To employ someone at 10$/hr, their actual cost is probably close to 15$/hr when you factor I them coming in to work in the office and all the costs associated with that. At 15$/hr it takes 40 hrs to cost 600$ to thr company. That is one week of work for one employee. This means that they could have a 600$ fuck up every week and still break even over hiring a person. And we are talking about just one person. Chat support is nor.ally contracted out as entire teams and departments.
That dess/suit was made by the designer (Mugler) she has been wearing for a small series of outfits she has been wearing. This particular one was brought out of a museum just for this premiere and she even had to change out of it after doing the carpet walk. It was made in 1995, inspired by and modeled after the robot from Metropolis.
I know it is odd to have a bunch of nerds try and read about fashion, but it is interesting. It wasn’t some “look at me not be a disney kid” thing.
Death from “old age” (talking about those 85+)is actually death from heart disease (number 1), cancer (2), alzheimers (3), or stroke (4).
Heart disease at end of life can be a drawn out pain with the heart not strong enough and it causes fluid to back into the lungs, the lead to death from pneumonia or some other breathing issue like COPD or some shit. It is pain for a few years with diminished quality of life and most days are spent just fighting to hang on. Those that die of a heart attack are the lucky ones if it is quick enough, but still pain and terror for several minutes at least.
Those that die from cancers at this age, well… it’s cancer. Try and find anyone’s story of having a peaceful time dieing from cancer when they are old.
The alzheimers deaths can take many forms. Anything from alzheimers dimentia and your brain deteriorating until it literally forgets how to function basic bodily functions like breathing; or it could be something like lewd body, where you are hallucinating most of the time trying to cope with a world that is literally changing in front of you by the minute with memories of your past blurred with imagination and nightmares that you can no longer suppress.
Then you have stroke patients. Most of these people have had multiple strokes by this age if this is how they are going out. This is where from the first strokes they have lost entire sections of their brain and lost major functions of things. For some it is as simple as loosing their speech and no longer able to physically talk. Others have a quite opposite loss, and lose their language. They talk all day and it is nothing but nonsense. Both groups are locked from communicating in meaningful ways and frustrated eternally. Therapy may restore some levels of communication but it all depends on several factors. Then there are the strokes that take out your hearing, vision, sections of memory, perceptions, you name it. Some of these people even suffer from a basilar stroke and are stuck with the ever terrifying “locked in” syndrome.
Of all of these, sure, you might want to hang of for a bit. But after your one person you have spent your life with, the one person who understands you, and the one person you have been fighting through all your daily pain for- they are going to die. Then why fight for more pain? Just go out with dignity and do it together. You can make an event out of it and let those around you know how good it has been and give people some closure.
I remember a case like this that was on reddit. She posted some video explaining the whole thing and that she turned 18 in a few weeks and had no documents. No birth cert, no SSN, no DL, no official docs of any kind. She was leaving her crazy anti gov parents when she turned 18 but realized she had no way to do it for that reason. The easiest solution people had for her to start the ball on all that was for her to sue her parents for a paternity test and go from there with sworn statements and such.
It isn’t low expectations. It is the implications of high demands. When they spec a project to last 5 flights, they are serious about that guarantee. There are so many redundancies built in the make sure that no matter the curve ball the planet throws at them, they will get their 5 flights out of it. That is on the worst case scenario side though. Then you factor in best case, and now you have things lasting years longer than their planed mission. This is how most of their projects end up lasting so much longer than planned, while also having almost every project last the minimum. Those projects minimums are all but a promise that they will do it, barring catastrophic events.
It is also more cost and time efficient. If there was a project that was going take 10 years and cost $10M with a 50% success rate and you were told ‘for each extra year and $1M-$2M we can increase that success by another 10%’ then you better believe, as a tax payer, I would be passed if they didn’t spend the extra time and money to get it up to at least a 90% success chance.
Now just scale that to hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. Some of these projects are measured in decades and take people’s entire careers. If you had a project that was 20 years of design, build, test, launch, and travel- wouldn’t you want to do some work on its ensure success?
A judge ordered Wednesday that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change a hairstyle he and his family say is protected by a new state law....
