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Commented in Hundreds Of Doctors Sign Open Letter Asking Spotify To Address “Mass Misinformation Events,” Take Aim At Joe Rogan’s Show
I'm not holding my breath anything will change.
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Commented in Billionaires should focus on climate not space travel, public says
Well, shouldn't "the public" be focusing on climate? Why expect billionaires to do what we're not prepared to do ourselves.
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Commented in Men who catcall claim it’s a “normal way of flirting” — while at the same time demonstrating greater hostile sexism
I've read about this before. Unless behavioral changes are taught in school,this behavior will never change.
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Commented in Zuckerberg's metaverse: Lessons from Second Life
I've never used his crap and will not change.
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Commented in Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name
I read this earlier today. A new name won't change much.
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Commented in Nations agree to 15% minimum corporate tax rate
This is HUGE. Yes, it's imperfect. Yes, there are loopholes. No, the world won't change overnight. And, yes, it will take a decade or two to turn this framework into something with teeth that at least limits the abuse. But it is happening, and that in itself is HUGE.
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Commented in Small farmers have the answer to feeding the world. Why isn’t the UN listening? | Elizabeth Mpofu and Henk Hobbelink
This won't change cause a few fat cats have the money and the power to keep it like it is.
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Commented in Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
YUp,nothing will ever change.
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Commented in Tell Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones
Petitions aren't going to change anything. "Tell them" with your wallet.
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Commented in 'Companies will do everything but pay you a living wage': McDonald's blasted for viral 'free iPhone' promise to applicants
Let's say the average franchise has 20-30 workers, We'll say 25, that is 8.3 workers per shift. Of those 25 I'm guessing 5-10 are part-time. So I'm going to go with 15 full and 10 part-time workers for this. Let's say the full time staff are making $10 or $400 a week. The part timers are making minimum wage, let's call it $7.50 or $150 a week. OK, so now let's go with the "living wage" of $15 an hour, that means the full time group is now making $600 a week and the part timers are making $300. We'll guess and say they need 5 full and 5 part time employees, you only get the iPhone if you stay for 6 months, which is about 26 weeks. With the living wage rate of 15 that equals out to $45,500 extra those employees would get... then since the ad doesn't say what phone, we'll go with the cheapest new iPhone the SE at 400, 400x10 is $4,000. So it's a no brainer from the business standpoint for the franchise to offer the iPhone over a higher wage. I will also point out Illinois already pays $10 as minimum wage for non-tipped people, meaning my math is off for where this is actually happening but doesn't change the fact that a business owner would rather buy iPhone's than pay more.
I'm not saying that higher wages aren't a necessity, I'm just pointing out that franchise operators aren't always in a position to offer more. After they buy the materials and ingredients from McDonald's or McD's mandatory partner. They then have to pay McDonald's part of their yearly intake, on top of that my understanding is that McDonald's owns most of the real estate and the Franchise owner has to pay that lease too. Then you have, electricity, water, payroll, taxes, trash, etc...
Here is what they pay to McD's, it's interesting:
Ongoing Fees
During the term of the franchise, you pay McDonald’s the following fees:
Service fee: a monthly fee based upon the restaurant’s sales performance (currently a service fee of 4.0% of monthly sales).
Rent: a monthly base rent or percentage rent that is a percentage of monthly sales.
Mashed says that the average store brings in 2.7mm a year, but after fees, payroll, the costs of buying the food, etc it works out to the average store profit of just $150k. The initial cost to open one is $1,000,000-$2,000,000. So it's going to take 10 years just to pay off the initial investment to open a McDonald's at the 150k profit margin. So the $15 living wage has the ability to absolutely destroy that profit, especially if McDonald's Living Wage raises prices and McDonald's iPhone down the street doesn't because most people will just go to the cheaper one.
It's a lot more complicated than just saying raise wages.
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Commented in Firefox 86 Introduces Total Cookie Protection
I already use firefox. One thing I would've liked better, is if the article would have explained how from the user's point of view this is different from blocking third-party cookies, or how the change adds more protections. I think I figured some of it out, but since the article is written by the company itself (who presumably knows the details better than anyone else), they could have helped the average user understand the difference better. The detail they had isn't (IMHO) enough to clearly inform users how that is different from other browsers or from existing privacy options within firefox. In other words, great privacy option, but the explanation could have been done better.
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Commented in Scientists Have Proposed a New Particle That Is a Portal to a 5th Dimension
Let's ruffle some feathers here: isn't it rather blunt to call time a dimension, since it is not? As far as I know, time is just a mere description of change in the three dimensions and subsequential in all eventual other dimensions. But then again, I'm not a physicist and don't take assumptions as truth or even possible truth and just take our entire knowledge of the universe as an assumption or even a wild guess. The earth is a sphere, that's for sure. Gravity exists, I have proof with scars. Those kind of things we know or, at least, we can see, measure and describe with proof within the limits of our intellect. I think the universe is so full of surprises, that we didn't even scratch the surface with our knowledge or assumptions of it. :-)
Maybe I should just stick with painting. :-)
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Commented in Elon Musk says he will give $100 million to whoever creates the best carbon capture technology
Solve climate issues and become super rich...sounds great for whomever can provide what E.M. is seeking.
