The attack on foreign nationals took place in Bamyan province of Afghanistan. Some foreigners visit the site with the remnants of massive Buddhist statues mostly destroyed by the Taliban in 2001....
A lot of people have a kind of weird fascination with very different societies. I'd love to visit Afghanistan, North Korea, and the Soviet Union (back when it existed), but I know that would be really, really stupid of me.
The 35-year-old Bank of America (BAC.N) investment banker who died from a blood clot earlier this month wanted to leave the U.S. bank because he was working more than 100 hours a week, according to an executive recruiter who spoke with him about seeking a new job.
It is disappointing to me that these hours are legal, but this guy was an analyst at a major financial institution.
Mandatory overtime wouldn't surprise me at all, it is fairly common and something I am subjected to as well. But I can almost guarantee nobody else forced him into 100 hour weeks.
I agree. My calc I professor would just silently scribble equations on the board, then turn around, gesture wildly, and shout "You see".
I remember right before the drop date, I had a 34 in the class, and he took time out of class to beg us to study because if too many people failed, he might have consequences.
The only grade left was the final. I did much worse on it than the rest of the course, but my course grade shot up to the low 70s. Sure enough, I had the like 4th highest grade in the class.
It supposedly tastes much better. I'm sure there's also a few conspiracy nuts who think pasteurization makes you weaker for the jewish takeover or something.
It's also a personal liberty issue. People don't like being told they can't do something, and while I agree with bans on consumption of raw milk, we should critically analyze any law where the government tells private citizens what to do or not do. Especially when there isn't clear harm being done to another person.
That's actually exactly my point. We should carefully examine whether the infringement is worth the benefit before blindly letting the government do whatever.
In the case of seatbelt laws, it is worth it because people are really bad at understanding inertia, and wearing a seatbelt isn't a burden to anyone. In the case of raw milk, it's worth it because tuberculosis is fucking horrifying and very contagious.
Is it a 'thank you for prepping my room' or 'please clean my room today'? If you tip post cleaning, it's likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...
It's a percentage because the $60 steak was assumably at a nicer restaurant where you received more in depth service.
Fine dining servers may only have a couple of tables at once, or even for the entire night. You're paying more for more individual attention.
It also scales in reverse. A server on a shift with a $10 blue plate special will probably have 10 tables before things go off the rails. They'll also put serious work into getting your ass off that table the minute your plate is clean.
Average cost of college is under $150k/person. Warrant Buffet is worth $133,500,000,000 (rounded heavily). Warranty buffet could pay for approximately 890,000 people to go to college.
However given the fact that is most of a million people, and how much of a racket education in the US, I think the actual figure is much higher, because he could do several things to drastically reduce the overhead involved.
The fundamental disconnect is that they believe a fetus is a human life.
So to them, you'd be asking for legal permission to do a murder so you don't have to be responsible for a child. I'm not saying it is correct, but it is internally consistent.
There isn't much of an alternative. All major manufacturers have been doing this for a while, we are approaching the point where you'll need to buy and maintain a classic car to avoid this type of data collection. Unfortunately, most people simply do not have the time, money, and expertise to do that. Nor should they have to.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation must make sweeping changes to address widespread sexual harassment and other misconduct, according to an independent report released on Tuesday that raises questions about the future of the banking regulator's leadership....
I work in somewhat high-level banking, and while I admit that I assumed a government institution would be better about this than private companies, this sounds very par for the industry.
Things are less fucked at lower levels, like operations or retail, but I've never heard of someone working in high levels of banking that didn't have a laundry list of potentially actionable HR complaints.
You can sense the girth, but friction throws you off a lot. Something the size of a pea can feel massive (and very, very long), but it's actually just not wanting to come out and taking its sweet time.
I use a lenovo flip. I love the reversible hinge, but the flip functionality is quite buggy and the build quality is kind of crap.
I've been eyeing a framework 13 for years now, but I don't want to be wasteful by buying a laptop I do not need yet. They look really well supported and easy to work on.
System76 has been a classic for a long time, but I've never had the money for one go their units.
I'm covered for a couple of weeks. After that, I can either leave the city, forage for food, or steal some, depending on what the state of the world is.
This is quite exciting in that it removes plastic waste. I see no reason why different companies can't make different shape ones to maintain their lock-in. I expect a knock-off market to pop-up, but that exists with plastic pods too. It's a step in the right direction at least.
They're very poor brewers, but most people like that sort of grimy mass market coffee flavor. Or just want caffeine and feel weird about taking tablets.
Sort of. You want an even extraction most of all, and while their grinders are probably pretty good, the water coming in doesn't saturate the grounds evenly and isn't a consistent temperature.
Nope, it is regular coffee grounds, but usually they're using terrible beans. You can actually get nice third wave pods, but there's only so much better beans can do if your brewer isn't doing its job well.
Putting down a dog without a good reason isn't animal cruelty most places if you put it down humanely.
This weird and gross and downright disturbing, but it isn't animal cruelty unless she shot it in the stomach to watch it bleed out or something. Which honestly, she may have for all we know, she's obviously unhinged or very, very dumb.
