My wife bought a book recently. Headline is fake, article must be junk.

Obviously many books are bought electronically, and these buggy whip manufacturers are choosing to ignore being cut out of a market they have long acted as parasites over.

Incels like to complain about american woman being too picky, but the trend in China and south Korea is far worse, women are very openly choosing men based on earning potential, real estate assets and family wealth, or just deciding the entire arrangement is not worth it, which is increasingly common. This rampant ageism is only going to exaggerate the problem leading to what the media keeps calling "low fertility rate".

We have some of these problems here, but because you can't openly discriminate on age, it's a more subtle effect.

I assume London, where modern capitalism was mostly invented, is the same as the USA in that your land owners are heavily invested in expensive downtown office spaces that aren't actually necessary. It's not win-win for them, and whatever banks they owe money to.

This conflict of interest is a huge problem.

In the US, we also have a problem where each state tries to operate as its own very ineffectual and poorly run country, and gives tax breaks to corporations that choose to open offices within it. They give the corporation tax breaks, assuming the corporations attract workers to the area, who will be paying property/sales and (in most cases) state income taxes. This arrangement is why states like Texas and Arizona can attract any people at all. Having workers work remotely undermines this income model, especially wherein the workers who can be remote, tend to be high income earners. I don't know that the UK as a whole has this particular dilemma, but it's built in to US politics.

Surely there must exist some mechanism wherein potential workers might choose to do this job, versus whatever other job they are doing. Surely there must be a way to encourage future workers to consider an occupation in a field that has a considerable future ahead of it. I can't imagine what might encourage people to do this.

Well, I've tried nothing and I'm out of ideas. Let's just indenture some foreigners and put them on 3 year catch and release plans.

The STAAR test is mostly a feel good joke. Texas is pathologically averse to any kind of national standardized testing, since they tend to show Texas schools in an off-narrative and not very positive light .

In theory kids who don't take, or flunk the STAAR tests on certain subjects cannot graduate from high school. I don't know how often this is really done, the high schools here seem to be doing everything possible to pass the trouble makers from grade to grade, or where possible, to juvie.

"Engine Cover, of a Boeing Plane Owned, Operated, and Maintained by Southwest, Rips Apart During Takeoff This Monring"

Would also be accurate and indict those involved. It also happens to be the second Boeing plane, operated by Southwest, in as many days that has had engine issues.

Not entirely true, it needs just enough ram to download another browser.

... and with all that time on his hands maybe he can stay out of trouble.

Unless this is a stealth 'cuts by attrition' program, they're just ensuring that as employees are ready for promotion that they go to competitors to continue their careers. This will cost the company in the long run.

I worked at Dell for many years. Here's the secret: getting promoted was a dead end there anyway. They hire you out of college, or young, and try to convert you into some suit wearing infant who makes a lot of slideware. You become unhireable and worthless on the market. Every single person I've ever worked with left that place, and most of us are making anywhere from 4-5x what we were making. There are, once in a blue moon, a few tech promotions available, but it's the exception, not the rule.

It's really no great punishment for people on technical paths, they're going to leave anyway. It's the overhead functions that will feel the pinch. I guarantee you this is happening because Dell is trying to negotiate with the city for some tax break, and the city wants something in writing that there will be people physically present paying taxes on Dell's behalf, or no deal.

To be fair, most companies negotiate these tax deals and there is a lot of rage by cities, especially in Texas, as employees fly away. Texas is going to be hardest hit by remote work, since it has always had the model of letting corporations stay mostly rent free, and pushing the tax burden onto the population. I look forward to some kind of future where states entice people to live there, rather than corporations which are mostly a burden.

my old paper 3D glasses with the blue and red film that I got from a cracker jack box is better than most anything hua wei gets up to

Biden should not be confused that the only reason he gets votes is that he's not Trump. He's at his best when we don't hear from him.

You heard it here first.

Does anyone really use Windows 11? It came pre-installed on my new laptop, I upgraded to Windows 10 almost immediately. I'm using the term "upgrade" pretty loosely, it's been a minefield since Windows XP.

It sure as hell knows how to create them, and memory leaks. For fun I had it generate some really boilerplate C++ code and spent the weekend debugging it.

I will contact my congresstwat and demand he stop Brandon from taking my compiler. Honestly he will eat that shit right up.