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mortureb··on YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform
It’s pretty simple. If you have to be masculine and assertive in any way now you have to cowtow to the insane right because the left is a hostile space for regular men. The right welcomes you with open arms and basically shields you from any consequences for past wrongs. There is no middle. You can get away with just about anything on the right now with no repercussions.

You can downvote this all you want but you know there is more than a modicum of truth here.

mortureb··on We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score
Yes but they’re useless in a Chinese chop shop. You can’t Frankenstein the parts together.
mortureb··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
Having a product people desire and doing at excellent job of marketing without actually spending marketing dollars. But this was back when I was there and Elon wasn’t crazy and actually adored.
mortureb··on We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score
The parts talk to each other so not really for the last generation or two.
mortureb··on We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score
It’s talking about the benefits of tagging parts. Crooks can’t make money off my iPhone and so iPhone theft drops. It’s a relevant point to make in this discussion.
mortureb··on The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary
Not to diminish his contributions but the high level idea was relatively simple. Break a file into pieces and then reconstitute them using hashes. The devil really is in being able to actually implement that which he also did. Ashwin Navin was pivotal in getting it out there for people to use as well.
mortureb··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
Some Jaguars and Land Rovers are made in India and are available in the US.
mortureb··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
For a long time the answer was they needed those people to physically come into the office.
mortureb··on U.S. National Debt Tops $33T for First Time
No the deficit was massive under bush, fixed by Obama, ridiculously massive under trump and significantly improved by Biden. This isn’t bOtH sIDeS
mortureb··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
It’s a balance. Tesla employees are not having a good time, I can tell you from first hand experience. You’ll make reasonable money but it’s not really a life worth living with 12 hour days and extreme stress. Atleast the options made me rich so maybe it was worth it?
mortureb··on U.S. National Debt Tops $33T for First Time
That’s what you get for putting someone like trump in office. He increased the debt in one term as much the last decade and a half combined. The American people are silly.
mortureb··on Two-parent households should be a policy goal
It’s never at the same time and older siblings help with the younger ones which is still an infinitely better situation than some low paid employee watching 15 kids at the same time.

Also that time has passed. All of Asia including south and south east are basically at replacement rate. Africa averages higher but not by a whole lot more and that number is dropping quickly.

There’s a reason women from wealthy families never work and dedicate all their time to raising kids.

mortureb··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
Tell that to the current SE labor market though it may be unrelated.
mortureb··on F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected
Then tens of thousands of people directly controlling those drones. We have the manpower and the ability to build these drones. Azerbaijan and Ukraine basically kicked ass with essentially DJIs and grenades.
mortureb··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
Mexico it is then.
mortureb··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
40% of IT work is already outsourced and that’s a number that is rapidly growing and that’s only over a decade and a half. It doesn’t even take into account foreign employees that now just work remotely.
mortureb··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
Isn’t that what leads to Ladas and Trabants.
mortureb··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
40%? I sincerely wish them the best of luck and I hope they get what is their due but this is probably good news for India, Mexico and China.
mortureb··on Update on KDP Title Creation Limits
Human decency transcends your asinine, barely disguised political talking points.
mortureb··on Update on KDP Title Creation Limits
I’m good with Amazon and Google over some unknown. I don’t want some right wing shit to be my gatekeepers.
mortureb··on Update on KDP Title Creation Limits
In my opinion, all we learn over time is that we need gatekeepers (publishing houses in this case). The general public is a mess.
mortureb··on Two-parent households should be a policy goal
A handful of cultures exist where polyandry is practiced, mostly contemporarily as a side effect of a paucity of women, and the woman is treated as a shared property amongst the men who also sleep with other women at the same time (North Eastern India, parts of Thailand, a couple of Native American tribes)
mortureb··on Two-parent households should be a policy goal
It’s going to be downvoted for a few years while the true state of things permeates through the society. It’s just a matter of constantly educating the 10,000 new people that learned about it today.
mortureb··on Two-parent households should be a policy goal
Most, and I mean 93%+ of Americans don’t and that’s just for the lower bound of 5 kids. It’s 0.002% at 15.
mortureb··on F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected
Why would an AirTag not work in this scenario? I’m guessing it would be a security risk?
mortureb··on F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected
I’m so confused? Is it that they can’t make a gps tracker that works after a catastrophic crash?
mortureb··on F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected
We got to move away from fighter jets for the most part. It’s the age of slaughterbots baby, bring on the tens of thousands of highly intelligent drones.
mortureb··on F-35 can’t be found after pilot ejected
But why? Don’t these billion dollar machines have a GPS tracker on them?
mortureb··on To build ships that break ice, U.S. must relearn to cut steel
I think for anything we don’t actively make anymore, we can assume the skill has been lost.
mortureb··on Two-parent households should be a policy goal
That’s a red herring. A person overlooking 5-15 kids is never going to be able to offer the care a one on one relationship with a mother can. Maybe a nanny might be an analogous alternative but the state will never be able to pay for that.
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