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Comment Re:But why? (Score 5, Insightful) 43

Columbia computer science professor Jason Nieh, who interviewed Google engineers as a witness in the case, testified that Aluminium requires a heavier software stack and more powerful hardware to run.

This just doesn't make sense. We're supposed to believe that the software now running on phones requires more hardware than the software now running on laptops?

I'm convinced Google is run by idiots. Look at ChromeOS Flex. With just a few tweaks, with the allowance of just a few desktop apps, Google would have a wide-open opportunity to make a serious run at Microsoft's home PC dominance because of the whole Windows 11 requirements issue. There are millions upon millions of perfectly good computers that are now going to landfills because of that, and they could all have Flex running on them if it wasn't for Google's short-sighted strategy. You can't even watch a DVD on Flex after Google shitcanned VideoLan from their approved apps list. They insist you use only Google stuff via the cloud. Such a damn wasted opportunity since Flex is easy to install and use otherwise, and a fairly pleasant user experience.

Comment First, define ultra processed foods (Score 2) 273

The term ultra-processed foods is one of those "I'll know it when I see it" definitions so far. Until they can actually define what that term means and use that as a meaningful way to identify foods that have common characteristics that may be bad or good under what circumstances, then anything someone says about his dangerous they are is full of shit because there is no category.

Comment Re:Bullshit. (Score 2) 91

>but there are plenty who could do low-end jobs and allow others to move up the food chain.

I love this idea that there are a bunch of people out there that aren't working but would otherwise work at *any job* if it paid the right amount. It's just not the case - unemployment is sitting at 4.5%. That's full employment.

One of the problems we have though is that women won't do these kinds of physically demanding and dirty outdoor jobs (how many women do you see paving roads or picking up garbage or working at oil derricks?), so that automatically halves the labor supply for these jobs, and of the able bodied young men, most won't work at these jobs because they were raised to expect a comfortable indoor environment. Everyone wants a desk/cubicle. Most of these infrastructure jobs have solid pay. Or even better pay. Doesn't matter. Most young men now would rather live with less money than take such jobs. Raise the pay to 80 grand on these if you like. Won't matter. Most young men won't work a job where they're out digging in hot weather.

Comment Re:The magical motivator (Score 2, Insightful) 91

Anyone who knows actual women knows that if a man is able to hold a job, be responsible and manage their finances and living situation most women do not care that much about what particular job a man has, you know most of them have their own jobs.

LOL, the first thing a gal's friends ask her about her new man is "What's he do for a living?". Every man on a date is asked about and judged by his career choices. There's great demand for eligible bachelors in medicine, finance, law, etc. The evening shift manager at Burger King isn't fairing as well on the dating apps, I assure you.

Comment Re:Drug Dealers. (Score 3, Insightful) 106

"Shot of liberalism"? You *are* talking about the company that's been fighting against its baristas unionising for years, right?

That really doesn't mean anything. Starbucks is one of those companies that likes social liberalism... because it's a great way to appeal to their prime customer base, which are urban and suburban women between 18-45. Think of it as virtue signaling used for marketing.

BUT... they don't like economic/labor liberalism. This is where companies like Starbucks and Target are free market to the core. In their view, they get the best of both worlds: the growing single female customer market (which is overwhelmingly Left-Liberal), and the Ayn Randian max-capitalism operating model internally.

Comment Whistling past the graveyard (Score 2) 59

How long are these people going to keep pretending that the elephant isn't in the room with them?

The upheaval in the early career job market has caught higher education flat-footed. Colleges have long had an uneasy relationship with their unofficial role as vocational pipelines. When generative AI burst onto campuses in 2022, many administrators and faculty saw it primarily as a threat to learning — the world’s greatest cheating tool. Professors resurrected blue books for in-classroom exams and demanded that AI tools added to software be blocked in their classes.

Only now are colleges realizing that the implications of AI are much greater and are already outrunning their institutional ability to respond. As schools struggle to update their curricula and classroom policies, they also confront a deeper problem: the suddenly enormous gap between what they say a degree is for and what the labor market now demands. In that mismatch, students are left to absorb the risk. Alina McMahon and millions of other Gen-Zers like her are caught in a muddled in-between moment: colleges only just beginning to think about how to adapt and redefine their mission in the post-AI world, and a job market that’s changing much, much faster.

What feels like a sudden, unexpected dilemma for Gen-Z graduates has only been made worse by several structural changes across higher education over the past decade.

First, a huge surge of undergraduates shifted to majoring in fields now being upended by AI. In the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2008, a long-running survey of college freshmen by UCLA found students much more focused on going to college to “get a better job” than on what they previously wanted most: to learn more about things that interested them. That new mind-set showed up in what they picked as a major in college. Between 2010 and 2020, fields such as philosophy, history, and English saw a big drop in popularity. The latter two majors fell by one-third in that ten-year period while overall humanities enrollment declined by almost a fifth. Where did they go? A lot pivoted to computer science and related fields.

Last year, the number of students majoring in comp-sci alone topped 170,000 — more than double the number from 2014, even as overall undergraduate enrollment fell. Many were responding to a steady drumbeat of advice from groups like Code.org and Girls Who Code, amplified by tech celebrities such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and echoed by presidents from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, all urging young people to learn computer programming. Now, ironically, many of those same students are struggling to find work, as the entry-level positions they are seeking tend to be ones that are among the most affected by AI. College graduates in their 20s with computer-science and computer-engineering majors have one of the highest unemployment rates, according to a report last year from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — double that of pharmacy, criminal justice, and biology. Undergrads seem already too aware of this new state of affairs: Enrollment in computer- and information-sciences programs is down nearly 8 percent this academic year compared to last.

