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Submission + - Amazon warns employees: get back in the office or you're fired (techspot.com) 1

jjslash writes: Amazon employee resistance grows amid relocation policies and previous walkouts. TechSpot reports:

Few companies implementing a return-to-work policy have faced as much pushback from employees as Amazon. But then the tech giant isn't taking a gentle approach to getting staff back into the office. A new report claims that Amazon has now essentially given managers the power to fire any employees who fail to turn up at one of its locations at least three times per week. For those workers refusing to return, managers have been instructed to first hold private conversations, documenting the conversation in a follow-up email. If the person still refuses to agree to the hybrid working setup, the manager should hold another meeting within one to two weeks to explain that disciplinary action will be taken if the defiance continues. This includes terminating the employee's contract.


Submission + - Apple TV Plus "Un-Renews" Jon Stewart, Reportedly Over Editorial Disagreements (theverge.com)

Shakrai writes: Multiple outlets are reporting that Apple TV Plus has cancelled Jon Stewart's popular show, The Problem with Jon Stewart, reportedly over editorial disagreements with regards to planned stories on the People's Republic of China and AI. Fans and haters of Apple will both recall that Apple recently made changes to AirDrop, one of the few effective means Chinese dissidents and protesters had for exchanging information off-grid at scale, and will ask why Apple is apparently not only willing, but eager, to carry water for the PRC, overriding both human rights and practical business concerns in the process.

Comment Re:Most dangerous (Score 5, Insightful) 122

nonsense.
(1) would result in russia committing genocide.
(2) is likely. but may lead to nuclear war.
(3) would result in endless war. ukrainians hate russians.

ukraine is extremely relevant. its a buffer zone and europe is out of the market for russian oil/gas.
get rid of israel by converrting it into a non apartheid state and it would be fine. see south africa. no one would be affected.

Submission + - MIT Creates Implantable Device That Produces Insulin (mit.edu)

schwit1 writes: MIT researchers unveiled an implantable device designed to provide insulin for Type 1 diabetes treatment and replace injections. The device incorporates many islet cells that produce insulin and features an onboard oxygen factory.

Type 1 diabetes patients are typically required to monitor blood glucose levels and self-administer daily insulin injections, but this process cannot replicate the body’s natural blood glucose control.

The newly developed device, approximately the size of a U.S. quarter, uses a proton-exchange membrane to divide water vapor into oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen diffuses, and the oxygen is stored and provided to the islet cells via an oxygen-permeable membrane.

Research team member Robert Langer said the device could eventually treat other diseases that call for repeated therapeutic protein delivery.

Submission + - Employers feeling more pain in return-to-work policies

lpq writes: From the article: "We’re now finding out the damaging consequences of the mandated return to office. And it’s not a pretty picture.
Nearly half of companies polled are seeing higher than expected attrition for such policies, while a third are finding it harder to recruit new employees as reported in https://fortune.com/2023/08/01... .

Comment Re:Somehow ... (Score 1) 613

oh noes! GASP! I will not be remembered after i am worm food like everyone else in the ground! PANIC!!
haha. of course i dont give a shit whether people remember me or not. i'll take my free ride and comfort while you struggle for a living.
you can call me parasite all day long if it makes you feel happy. you do you. i will do me.
i'll continue to laugh at you taking public transit while i sit in the climate controlled leather seat in my 4x4. and i'll be happy to take my yacht everywhere i want. and continue to fly to my multiple homes when i want. you can struggle to your cramped apartment daily and waste your life and time on public transport with the riff raff. good for you saving the planet you nice guy you. struggle harder. you will be remembered or laughed at after you decompose. here lies an eco warrior. may his soul rest in peace. he struggled. and then died. the end.

Comment Re:Somehow ... (Score 1) 613

when you assume everyone else is an idiot, youre the idiot.
to give an example on your hike -- if you think the only solution is to drink the water or ration it youre an idiot.
heres another solution - i go on the hike, drink as much water as i want leaving everyone else to die.

so yes everyone understands your analogies. we just dont agree with the solution. you can take all the public transit you want. i will take my giant 4x4 truck which can tow 20000lbs everywhere including for a trip to the grocery store.
some idiots will buy EVs. good for them. they will pretend to save the environment. some idiots will take public transit. good for them. me? i do what i want. climate change is for the suckers born afterwards. i'll be long dead before it affects me.

Comment Now THIS is what ChatGPT is actually useful for. (Score 3, Insightful) 58

This is A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. A tutor which can be there 24 x 7 1 on 1 with the child and help the learning process accelerate development. If it can pull it off - which it likely can given the constrained and simple subject matter it has to learn - it would be very useful. Its simple enough to restrict it to only learning materials and not have it go off on other subjects.
 

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