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[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 46 points 1 day ago

Poorly thought-out Facebook posts are forever; coverage of city council malfeasance from two years ago, not so much.

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Oh, and restoration of firearms rights.

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[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

I've enjoyed milk for the flavour and texture only once: the semester I lived across the street from a dairy. To this day, in the weird circumstance I have milk in the fridge for cooking, I shake it vigourously.

Much of it is about sourcing and practices. Raw milk is not inherently dangerous, and we'd be out a whole world of cheeses if they had to be made from pasteurized.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 19 points 5 days ago

Sure as fuck happened to journalism. Except they had the balls to offer buyouts instead of just saying "your service counts for nothing unless I see the back of your head every time I meander around with a coffee mug."

The truly absurd bit of it to me is absent Covid, already working remote for years would not have been a problem. I went remote in 2016, and there's no fucking way I'd be like "oh, the recent grads you hire to chew and spit out are an issue for remote? Sure, why don't I restart the pointless thing of driving for an hour and a half a day with concomitant fuel costs, having to choose my food for the entire day at 7 a.m. or paying four times as much, and generally being more surly in my personal life so that you, dear boss, can prove you have something to do?"

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I hate to go as cliche as "surprising absolutely no one," but really, this is not a surprise.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 12 points 6 days ago

How impressive this is will hinge on whether there were any shenanigans behind the demos. I find it difficult to take breathless announcements at face value given recent issues.

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[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

It's abundantly clear that we are not going to learn from history.

The really fucking ironic point is bin Laden's stated goal was to destabilize the U.S., and boy, howdy. No need to enumerate the problems stemming from that.

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Surely the clearest path to retaining only the best.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Shareholders and journalism do not mix. All this prevarication on the part of the Times stems directly from wanting to goose numbers sted committing journalism. And goosing is a time-honoured first step.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 33 points 2 weeks ago

Always the sign of a stable democracy.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

I had a great conversation with that professor, so a big part of the challenge was keeping the topic to "things a general audience likely doesn't know but could easily understand in context."

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[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's also then just one step removed from refusing to accept any friends or romantic partners who don't do exactly what you want at all times because life is supposed to be tailored to you.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

This is an education problem as much as -- if not moreso than -- a tech problem. Before the GOP gutted critical thinking wherever they held a majority and two generations were able to grow up under those circumstances, a video of any current president rounding up Christians would have been roundly rejected as either satirical or disinformation by the vast majority of the population, owing to the absurdity of the idea.

Once we got to the point of a not-insignificant minority of the population believing that the true power in the United States lies in the basement of a pizza shop with no basement ...

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

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From the story: Business groups opposed to the rule, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have said that the contracts are necessary to protect proprietary information and training, and justify investing in workers who might otherwise immediately jump to a competitor.

No employer in any field I've applied in since around 2006 has wanted to do any training beyond operating requisite proprietary vendor software. The expectation is that you're fully educated in all other skills that might ever be needed, preferably having worked in Rust for 63 years and internal-combustion-engine design since the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

Proprietary info has always been need-to-know and, where possible, distributed such that no one below the C-suite knows how all the parts interact, even as those same leaders have no functional understanding of how the parts actually act.

All noncompetes do is drive down wages.

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This looks like a replay of the Albertsons/Safeway merger, with way more stores being sold off to a company unaccustomed to the sort of volume that would make the deal work:

C&S Wholesale Grocers, a supplier to independent grocery stores and owner of a retail pharmacy and 23 supermarkets under the Piggly Wiggly and Grand Union banners, has agreed to acquire a total of 579 stores in a revised divestiture deal worth $2.9 billion.

So the new C&S would be 25 times its current store footprint. Wholesale experience could mitigate that to some extent, but just ask Haggen how suddenly growing by an order of magnitude worked out. The story covers the Washington-state chain completely devoid of context:

In addition, Kroger will sell its Haggen banner to C&S, and C&S will license the Albertsons banner in California and Wyoming and the Safeway banner in Arizona and Colorado.

Again, this is a repeat of what the last merger did in Oregon and Washington, except this time it ropes four additional states into the problem. And, if history is any sort of barometer, there will be systemic failures on the part of C&S that result in the merged behemoth buying back the divested stores for a pittance, creating the same problems they're claiming the new plan will solve.

With an additional hitch: As a wholesale distributor to 7,500 competing independent grocery stores, there's no reason to believe that relationship will survive as a new direct competitor.

Edited because I did some research and had a major error. C&S does operate retail locations well west of the Mississippi.

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 8 points 4 weeks ago

I went to school with a Palestinian woman when I first started at community college. Smart, friendly and aware of how the world viewed her. That we collectively assume these are terrorists because we're told to is rather a regurgitation of the three-fifths problem.

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How dare voters not want to pay 75 basis points on every purchase for decades to fund private enterprise!

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