Keep in mind that the PA is in direct opposition to Hamas and is the Israel backed “government” of the Gaza strip, even though Hamas basically took control away from them in various areas.
The reason that is important is so people don’t conflate that the PA = Hamas. It is basically an overt threat to an innocent group of people that the Israeli government themselves officially back. Israel even officially funds them.
Starts at 12:55 for anyone that wants to get right to it.
Though Pelosi should have taken this as an opportunity to talk about how poorly Trump handled the epidemic and promoted false information instead of taking the childish and weak way out of personally attacking her for making the point their opponents always make.
Frankly, Pelosi’s saddling both sides but still criticizing pro-Palestinian – or perhaps I should say, pro-Humanitarian protestors was weak and propagandizing. She basically said ‘I don’t hear them considering the Hamas who are terrorists’ when obviously they have and it is a tired irrelevant counter-point when the issue here is the actual innocents, including many women, children and aid workers; as well as the blockade of humanitarian efforts and lack of accountability from the US to Israel.
She did a bad job here on both points, IMO. There’s no reason we couldn’t fund our ally while putting constraints on it like “you have to do x, y and z while reducing collateral damage to x and following LOAC while allowing UN inspectors at their discretion” but even if that’s done now, I think it is too late as far as history will be concerned. This will be a black mark. Though we should do the right thing now and save as many innocent lives as possible and broker peace (which we also aren’t doing).
For the big products, I think Google Assistant will be next followed by barely doing anything further with Android Auto until it dies a few years after GAS starts getting pushed out while it probably either won’t or will stop supporting ‘legacy’ Android Auto apps, so AA dies ‘because developers aren’t supporting apps anymore – totally not our fault and we’re sorry to see this happen.’
Former Googlers have always said that the big issue with sustaining products at Google is that it is highly competitive and Google rewards new products, not sustaining current products. So, most people want to continuously join/form teams for new products leaving little resources for current products. This has been the way since Google started becoming a large company – so decades now.
This makes sense as to why Google puts out applications that seemingly do the same thing as something else but ever so slightly different and why there are sometimes cool new products that die on the vine years later and if there was no slightly different thing available it just dies or if there is then there is a half-assed migration.
In the Reddit AMA the Google Home team answered a few questions and only the very few softball ones. One interesting comment they made though is that because of the Nest products and generally new products, they believe it is a challenge to support the older hardware, including integrating Google and Nest hardware, so basically you get features removed to make it all work. Of course, there was the promise and supposed internal roadmap that puts these features back eventually, but we’ve seen that kind of promise over and over from Google and it rarely happens. They are trying to replace Assistant with their Gemini AI which you can do now but it comes with even less features (but parity is coming – they promise!..one day!). Is that parity with current Assistant which seems to be supporting less and less and working worse?
Google is losing a lot of consumer trust in products I think and it’s going to get worse for them as this trickles to the general consumer-base.
Looks like the graph from Gallup that I cited a few months ago in this post, though this one is updated. Though you should also combine that with Gallups data here around the same period where you can see though people as a part of that survey were identifying as Dem/Dem Leaning or Rep/Rep Leaning, specific parties affiliation shows a different picture (I cited that one here).
What I took away from that, that people that were Dem Leaning/Rep Leaning weren’t necessarily considering themselves as a part of either party but between 41 (2020) and 45% (2023) considered themselves Independent instead of identifying as an actual member of either caucus: Reps 30% (2020) and 27% (2022) vs. Dems 28% (2020) and 27% (2022).
I can post some sources but this is a bit misleading. There has been a significant drop in registered Democrats and Republicans over the last decade. There are more Independant registered voters than before. As a matter of fact the percentages flipped from being just under 30% as registered Independant to about 45% or so.
The “leaning” Democrat and Republican have stayed about the same and fairly even split but they aren’t “shifting to the Republican party”.
Since it looks exactly like the chart in the sources I’ve cited in the past here in the Fed, I’m sure the article (I didn’t bother looking at an archive to bypass the paywall) cites the same source that will show anyone that looks the truth.
A 30% cut for steam games sold on steam and a 0% cut for steam keys sold by the publisher wherever they want with the caveat that they must give steam users the same sales at around the same time. They get their games hosted on Steam’s industry best CDN, a page with support for images and videos, an API with features users like, workshop API for mod hosting and delivery, and other SteamWorks API stuff for stuff like multiplayer, patch management without charging a fee for it, forum hosting to hit the highlights. Pretty much all of that drives engagement and is mostly turn-key though you do have to programmatically interact with their API when it makes sense.
Steam provides a lot of benefit for a 30% cut of what is sold on their store front and a lot more benefit for getting all of the above for a 0% cut if they sell steam keys outside of steam.
Uh violating First Amendment rights? The parade organizers are a private entity not the government. It’s too bad a representative in state legislature doesn’t understand the Constitution.
Also
Basabe responded, writing, “You have no right to exclude me, not as an individual nor as an elected official, nor may you attempt to set me up again with a bogus ‘public safety claim.’ I have always attended this parade peacefully.”
So he’s saying the security/safety claim is bullshit.
He also accused organizers of allowing “extremist” protesters “to agitate the crowds and incite violence against me for political purposes” during last year’s parade.
Now he’s saying it isn’t.
