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  • Mamdani aims to keep control while Cuomo angles for GOP votes ahead of final debate

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  • Come on, New York, elect someone cool for once.

    Representative Ocasio-Cortez is pretty cool in my book and New York elected her.

  • Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts | Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

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  • My god, the rest of article has additional quotes that make this guy SO MUCH WORSE than the headline makes it out to be!

  • What's a good FREE music streaming service that isn't run by the devil?

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  • Sadly I'm in the same type of land, but it is available in my library system. In my state, you are allowed to get a library card at any public library in the state. Even if your public library system may not have it, the next down over and if your state works the same as mine, you could get a library card there and use the service for free.

    Texas:

    Alabama:

    South Carolina:

  • What's a good FREE music streaming service that isn't run by the devil?

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  • Free and ad-free music streaming (even with some limited local downloads!) supported through many public libraries:

    Freegal Music

    Create your account with your public library card and gain access to all the music unlimited ad-free streaming. I also get 5 free downloads of songs a week for local storage, but I don't know if that varies by library. There is a web client and the Android app is pretty decent too.

  • To hit back at the United States in their trade war, China borrows from the US playbook

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  • Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

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  • There’s never been a singular cause that affected all of those groups of people at the same time.

    The attack on Pearl Harbor and 9/11 were both pretty unifying. The former had an immediate and unambiguous opponent with Imperial Japan. 9/11 took weeks and months to figure out what happened and who did it, so it didn't have as immediate a response.

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    Amazon's Ring Cameras Push Deeper Into Police and Government Surveillance

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  • Neighbor would have to see the request and approve it. I don't think you're accounting for how lazy and distracted people are.

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    Amazon's Ring Cameras Push Deeper Into Police and Government Surveillance

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  • Not as bad as the headline suggests:

    The request would appear publicly in the Neighbors feed for people in that area, notifying them with the option to provide footage for that incident. "If you ignore the request, the agency will not know; your anonymity and videos are protected. The choice is entirely yours," Ring said in the post.

    So they aren't just taking your videos and handing them to police without your consent for this. It is essentially an event based opt-in. If you do not opt-in for that event, none of your videos are shared.

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  • Trump’s Latest Caribbean Strike “Murder — Plain and Simple,” Amnesty Says

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  • Are you perhaps referring to this: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrainian-fighting-tactics-endanger-civilians/

    I am.

    And ignoring this:

    Ignoring? I wrote off Amnesty International when they made their position and criteria clear to me in the first article. I spent no time going back to see more of the same, but for you here, I'm looking agian:

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/europe-and-central-asia/eastern-europe-and-central-asia/ukraine/

    I see many similar criticisms of Ukraine, so this doesn't help your argument with me with this one.

    https://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/ukraine/

    This links back to the same content from the first link. So this appears to be a duplicate.

    https://www.amnesty.org.uk/protect-civilians-ukraine

    This is criticism of Russia, which does nothing to change their position on Ukraine from the first article.

    https://amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/ukraine-russia-three-years-since-invasion/

    This is more criticism of Russia, which does nothing to change their position on Ukraine from the first article.

    https://www.amnesty.eu/news/ukraine-justice-and-victims-rights-must-be-at-the-forefront-to-end-war/

    And finally this is yet more criticism of Russia, which does nothing to change their position on Ukraine from the first article.

    If anything the links you posted feel like backpedaling for Amnesty for their original 2022 position which caught them so much backlash and donors fleeing.

  • Goldman economists on the Gen Z hiring nightmare: ‘Jobless growth’ is probably the new normal | Fortune

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  • I’m the owner of a small business, so I am deeply familiar with this equation. The way we solve it is to “look for talent where no one else is looking” (actually strategy)

    I applaud your efforts but I'm not seeing how this addresses the problem of bringing someone on that can't generate revenue nearly immediately. In decades past, the "grunt work" a new person could do would cover some or all of their costs until they were trained up enough to be revenue positive. This system worked well until customers stopped paying for the grunt work some time ago (because of automation).

    then train the shit out of and mentor them (informal strategy).

    This isn't without cost though. It could take the form of formal paid training, or loss of revenue generation from your own hours because you're spending them training up someone from scratch. Where are you deciding for that to come from in the organization? What loses so the new worker wins? Is there perhaps another piece of your industry I don't know about that invalidates my question?

    My managers are expected to be better than and train the staff to do their work

    Up to a certainly level I agree, but especially in technical roles there are folks that are fantastic technologists, but horrible people managers. There are good people managers, that aren't good technologists. Those are two different skill sets. I'm not saying someone can't have both, but that person is generally much more rare/valuable/expensive than two people each doing their role. There's the other part that a person may be capable of both skills but doesn't like to do one of them. Making workers do work they hate is a fast way to have them quit.

    Edit: I hold myself to this same standard, which makes it easier to expect it if others.

    For short bursts I can see that, but that doesn't sound sustainable. How do you protect yourself from burnout? You're wearing 3 full time hats:

    • delivering/producing your product or service
    • training staff
    • running the business tactically (day to day operations) and strategically (vision, goals, investment decisions)

    These are all honest questions on my part as I'd love to find out someone has these answers I don't.

