Screw you. I want my mail. As it is, they've raised the raites for an office that's IN THE CONSTITUTION too much. Meanwhile, looked at mailing rates for private cos? Basic minimum priority mail vs. FedEx equivalent - USPS was $11 last time I used it, while FedEx is $15 or $20. And going up whenever the CEO wants more ROI.

Garbage. Are you a Russian troll, or just a MAGAidiot?

Show me the tech bros who are not on the side of the Idiot - Mu$k is on his side (on and off), as is Thiel, and Bezos, and Zuck, and...

C'mon, list.

Let's see, it was The Thing after WWII.
Then, esp. during and after the ninties, HR departments *DEMANDED* more and more degrees and certifications... unwarrantedly.

I finished all the computer classes at my community college, and got my first job programming before getting my degree. Try that now. "Oh, you don't have a four year degree, and no certification for Oracle, and you don't have 10 years experience with rust for this entry-level job".

On what do you base this idiotic statement? Don't you know, according to DementedDon, that Dems are "terrorists"?

I guess I'm not seeing the problem here.

In a "standard" investigation the police might get an eyewitness account of a crime where the suspect is described in detail.

At what point do they need a warrant?

According to your logic, a warrant would be required before they knock on the eyewitness's door and ask if he's seen anything suspicious.

Isn't the premise of a dollar store (or pound store) that everything is a single price...

Otherwise it's just a cut price store and frankly, the Germans have shown us with their cut price supermarkets that they key to running a successful one is hyper organisation. Everything runs like clockwork, no confusion, Everything goes into it's assigned slot. Money is saved by reducing overall work (I.E. the staff just put boxes on the shelves and let customer take the products out themselves), reducing costs and creating consistency (I.E. if national regs state the fridge must be x Degrees C, the fridges are exactly X degrees C) then passing the savings onto the customer. There's a reason Aldi and Lidl are growing so fast in so many countries.

Running a disorganised cut price shop seems counter-intuitive as you'll just drive customers away.

Awww didums... did I point out an unfortunate fact you can't refute... or even refuse (for the uninitiated, refuting requires proof, you can refuse without proof, also repudiate)

It's worth *something*, but the price has been outpacing inflation by a wide margin for years and years.

So we have value, but the price has been running away...

India, in my experience, is a society where the word "no" is the dirtiest word imaginable. It's unconscionable that anyone might say no to anything. Doubly so to their boss.

So every answer is a yes, doesn't matter if it's "yes I can" or "yes I cant" which leads to situations where anything deliverable is impossible to... well.. deliver. Any corner that can be cut gets cut, cut again and someone gets out an angle grinder to see how much can be shaved off after that. After things aren't delivered the finger pointing game begins with everyone shrugging and saying "it's not me". Meetings are convened with as many people as can be drawn into them as possible in order to dilute the chances that an individual can be held accountable and to reduce the chances that an individual might get an action item at the end of it. The meeting usually ends with the scheduling of another meeting with even more people in it. Of course, no-one can even consider saying "no" to any of this.

No is the "rudest" thing you can say to an Indian.

So is it any surprise that India's aviation sector is in shambles, thousands of flights cancelled because they can't meet schedules because ultimately, they just cant say "no, this is not possible, we can't meet that demand/schedule/deadline". So they're blaming safety regs, hey it's not so bad when you live in a society where life is cheap and almost everyone believes in reincarnation, plus all the airliners are foreign built so they can cop the blame for any problems.

India's aviation sector isn't the only one suffering from the yes problem.... it's just the most obvious because safe aviation is notoriously cautious and conservative, hence you have to say "no" a lot.

Fascism is far right... that's when government and corporate power merge.

But you know that. You just don't want to admit that your favourite corrupt government is fascist.

Unless you're honestly trying to say Trump is "left" because he keeps compelling companies to do things for him.

The US armed forces are 2.8 million strong. The DoD employs about million more civilians on top of that. That's not even counting contractors that the DoD may be buying licenses for. 2 million Microsoft 365 licenses doesn't seem that outlandish.

Think the point would be that even if you try to opt out of AI summaries, you end up hearing someone read a script that they used AI to generate, or read comments or emails that AI generated without your awareness. Then there's a tendency to adopt speech patterns that you see in use.

So even if you refrain, you are still inundated by the content by virtue of everyone else overusing it without specifying. Even if you have a tendency to recognize AI BS a few sentences in and go away from it, you still read probably two or three sentences and may have influenced your speech a little.

And we all know that won't happen.

The thing with fines is that all the people ACTIVELY involved have interests that don't align with the public and taxpayers.

The shops are ok with fines if they happen rarely and in manageable amounts. Then they can just factor them in as costs of doing business.

The inspectors need occasional fines to justify their existance. So, counter-intuitively, they have absolutely no interest in the businesses they inspect to actually be compliant. Just compliant enough that the non-compliance doesn't make more headlines than their fines. So they'll come now and then, but not so often that the business actually feels pressured into changing things.

You misunderstand wealth.

Most wealth of the filthy rich is in assets. Musk OWNS stuff that is worth X billions. That doesn't mean he as 140 mio. in cash sitting in his bottom drawer.

Moreoever, much of the spending the filthy rich do is done on debt. They put up their wealth as a collateral and buy stuff with other people's (the banks) money. There's some tax trickery with this the exact details I forgot about.

So yes, coughing up $140 mio. is at least a nuissance, even if on paper it's a rounding error.

The actual story that got buried is that the filthy rich are now in full-blown "I rule the world" mode when their reaction to a fee is not "sorry, we fucked up, won't happen again", but "let's get rid of those rules, they bother me".

These automated tags are about $15-$20 each. If you buy a million you can probably get them for $10, but still. Oh yes, and their stated lifetime is 5 years. And you STILL need an employee to walk around updating because it's done via NFC.

In many cases, there are modern tech solutions, but pen-and-paper is still cheaper, easier and more reliable.

It's not necessarily malice. What I mean is: They are certainly malicious, but maybe not in this.