Still no button to turn off all notifications of updates. Something so simple which Firefox used to have is now a distant memory.

And yes, I will bring this up in every Firefox article. No, I don't want to hear how I can make changes somewhere deep in the settings. They had it for 15+ years. Considering all the time and effort they're putting into this stuff, they can put it back.

These are the kind of nasty little services you see in Asian countries where people are working 12 hours a day 6 days a week.

Basically you don't have time for anything so at some point if you have an errand you need to run you end up having to pay somebody else to do it even if it's something as simple and stupid as this.

You justify it by saying that you're getting paid at your job enough to cover this but you're actually massively overworking yourself and you will eventually burn out. Meanwhile the company you work for is using you up and eventually when you're dried up they will throw you out like used toilet paper.

When you see stuff like this it's a sign of a failing system.

No, but their customers are.

No it isn't. We can afford to be without a few bridges for awhile, when it costs your ENTIRE NATION to have that kind of executive "build it now" power for awhile.

China only managed to sustain that activity for a span of about two decades. Now they're going down a hole, fast.

https://thefinancialanalyst.ne...

You want a huge leap? Here you go.

Also how much of that unoccupied housing is unsafe tofu dreg architecture?

There's a huge number of small business owner types that desperately want to run their own businesses and will do anything and risk anything to do it.

I've got a buddy of mine that I've kind of been out of touch with just with work and such but I remember that he absolutely killed himself in a desperate bid to avoid working for somebody else. He used to run a local car audio place but couple of his employees basically poached all his customers and then a minor economic downturn finished the business off. After that he spent decades doing little tiny computer stuff for just enough money to keep his trailer held together by tape and glue. His wife also worked full-time as a waitress.

So you find somebody like that and you dump the franchise on them. Let them work 90 hours a week trying to make it profitable. Most won't but there is a nearly unlimited supply of those guys and you can just keep cycling through them. Usually they've got some savings kicking around or maybe a relative died and left them some money.

It's one of the many ways large corporations extract wealth from the working class. Basically dangling the dream in front of people with the full intention of scamming them out of money

I doubt those stores have more than five or six people so that's probably not very many of the 15,000 that are getting shit canned.

Even if a store has 20 or so people that's still only 4,000 out of 15,000. I don't use Verizon I'm on T-Mobile but at any given moment there's usually only two or three people even in the bigger stores and those stores are only open during regular business hours.

The company that makes the prescription antihistamine I'm on fired the staff responsible for making sure that I get my prescription.

It took me about 4 months to sort that out during which time they lost about $400 in revenue.

The thing is they just don't seem to care. In the past there would be competition. But there just isn't any anymore anywhere. Like not too long ago my doctor would have just put me on a different drug that was easier to get and had the same effect. Those companies have been bought out and they just don't exist anymore.

It's an entirely new kind of economy. Capitalism without competition. They can keep raising prices and screwing us over and firing us and making us work longer hours for less pay and there's basically nothing we can do about it.

There are lots of good Android tablets on the market. But you need to make sure that they support the software you want. There's lots of good, even important, software that doesn't run on Android. Do your homework.

Chinese industry is like this. Lots of companies pop up doing the same thing, most of them fail, the best ideas are scooped up by the companies that remain, and a few strong sustainable companies survive. This is not just a Chinese thing. It happens in the USA, too. Most American tech startups fail; 70% fail between years two and three and most fail in the first five years. China will take an economic hit when most of their car companies tank, but they’ll weather the storm better than the USA will when the AI bubble bursts and the US stock market loses a huge chunk of its value and doesn't recover for years.

He's upset that he gave up a treasure trove of incredibly valuable data for nothing more than some help raising money and a few contacts.

That data was worth billions and had he realized it back then he'd be part of the billionaire club.

Basically he's upset that he's not going to be the one getting to screw you over using ai and llms.

I'm all for it if it actually happens but I'll believe it when I see it. I think all Microsoft wants to do is stop subsidizing the hardware which would defeat the purpose. At that point I can just buy my own gaming PC.

What makes steam stuff interesting is that they just kind of focus on getting it right with medium level performance and a decent price and I don't think Microsoft can do that so they're probably just going to put out a $1,200 gaming PC. That's assuming they actually pull it off and it doesn't get shot down by other people from company and fighting.

So who knows what's going to happen with AI bullshit devouring everything

The Little Ice Age was from 16th to the 19th centuries. The Maunder Minimum was a period around 1645 to 1715. See my references below.

So your dates do not line up. Stop spouting bullshit.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...:

"The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region.[2] It was not a true ice age of global extent.[3] The term was introduced into scientific literature by François E. Matthes in 1939.[4] The period has been conventionally defined as extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries,[5][6][7] but some experts prefer an alternative time-span from about 1300[8] to about 1850."

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...:
"The Maunder Minimum, also known as the "prolonged sunspot minimum", was a period around 1645 to 1715 during which sunspots became exceedingly rare."

and

"The Maunder Minimum roughly coincided with the middle part of the Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America experienced colder than average temperatures. Whether there is a causal relationship, however, is still under evaluation.[17] The current best hypothesis for the cause of the Little Ice Age is that it was the result of volcanic action.[18][19] The onset of the Little Ice Age also occurred well before the beginning of the Maunder Minimum,[18] and northern-hemisphere temperatures during the Maunder Minimum were not significantly different from the previous 80 years,[20] suggesting a decline in solar activity was not the main causal driver of the Little Ice Age. "

Or try stuffing a gallon of gasoline in your luggage and you'll see exactly how "safe" it is.