Everyone switched over to an remarkably similar "competitor" named TokTik by a totally different new company named BitDisco?

Seriously, what's to keep ByteDance from simply creating another company and licensing their TikTok product to it under a different name? For example, I worked for a small company (way back) that had a commercial software product and licensed it to a sister company to sell to government customers -- that way, the sister company didn't own the software.

You miss the point.

And that's where you miss it. For sake of argument, let's say your 2% is correct, just as a gimme for you. Social media will take any ONE of that 2% and promote it to billions of people on the planet IF that one person appeases the algorithm.

That is broken software no matter how you slice it.

He better get every one of our missiles, destroyed on that first hit. You think he can do that? If we determine he tried something stupid, we'll launch a heartwarming response. And we don't need satellites - we're pretty good with inertial guidance and mapping.

We might be stupid and fat, but we are really really good at killing others, and if Vlad decides to start WW3, We'll almost certainly finish it.

I don't think that your basic Russian citizens are garbage. If they have a failing, its that they can be fatalistic. Which leads to some gawdawful leaders.

I've liked the regular Russians I have met. And I've felt badly for them as well.

Hopefully KGB agent Putin understands that his "last ditch weapon will be followed by the end of the Russian Federation.

At least the USA has maintained their big explody things. They don't work very will if they aren't regularly maintained. Plutonium isn't a real stable element.

As well, presumably the oligarchy understand that our first war in LEO or even geosynchronous will be our last for a long time Might put a kink in Elon's million people on Mars by 2050 plans.

Too bad Boeing didn't design the pistol that Barnett Epsteined himself with. He'd still be alive.

Too soon?

I suppose that if your goal in life is to work for wages that the only reason they pay that much is because they are forced to, then Work for that minimum, and strut around like you rule the world.

Point is, yeah, you are still at the very bottom, and no where lower to go. Want a cookie?

I fully recognize that you need to pay good wages to get good employees. My peeps and I are paid really well. And we work the hours we need to work, and perform at the top of our fields. Work hard and play hard.

And here's the thing, Since Europe likes to move both the best and worst workers to the mediocre middle, well there ya go. It might be related to the fact that the EU is a lot better at regulating than innovating.

As I've told the 4 day a week people, you go ahead and work that 32 hour week. I'll work as many hours as I want, you'll have to make it illegal and arrest me if that's your thing.

And you are competing with me. Good luck.

Yes, some people get annoyed with that. It's a tradeoff. I get annoyed with mediocrity, and laziness if it is present.

That balances out, don't ya think?

Now go have a Big Mac.

People, please, I'm fucking begging you, stop eating the whole fucking ham on anything and literally EVERYTHING you read, see, and hear on social media.

We're fucking doomed this election cycle and every single one thereafter. Social media is a goddamn blight. It isn't so much the being able to post shit randomly, it's the being able to post shit randomly, and then some fucking algorithm that can get it into the face of a million more people if it'll get the hate boner going. It the fact that we've got software that's been trained to prioritize eyeballs among all other things, no verify, no need to have history, and people defend this software as "well the public has to learn". If we have bad software, we don't change the fucking people, we change the goddamn software. How the hell did anyone forget this?! If you open a one-day account that has zero backing information, you too can have your shit spread to ten percent of the entire planet if you just satisfy our money, er, advertising, er, popularity algorithm. There is zero justification for this outside of it's making someone some cash.

I don't mind online forums, but if a forum has the ability to dump the worst of the worst (because that's popular at this moment) onto the default thing that millions of people who might not have even subscribed to that topic see. THAT IS A PROBLEM. When the software is picking what I should see, that's the big problem. And if I have to click "I'm not interested in this" 500 times because "the algorithm" that's not the person, that's the software. I remember that when we had popups, we didn't go "oh you should just not go there or you should just get better at dismissing popups", we fucking made a popup blocker.

That's the massive problem of social media versus something like online forums. Online forums you get what you get. Social media is filling your feed with anything that will appeal to people who want to spend at most five seconds on something. So it's obvious, quality is NOT the priority. So the fact that so many people will take something that so downplays actual quality as something to attempt to ruin a person's career over it with literally a single source. BUT All that said, I'm not going to downplay it. It's 50-50 on these fucking people who ate this shit at face value and the social media networks that ensured this bullshit got in front of as many eyes as possible.

Boeing's upper echelons are full out cult completely divorced of anything on the ground. Retaliation isn't just in the wheel house, it is the goddamn cornerstone of ensuring profits above all else.