  • Trump’s Latest Caribbean Strike “Murder — Plain and Simple,” Amnesty Says

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  • I am no fan of trump nor his destruction of our democracy, but Amnesty International has zero credibility with me anymore after it accused Ukraine of violating international humanitarian law in defending itself against the 2022 invasion by Russia.

  • Goldman economists on the Gen Z hiring nightmare: ‘Jobless growth’ is probably the new normal | Fortune

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  • Leadership at most businesses have decided it is easier to hire experienced workers rather than grow and develop the next generation workforce.

    Sadly this isn't new to 2025. In 2008 I was working at an employer that said this to my face when I asked for a paid training class on a tool we were using in our production "We don't train. We hire trained workers." This was a shockingly bad admission about the corporate culture there with implications I immediately grasped. Whats more, I looked around at my coworkers that had been there for 5 or 10 years, and I saw he was right. All of them were using old skills on old out-of-date tools which I quickly realized also forced them to stay at that employer because no other employer was using those out-of-date tools anymore so they couldn't switch jobs easily. I'd like to say I quit shortly afterward, but if you see that year you'll know what was coming. I was happy to have a job during the great recession, even at an employer that had these toxic ideas.

    People entering the workforce are at an extreme disadvantage without a training, mentorship and ongoing support.

    I agree with this, and wanting to be part of the solution, I thought about becoming a mentor. However, the path I took (entry level, working up) is closed. I can't say I have a great suggestion for an alternative for those I would mentor. They're walking a path I didn't take. I'd be figuring it out with them, but if I gave them bad advice, it could have massive negative implications on their career. Further, they're saddled with way more debt than I was during that time in life, which means they need to be more risk averse than I was. I've done some mentoring to the younger generation, but I haven't felt as useful to them as I had hoped to be, or as mentors I had coming up, were to me.

    My general opinion of business leadership is not high, but this situation really exposes the depth of their laziness and lack of forethought.

    Perhaps at a megacorp perspective it might be different, but for a small employer its not nearly that simple.

    Each employee you have brings a cost (paycheck, employment taxes, healthcare subsidies, HR overhead, IT support burden, etc). These costs are worth it to pay because that employee produces something that brings in revenue at or above their costs. If that new employee cannot perform work that brings in revenue, then those costs have to come from somewhere else. Most solvent companies do have a war chest of savings that could be drawn from, but those savings are also used to weather periods of poor sales to keep paying employees or possible to pay for cost overruns if there is a mistake made by an employee that the company has to pay for. The war chest is not infinitely deep.

    Further, this war chest money is also where raises come from. Any extra cost to the company has to be paid, and the raises or bonuses come from what remains. So if you bring on an untrained worker that isn't able to produce enough to cover their costs, the costs for that worker is essentially being paid through the money that would otherwise be raises for the employees that are covering their costs and generating more. You risk pissing off or discouraging your best people with lackluster raises or bonuses by trying to bring on someone that can't carry their weight. If you do that too much, your best people leave. Your company will fold shortly afterward with your talent departing. Your middle-of-the-road folks lose their jobs because the company went under.

    There used to be "grunt work" that was capable of being done by new workers with little to no training. The work itself was an exercise that did partial training of the new worker. However, with automation, most of that work its gone. With repair costs being more expensive than replacement, that's another avenue for training lost. There's a "hollowing out" in the workforce ladder where you, as a new worker, might get one or two rungs up the ladder, but when you look to go higher you see dozens of rungs missing before you'd be able to climb again.

    I recognize the problems, but I don't have a solution. I doesn't help that many companies war chests of funds are being eviscerated by trump tariffs or poisoning of international markets and business relations by trump's antics.

  • Senate Democrats, holding out for health care, reject government funding bill for 10th time

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  • The GOP is doing a great job of building the opposition campaign slogan: "The GOP kept the government shut down for X days for the sole purpose of denying Americans access to healthcare."

  • An exclusive, members only restaurant with a limited menu. Some people pay top dollar for that

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  • Wife material right there.

  • Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

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  • Bravo to all those reporters rejecting this new opaque authoritarian!

    Here's the second most important piece of into in the article:

    Only the conservative One America News Network signed on.

  • What are things you know because of your personal interests that most people have no idea about ?

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  • I'm guessing starch.

  • What would a modern "Mac vs. PC" ad look like?

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  • I have never known anyone to associate Windows with a high performance Bugatti Veyron car.

    People don't choose Windows for speed, they choose it because its well known so it has a favorable learning curve for users to operate, has high compatibility with software & hardware available to consumers, and is generally inexpensive to buy.

  • Do we have a good idea as to why this has flattened out?

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  • Gotcha, you're talking about a system that gives you unemployment benefits.

    Even without your able to report it there, they are still aware you're unemployed. If you were employed, the state would be receiving quarterly income tax withholding from your employer as well as FICA contributions at the federal level. You've also filed your taxes for 2024, and they see that the only earnings you had were prior to your employment ended.