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Comment Re:Hey, Google... (Score 5, Insightful) 98

And the majority of those crossing the border are not legitimate asylum seekers...they are ONLY coming here to earn money.

Then perhaps all those hotels, golf courses, landscaping companies, restaurants, home builders, construction companies, meat packing plants, farmers, ranchers, wineries and who knows who else, stop hiring them. Problem solved.

Here's a question: when was the last time Abbott crowed about any employer being fined or even jailed for hiring illegals?

Comment Here we go again (Score 4, Insightful) 98

Anyone who has been following tech has seen this same sob story for decades. There is always an excuse why they can't find the "right" people. Even when there are recessions and people are being laid off left and right, "We can't find anyone!".

Here's a small idea which could be implemented right now. Get rid of your shitty software which filters out anyone who doesn't have the exact words in their CV that you're looking for. Hire minions to manually review all the resumes and CVs which come in and I can guarantee you'll find the people you need.

Comment Re:who cares about debt? (Score 1) 257

The only issue that debt, low taxation and deficit spending cause is a lack of belief in the value of the fiat currency,

And the accumulating interest on that debt which needs paid off? That's not a consideration? You must be one of those who only pays the minimum amount on their credit card debt each month.

Comment Re:Sinclair is quite credible IMHO. (Score 1) 88

People who do intermittent fasting are 91% more likely to die of heart disease, among other issues.

As for everything else, only daily exercise has been shown to have any true effect. No, Vitamin B does not reverse aging in cells. Red light therapy only treats skin conditions. It does nothing for reversing aging. The paleo diet has been shown to be wrong. Early humans did not eat lots of meat simply for the fact they didn't get that much. Most of what early humans ate were bugs (protein) and veggies. Nothing found so far can do anything what you're claiming, particularly reversal of cognitive ability, eye-sight, or hair-color.

Would you like to shill some more?

Comment limited good news (Score 3, Informative) 93

Let's be clear, a 700teu vessel is not what most people would think of when they think container ship, it's more like a local parcel truck or delivery van. (Typical ocean container ships today are 12000-25000 teus - 2 teus is roughly a semi truck trailer of cargo.)
It's good news experimentally, certainly, and was likely to first be launched in Asia where waterborne local cargo is a thing. But 5% of the cargo capacity dedicated to battery packs - and likely needing to be changed out roughly every couple of days - doesn't scale much yet.

https://www.offshore-energy.bi...

Comment Re:Healthcare should not be a profit center (Score 1) 237

Though the anti tax people despire medicare despite them all loving the hell out of it once they're retired.

I am nearing retirement age and am not looking forward to handing over thousands of dollars every year for something I won't use. Over the decades of my work I've lost well over $100,000 paying for something I haven't used. Why should I do the same thing in retirement?

Comment Re:but it filters viruses same as the others (Score 1) 74

Fauci worked for the government for decades and started out with the Reagan administration.

You have to understand, Dr. Fauci spent his entire life waiting for the moment he could annoy the MAGA cult with how the scientific process works. It was his triumphal moment. Forget all the research he's done. Forget the papers he's written. Forget all the experiene he's accumulated over the decades. Everything led to the triumphal moment he got people to wear a mask for a few minutes once a day just to annoy them.

Comment I'm routinely surprised (Score 1) 121

...(but shouldn't be) by the meticulous, nearly atomic-level precision modern commercial systems can manage and deal with massive amounts of data when it comes to TRACKING THE FUCK OUT OF US* but simple stuff like "your 2-year digit code in your ticketing disregards that some people who travel live more than 100 years" never seems to get fixed.

*I mean that literally: when you click on some links, your info goes out on AUCTION to be bid around for which advertising they're going to show you, they have the auction, resolve it, and decide who's sending you what ad in the moments of the page coming up. Meanwhile, copies of everything you do, what you like, where you spend time browsing, even your mouse position while browsing a site is all being hoovered (pun definitely intended....sigh) by at least a half dozen government agencies of your own country, probably a dozen inimical actors, and at least SCORES of commercial services all joining in the ebukkake of selling your data back and forth.

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