And the thing is that most of these cult boys see retaliation as some black and white concept, as unless I fucking came down there and actually slit your throat, I didn't actually retaliate. None of them understanding that they seed a cult of personalty that encourages people "no matter what you do, DO NOT HURT OUR PROFITS!" and via that mentality they enact all kinds of retaliation to anyone who disrupts the dollar.

Yes, yes, we know. You investigated yourselves and found nothing wrong. I don't think you can cult harder than that.

I hope the US government takes these shitheads to task. But in the end the MBAs, the PHBs, and the board of fuckwits will all get off scot-free because so long as you're a captain of capitalism, you can just do whatever the fuck you want and we'll just ask you nicely to please stop.

Fuck Boeing's top ranks, they've taken a company committed to quality and safety, and turned it into a profit at all costs shit hole that's become the defining quality of the United States various enterprises here of late. The enshitification continues

As a company that morphed from an Airplane manufacturer to a company run by MBAs and Bean counters, and prime focus was only on servicing the stakeholders, and the planes and Engineers were a nuisance that got in the way of the next quarter's profit, retaliation sounds exceptionally plausible, after all, the planes and engineers are merely the nuisance that gets in the way of the real purpose of the company now. That sounds sarcastic, but is true. How dare those lowlife engineers anyhow?

Me too - Your wife is pretty awesome and a lot of fun.

I think the people who understand this research should go to the links referencing the paper, not the ding-dong reportage from The Independent.

The two papers by 15 authors were published in Nature and Cell, and they have a reproducibility checklist for people. I do not have the names of the peer reviewers.

This looks like it was done by the book, so I give it some legitimacy.

Now as for the breathless reportage by the Independent, I pretty much think that is just what it is. Breathless. I'd call it the first time we have recorded it, not the third time it has ever happened. Science "journalism" really needs some people who aren't just communications majors who were assigned a science subject.

It it breaks your computer, it is very secure.

60 days, so around 3 months. 2 personal days. 2 days a month sick time that accumulated. It isn't bragging, you only see it that way because it defies your narrative.

Other places have less, few have more. But no, it isn't a select group. In point of fact, I seldom took all of the vacation days. Other than the time I broke my ankle playing Ice Hockey and miscellaneous dental work, I didn't use much sick leave either. Don't fret though, I got paid for those days upon retirement. Not bragging, just a point of fact.

It isn't a data point, and it isn't a whole country I'm referring to.It's just something that doesn't conform to your narrative. And you are quite triggered by it. Your propaganda does not allow for accepting that. I only offer it as a counterpoint to your narrative. We don't have guvmint mandated vacation or sick leave. But you make an interesting point that we'll revisit soon.

If you think that I care about some rando posting about their superiority, sorry, I do not. I do however get some small measure of satisfaction of having the vaunted supremacists of Europe get triggered. The amount of popcorn munching this whole topic provides us, where it is pointed out quite truthfully that Europeans are less hard-working, less ambitious, more regulated and more risk-averse than the US.

I simply love pissing you folks off. And it is so easy.

Extra "data point" for you - I retired at 55.

Ah, I see. Other's can judge your countries as well. Here are some links of how you treat your neighbors. Read them then come back with your attitude of Europe's kind and caring attitude. Seems that racism is alive and well in your area - https://www.bbc.com/news/world... https://www.euronews.com/2023/... https://www.un.org/en/chronicl... How are you and the Romani doing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://news.un.org/en/story/2...

And the crown jewel of European care about people What happened to Europe's Jewish population? https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Why are they so little represented in Europe now? Did Europeans do something that bothered them a little bit? What happened?

There are many more. No "single data points" at all

Luck had very little to do with it. Careful planning and bringing value added to my work did. My son is doing quite well too, if it is any of your business. He's rising in management in his company, buying a house soon.

You have your own very inconvenient truths to deal with. You paint a rosy picture of European superiority, with free people and a caring government supporting them, and living their best lives, yet have your own problems with poverty, racism, and an exceptionally sordid history. Read the cites, they aren't propaganda.

The difference is that we Americans face our shortcomings, we know we have problems - as do all countries, while you ignore your own, and your malicious projection would just seem to be you hiding from your truth.

I probably would not have done as well as I have if I was in a European system. But that's more a you problem than any problem at all for me. I've risen above mediocrity, while the EU embraces it.