I once had to pay $250 for just a 15-minute conversation with a doctor. With insurance.

They don’t need another selling point!

Jellyfin isn’t too demanding. I’m still running my whole media stack on a Raspberry Pi 4.

Unsurprisingly, ESG is yet another Republican bogeyman.

I can count on one hand the number of jobs or functions I’ve seen people try to get AI to do that isn’t already done better by a hard-coded program or an Excel spreadsheet.

I don’t want this community, or any community on Lemmy for that matter, to become a lucrative platform for advertisers. If someone wants to promote their own product that they made, they should have some credibility as a real person beforehand. Not a brand-new account trying to sell a subscription to an app that’s essentially still in open beta.

Essentially expanding the gig economy to the trades.

That situation sounds an awful lot like when Uber and Lyft first started enshittifying during COVID.

That’s a lot of text to not be including any links to sources. Whatcha got?

Though I will concede that a government conspiracy to remove an outspoken public figure advocating for not-capitalism in the 60s isn’t unheard of.

Voting machines are airgapped in polling places. Patches are most likely deployed from a centralized patch management server wherever they’re stored in the off-season, likely also on an airgapped network.

It’s been proposed for age verification too, but shockingly it doesn’t seem to be a priority.

Of course. Corporations have shown time and time again how much they’re willing to spend to not pay people. Why pay an influencer when you can grow your own for ten times the cost?

There’s also that privatized power grid that’s never been a problem

They become another LastPass.

The people trying to profit from AI really want us to focus on the water usage because they have these rebuttals ready to go.

Notice they don’t have one for the power consumption, pollution, noise, or any other drain local resources.

Nah, Pritzker has been pretty good about enacting policies that are actually meaningfully effective. He’s likely prepping for a 2028 presidential run, but he’s still getting good stuff done in Illinois.

Meta hires enough veterans and enough of their employees are also in the Reserves and National Guard to explain to them exactly why they shouldn’t do this.

I remember when Trump said the was going to do something about companies abusing H1Bs. I’m sure he’s still working on it…any day now.

Whatever happened to that executive order Trump was so excited about, that said this exact same thing?

Pay for them with what money? More taxpayer-funded handouts?