kippinitreal

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[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Fixed & noted. Thanks!

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 87 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (16 children)

They greedy af. They've lobbied (bribed?) to keep the corp taxes as low as possible. Then they go Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich and NOT pay the low taxes anyways. If we were to tax them appropriately then it'd be a helluva lot more than 13b imo

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago
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[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think unions are fundamentally for collective bargaining against consolidated powers typically capital. Police unions in the USA have been bastardized to favor their own and resisting change to a power structure that helps them, Aka losing class consciousness.

Let's say the police departments started mistreating individual cops, overworking them and sending them into dangerous situations without proper training (hint: as they do currently), how so the individuals being mistreated fight back?

What I see in America is a concerted effort to construct a Us vs Them narrative in the police force. This includes dehumanizing the "policed" and protecting their own at all costs. This is essentially losing class consciousness, where a fellow working person is seen as fundamentally evil, and the real reason its so bad for cops.

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

No. All labour, including cops, need unions.

I think police unions becoming class un-conscious is the problem. They have become tools of the capitalists who hav Dissolve them and make them better.

Edit: I'm speaking for police forces in general. Slave owner roots of American police departments would warrant dissolving EVERYTHING and building a fairer system, including unions.

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Could it be prompts by devs are different from lay folk? For example, "write a website for selling shoes" would give a more complete result compared to "write a single page app with a postgres back end with TLS encryption" (or whatever), which would add more constraints & reduce the pool of code the AI steals from.

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Is this common (extended stays in orbit) or is this another Boeing failure?

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I feel articles like this give off "alien must have built the pyramids" energy. We've always been smart, but what modern civilizations have is systematic recording, organization & dispersal of gained knowledge with an amazing efficiency. I think a great example of great ingenuity lost is roman concrete, recipe for which was only recreated recently.

Can anyone tell me the academic benefit of studying/publishing ancient building techniques that confirm modern day methods? Should we not look for unknown/unfamiliar techniques that might have been lost to time?

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Karl Pilkington tried to warn us decades ago! We did not heed his phrophetic warnings!

https://youtu.be/IsoeLTxiqu8?si=MMuiuszxGolgcwuo

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[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Others commented about misogyny etc. in India miss the fact that India is (a) not a monolith & (b) flights are too expensive for 80% of India's population (yes, wealth disparity in India is that bad). So the men on flights are less likely to grope women than let's say a man on a train.

I asked my Indian colleagues about this, and they said they'd use this preference for space (not purely safety). One of them also said men smell worse than women so she'd prefer a woman next to her.

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

On Indian flights you can pay to choose your seat or let the operator choose for you for free. I suspect the latter is where the preference choice comes in. So there won't be a question of seeing where women are sitting.

[–] kippinitreal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Fair point. Like if you took an still from a movie, they'd attack the actors in it.

 

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