It's not cheap, unless you count the international service that is included and use it. Compared to the price a US prepaid plan like mint or visible, it's perfectly cromulent.
It's how they won all status quo benefits to them. They also know status quo changes and why they put so much energy, effort, influence and time into continuing to try to make things worse so the likelihood of large-scale change decreases.
However, at a certain point, history shows people will revolt. The question is when, and how much of the horrific foundation that has been laid with people used to it can be ripped up before our short attention slams turn back to other interests?
Yep, just like when Obama passed minimum salary increase, was stayed 4 weeks before go-live the week of Thanksgiving. Eventually rolled back under Trump 1 and watered down.
They're trying to ban tiktok. I've never used it but it's just because it's Chinese, social media from any other company based in any other country is just as fucked and unhealthy and unregulated in the US, but they are going to ban it specifically for its country of origin. China pills a lot of weight and the company tiktok is powerful and fighting it in court and all but it seems pretty obvious it'll go through even under current admin watch--let alone when a direct competitor and owner of Xitter owns the White House.
While yes, you're logistically correct it would be very difficult to shut down the whole Internet, that's not the goal, the goal is to massively control it and enshittify it beyond your worst dreams.
Nah, I ordered in Oct and site said I've reached my limit. You are correct they add new limits every once in. While but they publicize poorly so it's hard to remember.
Many don't use their PTO so they have a small cushion for when they're laid off since companies don't so often now in this "beautiful creative destruction".
Late 19th century. There was some pushback, some anti-trust laws with teeth, and then decades of bloody union battles to secure rights workers and their elected officials have thrown away for 50 years.
The concentration of wealth and influence of 10-16 people trumps that of hundreds of millions and is as bad or worse than it was during the robber baron era.
Political representatives are bought and paid for which means the poor have no voice against the wealthy.
We have a justice system that is incapable of prosecuting the wealthy and powerful, when it isn't being stocked by ideologues.
Meritocracy is dead; Birth has much greater correlation to wealth and power.
Media is fully captured by the wealthy; they own the vast majority of media consumed: TV, film, news, social junk.
No, we agreed on PT. They just didn't know what the time difference was and couldn't be bothered to look it up. I finally just started scheduling in ET and then realized I didn't want to work with people who couldn't count to 4 and decided not to relocate.
Americans are bad at geography but shit are people from the east Coast some of the worst. They have "center of the universe syndrome" and have no idea about the rest of the country. I was looking to relocate to the East Coast about 10 years ago and had 3 interviews with different companies in NY, DC and PHL where the company failed to call me at the correct time, sometimes multiple instances, as they couldn't understand the time difference.
Doesn't everyone fucking learn about the 4 continental time zones in school? Why is it confusing?
Not sure if that aphorism is the most appropriate to compare Americans to since it was Bush II who famously didn't know what the saying was supposed to be.
It's not complicated; you say whatever you need to get elected in politics. Once elected, only money and a distant second, reelection, matters.
In this battle we have money against stupid racists. Guess which one the administration will serve? They'll wrap it up by doubling down on MX wall height or something retarded; it will be the first of many shit sandwiches Trump will stuff down his voters throats to their unending surprise.
It's not cheap, unless you count the international service that is included and use it. Compared to the price a US prepaid plan like mint or visible, it's perfectly cromulent.