Or talking Catholics out of supporting child molestation

The only people who don't balance the budget are Republicans, the only people you don't hold accountable are Republicans, here's your map clown

The government doesn't even want to inspect lettuce, stupid maggot.

You would think the red states whose bills we pay could feed those people instead of driving them out and having them come here, but if you did, you would be pathetically wrong.

We cannot feed the whole fucking country unless we get to stop sending Uncle Sam our hard earned money so he can give it to Israel and blow up fishermen with it

I'll admit I haven't been following the play-by-play; I generally tune out ads. Anyone know the nature of this "previously unknown exploit"? A misconfigured (disconfigured) service is my guess. I saw a package manager mentioned.

Google maps is basically half ads and you can't make them just fuck off, they keep popping up. I'm looking up mileage, I don't need restaurant recommendations.

There is context there you are willfully ignoring, but since ignorance is the basis of racism that's not surprising

Yes, refusing to vote for Harris because of Israel was just voting for faster genocide with no hope whatsoever, so people who did that are stupid.

But I also understand losing hope.

Harris couldn't even bring herself to condemn genocide even though she clearly knows that's what it is, she ALMOST did but her campaign made it very clear that she did not.

So no, Harris is still crap. And yes, I voted for her, because I'm not a fucking moron and I know how first past the post works. But I didn't do it because I wanted to. I just didn't want to vote for the worst person imaginable.

I'm planning on another Moto phone. Too bad about the prices of everything or I would have bought a newer one already. This is a Moto G Power 2021 and it's only now becoming somewhat inadequate. (And only because devs waste RAM...)

Parents have been failing harder as the rate of progress accelerates. A lot of them didn't actually want kids, they were just brainwashed into having them, and it shows. Most of them, it seems like.

They would get data on resale as the IDs show up in different accounts

Right! That's exactly it. I was part of "Gen X" myself, and while I had friends who lived the whole "latchkey kid" lifestyle to the max? It really wasn't the norm to just be unsupervised all day or night.

I remember my folks both worked, but my mom went to working only part-time, early in the morning until around the lunch hour, when we were younger. She hired an older lady as a part-time nanny for us while she was gone. When we got older, mom was always home by the time school let out - so we barely knew she was ever gone.

And also true that even for the teens I knew who had a house to themselves after school each day until bedtime? Their parent(s) weren't just buying them electric motorcycles or any of that like you see going on today. Obviously, the Internet wasn't anything like it is today. Even as a hard-core computer geek though? I called and ran my own computer bulletin board system where it was just really a local niche community of like-minded people dialing in with modems. Most heated arguments that came up on a BBS got squashed when the BBS operator decided he had enough and banned all of them. It just wasn't *anything* like what goes on now where people get video-recorded against their will in high resolution just so someone can get famous on TikTok, or ?

You have lost all sense when you are arguing no one should be upset if you wipe your ass with a Picasso. It's a ridiculous example, but you are clearly a ridiculous person

Rei: Do you actually work for Amazon in a capacity where you're informed on how they're obtaining these books?

I'm asking for a couple reasons.

1. We all know Amazon has plenty of money to be able to afford to buy rare, out-of-print books that are difficult to obtain. I'd be surprised if they refrained from doing so if that meant their AI risked not having some of that knowledge/information while a competitor's did. I'm not saying the guy tasked with being manager over the disposable labor doing the book scanning is authorized to make direct choices about what books to buy. I'm saying someone in Amazon corporate, in charge of the AI project itself, was probably given the funding to buy what he/she felt was needed.

2. The original article's anonymous interview with the low-level worker sounded very accurate with such statements as the details/orders changing daily and everything feeling disorganized. I can speak with some authority that that's exactly how it feels when you work for them in a non-management capacity. Multiple layers of management are dictating new processes or policies in a constant stream, and then often? The entire thing is up-ended when top level management makes a company-wide decree or mandate. Your team lead/manager is even liable to change on short notice. Their push to constantly "reinvent" causes a whole lot of reinventing of the same wheel another department or team already invented, and it's kind of a zoo. That's why I'd also take their comments as legit when they express concerns some of the books appeared to be obscure titles, etc.