maporita @ maporita @unilem.org

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You would think that Verizon had learned something from their purchase of AOL (2015) and Yahoo (2017) and subsequent 5B write-down but apparently not.

It's no coincidence that the African countries that invited Wagner in are also the most miserable. Endemic corruption will do that .. and the leaders can be bought fairly easily. In the case of Niger the coup leader was about to be fired by the president.. so, backed by Wagner, he decided to overthrow the government. Sadly these countries will remain mired in poverty for the foreseeable future.

Cocaine production is at an all time high and pricea are on the floor. Meanwhile drug cartels continue to murder and torture at will. 2 days ago a candidate for president in Ecuador was assassinated by members of a cartel. So tell me again how we are winning the war on drugs.

Quoting individual instances is not helpful. The more important question is whether their auto pilot makes driving safer on average. According to Tesla themselves..

"the accident rate with Autopilot engaged is just a fraction of the industry average in the US.

From their report:

" Tesla vehicles with Autopilot engaged (mostly highway miles) had just 0.18 accidents per million miles driven, compared to the US vehicle average of 1.53 accidents per million miles.

Teslas on non-highways with Full Self Driving (FSD) engaged had just 0.31 accidents per million miles representing an 80% reduction in accidents compared with the average vehicle. Tesla vehicles with no active safety triggered – neither Autopilot of FSD – had an accident rate of 0.68, less than half the total US vehicle fleet".

I would really like to see independent verification of this.

Maybe I wouldn't be as happy as I am now. My wife and I started a small business 20 years ago which became moderately successful. We managed to save and invest enough to have a very comfortable retirement .. I don't know if it counts as "rich" but we certainly feel rich. And the best thing is we earned it and we we earned it together. And we had a lot of fun along the way.

I have the opposite view. A country at war should have the draft, and there should be no exceptions, so that the politicians who send other people's children off to fight also have to send their own.

Most soldiers in a "professional" army are there because their families are poor and they have few other options to make a living.

Something similar happened to me with my first wife .. I read an email meant for her that was quite descriptive, not to mention x rated, and it left me pretty devastated. I was in a very dark place after that. But now, many years later, I'm very happily married to a partner who is perfect for me in every way. My advice to everyone who goes through this is hang in there, it hurts like hell but things will get better and one day you'll look back and realize it was better you found out and got out when you did.

It's all very well telling people what to cook. The problem is many don't know how to cook. By that I mean they don't know the logistics and workflow, so a meal that should take 15 minutes to make instead takes an hour or more. When I enter the kitchen the first thing I do is switch on the stove. Then I prep in the order that I need ingredients. I've noticed a lot of people do all the chopping and dicing first and only when they have everything prepared they put pans on the stove. If you're going to make potatoes get the water on the boil first, then get the potatos out and clean and chop them. There are lots of things that save time when cooking. I cook most things together in a single cast iron pan, and I add leftovers to the dishes I'm cooking so the ingredients go further. I think that should be taught more instead of just handing out recipes.

No illegal content so definitely no CP. I believe that hate speech is banned of it meets the threshold of incitement to violence.

Because unilem has a policy of not defederating from other instances. If I see a post I don't want to see again I can block it, but it's my decision.

We need to find our own baconsheik on lemmy :)

Yeah I second this. OP ask yourself if this is something you really need or just want badly. If it's the latter then buy a much cheaper machine and invest the rest. Every time you use it and you think that it's a bit slow, log into your investment account and see how many PCs you could afford now.

High on my list of important attributes is an instance that specifically does not defederate from others. If I see something I don't want to see anymore I just block it myself. But I'd rather be treated like an adult capable of making my own decisions about what to see and read. If you're also looking for this I suggest unilem.

Here is a recent paper that showed an 18% decline in productivity when workers moved remotely.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31515.

Another study, originally published during the pandemic, initially found an 8% increase in the number of calls handled per hour by employees of an online retailer when they began working from home. The original study is here.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/eharrington/publications/working-remotely-selection-treatment-and-market-provision-remote-work.

Apparently new analysis of the data has shown a 4% decline instead of an 8% improvement. I can't find the revised analysis but this was quoted in Bloomberg and the Economist .. both behind pay walls unfortunately.

Recent analysis of data suggests that productivity suffers when employees work remotely, and the effect is more dramatic the longer people remain away. This contradicts earlier studies conducted during the pandemic.

I'm not saying I agree.. just that this is the reason.

That's why I joined unilem .. they have a specific policy not to defederate from any instance .. a policy with which I wholeheartedly agree. I'm not at all right wing, I hate Trump and I believe vaccines save lives. But I also believe that others have the absolute right to disagree. What's more my beliefs are strong enough that I can handle seeing alternate opinions. What I absolutely don't want is to spend my time in a echo chamber. You (and many others here) disagree and that's fine too.

From the overview:

"The project is based on the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.".

Now it seems most of it is taken up by TikTok videos of someone's pet poodle

Honestly even of he was a great guy it's still a bad idea to have an incredibly important military asset in the hands of a private corporation.

Sticky toffee pudding. Unfortunately a diet of only sticky toffee pudding would result in "forever" not in fact lasting very long.

Having the infrastructure would make no difference. Most people in Uganda have more important priorities than worrying about recycling plastic bags, like getting enough food to eat and avoiding being killed by gangs. This sadly is the reality in much of Africa