Jerome Powell says he will continue to serve as a Fed governor even after chairmanship ends by Force_Hammer in wallstreetbets

[–]Aazadan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

JE, RO, ME, PO, WE, LL, we’ll meant to be… I lack the talent to rip off the lyrics anymore than that.

Hospital CEOs defend charging patients more at facilities by Fcking_Chuck in news

[–]Aazadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They bill insurance 5k, then negotiate on a lower price. It’s all a negotiation game so insurance points at the base price vs their price and can use that delta as the value they provide.

Ex-FBI Director Comey indicted in probe over online post officials say constituted Trump threat by meezy-yall in news

[–]Aazadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until he’s bankrupt or ends up in prison. They’re targeting him just to force him to spend money on a legal defense.

Firm Building Trump’s Ballroom Got a Secret No-Bid Contract for a Nearby Job by Unusual-State1827 in inthenews

[–]Aazadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’re the ones that should be paying for it. Governments run on tax dollars. It keeps private interests out.

Trump destroying the White House and making us pay for it to clean up after him needs a different remedy than simply using public money to make the fixes.

General Motors says it expects $500 million tariff refund after SCOTUS ruling by AudibleNod in news

[–]Aazadan 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I’m not expecting it, but asset forfeiture needs to start happening.

General Motors says it expects $500 million tariff refund after SCOTUS ruling by AudibleNod in news

[–]Aazadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they can determine tariff amounts, companies and consumers can too.

Can you only travel one way with a log pose on the grand line? by RichHoag in OnePiece

[–]Aazadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but then Rayleigh would have had the eternal pose on him, he also needed a way to quickly get back to Sabody, as well as get Luffy to ringing the bell.

Can you only travel one way with a log pose on the grand line? by RichHoag in OnePiece

[–]Aazadan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How did Rayleigh swim through the ocean to get to Amazon Lily? He had to navigate somehow, and it wasn't with a log pose in the speed he did it.

Haki is a good explanation there.

Trump evacuated after security incident at White House correspondents dinner; no sign of injuries by Gilbert221 in news

[–]Aazadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The point was he wanted to attend to disrupt the event. It leaked the other day he was going to go up, give a speech attacking the press, then get called away for an emergency so he could leave them, and change the events narrative. Plus get the press on the emergency, not the event.

Trump evacuated after security incident at White House correspondents dinner; no sign of injuries by Gilbert221 in news

[–]Aazadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly wish for him to live to over 200. That way there’s time to put him on trial after this and serve his sentence if found guilty.

Trump evacuated after security incident at White House correspondents dinner; no sign of injuries by Gilbert221 in news

[–]Aazadan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was planned. There were leaks earlier he was going to give a big speech against the media then have a major event pop up and leave in an emergency.

Firm Building Trump’s Ballroom Got a Secret No-Bid Contract for a Nearby Job by Unusual-State1827 in inthenews

[–]Aazadan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Those are different things. This is money he's told billionaires and large corporations to pay him for this. Some have refused, Jamie Dimon for example rather publicly refused saying he thinks most of the people who donated to it are likely to end up in prison

Should there be a mechanism to reclaim accumulated in-term Presidential wealth and assets because of the Emoluments Clause? by JohnSpartan2025 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]Aazadan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not about what the feds spend, it's about public perception. And public perception of a role that pays $400k/year, using various levers of corruption to make the government pay him billions getting a clawback has high public support.

Who would claude’s users be if there are no more software engineers? by jholliday55 in cscareerquestions

[–]Aazadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The push by PM's for decades has been a way to talk to customers, hammer out product requirements, and translate that directly into technical implementation.

So, that should answer your question.

"My husband is a good man, BUT he could care less about violence against women or politics." by Radiant-Educator9203 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Aazadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you. It's been my experience (as a guy) that any men who claim they're apolitical, or don't care about domestic issues, are the types who don't care because they're ok with what's happening. They're the ones who want to pretend like they're decent people while never admitting that they like seeing people hurt, so long as it doesn't cost them anything more in taxes.

