For the most part I haven’t kept track. One of them wound up getting a PhD, moving far away, and becoming a decent person. I’m also pretty sure he wouldn’t have considered himself a bully. I also probably was guilty of bullying to an extent because I wasn’t a paragon of maturity when I was young. The guy who might’ve called me a bully went on to become an accomplished author (accomplished enough that it’s his sole source of income).

In my own life, while I’m arguably less successful than either, I’ve accomplished pretty much everything that was important to me in terms of family and money, so I guess everything turned out for everyone. I could give a shit about the worst bullies, so I really have no idea about them.

Mangione has been charged with first-degree murder “in furtherance of terrorism,” which may clarify things for platforms about whether to consider him as a single accused murderer or an alleged terrorist when it comes to content policy.

Convict him of that shit first, otherwise you’re just allowing the government to dictate moderation policies. He’s only being charged with terrorism so the state can murder him. I’m not saying anti-terror policies are bad in general, but this is abuse of the system.

What’s the difference? Because unless I’m completely misunderstanding, model collapse and singularity aren’t even on the same spectrum.

The patient’s doctor isn’t the one that denied it. I’m not really sure what you’re saying. I think you just agreed with me.

I get what you’re saying. Every denial reason is just a code for this is too expensive. The reason itself might be grounds to argue, but they are just going to try to deny it again with a different reason code.

To your original point, I agree that we should ask ourselves if it’s worth hundreds of thousands of dollars just to keep a vegetable breathing for a few more days. Frankly if I were in that shape, I know death would be a kindness.

But I will say it seems immoral to leave the decision in the hands of the profit-makers.

Tunnel with a bright light at the other end.

[systems were breached using a key for third party software named] Beyond Trust

lol. That’s all I’ve got. That’s almost as good as “Fraud Guarantee”.

The technical definitions of rape are probably more broadly applicable than the “common sense” definitions which often include assumptions like PiV or violence (depending on the individual applying their common sense).

To take your question far too literally.

Oh freddled gruntbuggly
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee

Apologies for misspellings. That’s from memory.

I don’t have a problem with foreign workers at all. Most of my teams have been at least 50% foreign workers. Often more. And I’ve made some good relationships with folks I’m happy to recommend for any positions.

I think the changes you suggest would fix the problem for everyone. The workers wouldn’t be so attractive for companies while still being available for hire. However, as currently implemented, I oppose any expansion to H1B.

I spent 5 months out of work last year, and I’m not even particularly well paid (quite poorly, in fact, for a 28 year veteran) because I can’t move my family west. We clearly don’t need to bring in more cheaper labor.

I occasionally throw folks a month or two sub when I appreciate their posting free content here or wherever. My roundabout way of supporting small platforms like Lemmy or Mastodon by making sure content creators are encouraged to continue posting.

Weirdly, perhaps, I don’t watch any of it to get off. I just appreciate what they are putting out into the world. It generally turns out the content made to retain subscribers is very different from the content to entice them in the first place and I enjoy the latter much more.

Look we just need to move around small bits of green paper and everything will be fine.

Their service centers could make bank though.

The problem with tech workers isn’t there aren’t enough Americans willing or able to do the work, it’s that we bring in essentially indentured servants instead of just educating our own people and paying them. H1B visas are supposed to be the stopgap, not the solution.

But they want stupid American consumers and voters and cheap and capable foreign worker drones. It’s disgusting the way the wealthy feed off of America like a pig trough.

Nothing I say is of any real value even to the people I reply to, much less the world at large. Frankly, I hope someone uses my data to write Apple a decent fucking autocorrect. Otherwise, I don’t care.

Well, there it is. The one fucking policy decision Trump made his first term that I agreed with and could point to as “see? I don’t hate everything Trump does just because he’s Trump,” was his reduction of H1B visas.

Now I guess I can officially say I hate every single Trump policy. There is no silver lining. He makes the wrong decision every time.

Obligatory “well that’s just like, your opinion, man.”

You have to do some tap dancing these days to avoid saying Trump = hate.

My wife hates eating noises. I never used to notice them, but she complains a lot.

She also eats pretzels and chews ice all the time. Now it fucking annoys me.

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