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Commented in Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
In my city (Ghent) there are already over 1400 charging points, which is pretty okay considering the fact that politics in my country (Belgium) did (and still does) everything to withhold any progress or evolution towards renewables. Good thing it is becoming economically really viable, otherwise there would be no change at all.
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Commented in What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app.
I love the internet and the freedom it gives in choice, expression and diversity. But a nasty thing that big companies, like Facebook or Google, bring is that people are not really that motivated to change to a better standard and/or do not want to "learn all that new stuff". That's more of a real world problem: laziness. I have Signal installed a pretty decent while ago and although I advertise it with articles like this one, people are like "but what about my friends, they don't change. I stay with [fill in behemoth]". The only way to dothat is by brute force, as in: advertise it with the message "I quit everything from [fill in behemoth] and if you want to get in contact with me, [fill in free/private standard/application] is the way to go. Bye."
That is a very destructive way, but also a good filter. At the end there's either no one left, or at least the people who see your point or people who really care (about you). Not the blindly clicked-on friends that you hardly know or even ever saw in real life. This makes the internet more of a place of coincidence again and it will give a more fair chance to, for instance, small entrepreneurs and artists. On big sites like Facebook, it is Facebook who decides if you will have customers or not, even with paid advertisements. Which I think is not a fair competition and it dilutes quality in a big sea of hobbyists and sets a way lower standard of quality. In real life that means you get passed by by people/clients who do not know quality and service anymore. I am all for breaking up big monopolists.
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Commented in Climate Cost of Organic Meat Is Just as High as Conventionally Produced Meat
But not as high as industry polluters, car,trucks,etc. Pretty sharp of industries to blame pollution on cows so they don't have to change. The sugar industry did the same thing,but did it to fat.
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Commented in Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days
I totally agree. Ever since my beard has turned grey, I kinda love it: a few times a youngster offered me a seat on the bus/tram, people take their time to listen to you, young women adore men my age (they say we're wise, hahaha), I get more things done, because age brings a network and so on. Really, it's fun when a youngster who doesn't know Led Zeppelin discovers the gorgeous music while visiting the workshop. My little cousins think I am ancient and I totally agree. To me age is nothing more than the most personal experience of time. Without ageing there's no time and when there's no time, there's no description of change. By inventing such medicine, I think it's a symptom of fear, even a conservative way of thinking, which is a sign of these times.
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Commented in Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days
i like everything about this except:
Could Rebooting Cellular Protein Production Hold the Key to Aging and Other Diseases?
sorry pet peeve. aging is not a disease. cancer is a disease
aging is a natural and unavoidable part of life and it should remain so
we can make people's lives like light bulbs - as bright as possible right up until the last possible moment before they burn out; instead of slowly dimming, more and more over a prolonged period of time
but we should not try and cure it. aging must not be "cured"
call me old-fashioned, you wont change my mind
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Commented in We Do Not Have the Internet We Deserve
As long as the greedy shills running the show pay off the right people,this will never change. In a perfect world,internet would be a utility and priced on a sliding scale.
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Commented in Americans pay more for prescription drugs than anyone else. Can Amazon Pharmacy change that?
Only legislation can change this. Only fixing the US's broken health system, and broken pharmaceutical patent system can fix this.
Patents are government mandated monopolies. The opposite of free market and competition.
As for the health system, universal health cover is the only workable system. For some things socialism just works and capitalism just doesn't. Health and road systems are 2 of those things.
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Commented in Republicans aren't conceding – and Democrats are bringing a knife to a gun fight
The democrat faction of the corporate party even showing up to a fight at all is a change. They have conceded on every issue that really mattered for the last 50 years.
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Commented in How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
I've done this for 14 years,starting with getting rid of XP when it engaged in some mindless stupidity that just sent me over the edge,and no,the OS was not infected.
And unlike Widows,if your not happy with the desktop theme that comes with your distro,you can change it. There are also themes you can get to change it. I use Ubuntu MATE and I always change it.
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Commented in The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End
Very nice long-read. :-) It is posts like this that make my day in an inspirational way. I do not understand the math behind all of that, but it is explained in a very clear way, which makes it really fun. Now I am all full of wondering about the loss of information, wormholes and why they never take electro-magnetism into account of all of their research. For instance, there are four types of black hole (so far) according to this link, and in all of them electrical charge is important to describe the type. Would including electricity in the equation not change the theoretical outcomes as described in the, again: very nice, article?
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Commented in 'Sleeping giant' Arctic methane deposits starting to release, scientists find
There is absolutely nothing "new" about this methane feedback loop, climate scientists have been aware of and downplaying/ignoring it for 30 years at least.
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Commented in Fed Vice Chair Makes "Shocking" Admission: Fed May Never Be Able To Stop Manipulating The Market
I'll bet'cha a full audit might change their minds on that.