During Iron Curtain times, I had an airliner conversation with a retired 1930s-40s emigre who was looking at going back to Poland with his wife for retirement, for low cost of living and especially health care.

To be fair, autocorrect, at least in my environment, tends to make the complained-of substitution.

These unseen minions are penguins! And they fly under the radar because they don't need to fly at all.

Here's the article's actual answer to the question (not in the summary): "âoeThe most affected jobs are secretaries, are routine clerks,â said Michelle Yin, one of the working paperâ(TM)s authors. âoeTheyâ(TM)re not computer scientists or data scientists at all.â

There are times in the kitchen, that I wish I had an IBM card saw to get things off baking sheets. I believe that I still have a CPU cabinet top "IBM System 360" aluminum slab sign. For a while, IBM even sold office chairs (OEM'd from Steelcase). I used one for years.

1.4 trillion is an insane amount for damages, but if this is what it takes to cull Meta, then let's go baby! And you don't have to worry about Tiktok, as that's under control: Ellison and his ilk are already hard at work pumping MAGA full of god and country in the hopes that they will love Israel again.

100,000,00 Guinea Pigs thus has its 1933 direction of muckraking reversed. This book was on my RN grandma's bookshelf, and I devoured it when I was young.

The technical side of Broadcom have some excellent people and technology. The business side, however, after Hock Tan, are grotesque lamprey/scorpion hybrids. Direct experience.

It's a bit more complicated that that I think. Youtube has a lot of really good stuff on it, a lot of it educational or sometimes just entertaining without being dumb (mostly stuff from a decade or so ago). I know that most videos on the platform is dumb clickbait, brainrot and now AI slop, I know that youtube bosses themselves desperately tried to turn the platform into brainrot central like tiktok but they haven't quite succeeded. Youtube has a lot of videos, even if 0.5% of everything there is useful that's still an awful lot of useful stuff, and it would be doing a disservice to children to ban access to that.

For X, Facebook, Instagram, absolutely ban them, I'd also ban them for adults as well, just legislate the fucking things out of existence. Also, is bluesky on the list of banned platforms? Because it absolutely should be. Like I said though, youtube has redeeming features. Twitch as I understand hosts a lot of gaming content which is the sort of things you'd expect children to enjoy. So a blanket ban on everything that looks like social media is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Maybe a good solution would be to allow playing youtube videos but in embedded form only. You find a link to a video via google or whatever else, when you click on a link, it plays but you don't have access to comments or the recommended videos or suggested 'play next' videos or anything else, the video just ends. If you try to go to youtube.com or whatever local site it's blocked.

"This is because Texas is what anthropologists call an oral culture. That means Texans don't read much." --Molly Ivins

"Dead ! And yet there he stands ! That other one earlier I emptied a full clip into him." -- Plan 9 From Outer Space

Is Russia in the room with us now? And was this all it takes for you to remicrowave this ancient dig at Snowden as being russia-aligned as if his passport was not cancelled by the US govt when he was in moscow?

People are now too poor to buy drugs they could have overdosed on.

1973 (Nixon signed it) brought the Comprehensive Employment Training Act, funding positions in state and local government and non-profits, intended to train high school students, low income, and unemployed toward marketable skills. At the time, I worked for a school district (mainframe operator / programmer). Our unit had several CETA trainees pass through (operator, keypunch data entry, clerical), and it seemed to be of mutual benefit. CETA

Fat content of most modern billionaires is too low to be graded any higher than Cutter/Canner. Also, many modern billionaires show evidence of brain prion disease from unorthodox longevity therapies.

Prescient ad for a now-dead bank: Washington Mutual: Head Scan