GreenToad5

There is no KKK. There are several dozen. They generally aren't very organized and don't really Burn buildings and flip over cars like Antifa and BLM. You of course know that they aren't classified as a terrorist organization. Some call them that, yet these same people often won't say the same about left wing groups we see doing 95% of the violence and destruction.

Why would any paying customer use ReactOS over windows? There is no support (security patches automatically supplied ETC). Windows 10 is evergreen and new feature appear quite often. Microsoft loses exactly zero dollars a year because of ReactOS. People who don't want to pay for windows just pirate it. Those who do pay, get it buldled with a computer or laptop that they purchase, or are corporations who need support. ReactOS will always be a tinkerers hobby... Did they steal code? Did they reverse engineer so good that it looks like they stole code? Who cares really... Not Microsoft. Why would they?

What does this mean exactly? It is easy to say an electric car is more fuel efficient, the energy is expended somewhere else. Same with hydrogen fuel cells. I think the most likely thing that will happen is increased usage of the stored energy methods mentioned above, and smaller gasoline engines. It's not easy to just make an engine more fuel efficient. You think people haven't been trying to do this since the combustion engine was invented? Never mind that electric vehicles having smaller carbon footprints over their lifetime heavily depends on the electric power source (in some cases they produce more carbon). BTW, Japan has a great mass transit system that most people use so the actual carbon difference in the next 30 years from this law is highly suspect. I get it - we have to do something right? This is not the answer. We need something better.

I still feel that silencing someone is unhelpful. Why not let their claim stand? if outrageous - let it be handily refuted with logic and data and them made to look foolish. This is far more effective then silencing someone who then becomes a martyr. I also find it interesting that people on the far opposing side, those who come in with raw pay gap numbers whilst shouting "discrimination", they seem to always get a pass? Pay inequality has been well known since WW1, but all except a tiny portion of actual discrimination has been repeatedly dis-proven since the 1980s. Still huge numbers of people still parade the societal discrimination mantra proudly. People and parties run elections on it. Classes in prominent universities are taught preaching it (based on a few personal accounts, court cases and raw un-ajusted statistics). It is almost a religions justice objective for many to fix the unprovable wrongs of a system. Those are the people I often see shouting down the logical thinkers and data analysts.

Why do comments here suggesting that there are compelling arguments concluding that adjusted wages are nearly identical get flagged and down-voted? There is certainly a debate to be had, silencing the other side suggests weakness of one's own position. I have never seen a good rebuttal against the adjusted wages are very nearly equal position. Things always get shut down, shouted down or otherwise silenced in some way. I would love to see direct claim-rebuttal positions taken with opposing reasoning and data.

If only they could develop some kind of machine learning AI tech that could make highly suspicious comments require approval.

I guess they just aren't sophisticated enough to do that... But I guess they must have AI that can identify kids in videos accurately (even 17 1/2 year olds).

Are they going to require an ID system so the age of everyone in the entire video can be verified? I guess 2/3 of YT vids will have comments disabled? What about all those super popular channels featuring family vacations? Not even documentaries can have comments?

I honestly don't believe that this headline is true, but if it is... Good opportunity for a YT competitor to spring up.

Just to go out on a limb here, I am guessing that the "one way" bit put a bit of a kink in their marketing efforts...

>"I worked these jobs while trying to support and educate myself so that I could get a better-paying job."

So did many of us. People are not supposed to have to support a family as a primary earner on minimum wage and they never were. According to the 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics, full time minimum wage earners earn over the poverty line by more than $3,000 per year. Two minimum wage earners can support a family of four and live above the poverty line. Avoiding poverty is all about choices.

>"At the same time, if 6-8 hours a day of Instacart deliveries isn't enough to provide you with an apartment, tuition money and food & entertainment for a wife and two children, then it's a service that shouldn't exist and it is only propped up by investor cash."

>"Because that is what minimum wage was originally meant to provide for an individual in America, before nearly a century of propaganda and misdirection convinced people like you that someone on minimum wage is lazy and doesn't deserve enough money to eat healthily, rent a decent apartment and have enough cash for some entertainment, and generally live better than someone in a third-world country, much less afford something like an annual vacation or car payments."

You have your facts quite wrong about the minimum wage and what it was originally meant to provide. The minimum wage was first enacted in 1938 by FDR. It paid a meager 25 cents per hour (this is $4 today when adjusted for inflation). So it has become substantially more generous as time has gone on. This is the opposite of your claim.

People in third-world countries earn less than a dollar a day. I'm sure they would love to earn even the 25 cents per hour that the original minimum wage paid.

Everyone I know that has been stuck in minimum wage jobs have definitely been lazy or made very poor choices (like stealing from their employer ETC.) in fact, only 3% of people above age 25 in the US make only the minimum wage.

Get the actual facts before making biased and factually incorrect claims (and cite sources when doing so). It really hurts your credibility to just make things up and try to sound like an expert so maybe no one will call you on it and you will appear to make a valid point.

Source: https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-of-minimum-wage/

If the facts that I stated are incorrect, cite your sources. If you wish to debate something I said... I welcome it.