What Is College for in the Age of AI? Young graduates can’t find jobs. Colleges know they have to do something. But what?

You can keep pretending that it's all just a plot by meanie corporate types, but increasingly these jobs are going away and aren't coming back.The technology is in the early stages and the bugs are being worked out, but the clerical/coder/desk work apocalypse is here. More human jobs will be lost to AI scripts every year. You can adapt to that reality, or pack your bags to move back in with your parents. The scripts will kill more desk jobs every year. If AI can do your job, then at some point, it will:

Employment growth for young workers has been stagnant since late 2022. In jobs less exposed to AI, young workers have experienced comparable employment growth to older workers. In contrast, workers aged 22 to 25 have experienced a 6% decline in employment from late 2022 to September 2025 in the most AI-exposed occupations, compared to a 6-9% increase for older workers. These results suggest that declining employment in AI-exposed jobs drives stagnant overall employment growth for 22- to 25-year-olds.

- Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence

Comment Re:"buy for me" sounds like a bad idea. (Score 1) 28

they will be liable for 'errors' because of their guarantee policy. they don't want to deal with it, and I don't blame them. but this rule can't stand for long. once the market is full of only automated agents, they will be missing a market opportunity that others are taking advantage of so I see this as a temporary legal reprieve for ebay.

Comment Re:When upgrades, aren’t. (Score 1) 51

The new company would retain the Sony and Bravia branding for televisions and home audio equipment but use TCL's display technology..Sony's Bravia line survived by positioning itself at the premium tier where consumers pay more for high-end picture and sound quality.

So Sony only outlasted the other half dozen brands that already exited the market by selling a premium product.

And now they expect to take that Porsche, engine swap with Kia, and still call it a Porsche.

Good luck with that, “Sony”.

I'd rather they'd just exited the business entirely rather than just let some Chinese shop slap their name on products. "Sony" on gear use to mean something.

Comment Re:Amazon can speak up on money issues (Score -1) 62

But Bezos is silent on the death of democracy, despite owning a newspaper that claims otherwise.

Because there is no "death of democracy". I've heard this hysterical horseshit all my long life. Everytime a Republican wins the White House, it means democracy died. Funny that I heard it for Reagan, both Bushes, and now Trump, and yet we keep having elections and Democrats win the White House sometimes too. "Democracy Died" just means that you threw a tantrum because your candidate didn't win.

It's always same stupid fucking thing: if we don't stop them this time, it's over! Democracy will die! This is the most important election Evarrrr!!!.

The world keeps spinning. Elections keep happening. You win sometimes and you lose sometimes. You people have become the boy that cried wolf, and no one gives a shit anymore. No one outside of your hysterical sewing circles buys it.

Submission + - Students increasingly choosing community college or certs over 4 year degrees (cnbc.com)

DesScorp writes: CNBC reports that new data from the National Student Clearinghouse indicates that enrollment growth in four year degree programs is slowing down, while growth in two year and certification programs is accelerating:

Enrollments in undergraduate certificate and associate degree programs both grew by about 2% in fall 2025, while enrollment in bachelor's degree programs rose by less than 1%, the report found. Community colleges now enroll 752,000 students in undergraduate certificate programs — a 28% jump from just four years ago. Overall, undergraduate enrollment growth was fueled by more students choosing to attend community college, the report found. "Community colleges led this year with a 3% increase, driven by continued rising interest in those shorter job-aligned certificate programs," said Matthew Holsapple, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center's senior director of research. For one thing, community college is significantly less expensive. At two-year public schools, tuition and fees averaged $4,150 for the 2025-2026 academic year, according to the College Board. Alternatively, at four-year public colleges, in-state tuition and fees averaged $11,950, and those costs at four-year private schools averaged $45,000.

A further factor driving this new growth is that Pell Grants are now available for job-training courses like certifications.

Comment Re:is headline supported by data? (Score 2) 171

The important metric needs to be how well served the people are. Average speeds do not represent that as is made obvious here.

If you make it a pain in the ass to use busses and trains, then people will just go back to cars. Either buying their own, or renting per ride via Uber or something. If you're going to use a bus, then you're just going to have to accept that it's slow mode of transport. But it still beats walking in the snow.

Comment Re:Mossad operatives (Score 1) 131

the goal is to locate and snatch mossad / CIA operatives that are attempting to raise mayhem in the country.

Yes, because it's completely a conspiracy and not at all a reaction to decades of iron-fisted rule. Iran was a happy land of lollipops and rainbows until now. The people love the Ayatollahs.

Comment Re: The Simplest Answer. (Score 1) 131

Like these have? https://www.amnesty.org/en/lat...

The US does not care. Trump does not care. He just wants to misdirect away from the Epstein Files.

Yeah, the president that just bombed the fucking country in question doesn't care about Iran, it's all just a conspiracy to misdirect something else.

What would count as proper concern to you? A boots on the ground invasion to take out the Ayatollahs? We've sanctioned Iran, bombed them, attacked and killed their proxies at every turn. Just what are you wanting us to do to prevent those executions?

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