I thought the GOP was all about private entities refusing service to whoever they want and in a bigger sense less regulation from the ‘nanny’ government. I guess that only applies when they are being ‘discriminated’ against.
many in Washington wondered how they would be able to govern effectively with one of the slimmest majorities in history
Through diplomacy and compromise I’d imagine.
Truth Social where he is most active is owned by Trump Media and Technology. Right now SCOTUS is considering a case in court that may determine whether social media companies and websites in general can just ban people with differing opinions as a private entity or not.
In I’d say the first 10 years in my adult career, I definitely hated that. At about the 10 year mark I changed my entire perspective on things. I just changed to the mindset that employment is a two way business decision. I knew that I could leave at any time and I know they can make me leave at any time. So, I became much more independent. I make my own meetings with others when I feel I need to. I only attend meetings I feel like matter, which cuts a lot of them out. I do great work and I specifically build relationships with everyone I interact with. In all of my positions at all of the companies and projects I’ve worked on, I basically cut my manager out of everything. I set my own boundaries and make my own decisions. I will not do something that I don’t want to do. I will not work hours that I don’t see as reasonable for whatever I’m doing and I will have a good work-life balance.
My job has been threatened from time to time but I just shrug and say “that’s your decision but it doesn’t change mine” but I usually have a great reputation everywhere for being the guy that can ‘do anything’ and ‘get it done’. I’ve had directors and once a VP force a rewrite of my manager’s performance of me because I basically tell them I’ll just leave if my performance rating isn’t what I expect it should be from what I produce. It takes about 6 months, sometimes a little longer at a new place to get that sort of political capital for me.
Basically, taking control of my own work-life has made me a lot more money, given me a much better work-life balance (I rarely work over 40 hours a week) and has made my actual time at work much more productive and enjoyable. I’ve empowered myself and it is fucking great.
Most of your direct managers aren’t really going to let you go (except perhaps mandatory lay-offs) if you’re very productive because you’re effectively making them look good and advancing their career. If they do, then fuck’em, you shouldn’t be there anyway because you’ll always be held back and treated poorly for your efforts. You don’t have to actively search for jobs always but shooting your resume out to places from time to time, especially as you build your professional network can be very beneficial. If you have a good offer, demand they match it somehow – either in money or benefits of some type. If they don’t then just take the offer.
When management knows that you can and will leave and you’re productive, it changes the whole dynamic for you at work.
I know some people take the opposite path and do the bare minimum they have to in order to keep the job but I think having control over what you are doing, when you are doing it and having actual leverage in negotiating your pay whenever is much better for you. When they know you don’t need them, they’ll pay you better and just let you do your thing. The 80/20 || 90/10 (depending on how mismanaged your org actually is) rule is real. Be one of the 10 || 20 and show them you know it.
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Man jokes about “good sex” being key to his 47 year marriage.
Conservatives: Rage while putting a thrice married rapist on a pedestal of morality supposedly “chosen by God” and what-not.
Yeah you can use any executable but hh is just short and in everyone’s path.
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Also the beeping will be annoying.
Don’t worry, he’ll end up still having enough funds for a legal defence after the RNC is backrupt due to it. We will find out in 5 years or so that it turns out Russia backed his funds for legal defense and some loans or something. He’ll say it was due to a ‘great business deal because Russia are great business people, maybe the greatest’ due to like a $500 million ‘business’ deal to put Trump’s name on a random warehouse out in the middle of Siberia.
I would have been your hype man if I saw that for sure.
YouTube, Facebook, forums and pretty much any echo chamber. Pretty much anything that has replaced AM radio and shitty newsletters. In the ~2020’s also parroting politicians – I’m sure I don’t need to go over the last 4 years of examples, so how about the Bowling Green massacre that never happened?
It is crazy that the GOP is seriously trying to impeach a person for just doing their job because they know they won’t get the support to impeach President Biden but they want to ruin someone’s career over political bullshit because they have nothing to show of their governance for far too long.
The conservative strategy has been to polarize politics in America in order to have a very aligned power. This means that if you aren’t 100% behind them, then you are an enemy to them.
It is only through this that the GOP can both say that they are protecting individual freedoms but limiting or taking them away (of course opponents to this will be quick to point out the one and only counter point which is fighting against restrictions of the 2nd Amendment and only that), say that they are for smaller government but yet want private companies to be regulated that attempt to censor hate and misinformation (which has nothing to do with the 1st Amendment when it comes to non-government entities) yet still say that they are for businesses to operate as unrestricted as possible. They are anti-union because they are corrupt and take away accountability yet strongly support the worst of the worst of unions – the police unions. The GOP constantly cries that there’s a nanny government, yet they push laws to restrict people’s choices, censor libraries and try to tear down citizen protections. The GOP cries that this country’s deficit is out of control but when they are in power, they over spend. They complain that public schools indoctrinate but at the local and state levels attempt to indoctrinate in public schools. They talk about needing to stay in power to turn America around, yet when empowered in all three federal branches fails to pass meaningful legislation and run the government that they are overseeing and yet blame the government because they will eat each other alive for their own individual gains.
There so much more but the GOP is a party of hypocrites. Without polarization mixed with some fear mongering their party would likely cease to exist with any real power because they do not stand for the ideals that their own voting base supports.
The GOP constantly tries to create an environment of being constantly under attack and spews hate. Their voter base is simply a product of that.