The reason Trump is doing this is so that we are not focusing on the rift in the party over H1B visas.

Where the fuck are the Democrats hitting the issue while it’s hot with 3 interviews a day agreeing with the average Republican over Trump and Musk?

Yeah you’re right, mentally I added the part of the Caribbean that goes down to Venezuela to it.

Or when the current CEO wants to do some shady shit, they resign and they bring in someone just to take the fall. Then the “good” CEO comes back.

It mostly would.

Hungary renamed an iconic square in Budapest like 10 years ago. Most of the city still calls it Moscow Square.

It technically lies between north and south america.

It is a more fitting name than that of the USA.

Leeches off of

Well, it would be happier if at least one side catered to voters as opposed to billionaires.

That said, it’s not the fault of only Harris and her campaign, it’s the Democratic leadership from the past 20 years that allowed it to get this bad.

I worked as a techie in adtech, investment banking and healthcare.

With adtech, there is a complex inscrutable network of layered data brokers, and each as you see is the result of a complex but very fast auction of your eyes at that time.

The other aspect is that there are companies that collect data, other companies process them, and a third layer are the ad companies selling ads themselves. While Google is doing its best to monopolise the whole thing via Chrome, there are a lot of companies either piggybacking on them or doing their own thing. There are also “mom and pop” shops spying on you, not just Big Tech. You decide if a competitive or a monopolistic ad industry is better, I think the whole thing shouldn’t exist.

Investment banks DGAF about regulations, but are super serious about compliance. We had to attend like 12 yearly training sessions about not having the WhatsApp group we had. They are a weird mix of cutting edge and awfully obsolete tech, the feeling is that the business will keep printing money either way, so do whatever. Also, because since 2008 there are apparently regs that you need a higher up to sign off on some stuff, titles are super inflated. A Vice President might not even be a team lead.

I watched an innovative healthcare startup that actually saved lives be acquired by US big pharma. We sold AI medical imagery, not the quack kind, but the “proven by studies and active use to save lives” kind. European healthcare providers paid us 5-7 EUR per scan where it cost us 2 EUR to make one, and we were wildly inefficient, startup spaghetti code. A US monopoly bought the whole thing, along with a bunch of others like it, and billed insurance 100 USD in some bundle deal for the same thing.

Insert “I’m tired boss” meme. This was all in like 5 years.

Tweets can be monetised? I only know Twitter from screenshots.

It’s broad consensus that’s featured there, so it manufactures consent less hard, and more importantly, the fact-check appears attaches to the original misinfo, so it gets reshared with it.

Not fewer, shittier.

They will just crank the monetization up and the quality down.

Just to add to the other great advice, I’m an ex-tech worker and I went through this every odd year when I switched. Five times in seven years.

It’s always awkward since you are leaving for a reason, and shit always sucks. It’s not you, it’s the system. Focus on your new place. It never gets simpler.

Exam period going hard, huh?

Will they though? Mangione is behind bars, the media has largely sided with the CEO, and other insurance CEOs are probably getting police protection.

People sided with Luigi, and it showed that health insurance CEOs can be shot and killed relatively easily, and that it works in sending a message.

The police protection won’t save anyone, but it will remind both them and the masses that this is something that can happen.

I know “it will still happen later”, but the fact that it didn’t happen right now has already saved lives.

He’s a CS student, surely he could learn some hacking skills and access some internal communications that exposes illegal activity, no? That takes longer, but is probably more effective at actually sparking change than murder.

It would be swept under the rug, maybe get prosecuted and fined for q token amount.

There are three ways just off the top of my head that this improves the situation.

It puts fear into the people murdering the masses through policy, other CEOs might think twice now.

It makes people think and talk about this, and put the topic of healthcare CEOs being murderers into the public discourse.

It showcases that public support, actually bipartisan public support exists for positive change, it’s just not on the ballot. Some smart politician might figure out how to ride that wave into office.

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What’s up with world? I’ve seen that there are a lot of complaints going on about it, but what is the underlying problem?

Cooking and outdoor BBQ seems to be a match, but even so, even talking about hobbies can be nice. Just ask him about how it’s going what bands he likes, and see if you can take him to a concert or get him an album for example. He’ll enjoy the concert, you’ll be there for the time spent together. Or the painting-woodworking thing someone said.

I think the trick is to approach it from an angle of “I want to participate in your hobby with you”, and see what you can bring to it, and that might get him hooked on reciprocating. Trying to get him to go first with doing the same might more likely result in disinterest.

They make you pay for some codecs, it might have been that.