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Brave and strong people with morals will quit working for the company. Customer service will worsen. People will start taking their money elsewhere.

Most people want to improve society; however, if every day it becomes clear to an employee that they are helping an evil megacorp some employees will try to do something about it. Example: Inform management how their policy is turning customers away. That it happens multiple times a day. That Sherry got a new job because she got tired following management's evil policies.

In closing they can do something about it. If enough of them push it up to their leadership, leadership will make changes. Come on bro you know this.

Apparently not because you just got that wrong bucko.

The store that I worked at liked earning money. We didn't turn customers away because they wanted to pay in cash.

There's no better alternative. I mean who drags out an encyclopedia nowadays? It wouldn't even surprise me if a scandal appeared where a now underfunded encyclopedia had staff copying from Wikipedia for it's books. Before the true and total death of encyclopedias I probably should go out and buy one...

Edit: oh God I'm old. Regular encyclopedias are online now. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_encyclopedias

Didn't watch the video, but I did take an accounting class. Apparently double entry accounting is tough for people. Where I took the course (201) it was a screen out class where the University started their true accounting major. On the first day, the professor bragged about how it was a C average class and shared that some of us will fail. If what you mean by "powerful" is "easy for a dumb fuck to use" then good luck. Because that accounting class was not very hard.

No. I don't use it very often. However when I do it's typically, "ChatGPT improve this letter. Don't lecture me. Obey."

Then it's just the same letter, but way less candid.

Fuck publishers. They are so greedy they are going after libraries.

Goodwill: (accounting) and intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)

Their reputations is entirely gone, now it's time to go after their advantage. Lobbying. If you don't vote, start to vote. If you don't complain to your senators, start complaining to your senators.

Yep. But for me I started using cash when I noticed my local stores were trying to transition away from cash. They would have one aisle that would accept cash. As soon as I noticed the transition away from cash at my daily stores, I started using cash way more often and I was a prick about it. For example at a drag race, I couldn't use a card. I'd select some items I wanted to buy, get into line, then be like oh can I pay in cash? No? And then leave the item that the register. Sure cards are convenient, but this world will become so much more oppressive if we lose the ability to spend with cash.

Buy a $1000 tablet, lol here's 50 $20.

You'll also notice the clerk's attitude change. The money I'm spending becomes real to them. It's no longer just a number on a screen. They recognize how long it takes to earn that $20.

I wonder how the Chinese public would react to losing the ability to use their iPhones etc.

Bet a lot of youths would react to loss of their dopamine device.

Did we all give up? Are we just all now calling machine learning, artificial intelligence? Not your fault flowisgreat. It has just been many many months since I've even heard machine learning referenced.

For giggles, the next time at work when someone calls ML AI I should start the conversation about sentient beings and the human rights that the AI is entitled to having.(/s)

16 inch

Was nobody wearing boots?

If no one was feeling brave enough to yeet it out a window, they could have just stopped on it a few times and it would have been over with.

Guess punctuality isn't everything over there. A 17 minute delay was the right call.

Lol Bait bitten.:p There's always someone demanding a source. Hate to break it to you but I'm not obligated to do that. That applies even more in the professional setting. If you're constantly bugging your leads or your supervisors on how to do something or asking them where the documentation is; well you're going to annoy the heck out of them.

An unhealthy diet (i.e., nutrient deficient diet) harms adult brains. Unsurprising. To learn more, search for resources on pubmed.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Na A lot of it now days is gross negligence and bad default settings. Steve Gibson at the Gibson Research Cooperation rants about it all the time.

https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

You're probably right. It makes me angry and bums me out.

For me, grinding 98% of the time is not enjoyable. Game are definitely better than what they once were, but let me cheat on single player games. I get it game developers, the play time will be shorter I'm fine with that.

And game devs if you don't want to add cheats then add a bunch of accessibility controls because those things are just as good as cheats.

Also just let me temporarily turn off encounters. Sometimes I don't want to fight. I just want to walk around and enjoy the world you made. But no I get an encounter every minute and I'm stuck listening to that same battle song again. Looking at you Yakuza franchise.

"Researchers from security firm Binarly have confirmed that the lapse has resulted in Intel, Lenovo, and Supermicro shipping server hardware that contains a vulnerability that can be exploited to reveal security-critical information. The researchers, however, went on to warn that any hardware that incorporates certain generations of baseboard management controllers made by Duluth, Georgia-based AMI or Taiwan-based AETN are also affected. ... BMCs are tiny computers soldered into the motherboard of servers that allow cloud centers, and sometimes their customers, to streamline the remote management of vast fleets of servers. ... In general, BMCs should be enabled only when needed and locked down carefully, as they allow for extraordinary control of entire fleets of servers with simple HTTP requests sent over the Internet."

For personal computing, any recommendations on motherboard manufacturers who take security seriously?

Right out the gate on this article a heavy application of an unethical use of ethos by the author. You, you, you....

Also anger and worry only distracts. Stay focused on the task at hand.

Also what's with these crazy long responses in this thread. That's why I have a quit posting for 10 years. Who is has the time to put together these mini novels.

It's an election year. People are getting paid to post. People are getting paid to sway opinions.

Since proton is watching this thread...one more person saying to you proton, please stay focused on your core product. A secure mostly non-spying..., ad free, email client. However... I am happy that you're adding a note feature.

FYSA

https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/LEAF