won't happen. In the US our "representatives" are owned by the corporations.

Even if that profit is derived by harming citizens.
- 1st rule of crony capitalism

$50K per year is $24 dollars per hour. Since your self employed, you have to pay 100% of your SS/Medicare taxes (there's no "employer" to pay 1/2) plus the 15% self employed FIT. That's (c) $7K in MC/SS + $6K in fit. That leaves you with $37K net (less if you had to buy something to be an "influencer") or about $17.75 per hour..... AND your working 2 jobs at 60+ hours per week.
BTW, my 26 year old son makes $90K per year working for a city parks department. No college, full city paid benefits and a pension, at 40 hours per week. So, ya. keep side hustling.
I personally wouldn't get out of bed for $25/hour. I broke that level back in the early 1990's, and it's been up ever since.

If Trumpy and company were that concerned about Russian Hacking, perhaps the should not have cut CISA's budget by 3/4 of a billion dollars. https://www.afcea.org/signal-m...

Nothing new here, it's been going on for years. But it gives Lord Trumpkin and his butt sucking lackies another talking to point to distract from the Epstein files.

I hate lame ass chicken shit comments from "cowards". They're like the dirt bag kids who sit in the back and throw spit balls thinking they're cool... they never were cool, and and grew up to be rejects. karma's a bitch dirt bag.

Don't be so self self righteous. "Humans" were bought and sold in every country, on almost every continent in the past. Every race, every color had slaves. Slavery was the dominant economic model before feudalism. Slaves were one of the "spoils of war".

Ironic that in the "Land of the Free", the citizenry are provided much fewer protections from predatory corporations than in the EU. In this era, "freedom" means corporations are free to pillage the citizenry. Meanwhile the President is free to enrich himself by billions in a single year, by ripping off "investors" in blatant crypto scam payola, while the rest of the country go backwards in affordability. Vote in a rapist, convicted felon, conman, don't be surprised when acts true to form. Remember the feckless GOP spent 2 years holding hearings over Hunter Bidens "corruption" and "influence peddling", then when it comes to outrageous unconstitutional enrichment from the oval office by a "republican", the GOP is silent, worse, protects the orange felon.

Adobe stock is down 48%+ over the past year.
They're absolutely scrambling for anything. So they're jumping on the AI meme.
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-...

I was going to say something similar. AI companies today are cash furnaces. The kicker is the data center spend will never decrease due to the need for complete replacement every few years. (Mark Cuban said they are "shitting money at scale"). The only way they get profitable is to increase end user cost by an order of magnitude. That just won't fly. Look at any new paradigm shifting technology - first generation companies are never successful. It's the 2nd or 3rd generation companies 15-20 years from now that will provide amazing products and services we haven't even dreamed up, that are built on the carcasses of 1st gen companies.. Those will be wildly successful.

Remember when we used to mock this?
It's still mock-worthy...

ya... batteries around fire... Great idea - concentrated energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is exactly what we're doing. Ripping VMware out and replacing with ProxMox. We found a vendor that provides support (for 1/3 the cost of VMware) and is willing to train the staff as well. We got migration, training and support for less than Broadcom's annual maintenance quote.
The reason they (Broadcom) did this is clear, Hock E. Tan, Broadcom's CEO is the 4th highest paid CEO @ $767M / year.

Given that electrical power is needed to generate sound, but water pressure is constant, makes the change to sound nonsensical. If a fire in the electrical panel or a fire takes out electricity or the fire department turns off the power to fight a fire, where will the sound come from?

Jesus Christ, this story literally came out in 2017: https://globalhealth.washingto...
Later, (still like 6 years ago) intellectual troglodytes in congress tried to make the claim the CO2 is good for plants because they need to grow. https://www.eenews.net/article...
This is why we can't have nice things.