You place yourself in a weak position philosophically and argumentatively simply going for the old dumb bully method of personal attacks, character assassination, shouting someone down, insults ETC.

Is that really the best you can do? I pointed out inaccurate information and information gaps in this story. This claim reeks heavily and obviously of major bias. I wouldn't be surprised in an Instacart competitor actually is behind this. It's sad that others in this thread didn't already do the same. The group think and blind social justice here is really sad. There are many people here far smarter than I, yet they cannot see when such a weak and slanderous smear attempt is made?

If you want to change the labor laws to make tips and wage separate then go ahead. But just know that every restaurant and service company in states that allow this do it. If a certain business doesn't, they will have a hard time competing against the company across the street who does.

This 80 cents an hour case is so factually incorrect and lacking specifics that you and others should frankly be embarrassed to be making judgments based on it.

You all are being duped into contrived outrage. The example given in the OP link is very misleading and it is quite obviously cherry picking (to spark emotion) and is actually an outright lie. The truth is that Insticart actually pays a $10 minimum per delivery (this isn't even mentioned in the OP link) So how did this person make 80 cents an hour? The delivery was 0.7 miles and took 69 minutes. Ironically, under Insticart's previous policy, this delivery person would have made essentially the same amount. People making deliveries in dense urban areas (especially during traffic hours) can actually make far more than they used to.

I am not sure why delivering 6 bags of groceries took over an hour in this case. It is entirely possible however that they made several other deliveries in between Wegmans and this location (making a $10 minimum for each). It is possible that this person actually made $50+ during this 69 minutes.

Source for more details of new policy: https://www.miamiherald.com/site-services/new-newsletters/bu...

So is not a typical scenario. I could put together an article just as misleading showing that Insticart pays a mint...

I don't like when people try to mislead me. Perhaps the fact that the tip is not going directly to the delivery person is offending some of your sensibilities. This is quite legal. Many states have done this for the past 80 years. I don't know how residents of states that practice this are surprised. All restaurants and other service industry locations you frequent do the same.

Being a food delivery person, a restaurant server or for that matter a McDonald's employee is not a skilled labor position and has never been a job someone should aspire to feed a family off of. We have people busting their butts, putting themselves through college, working their way up the ladder. We have 50k skilled labor jobs vacant in this country that pay a good wage and even offer training. People used to move across the country for these jobs. They used to leave their grandma's basement and go make something of themselves. Now we just have them making a bunch of noise over McDonald's not paying a Living Wage. Grow up. This world should not reward the lazy, it results in ever increasing mediocrity.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/605092520/high-pa...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2018/08/30/dirties...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/the-us-labor-shortage-is-rea...

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+us+has+vacant+skilled+la...

>It was a difficult event to capture, because putting a camera crew in would have ruined the mood.

Really? Why didn't they use hidden cameras and microphones then?

Yet other personal computers were being built in the U.S. at that time and it was somehow not a mess... Jobs was a great idea man for technology and UX, but not so good at many other areas (such as we see here with manufacturing). I know that this article is trying to make a case that the problem was the US culture ETC (pro globalism), but if that was the case... why were so many other so successful where Apple failed?

That isn't actually even close to what you said (very contrasting statements). 50% is quite horrible (I was not the one who down voted you, but I see others agree). BTW, mentioning your opinion of someone's "other comments" doesn't help your case either. It makes you appear desperate to cause a distraction or detraction.

So, a result that is statistically no more accurate than flipping a coin is acceptable to you? Large cultural shifts have been pushed on a large scale based on studies that may have no more probability of truth than flipping a coin and this is OK to build a society on? I couldn't disagree more.

It's not just the money from trade. It's the political power and blind self destructive yet predictable force of pride (saving face). Traditionally, the mainstream media and academia would be the rallying force behind this nation and it's citizens denouncing something like this. Both of these entities are now heavily partisan globalists whose ideals (along with greedy crony capitalists) have perpetuated this reality. To condemn this short sighted consequence would be admitting a flaw in their ideology which would cost them political power and even worse, to have to admit they were wrong. (Where is my progressive utopia hiding this time around?)

Strange how so many of us in the US that seem so compassionate toward immigrants (legal and illegal) and refugees and denounce any opposition in the name of compassion and love for all, the people who protest and boycott anyone that opposes their views. These are the same people who are buying iPhones and other things from China whose sales basically sponsor massive human rights violations like this.

Do we not realize what hypocrites we are? We are funding the very actions and ideals that we vehemently oppose. All of us Silicon Valley residents who are so supportive of inclusion, acceptance and rights... Many of us work for the very companies that sponsor the exact opposite values on over a billion people. And we claim that we aren't tribal nationalists? What are we then? Why are our strong moral convictions so geographically limited?

