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  • Does Pro-Palestinian Mean Anti-Israeli or Pro-Hamas?

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    Updated at Dec 25 2023 at the 03th hour

    Seems like you are branded an antisemitic if you are not Pro-Israel, which is an extremist emotional view.

    When I read articles like: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/pro-israel-tech-groups-witch-hunt-in-us-targets-critics-of-gaza-war/3084033

    or https://blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/

    You got to wonder if it's worth being pro-Israeli at all. I'm unsure of how one can be pro-Hamas, anti-Israel or anti-Semitic by being against killing and devastation of civilians. There are many Jews who are against killin...

  • Companies Continually Going Back On WFH Policy

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    Updated at May 15 2023 at the 18th hour

    It's actually pretty funny to me to see WFH was a trend. Corporations saw massive money saving opportunities and jumped at it. Now that cities are suffering from the lack of workers therefore lack of revenue streams to many local shops impacting tax revenue to the cities themselves, governments are letting each of these companies know to "BRING BACK THE WORKERS" before it all falls apart and the commercial real estate value is wiped out. Some companies have a vested interest in keeping the work office aroun...

  • Watch Your Sucralose Consumption

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    Updated at Apr 13 2023 at the 17th hour

    It's touted as sugar-free alternative to sugars and I've consumed quite a bit of it through Sparking Ice and a "Sugar free" BBQ sauce. I figured it wouldn't be a terrible choice to avoid sucrose in food and drinks. Well...

    Seeing as how my body has been randomly triggering high blood pressure and therefore rapid heartbeats and I've been trying to eliminate factors related to exercise and other food and drinks, I have to preliminarily conclude that it must be the Sucralose or Aspartame factor.

    Sparkling Ice ha...

  • Bing's Image Creator is F***ing Great

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    Updated at Apr 12 2023 at the 19th hour

    It's given me some good inspiration and direction for some graphic assets. I don't know why artists or graphic designers feel threatened by it since their requesters can generate multiple examples of what they want in a far more visual way which should make them more efficient.

    Someone asking you (an artist) to create this and that with some vague idea can be fun, but a waste of time. I've had to be very explicit and specific on what I am asking from an artist to get what I want the first time, but with AI i...

  • Republicans are Associated with a Criminal

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    Updated at Mar 31 2023 at the 10th hour

    Imagine being associated with an actual criminal and voting for a criminal while trying to paint yourself as the "Law and Order" and "Back the blue" party 🤣🤣🤣. 

    Republicans threw away those ideas quite awhile ago. They try to cling to them and say it, but it's false like their most populous religion. They cling onto what their religious denominations say and the religion they say they were brought up with, but don't follow it. Just a bunch of fakes like their self admitted Faux News Network.

    Keep believing i...

  • Banning TikTok or The RESTRICT Act is... Incompetence

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    Updated at Mar 30 2023 at the 14th hour

    Sigh. Like SOPA and all the other overbroad bills before it that caused internet companies to protest with blackouts. This entire bill to not just counter social communications software, but a whole lot more.

    Article, Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns

    “The RESTRICT Act could lead to apps and other ICT services with connections to certain foreign countries being banned in the United States. Any bill that would allow the US government to ban an online s...

  • Parents Should Have Little Recourse To Challenge Schoolwork

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    Updated at Mar 30 2023 at the 13th hour

    Without proper discussion and educator input.

    The more I hear about one or two parents challenging coursework because it might hurt theirs or their child's feelings, against their religion and or sensibilities the more I believe parents should just be kicked out of the school in general and let the educators teach what they want with sufficient discussion.

    Obviously, one state in particular is Florida with a barrage "parents" complaining about art history, black history, english math and even SCIENCE of all t...

  • Payment Processors and Networks Increasing Charges on Merchants

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    Updated at Mar 02 2023 at the 19th hour

    They always said crypto was a lower friction way to move money. It's looking like that is increasingly true.

    Look at Square for instance: https://squareup.com/us/en/press/policy-and-pricing-updates

    We are updating Square’s refund policy so that processing fees will no longer be returned when sellers issue a full or partial refund to their buyers. We are making this change to more accurately reflect that Square does not recoup in full processing fees from our network and payments partners in instances of refun...

  • Is Using ChatGPT Cheating or a Productivity Boost?

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    Updated at Feb 20 2023 at the 22th hour

    Reading articles from professors who want to find who is using ChatGPT and education departments who ban ChatGPT from the environments they have authority would make one think using AI is a cheat and is bad for learning. I don't think so.

    If I can use AI to do the work that you are giving me then it means your work is fuuuuuuuucking boring and drudgery. The work you are giving is not thoughtful for students and it is so bad that AI can give generate reasonably acceptable work or even drafts for students to w...

  • Only Naive People Believe a Meritocracy Exists

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    Updated at Feb 09 2023 at the 18th hour

    Oh Meritocracy! What cup are you under? Is it in "big tech" or "big pharma"? How about "big finance" and government?

    It's funny when I see people talking about they only believe in Meritocracy in regards to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) related efforts. It's basically the "ALL LIVES MATTER" deaf and blindness garbage to "BLACK LIVES MATTER".

    Why wouldn't any particular company or group extol the virtues of Meritocracy? It sounds wholly idealistic, a UPTOPIA! If I'm a recruiter looking to make myself stan...