public

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  • I posted elsewhere, but I think the real issue is that it really didn't look like a recession. While technically it was a recession by the two negative quarters definition, if you look at real GDP it's barely a blip.

    I suspect at the time the concern was that calling it a recession would have impacted the recovery. Not that I think that's a good excuse, but they werent hiding the data. With Trump, he's trying to hide the downturn rather than trying to rally the recovery.

    Calling out Biden here is a very "both sides" centrist kinda mindset.

  • As Economic Indicators Point to Recession, Trump Moves to Hide Key Data From Public

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  • Not really, maybe a blip of something in 2021-2022, but generally the US economy as a whole has been doing alright - Real GDP. Individual people though have been getting beaten up recently, but boy is that about to get worse.

  • "They basically want to kill me": GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring

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  • Trump freezes $175M of UPenn funds over trans women

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  • They should rescind his degree.

  • Trump Says a Recession Might Be Worth the Cost. Economists Disagree.

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  • Because most of the 1% wealth isnt in the form of wages (hence why people say working class vs wealthy sometimes).

    Sure you could increase the income brackets, but I think (would need to double check) that wealth tax would make a larger impact.

  • "Make America Healthy Again" is dead | There is nothing RFK Jr. can do at the Department of Health to make up for what's happening at the EPA.

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  • He's actually worse than that, he's literally petadaling anti-science conspiracies.

  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • I keep expecting something, the lifetime pass has more/less paid for itself.

    That being said, they do still offer the lifetime pass, so clearly they see it as worth it.

  • What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab?

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  • Samba Bamba!!

  • FCC to get Republican majority and plans to “delete” as many rules as possible

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  • That's always been the issue with laws like this, just causes people to find worse things.

    Banning alcohol lead to people dying from bootleg. Making drugs illegal lead to things like people huffing paint (maybe cost too).

  • “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

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  • Some people have mentioned apple TV, for now that at least isn't riddled with ads. Others have mentioned getting android sticks, but I'm not sure how smooth that process is (or how well they work with remotes).

  • “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

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  • I think the issue is they hit market saturation and haven't been able to develop any real revenue streams beyond the sale of devices (which is one time cost while maintenance and development constantly drain them of any profit).

    I suspect the increased enshitification is because they need other revenue streams. Just take a look at their stock price and it doesn't paint a great picture for them.

  • “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

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  • Yeah, that was my approach, but the forced ads are also on the roku stick :(

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  • As someone who was was an adjunct before and during the pandemic, I can tell you from first hand experience that a lot was lost when transitioning from in-person to remote learning.

    The most obvious impact was participation. Even at the college level, when students aren't physically in the classroom they are less focused on the class.

    However, even beyond that there are a lot of things that suffer:

    • The ability to just walk over to a student to see how theyre doing (whether they want you to or not).
    • In class exercises and group collaboration.
    • The ability to easily dive into questions and tangents (drawing programs online are very hit or miss).
    • Not to mention audio and video issues.
    • Ability to read the classroom (going to fast, something wasn't clear, etc.)

    It may not sound significant, but it really adds up. Not to mention that the impact from covid in education is very visible at all levels of education.

  • What parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?

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