Hey, please stop repeating the misinformation that corps are legally required to maximize profits or your shareholders can sue you. It's propaganda promoted by a handful of huge fund managers because they'd *like that* to be true.
Even SCOTUS agrees “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.” (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby)
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Burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave, study estimates
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Firefox is fine. The people running it are not • The Register
Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there's wealth, there's a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five.
And as for that money — remember back in 2018? That's when Google dropped "Don't be evil" as its motto.
Mozilla's leadership is directionless and flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It's no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a business.
This is a good summary of all the good they have done and also how they repeatedly throw out the baby but keep the bathwater.
And this interesting bit.
Mozilla is, sadly, far from alone in having faltering leadership. Around the industry, tech execs who couldn't tell an LLM bot from an MLM scheme if their lives depended on it are investing in AI. It's not just cool, it's a cult now. This isn't hyperbole. The phenomenon has a name – it's called TESCREAL, and it is without exaggeration on its way to becoming a religion.
Opinion: Mozilla's management is a bug, not a featureLiam Proven (The Register)
Japan starts deploying Osprey fleet at a new base to beef up southwestern defense
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Convicted murderer Derrick Groves eludes law enforcement as last New Orleans jail escapee on the run
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The campaign will roll out in September. We are building the website and gathering "content," assets, allied organizations and staff right now. We were just featured on Zero Hedge.Meryl Nass (Meryl’s CHAOS Newsletter)
I walked and drove around MacArthur Park, late last night and then again this afternoon.Chris Bray (Tell Me How This Ends)
Three-tim MVP Nikola Jokic will delay signing extension with Nuggets this summer, AP source says
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About time. 270 grow houses later. What about the illegals that were doing the work? Where are they? And where are the Maine State Police?Meryl Nass (Meryl’s CHAOS Newsletter)
They will all be dead and the other oligarchs will admit the dead ones were pedophiles
What Trump's big tax law could mean for the youngest Americans
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Trump's tariffs may cast a pall over Rubio's first official trip to Asia
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European intelligence officials warn that a Russian sabotage campaign is escalating
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How the Know-Nothings, Free Soilers and other third parties shaped US politics
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Europe’s top human rights court is set to rule on cases against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine
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Americans pay taxes to a criminal trafficking cartel
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An investigation by The Intercept reveals that ICE officials deceived eight men now expelled to South Sudan.Nick Turse (The Intercept)
Provided to YouTube by RCA Records LabelMy Cup Runneth Over (From the Musical Production "I Do, I Do") · Ed AmesMy Cup Runneth Over℗ Originally released 1967...YouTube
"Purple Haze" by The Jimi Hendrix ExperienceListen to Jimi Hendrix: https://jimihendrix.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the official Jimi Hendrix YouTube Channel...YouTube
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I live in a down-on-its-luck Southern US town. My dad and uncles live out in the county. When I told my uncle I wanted to buy a house in town, he said I'd be shot within three months.
Couple years now. No gunfire near me. Plenty out there near him.
Not rich. Just white.
@c0debabe I had a dude once rail about how dangerous our local city was (it isn’t). I told him I disagree and he said “then go downtown!!”
I do, a few times a week. No issues. “Well, I’d NEVER do that” bro then (a)how are you so confident and (b)why do you care about crime somewhere you’d never go?!
The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren't keeping up
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Texas flooding, and politics around it, underscore the challenges Trump faces in replacing FEMA
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Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'Miles Klee (Rolling Stone)
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Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.David Uzondu (Neowin)
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Make Teslas Uninsurable
UPDATE: 🎯
I want this for the retrofuturist movie I will never actually make.
It is currently up for _free_ on #seattle Craigslist and would make one hell of a set piece if you are that sort of person.