Not really. If you are from Houston you would understand. All of east Houston is petrochem. About 60% of ALL refined oil in America comes from Houston, and specifically the east side. Pasadena (houston) is even nicknamed Stinkadena because of the constant chemical oder in the air. They also employ a large majority of everyone who lives on that side of town. Most of the area around it, Mont Bellview included, has their entire local economies based around support for the oil and gas industry.
I know people are going to comment about ‘boooo oil and gas, we should switch away from oil!’ And others are going to say ‘that’s disgusting! Think of the poor people trapped to live there!’ But the reality is that is was how the city evolved. With the rise of oil and gas, there was the rise of the refinery towns in East Houston. Without it, they would have never existed. And several of the refineries are making other products than gasoline. If you ever use and lubricants, plastics, crayons, waxes, or ever driven or biked on asphalt, then you use oil products.
Me and my brother both joined the army at slightly different times. We both did a tour in Afghanistan that overlapped and were just one province away from each other. I did a second tour over there and he got out.
We both came from a VERY conservative family. It was after serving that we both became suuuuper liberal. It was like the wool being pulled out from out eyes when we joined the army and saw how much of a lie it all was. Oddly enough, this is a semi common story for conservative people joining the military.
We grew up with our dad working in the military-industrial-complex and he would make fun of the liberals who called out the military for serving the MIC companies, and how it Iraq was a war for profit. Then we serve and see it first had with all the contractors, the needless equipment, the contracts for new tech that wasn’t needed, and all the other money sinks going into it. It was all a lie.
We grew up being told how bad universal healthcare would be, but then had it in the military and saw how amazing it was.
We were told that if people didn’t have a personal motivation through debt and loans to make them work harder, then people going through college would have no motivation to improve their lives. And yet here I am with the GI bill. (Granted, I still have 70k in student loans. The GI bill is kind of a lie in its self).
Everything that was a conservative talking point was exposed as a lie after joining army.
I am a TA/RA right now. I am one of the departments that offers a stipend for doing research. I take home $2100 a month after paying for shitty insurance that I have to use the university services first before any other health providers. My tuition is also waved. To be fair though, the university gets to keep the grant money from the state for making PhD students. Plus, I also generate more money in research then they pay out. In total, my tuition plus stipend is less than what the university makes off of me.
I have a masters in neuroscience and am making 12$ an hour for a 40 hour week. Now, some weeks I work 60 hours and some weeks I work 10. I also get the long breaks (not summers though) between semesters. I have been at home playing video games since early-mid December and start classes again this week.
When I finish in two more years I will have two doctorates and am actively being encouraged to go for a postdoc decade my academic career and my research is “promising”. How much is postdoc pay? $60k a year. With 2 doctorates I can make 60k in academia. What bullshit. I can also go private and start on the low end at $85k, mid around $100k, or sell my soul to drug research in my field and make about $150k-$175k.
What do you think I plan on doing? And they wonder why it is so hard to get good young professors who want a career in teaching. All my really great professors are super old and were hired under very different contracts and super nice perks. The new professors? They are fucked over any way they can.
The copyright expires in 2044. The Perter Jackson series came out 2001-2003. From a studio point it is approaching the now or never time. They need to make one within the next few years to be able to make a 3rd one just before the end of copyright. From a studio buisness perspective this makes sense and is kind of a no-brainer.
They also cost as much as 3 samsungs. I am all for buy-it-for-life, but when I can buy a nice Samsung with bells and whistles, have a better wash, lower energy use, and more flexible options on how the clothing is being washed- then why would I not buy the Samsung? My Samsung washer was 800 and the dryer was 600. A speed queen starts at 2400 each. I could buy 3 washers and then 4 dryers for that. Plus I save money on the energy cost with my Samsung eco settings.
I have a house filled with buy it for life where I can and where it makes sense. And when I bought the washer and dryers I looked into speedqueen. It didn’t make sense. And before people start saying things like “good luck replacing them in 3 years” they are already 5 years old. My 1400$ is 5 years in and doing just fine.they could break today and need to both be replaced, and I am still ahead. I think speed queen is one of the few BIFL brands that I disagree with.