We should ask ourselves and anyone around us who claims to believe in a cause for freedom, rights and equality to please explain why our beliefs don't go beyond the boundaries of the United States (or other western countries). Is it fake virtue? Is it blind apathy created by materialism and greed? It is nationalism, stateism, racism ETC? What is it? Shouldn't there be stories about things like this in the liberal media on a daily bases. Liberal ideas don't apply to China apparently. I dare to think how China may be different today if for the last 18 months, the Mainstream media covered stories like this one in place of all the millions of largely fluff partition anti Trump ones. My opinion is that at the very least least a large amount of pressure would have been put on China to address at least some of this trend. Perhaps our country country would have found some common ground and actually moved toward a center on a least something. All the while helping millions of Chinese citizens at the same time.

How is ignoring this situation and actually sponsoring it financially ok with the average American citizen (regardless of party affiliation)?

Sad that American greed is funding this... It is only the beginning though. Us or our children will be in those camps (or ones like them) someday. All funded by our dollars for a bunch of materialistic crap that now (or soon) will be sitting in our landfills and oceans...

Government regulation? They can't keep themselves secure. There was just a post here a couple of days ago saying how vulnerable the DOD's systems are. How are they going to police others when they can't police themselves?

I work in the banking industry where security IS regulated (by the FDIC). We have government auditors come and review our technology once a year. These guys don't know what the hell they are doing. We have had blatant security problems (now addressed) that they couldn't see right in front of their nose. Community banks have terrible security. Larger ones are better, but still rife with problems.

I fail to see how government regulation and intervention has helped in my industry, or how it would help in any. If by regulations, you mean that we would get fined if some data got compromised, that already happens through negligence lawsuits. It is not an effective motivator though.

In my experience, the threat/worry of bad publicity is actually the best motivator in a company getting their security up to par.

I suspect by your great amount of traveling around that the problem is not the job market, but your difficulty integrating with society (even outside of any one culture) as a whole. I hope that you can find stability, at least up to your yearnings to travel and live life as a rolling stone. The first step is for you to realize that who you are and what you want to achieve are in conflict with each other. You have had some very low points it sounds like and have not yet changed. Perhaps you never realized that the problem is not with those around you, but within your own self. This is a very self defeating illusion.

This is interesting... So the government forcing "equality" was artificial then. People's hearts and minds hadn't changed. I would suggest that forcing solutions on people like equality of outcome are not actually solutions, but mere short sighted illusions. Once the balance of power changes to another group (as it inevitably has throughout history) the smoke and mirrors fade away and the society is left with the original problem, if not and exacerbated one. Now we have bitterness and grudges on both sides and worse relations than before. When I look at history, and then I look at many of today's social justice warriors, I don't have much hope that their methods are going to an actual net positive for either side in the long run. If there is any permanent change, what permanent damage will also be left on the society as a whole. This is not something that is easy to predict and as such is dangerous. Division is growing. Any society throughout history who have had ideologies forced on them have inevitably fought back en mass. Tribalism to this type of stimulus is inherent in humans. The only effective and lasting change that I have witnessed when studying history has been though discourse and discussion (two thing which are being suppressed today). Healthy and respectful discourse leads to concessions and increased empathy on both sides. Opposing enemies become humans to each other, deserving of respect and consideration. Disrespectfully ridiculing the other side's views with blanket classifications meant to silence and discredit the opposition's credibility (and humanity) are far too common today and will only serve to divide further.

It's marketing... demographics matter. Targeted ads are cost effective and efficient. What next? can't target women when advertising feminine products? or men when selling condoms? Are we really this bored to even be discussing this?

>Apple Music is said to soon overtake Spotify in the US

I don't see how. Apple users use Apple Music or Spotify. Android users use Spotify. Android has 80% of market share globally (though only 55% in the US) and their market share is increasing.

When we are talking about one-off drone attacks, sure there are counter-measures. if we are talking about WW3 and China's capability to produce millions of autonomous, AI driven drones per day? No, there is no effective counter measure.

There are many contributing factors to low birth rates.

1. Newer generation's extended adolescence

2. More selfish attitude (selfish with time and more materialistic than previous generations)

3. Lowered sperm count because of WIFI, Cell phones and ingesting large quantities of plastics and other chemicals, both from the goods imported from china and the pollutants in the air soil and water largely also from China.

4. High housing costs which are primarily caused by women now commonly working. A two income household can afford to pay much more for a home than the traditional one. So prices have risen to what people can commonly now afford (a sad affect of women giving up raising their own children, to essentially make nothing monetarily, but achieve a power that commonly splits their family apart from the resulting power struggle combined with the lack of co-dependence which traditionally incentivized parents to work through their problems at home, and consequently grow into better people with a satisfying relationship).

5. Kids used to mean status for women (and for men). Now it means you are a failure because you don't have a college degree and a career (very sad since raising a child to be a great person is actually the most important career that could ever exist. We are seeing the devastating affects in today's kids and young adults when child care programs raise kids).

The anonymous factor does allow people to voice their own thoughts without fear. It also allows people to lie without having their physical reputation damaged. They create new fake accounts if old ones become known to spread information. People take so much information that they read as gospel. Selective reporting and the use of loose "anonymous" sources by media outlets (who have become so partisan and biased in one direction or the other) have gone on to perpetuate this problem even further.

Are you serious? That is called censorship. Sure, don't let there be ads that reveal a candidate formerly ran a sex trade ring and is a pedophile ETC.