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#set #retrofuturism #prop #WhatEvenIsIt
FREE Allen Syncrograph Model E135 automotive distributor testing machine. What an antique! I have no idea if it works but it would sure look great as a display piece once cleaned up. You haul, no...craigslist
it's a device for tuning automotive distributors. looks like it's missing the chuck? you clamp the distributor onto that arm, and then a chuck is supposed to go from the plate up to the distributor. you put the wires on it and the thing spins the distributor at various speeds (see the 'engine speed' gauge) and the firing points show up on the plate at the bottom. the charts are various ignition timing information for various engines, so you can see how far off your distributor is and figure out what you need to change.
I haven't seen anyone use one of these things since I was a little kid, and I'm old as hell
Video game performers vote on contract that could end nearly three-year-long battle over AI
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Asian American, Pacific Islander comics are the main event in an LA comedy and cuisine festival
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$280 Midea MAW08V1QWT U-Shaped AC Window Air Conditioner (8,000BTU)
8,000BTU $280
10,000BTU $320
12,000BTU $360
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#deal #delete #airconditioner #airconditioning #ac
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Despite Juan Soto's snub for NL squad, the Mets insist 'he's an All-Star for us'
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She could start by cutting her fingernails and removing the nose ring and the necklaces.
Then start by removing the tattoo on her neck and the arms.
Rescuers search for 19 missing and recover 9 bodies after flooding in Nepal
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China imposes export ban on companies tied to Taiwan’s military
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Never mind Russia, North Korea and Iran, a majority of Canadian citizens now see the neighboring United States as the “greatest threat” to their country.
Fifty-nine percent of Canadians view the U.S. as a major risk.
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Europeans are still most concerned by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Pew Research Center survey shows.Ferdinand Knapp (POLITICO)
Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.The Conversation
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Tonight’s dinner, tri-tip and corn.
Forgot to take the before pic, so I had to act quick before it completely vanished.
#TheDarkestMinds - (2018) dir. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
#movie #scifi #dystopia #gifs #free #torrent #thepiratebay
It is actually very difficult to externally rotate the hips as much as they do in ballet for some people that have never trained in it even if they can do the splits and had a lot of yoga
Balancing on only the toes instead of the whole foot is also challenging
These two features make ballet exercise unique compared too many other common types of exercise and uniquely different than many other types of dance
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More men should do ballet training exercises but not necessarily perform
Let the woman continue to suffer a shortage of male danseurs
Princess Tutu is a Japanese Anime that goes into great detail about ballet style when people move
Even when they are running or dance fighting they run with the hips externally rotated like in ballet
If you like ballet I strongly reccommend watching Princess Tutu if you can watch the whole series for free
m.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aahl1dP…
Princess Tutu follows Duck, a duck who was transformed into a young girl and takes ballet at a private school. She becomes enamoured of her mysterious school...YouTube
@shortstories My sister did ballet for years. She did not pursue it. She was remarkably fit and lithe.
We are estranged...
This reminded me of her.
Sorry for rambling. Perhaps it was just cathartic release.
Aside: yoga is not a fitness regime. It is a spiritual practice to be grounded with Nature. Western ideas have subverted it. Unfortunate.
Also: The Russians were clearly better at this performance of Swan Lake. Synchronization and smoothness of movement.
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#cybersecurity #card #tarot #cyberspace #whitehat #hacker #hack #computer #security
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Vittorio Cuniberti
they really named a ship "cunibert"
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每次看到诸伏高明，我就想到我表哥年轻时候的样子
他背挺直，加两撇胡子
简直了
一模一样
以至于我一看到诸伏高明就觉得他头很油，刘海长的都贴到眼睛这里
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Nigger goes after LOLI now
RT: social.teci.world/objects/eb9d…
@nihilvtCompletely unrelated to the topic at hand but what do you think about loli, just curious
I thought Hatsune Miku was a guy ?
Hatsune Miku is a virtual singer and character created by Crypton Future Media, and her voice is provided by Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita.
Saki Fujita is a professional voice actor who has been known for voicing Hatsune Miku, Ymir, and Ritsu.
She was born in 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, and has been active in the voice acting industry since 2005.