There was a HUGE difference from when I first applied a few years after my first tour and had issues (around 2010) versus when I recently applied. The first time was a whole stack of paper only. Electronic wasn’t allowed. Must be in person to submit. If anything wasn’t filled out correctly they wouldn’t tell you, you just had to wait a month and get a letter telling you what page to resubmit. Then the appointments to evaluate you were scheduled with zero input from you. And occasionally they would do ghost bookings to boost numbers. Those are bookings where they would book it the day or two before, only give mail notice, and when you get it it was for an appointment that had now passed, and they make you rebook it with the strike against you for noshowing. It was a nightmare. Then the clinicians defaulted to just assuming you were there for money and if there was a shadow of doubt it was denied.
Then, if you did finally get a rating, good luck getting any treatment. I had a prescription of sertrilene, aka zoloft, literally the world’s most prescribed pill, it ran out after I moved back from Chicago to Houston. But because records were only regional at the time and I was in a new region, I had to re-register for Healthcare. And even though I had the bottle with me, I could not use the pharmacy without a new prescription. So I had to go through the ER, as a triage level 0. I was in there at 11 am and waited ALL DAY until the standard ER closing time and they shifted to life threatening only (about 6 pm), and was not seen. Told to come back the next day. Was in there by 10, seen around 3 or 4. And the doc who saw me was shocked about the whole thing when i explained it to him.
With all that, it has come a long way and was so much easier when I did a pact act claim. It was all online, simplified, they worked with me, contracted out the appointments, it was great. World of change over the last 10+ years.
Read the book! It was so good as well. Not entirely the same as the movie. The movie was more of the premise with book plus some exerpts, but still amazing in its own way. I really enjoy both. Really easy read because of how it is written, and so much fun as well.
Ethiopia DID have a coast. It was what is now known as the country of Eritrea. They were forced to be part of the country after WW2 in 1950, and ignored the wishes of the people to remain independent. Then by 1961 a war for independence started and lasted for 30 years. It ended with the Eritrean forces taking the Ethiopian capital and winning the war capture the flag style, but with guns.
As far as Djibouti, they are probably the best example of American modern imperialism. The country enjoys a stable currency by using an American backed currency. In exchange the US has their Horn of Africa base there. Because the country is so small but the base has so many troops and the US pays to lease the land, the US military ends up making up a little bit over 10% of their entire GDP. This is the base that launches the anti-pirate operations for the region, not only providing security for Djibouti, but security for the entire HoA. Say what you want about the USA and their modern imperialism, but the only thing anyone in that region agrees with is that they love the US troops there and the mission they do.
If Ethiopia wanted to take Djibouti, not only would that piss off literally every other country in the region, they would also have to go through the USA to take it. Good luck with that.
Since the speed of sound depends on the air, which changes at different altitudes, are “Mach” speeds dependent on the altitude? Or is it basically just like 100 °C is the same even at altitudes where water boils at a lower temperature (in that it is a fixed speed based on the speed of sound at sea level)?
Technically it would reach an altitude where it would become ‘null’ due to dividing by zero. You would eventually hit the vacuum of space where there is no speed of sound and any speed is faster than it.
In 2000 the Afghani was worth 75,000 to 1 USD. During ISAF occupation it was fixed at 50 to 1. It is now at 70 to 1 and dropping. Let’s stick to one argument at a time rather than playing the whataboutism game. You said the USA destroyed their economy, yet the evidence strongly says otherwise. Before 2001, Afghanistan was the second poorest country in the world. When ISAF pulled out it was ranked at about 40 (I say ‘about’ because it was still growing and changing faster and the rankings were uptated). In the short time of Taliban rule they have dropped back down to sub 33 with exact number still to be determined. (The sub 33 ranking is important because there are only 33 countries on the UN “least developed countries” list).
I would spend time debating topics like this with educated people and those that are open minded, but you do not seem like you fit either group. Do not expect a reply.
Are these OTC hearing aids? Or prescription ones from a reputable audiologist and brand? Every brand I have worked with require the devices to be in pairing mode to do that (the first 30 to 60 seconds of when the devices turn on)
It was a few steps further than talks to make the sequel. It was going to be a Netflix/streaming series (6-10 episodes). They had funding lined up. They had scripts written but still being massaged and finalized. They had almost gotten everyone signed on and was finalizing details for the last signature. -then Alan Rickman died. Then it all fell apart, scripts would have all had to be redone and the whole story line redone, and thus funding pulled out. Then that was the end of it.
