Middle class incomes in the top 50% (inflation adjusted) increased by about 2.5% from 2019 to today. While the 1% saw a 5.3% increase in wealth over the same period. The bottom 50% stagnated, losing about 0.1%, while simultaneously finding essential goods and services increased in cost beyond what the inflation rate would suggest.
So yes, the rich are getting richer.
Since Rockstar has yet to officially announce a PC version, "this deal will allow Xbox to market its Xbox Cloud Gaming service to PC players who would otherwise need an Xbox Series X / S or PS5 console," The Verge reported at the time.
As we recently discussed here, it won't allow that, whether because they didn't get the rights or because they decided not to do so. I would of course bet on the former, because R* wouldn't want the competition and they are not run by idiots.
Anyhoo, I wonder whether this version of the game will work on Linux. They have historically had a lot of problems with cheaters, which I have both been harmed by and benefited from at different times — when the big cash cheat was happening, they did take away most of the money that was given away, but they let people keep the vehicles and properties they'd purchased. They might well be tempted to utilize kernel-level anticheat, and I don't have Windows on my primary PC at all any more so that would be a hard deal breaker.
R* doesn't need my money, but anyway, they certainly won't get it if I can't run the game. The game probably won't run worth a shit on Steam Deck no matter what, and I imagine that the predictable effects on their decision making process won't be beneficial to me.
My epitaph once Krasnov sells us out to the Neo-USSR.
Even in the USA, it is illegal to use unpaid interns as replacements for paid workers.
I had a coworker at Cisco in Santa Cruz (formerly the office was TGV, which they bought) who commuted from San Francisco who was an intern who absolutely did the work of a "real" employee. However you think the world works, whatever the laws are supposed to accomplish, this is reality.
- The computer automated the work of accountants and mathematicians and a million other office jobs.
It didn't eliminate either of those jobs.
Now, what exactly is the difference again?
You'll know eventually.
Do you support "palestine" to the detriment of the your own country and the civilized world?
That's not how anything works.
NEVER AGAIN was supposed to be FOR ANYONE.
If they can do it to the Palestinians, they can do it to you.
This all works in exactly the opposite of the way in which you want people to think it works.
Why exactly is that? How do you profit from promoting genocide?
If you were an NPC, how would you know? Besides your comments being posted as AC, I mean.
I didn't and don't but of course their excuse will be that this is the transitional period, and we have to wait for those jobs to materialize.
And there is a kernel of truth to it, in that if it were going to happen, it would take time to happen completely.
Ofc it's not going to happen, this is fundamentally different from prior shifts and it will only result in a net decrease. This would be a good thing if the wealthy didn't hoard all the wealth... Such as if we had the balls to take it. But, too many simps.
The upper end for AI-pilled companies is paying upwards of $7,500 / seat a month. Which would get you some engineer or managers in most parts of the country, or multiple lower level employees. I have no idea what Kroger pays for their AI, but if they think that AI eliminates thousands of jobs then they are using frontier AI at the aforementioned rate. Or they have made a terrible blunder and are going to be short handed.
Most likely they are not using AI for much of anything but don't want to publicly take responsibility for cutting jobs to trim their expenses. Pure accounting trick with a little AI-flavored PR.
Mozilla hasn't been an industry leader for many years. Chrome now dominates. Mozilla has tried everything but giving us what we want.
What the actual fuck, I wrote penal and Google autocorrected it to penalties. Hey dickheads, penal is a word too
They can have interns, they work without pay, so as long as they don't assert actual ownership they could have people playing slave.
Only governments and their contracted penalties facilities are actually allowed to enslave people in the USA.
They want all interactions to be useful for training so they are just banning unuseful interactions. They think that's going to get them out of their slump.
Meanwhile people are silently reinstalling Windows or buying Macs due to the constant flamewars.
We don't need the weakest members of the herd anyway.
The amount of dead distros on distrowatch from protest forks that last a few months is shocking
No, what's shocking is the number of distros period. What a spectacular amount of wasted effort.
LLMs cannot competently review LLM results. That claim is a pure hallucination.
GP acknowledges this in his closing.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
