LeoTinnitus

Believe it or not, there are more cities under 10-20k in the US than there are large metropolitan areas. In the area I'm in, you can only get a cab in the city. Good luck getting one 15-25KM outside of it.

Also being America, home of what feels like the home of capitalism which a lot of Europeans make it out to be, since the law only prosecutes you if you get caught, people take the risk. Because there is that cultural precedent, cab's don't bother competing cause nobody pays for it anyway.

Also for reference, you're only getting a cab in an area that is within city limits no further than like 5-10km outside of it. Any further, you're on your own.

You'd think that there'd be a "thriving" cab market, but cabs literally only exist in major cities. They do not exist in the places 20-30km out. Why would I go to those bars? Well...weddings, events, parties, where people live, etc. Also cabs charge out the ass so risking a DUI is oftentimes worth it. If you take a cab, you're out like $30-$50 bucks sometimes in those rural areas. If you get a DUI, in my state, it's like $150 for a first time offense. So in essence people drive normally, avoid main highways or take backroads where cops don't camp out.

This is what happens when the government regulates hospitals just like they do banks. At this point they might as well single payer the whole thing. It save everybody loads of time and energy. Not to mention the abhorrently massive data entry.

You can blame US law for that. Why not treat them like a prosecutor once they've reached a certain expertise or status? It keeps them from any absurd liability because it's guarded by the state. I'd like to ask why doctor is going to intentionally put someones life at risk cause they're lazy? Sure you'll find some in government work, but if it's government, they'll easily have oversight.

Most of the time when I interact with a doctor, they're just entering in information into a database.

Maybe we could bust this guild of ridiculous standards to maybe squeeze in a few others? I don't get why we gotta firstly work our doctors to death, and secondly ensure they are "the best." Seriously, sometimes "good enough" is just that. Just don't let junior doctors make critical decisions for people until theyve got a few years and show skill. I don't know, kinda like every other job. I'm not saying like let any schmuck do it, but any I crazy or is it not obsessive how high the barrier to entry is? That's bs purported by lobbiests and guilds of doctors trying to keep people out to keep their demand and wages high. It's the inverse of how a union (whereas this is a guild of skilled laborers not paying dues) abuse this.

Not often in Wisconsin. It's not uncommon to hear a news story of a person who has had their like 8th DUI.

It doesn't even phase me anymore to be honest.

However life back then was incredibly different. We can look at it in hindsight and judge it with the morality of today but that's somewhat unfair of how life was. I mean slavery was commonplace, death sentences for most crimes, and not really any "true" justice system.

Although as of today? Yes I totally agree.

I was kinda making a joke but here is the direct clip from Rocky.

https://youtu.be/WvAeWtyZ-uE?t=31

It's not some libertarian ideal saying companies should survive over people, it's if a large portion of the economy gets halted, other people will become impoverished too possibly leading to other devolving societal effects.

Remember that the black death cause such population decline among the peasants that the equivalent of wages increased dramatically. Artisans as well as they were skilled. Leftists always claim they want higher wages, well a dramatic death toll and innumerable job openings will put a massive premium on labor. Even bad labor.

I say that in reference to the type of job I like, not in the sense that I'm anti-social. Those jobs just never appealed to me. I've always worked with people who did those jobs, but they made it sound like you are constantly at the customers mercy. I always hated doing that type of work in like early retail stuff because I don't like the customer at my neck. I don't work well under pressure that way because I feel I can be overly objective in those scenarios.

I like programming and skill based roles. I like to come to as a resource and someone who is competent. I don't like being some faux salesman with no skills except how to talk to people. That doesn't have a realistic value to me and I can't drive myself to get better at...nothing.

I currently use Music Volume EQ for android and it works. It's annoying sometimes cause I may need to restart every once in a while or reinstall it, but it allows me to turn the equalizer at the lowest level, turn it on, and then listen to that base "quiet" as the new lowest level.

The podcast didn't mention where she got here DUI in. She was just applying to a company in California.

However I am from Wisconsin and I can vouch for that. DUI's are like misdemeanors, no matter how many felonies of them you've gotten. So long as "DUI" is after it and you're not doing a driving job, nobody cares.

That is never the case in the US. Imagine half the population size of your country, then space out the distance between where you are and everything else by 10 or more. The reason we drive everywhere isn't because we want to, it's because we have to. Driving is our second pair of legs basically because everything is a minimum 10-25KM away from everything...if not greater.

Take a German, but make his road from the bar to his house 20-25 KM away. Multiply it by 100,000 people in the same scenario. Now eliminate their public transport.

How many Germans do you think will take the risk of a DUI to drive home as opposed to walking? Granted not everybody is driving over the limit here, but a large majority of them are teetering at it. I mean I've done it, but I knew I had to drive so I held off and waited for some of the affects to subside. Still, I gotta get home, and a cab is not an option often times.

It's a cultural thing that we'd gladly get rid of, if we could afford the alternative of a robust public transport system. But we don't, so it's a risk people often take.

Yes absolutely and nobody is arguing that. What is an issue with the US is that we're a motor vehicle country and there is virtually no public transportation. Hell even cabs or ubers are non-existant in a large portion of the rural areas. So DUI's are kinda you're only option.

I actually live in Wisconsin where I probably can't count how many times I've seen on the news someone getting pulled over for their n'th DUI. It doesn't even phase me and the funny part is they never get jail time, major fines, or felonies.

It's what happened to the original SE. I lose like 20% battery on my original SE from 2 years use on iOS 13 just from web browsing for 30 minutes.