They already have this. It has been around for about 20+ years now and is actually the preferred solution in the west for a very long time. Most of the land mine treaties require it too. On that note, the US and Russia are not signed onto most of those treaties. The US didn’t want to sign due to certain requirements that seemed militarily poor, too much mandatory reporting that seemed like a security risk for leaks, and too restricted, but was fine with the self disabling mines (because who do you think makes most of them?). Russia disagreed because they don’t have the money to switch to new manufacturing and didn’t care if they don’t disable over time.
The most common design is a UV degrading plastic that will break down over some determined amount of time. Or another method is an internal degrading plastic that degrades over time. Either way the trigger mechanism becomes inert after a while. This has then led to issues with locals harvesting old inactivated mines for their still usable explosives and using it in other things (IEDs)
There are also some designs with self detonating ones, to mitigate the above problem, but have been met with questionable results. It does stop the issue of explosive harvesting, but now you have a field that randomly explodes and can’t really promise that they all exploded, so there might be some that are still live out there after the locals are told it should be safe.
There has also been attempts to make remote controlled mines. Mines that can be remotely disabled for friendly troops, then reenabled for defense, then remotely detonated when done with. But there are obvious electronic warfare issues. The concept is basically reattempted then quickly reabandoned about every decade.
Frostpunk! That game is sooo good. One of my top games. Took me a sec to get into the first time I played it and then didn’t touch it for a long time. I went back and played it again and got sucked into it. I have hundreds of hours in it now. Love it so much I even got the boardgame.
Solar now being the cheapest energy source made its rounds on Lemmy some weeks ago, if I remember correctly. I just found this graphic and felt it was worth sharing independently....
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot (arstechnica.com)
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.
Trump Ordered to Pay Over $350 Million and Barred From New York Business (www.nytimes.com)
‘Dune: Part Two’ First Reactions: Rave Reviews Topped By Critic Who Claims, “It’s The Definitive Sci-Fi Epic Of A Generation” (deadline.com)
Requests for couples euthanasia rise in the Netherlands (english.elpais.com)
Sovereign citizen wants to travel with her child who has no ID. (lemmy.world)
Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents (www.engadget.com)
NASA's Mars helicopter broke during a mysterious communication blackout. Now it will never fly again. (www.businessinsider.com)
A Texas school's punishment of a Black student who wears his hair in locs is going to trial (apnews.com)
A judge ordered Wednesday that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change a hairstyle he and his family say is protected by a new state law....
What experience crushed your soul?
The Billionaires Spending a Fortune to Lure Scientists Away From Universities (www.nytimes.com)
Arena BioWorks is promising big paydays to nearly 100 researchers from Harvard, M.I.T. and other prestigious institutions....
I wish it need not have happened in my time. (startrek.website)
Good “Buy for Life” Brands
Some that come to mind are:...
Veteran Affairs (lemmy.zip)
Florida school district removes dictionaries from libraries, citing law championed by DeSantis (popular.info)
What was the piece of media so emotionally overwhelming you just stopped it?
Landlocked Ethiopia gets access to Red Sea after deal with ‘unrecognised’ country (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Does Mach speed change depending on the altitude?
Since the speed of sound depends on the air, which changes at different altitudes, are “Mach” speeds dependent on the altitude? Or is it basically just like 100 °C is the same even at altitudes where water boils at a lower temperature (in that it is a fixed speed based on the speed of sound at sea level)?
Afghanistan: 'Tea is sometimes all I have to give my hungry baby' (www.bbc.co.uk)
What are some "no brainer" inventions or features that just haven't made it to the consumer yet?
What Film Are You Surprised Didn't Get A Sequel?
Putin’s Pals Think the GOP Just Won Them the War in Ukraine (www.thedailybeast.com)
Rate my patient games (startrek.website)
Price of solar dropped 89% in ten years (ourworldindata.org)
Solar now being the cheapest energy source made its rounds on Lemmy some weeks ago, if I remember correctly. I just found this graphic and felt it was worth sharing independently....