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Comment Re: I'm thinking get it over with... (Score 1) 403

Did you even read your own link? That is the lowest paid state in the country for nurses and they couldnâ(TM)t hire enough. Almost none of the firings were of nurses so youâ(TM)re trying to connect two unrelated things.

Second, you donâ(TM)t understand the dangerous consequences of when a patient comes into the hospital for something like a car accident and then catches Covid inside the hospital from a sick doctor or nurse. The payout from a lawsuit is enough to bankrupt a hospital, and it causes a shutdown as a large amount of staff have to be quarantined, and patients cannot be transferred due to the risk of others getting sick. This has happened in my hospital and the effects arenâ(TM)t over yet. Requiring Covid vaccines for staff is vital for reducing that risk as best as we can.

Comment Re:I'm thinking get it over with... (Score 1) 403

>People made their choices, and they can now live or die with them.

Still doesn't change the fact that the morons have overwhelmed the hospitals. Hospitals operate on a first-come-first serve basis, when they are full there is no room for car accident or heart attack victims, and the survival rate of those goes way down. This affects YOU because you never know when you will need to go to one, and currently there's places with a 3 day waitlist in the ER to go upstairs.

Comment Re:If only we had teams of experts to deploy? (Score 1) 371

Why speculate when Trump himself explained his rationale from the podium? He wanted big spending cuts to CDC and NIH and cut pandemic response staff from the national security council in 2018.

https://www.theatlantic.com/id...

"Some of the people we cut, they haven’t used for many, many years, and if we have ever need them we can get them very, very quickly. And rather than spending the money—I’m a business person. I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly.”

Comment Re:UI changes (Score 1) 408

Fifty years of UI design seem to contradict you. Remember back in the mid-seventies when cars stopped labeling controls only in English in favor of iconography? Quick identification of the correct control is important when hurtling down the road at highway speeds.

This was an economic choice. Icons are multi-lingual, meaning manufacturers didn't have to create dashboards with knobs labeled in dozens of different languages.

Comment Re:"at it's best, it's ultimately customizable" (Score 1) 408

One other issue, not that significant, is Firefox requires one to be an administrator to install it. Chrome, being spyware, does not.

Regardless, the folks at Mozilla have been going down the Microsoft path for a long time: each iteration removes functionality from the end user.

I think you've brushed really close to the real issue here.

The question isn't "Why is Firefox losing users?" The real question is "Why does anyone masochistically keep using Firefox when the devs are so arrogantly and willfully contemptuous of their core clientele?" The answer is singular: Firefox is not spyware. The Mozilla team knows they can do anything they want as long as they don't start sending our browsing habits elsewhere. We're literally a captive audience because we absolutely refuse to use a browser that feeds our data to a corporation, we demand privacy- and security-focused plugins (like NoScript), we need it to be open source so we can verify it's not violating our trust, and there just aren't any good browser options left.

What makes it particularly galling is that we know they ignore their own data. Look at Pocket. How many clients use it? Let's be generous and say 5%. (Alternate answer: the inverse of how many consider it spyware.) How many clients want them to leave the UI alone? Let's be meager and say 30-50%. They must know how much we hate what they do and yet they still prioritize the stupidest new ideas in favor of listening to their users.

That said, I bailed on Firefox back when the Waterfox fork came along. For years the add-ons were the only place to restore functionality critical for safe browsing that Mozilla had inexplicably cut, such as the status bar. But Mozilla's gonna Moz, and so they killed off the old XPI add-on interface; in classic Mozilla fashion they built the new add-on interface such that it was impossible to re-add those functions with new plugins. Giving up the classic add-ons was never a good option, so when Waterfox came out it was "jump ship!" So far, Alex has done a great job of merging in patches from Firefox that address security vulnerabilities, but that's a lot of work and I don't know how long he can keep it up.

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