Earthwormjim91 @ Earthwormjim91 @lemmy.world

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I love how the title is that they’re lowering raises after a bad quarter, but then say that they’re going back to their normal raise structure they have always had and that 2022 was a higher than normal raise year because they raised the minimum wage by 10% on top of higher raises due to higher inflation.

They didn’t lower the minimum raise retail employees can get, they just lowered the maximum raise they could.

I use the OtterBox 2 in 1 stand. https://www.otterbox.com/en-us/2-in-1-charging-station-with-magsafe-white/78-80734.html

Though I don’t remember paying $130 for it.

I got it when the first beta for iOS 17 came out so that I could use standby mode and charge my phone and watch at the same time without having cords everywhere.

I’ve read Zavala’s book and he makes good points but ignores critical factors because he looks at it from a traditional national and political view.

The cartels do not recognize the Mexican federal government largely. They view themselves as the rulers of the territories they operate in and compete with other ruling parties in their territories. Not competing organizations operating within a nation and subject to that umbrella. They essentially are their own autocratic governments.

OPEC is like the poster example of a cartel, but they operate in a competitive global oil market against other nations like the US, Russia, and Canada. They formed to compete against the predominant oil cartel in the 60s and 70s (the seven sisters) to restrict competition and increase oil profits among member states. The fact that one organized cartel competes against other players doesn’t make them not a cartel.

The drug cartels operate similarly. They are agreements between drug lords that were powerful locally to not compete against each other and consolidate their power and resources to gain more market share against other competing parties. Same as how OPEC was a group of oil producing.

He’s also wrong that the narco trafficking entities in Mexico don’t have a defined hierarchy structure or level of power that a cartel would have. They absolutely do have defined power hierarchies, chains of command, and a top down power structure from the leaders to the street runners. They also have significant power and control over their territories, largely ruling entirely uncontested. They have better training and better weaponry than the Mexican army and federal police. They are essentially their own nations.

Legalization of recreational use of cannabis over the last decade or so has shown a significant increase in cannabis use across the US.

Decriminalizing hard drugs and focusing on treatment will help, but legalizing the sale of hard drugs like fentanyl and meth would be batshit insane.

And unless the sale of the drugs is legalized and regulated, there’s still going to be a heavy black market for them that the cartels will fill.

It’s one thing to legalize and regulate something like cannabis which is relatively harmless, resulting in the black market shrinking because people can readily get it legally. It’s another thing entirely to legalize selling crack.

It’s not really forced obsolescence unless they intentionally made it perform worse on older phones, or stopped supporting older devices entirely.

The most reasonable explanation is that iOS 17 was designed first and foremost to take advantage of the advances in the 3nm a17 chip, while supporting older chips as a secondary benefit.

It’s not optimized for older devices at launch because it’s designed for the new devices, and will be updated and patched as time goes on. Staying in iOS 16 on an older device until a few minor versions into iOS 17 will likely see better battery life on older devices.

I’ve been on a base 12 for 3 years, battery health at 88%, and iOS 17 is perfectly usable for me. I’ve been on the beta since the first public release. Battery life is a little worse, sure but still perfectly usable with no noticeable performance hits. I’m giving it to my dad when my 15 pro max gets here and it will likely last him another 3 or more years, probably needing a battery replacement in a year or so though.

They’re essentially their own governments in large portions of Mexico, and significantly more powerful than the federal government.

There’s no real solid answer to it, but to eliminate the cartels will require massive collaboration both politically and militarily between the US and Mexico. Which likely won’t happen. Mexico would never agree to allow a deployment of US troops even if working hand in hand with the Mexican military, and the US government would never put US troops under foreign command.

But it’s going to have to take a much more powerful military to eradicate the cartels, who themselves are pretty powerful militaries.

Guaranteed? No. They’ll have them on display so you could feel them, but likely won’t have many if any to actually buy on launch day. Preorders sold out pretty quickly and started pushing into mid October and early November within a couple of hours of opening up.

I use the MagSafe wallet, and a two in one MagSafe stand with the phone and watch chargers. I love them.

Same here but with a pro max lol. Going from a base 12 to a 15 pro max is going to be a pretty huge jump for me.

Unfortunately mine won’t be here until next week even though I preordered within 5 minutes of it opening lol.

Also how many gen z have grown up with amazing technology but don’t really understand it at all. It just works.

Not like previous generations that had to learn more in depth to make shit work because it was buggy as hell or just plain wasn’t user friendly at all.

Yeah credit score is used for a lot more things than a lot of people realize

Yeah lol.

There’s a very tedious relationship. The US has sent troops to train the Mexican national police to combat the cartels, and helped provide weapons to the Mexican federal government. The US has sent money to the Mexican government to assist with that.

The issue is that corruption goes very high, and the cartels pay more than the Mexican Feds, so many of those trained took their training and weapons to the cartels, or just actively work with them as police on the side.

The US has tried, but without a strong federal government in Mexico that can deal with the root issues locally, there’s no real answer. If they can’t pay more than the cartels and get people to actually fight for their own lands, then they will never ever be able to build a force that can rival them for control. People the do bring in will either be killed because the cartels have inside players and more resources, or they will defect to the cartels and take the money and training with them.

An article from 13 years ago. https://www.npr.org/2010/04/13/125878556/u-s-trains-mexican-federal-police-to-combat-drugs

I didn’t say underwrite it and decline coverage anyway.

I was speaking to your statement of it wouldn’t affect payout but would affect premiums.

It would affect the premium if they do decide to underwrite it at all and don’t just decline you.

If they even underwrite it and don’t just decline coverage anyway.

My wife got declined for being underweight by 10lbs. No way they underwrite someone with documented suicidal ideations.

They write it off and sell it to a collection agency already.

Once it’s in collections the hospital doesn’t care and will no longer see it even if you pay the debt collector.

For everything else that people do with credit scores? Uh yeah. Buying a car, having a credit card, getting any loan, renting an apartment, your credit score is used for a LOT more than just buying a house.

Right? That’s like exactly what the betas are for.

Leave it to big pharma to not do that though because it would have cost more money, and they’ll just pass the blame.

They absolutely are. Each cartel is a group of various drug lords all operating together to keep the price of their product high, and enforce that through violence.

The Sinaloa cartel for example is one organization of drug lords colluding and operating together across numerous nations and territories. It was originally an agreement between El Chapo and Izmael Zambada Garcia to work together trafficking drugs instead of competing because it meant more profit for both of them.

Combined, correct they are not one cartel. That’s why it says cartels and not “the cartel”.

It’s not as volatile, as the stock market, but bonds are still traded the same way and are still risky in certain cases.

Just as an example, Silicon Valley bank failed because they were invested heavily into bonds because they’re “safe” and when the Fed changed rates, they couldn’t liquidate their bonds quick enough to pay out their obligations because nobody wanted to buy the lower interest bonds they held when newer bonds were higher interest.

You can end up in cases where a pension fund can’t liquidate their bonds to make regular payouts during times like now when the Fed is increasing rates to combat inflation.

All investments are risky. With a pension, you’re trusting a company you work for to manage that risk for you in exchange for it being all or nothing based on if you stay there long enough.

With a 401k, you can manage your own risk level yourself. If you want to put it all into bonds, you can do that.