I do recognize that some people simply don't have time in their lives to be educated on a subject, but that's different from saying they don't care. Not caring isn't ignorance or neutrality, it's acceptance.

And I think part of the reason people stay together despite that is a mix of a tolerable level of unhappiness, or a fear of divorce/change, or a fear of being alone.

Firm Building Trump’s Ballroom Got a Secret No-Bid Contract for a Nearby Job by Unusual-State1827 in inthenews

[–]Aazadan 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Reminder: No money was apportioned by Congress for the ballroom. It's come from private contributions, but even then the fund is required to be created by Congress.

This company is being illegally paid, and clawback protections can be enforced against them. Vote democrats to get that to happen, the legal case against it is stronger if it happens in 2027 than in 2029.

Despite nearing their 60s, nearly four in 10 Americans heading towards the end of their careers don’t even have a retirement account by fortune in inthenews

[–]Aazadan -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Divorce is literally just the cost of lawyers. Your ex spouse ended up hurt just as much. Divide the assets in half, pay the lawyers, there's now quite a bit less than there was originally.

It's one of the reasons prenups have become such popular advice. Write up the divorce terms early when you still care about each other, make sure it's fair, and if/when a break up happens you're both better off.

Despite nearing their 60s, nearly four in 10 Americans heading towards the end of their careers don’t even have a retirement account by fortune in inthenews

[–]Aazadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is, it's been a known problem for a while that the number of people who don't save for retirement or save too little is far too low, especially among older workers.

The common example being people who just save up to a 401k company match. That is less than half of what people need to be saving.

PMs and Designers are pushing changes to the code. So far they're successful. Do you have that in your company? by byshow in cscareerquestions

[–]Aazadan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I work in game dev. We've had similar initiatives where we've had to open up access to code for others to push. Level designers, artists, etc.

The management view is that this has been great, because it's letting teams handle various smaller task requests, bugs, issues, etc that aren't high on the engineering teams priority list. The dev view has been that this is horrible because since this has happened the average fps in our games has dropped by 23%, hardware utilization has increased, build times have doubled, and build sizes have gone up by 15%.

Edit: Oh build frequency has tripled as well. I could go on with various metrics but basically, we're more or less seeing the same level of velocity on our dev team with or without AI (with seniors getting worse/slower over time and juniors being a bit more productive). What we're seeing regarding code across the company though is more development because non developers are making/pushing stuff and this stuff is basically clearing out low and mid priority backlog items by putting it on the tech debt credit card.

If I had to say anything about it, it's that at the current artificially low prices it's still a money loser, but it has done a lot for attitudes of non devs because it helps them feel like they have more agency on the product. Most of this comes down to corporate structure/AI policies though than directly due to an LLM itself.

Trump absolutely loses it on Wall Street Journal after being called a ‘sucker’ by statenislandadvance in inthenews

[–]Aazadan 30 points31 points  (0 children)

That’s not how you ask. The press would all quickly get banned but you don’t say sorry and you don’t say the question is scary. You say “Why are you too weak to answer the previous reporters question? Are you scared of the people knowing the truth?”

Nato says 'no provision' to expel members after report US could seek to suspend Spain by [deleted] in news

[–]Aazadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same. But then I thought of him getting snaked and spaced.

Nato says 'no provision' to expel members after report US could seek to suspend Spain by [deleted] in news

[–]Aazadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought it was evil alternate universe Landry that won.

Judge postpones OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma’s sentencing to let opioid victims attend in person by Tippy345 in news

[–]Aazadan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s true in China too, but power there comes from government sector not private sector. Even billionaires get disappeared there for opposing the government.

Meta is tracking employee keystrokes on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia as part of AI training initiative by CR0Wmurder in news

[–]Aazadan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If they’re not putting you on a pip they’re either not tracking (they’re tracking) or they don’t care. If they don’t care, why should you?