Apple has been making some just flat out awful design decisions in terms of their hardware for the past, what feels like a decade at this point but it's much shorter than that. While form can be greater than functionality, why would I ever want a phone that blatantly has printed on it "Planned Obsolescence?" The things I care about on an iphone are not "the best processor" out there. I want efficient ram usage and long battery life. Ram was never an issue with iOS so they just needed a great battery. What did they give us? A better processor...that's going to drain the battery in a year with the next iOS update because they keep pushing software updates that demand more of the system. I won't be shocked if malware get's into iphones any time soon showing how lazy they've been with MacOS in the last few years.

Why not just use a dedicated Linux burner computer booted on a flash drive? Then all files are fair game.

Just my 2...pence haha

Do you hate your job, coworkers, or employer? If it's your job, do a LOT of research on what you'd rather do. If it's your coworkers, get a better job. If it's your employer, get a different job.

Consider maybe going back to school in a new field. I'm currently doing it now going into CS. I've learned I'm a tasked based person, not a people type person. I was in business but hated it because relationships arent as measurable in terms of achievement as an actual skill is. You may have to do some soul searching here to try and figure it out. Good luck!

I'm in the camp of Dolph Lundgren honestly. You cannot tell me this virus has a higher mortality rate than any other major outbrekas like cholera, polio, tuberculosis, leprosy, etc. If we're worried about old people dying, tell them to stay inside. I don't get why we gotta halt the economy for less than 10% of the population. I personally feel it was a major overreaction by governments.

People get weird when they come to grips with their mortality. Yes ideally we don't want people to die en masse but have we gotten so cozy that we forget it's still a fact of life? People die, tragically and often.

This shutdown is going to have larger long term ramifications to our system than if we just let it spread like normal. Those numbers reported, do we know if they're even accurate? What if a doctor was like "welp it sounds like Corona, so I'm just gonna say it is."

My job I was at previously has a management team so out of touch that employees show up to the office physically, but spaced apart, meanwhile management is work from home.

Is that not the biggest FU a company could give its employees? They gave them all a $1 raise (woopee when you're making 12) to compensate them. All because they didn't want them to work from home either. Old people clinging to old ways, namely, do as I say not as I do.

Well I'm currently in school for a CS degree in SWE. I'm 25M currently attending a state college with hopefully 1 and a half years left if all classes align.

I didn't know what I wanted to do when I graduated high school. I just wanted to work. I tried community college but sorry burnt out. I tried business, welding, and IT. I passed a few classes, others I just quit attending. I had no goals or direction and super depressed I couldn't even get a job that made more than $11/hour. I worked probably 15 jobs total in my life by 21. In hindsight looking at it I think this mostly had to do with me wanting to be a priest but people talking me out of it. I struggled with religion ultimately just recanting allowing for myself to rebuild my purpose as a weird way of putting it.

I then got an assiciates degree in business and started working at a bank. From there I worked for a few years building up skills and experience. I got really good with Excel and realized a lot of what I was doing with the functions was very similar to programming. So the logic part and substituting variables was super easy for me to comprehend.

The thing I really appreciate about going back to school now is I know what's what. I know what matters and what doesn't. I had a fully laid out plan and understanding of the way in which I'd achieve my goal. It's so weird that the whole Corona issue didn't even put a dent in how I planned things out. I think it actually helped even get an internship. I'm still very green in terms of skill though. But I enjoy learning it because it's a skill. It's not like hypothetical nonsense they teach you in business classes.

Money laundering is still pretty easy to do. If you go through the proper channels and know the reporting laws, it's easy to avoid altogether. Although time consuming and you deal with swaths of physical cash, it's not impractical. You could honestly pay high school students like $20 to convert $1000 cash to a money order or something addressed to your company. They "pay" the company for it's "services" and you wash it through loans and other stuff.

Now the trick is to manage it in a way that a prosecutor couldn't convince a jury of structuring. Have an accountant fabricate records and mix it with legitimate purchases and expenses. It's essentially a front...but what corporation isnt one?

They could be using those libraries to make market items being sold.

I still can't get over the fact that apple is still putting in less than 2000hz batteries. Sure the life is great the first year, but as they make updates and increase the processor usage, suddenly that battery can barely last a day. I know people hate phablets, but if that gets me a 2 day battery life, so be it.

I think Islam may like a word with you on that one. There it's not just the priests. It's very common for minors to be married off, young boys to be sold as sex slaves (common in the turkic -stans areas although not sure about today), and the "it's only gay if you take it" reasoning I believe in one of the hadith's which condones pedophilia.

I was listening to a podcast recently where a guy was joking about how felony Duis don't matter in the US. He said his company wanted to hire this girl but they said they wanted to know if she had any felonies to which she said yes, a DUI or something.

They laughed at it in the interview and then hired her right away. Goes to show people sorta understand when it comes to alcohol it's not really their fault in the couple one off scenarios.

I actually am one of those weirdos that has to use an equalizer for android because i can't stand how loud the lowest setting is. When you work in a relatively quiet office, you sometimes want to be pick up on what other people are saying without having to ask again.

I think it has more to do with forcing people in there homes cooped up for weeks on end.

You could have the converse with duckduckgo and have searched hit or miss a lot

Yeah but most small banks don't have any understanding of what it all requires. It's not like an inhouse loan where if the borrower misses a payment they just show up on a report. You gotta jump though hoops and notify tons of stuff to the SBA about it. Not to mention everything needing to be perfect.

What? That's interesting to me. Is Apples desktop OS market share that much larger now?