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170 roads including one National Highway, disrupted in Mandi; 243 across the stateENS (The Indian Express)
Oh just F'ing great. The elderly are going to be sent out into the fields to work for their #Medicaid, aren't they.
Wasn't this in the #HandmaidsTale too?
Programming a computer is not weird or abstract or even that difficult. It's just writing a list of steps in a format your machine can understand. In theory, a human being could also "execute" a program as well if they understood how it worked.
And computers are just electronic circuits that are designed to execute stored programs. Programming is the original way to use a computer.
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🏁 Kyle Busch fires back at Bubba Wallace over white flag comments
🗣️ “If Bubba Smollett wants attention, he should try winning instead of whining.”
Kyle Busch didn’t hold back after Bubba Wallace suggested NASCAR’s traditional white flag has racist symbolism.
Man is kidnapped from a Walmart, by masked people wearing DHS-marked clothing in Bernalillo County #NewMexico. Video at bsky.app/profile/thejenniwren.…. I believe this is a Walmart between #Albuquerque and #SantaFe. Tough to watch, but we must bear witness.
This sort of awfulness is happening in many states. It is why I’m so active in fighting fascism in mine. If you haven’t yet, I highly recommend getting involved in your local Indivisible group. Find it at indivisible.org/groups.
“Studies show actually deporting workers en masse from industries that rely on undocumented labor does little for U.S. workers … [and] actually reduces job opportunities for American-born workers.
That’s in part because many American workers, even those outside of immigrant-heavy industries, rely on the services generated by low-wage, undocumented labor — the costs of which would rise with mass deportations.”
#Politics #USPolitics #Immigration
From: @ai6yr
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KPBS: Worksite immigration raids are supposed to free up jobs for citizens. Here’s what really happens (Personal commentary: there are extremely few US citizens who would take ANY of these jobs) https://www.kpbs.AI6YR's Mastodon
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Federal agents raided MacArthur Park in Los Angeles today, and that’s shocking!Chris Bray (Tell Me How This Ends)
Are trannies the new niggers?
The new destroyers of society?
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Having a strongly politically biased Supreme Court really pays off...
Not democracy, not justice but dictatorial rule… they facilitated it.
It is pretty damning when #SCOTUS Chief #JohnRoberts is actively working to dismantle and destroy our Country, with the assistance of Sam Alito. Forget Benadict Arnold! John Roberts is going to go down in History as the greatest #traitor to our Country.
Folks here will notice that I’m less frequently detailing lower court opinions that attempt to stop the Trump regime’s lawless actions. This is because enough time has passed for enough appeals to reach the U.S. Supreme Court for U.S. to know that no matter how carefully a lower court judge explains and supports her rulings, the Supreme Court will act as lawlessly as the Trump executive. 1/ #LawFedi
Basics of concurrency in V
(concurrency primitives quite similar to Go, but without creepy Google spying on the programmer)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qJkbiHT_…
in this video we will demonstrate how to use threads in vlangYouTube
Why doesn't Trump's DOJ drop the charges against the Utah plastic surgeon who gave his fellow Americans a way of maintaining their bodily autonomy during a time of tyranny?John Leake (FOCAL POINTS (Courageous Discourse))
salary questions come off as desperate or greedy. I would only discuss when an offer is made or the interviewer brings it up first.
Asking about work culture sounds like you're someone who is difficult to work with or has high expectations for special treatment.
Job responsibilities is basic stuff.. What's the problem with that one?
@Valvoline
I get the preference against discussing salary, but everything else should be on the table. The candidate is interviewing the company just as much as vice versa, so some information before accepting a second interview or offer is required.
I would certainly ask about the job scope and what kind of awesome projects they have to look forward to.
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in reply to calcifer • • •Also, what follows from this is another request I have: do not accept "but we have to maximize our profits!" as an excuse for shitty corporate behavior.
The duty leaders have to shareholders is basic, and comes down to at least trying to make some money; it absolutely does not require anyone to be a complete exploitative asshole. That's a *choice*.
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