I've heard some mixed reviews, I personally think the concept is interesting but I haven't actually seen anything besides like, 10 minutes of episode 4. I'm not expecting anything exceptionally deep or even that great, I was just wondering if it was even fun to watch.
We lowkey need a database of how to airgap cars. Spying hardware started being common long enough ago that people aren't really going to be able to avoid it when buying used, unless they have the time and money to maintain a classic car.
It isn't just your driving either. They also very commonly log location and audio inside the car as well.
The city of Gretna, Louisiana, in the shadow of New Orleans, brings in more money through fines and related fees than some larger cities in the state. An investigation by WVUE-TV and ProPublica shows that much of that money comes from drivers who rack up multiple violations and hefty fines....
We have plenty of speed trap towns like that around here. They want lower property taxes, so they augment their income using bullshit fines they give to out of towners. I'm sure they're shittier to poor people and people of color like all cops are, but really they want someone who will pay the fine and lives far enough that they won't go to court.
It is just one of several reasons traffic fines should go to the state or federal government.
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president....
Companies do not pay per packet. Paying more for more bandwidth or lower latency kind of makes sense because theoretically they may be prioritizing your traffic when the network is under too much load. But sending 16 petabytes costs exactly the same as 1kb in a month, assuming your connection is fast enough to handle 16 petabytes in a month.
We were supposed to build one here, but AT&T basically owns our city government lol.
They announced the project wouldn't be moving forward because they wouldn't/couldn't use imminent domain to lay fiber in peoples yards. They've used it to build 3 stadiums in the past 20 years, and knock down entire neighborhoods in the process. Literally bulldozed multiple square miles of city.
I fucking hate it here. We gave the stadium owners a bunch of money this week to renovate their stadium for some reason.
Ads have been known to contain drive-by malware. Even if you don't mind seeing ads (which personally I don't mind unless they're very intrusive), an adblocker is important for online safety.
The BPA coating is what I'm referring to. A lot of people are not fond of plastic bottles because they want to avoid BPA leeching jntk their drink. Switching to a can lined with BPA doesn't seem to help the issue at all.
Honestly I'm not super in love with either. The internet should be one of our greatest achievements, and while I think companies like meta and bytedance are harming it for their own profit, I definitely don't want the government controlling it.
Marginally maybe? Installing an add-on in torrentio doesn’t take more than a second, but it isn’t a process most people are already familiar with, like entering credit card details to open an account.
Respectfully, I'd consider large parts of Canada to be undeveloped. I'm not trying to throw shade or anything, there's just a lot of Canada to develop.
The same is true to a lesser degree in the US and most other very large nations.
I'm referring to two bits of copper wire in a sleeve of (probably rubber) insulation, commonly used for landlines back in the day. If you don't call it that, maybe it's a regional thing.
Oh, and there's 8 billion people on this planet. They all live in the "real world". Your experiences are not somehow more valid because you happen to live on one particular patch of dirt.
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Afghanistan: Three Spanish tourists killed in shootout ( www.dw.com )
The attack on foreign nationals took place in Bamyan province of Afghanistan. Some foreigners visit the site with the remnants of massive Buddhist statues mostly destroyed by the Taliban in 2001....
What vegetables and fruits do you wish were commonly available in the US?
Exclusive: Bank of America banker who died had sought to leave, citing long hours, recruiter says ( www.reuters.com )
The 35-year-old Bank of America (BAC.N) investment banker who died from a blood clot earlier this month wanted to leave the U.S. bank because he was working more than 100 hours a week, according to an executive recruiter who spoke with him about seeking a new job.
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Raw-milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus ( arstechnica.com )
Do you leave a tip for housekeeping if you're only staying one night in a hotel?
Is it a 'thank you for prepping my room' or 'please clean my room today'? If you tip post cleaning, it's likely going to someone else the next day. Many hotels now only do housekeeping on demand. How do employees feel about this - do they miss the tips or are they happy for a less stressful workday?...
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Alabama sets nitrogen-gas execution for man who survived botched 2022 effort ( www.theguardian.com )
Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: ( thehill.com )
Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions of rape and incest to abortion ban ( apnews.com )
Anon shares their highschool mascot ( sh.itjust.works )
How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas ( sherwood.news )
US probe finds widespread sexual misconduct at FDIC ( www.reuters.com )
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation must make sweeping changes to address widespread sexual harassment and other misconduct, according to an independent report released on Tuesday that raises questions about the future of the banking regulator's leadership....
What do you think about Bill Maher ?
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What laptop do you use/recommend?
Looking to upgrade from an old Latitude, curious as to what mobile hardware you folks use for writing your open source projects?
Some disaster has befallen society: you have to secure a month of food for you and three other people. How do you do it?
Let's assume no zombies or other supernatural occurrences, but could be plenty of people being shitty, consequences thereof, or natural disasters...
Keurig's new K-Rounds coffee pods are plastic-free and could finally make single-serve coffee-making sustainable ( www.techradar.com )
This is quite exciting in that it removes plastic waste. I see no reason why different companies can't make different shape ones to maintain their lock-in. I expect a knock-off market to pop-up, but that exists with plastic pods too. It's a step in the right direction at least.
Are people excited for Furiosa?
Curious to see what the community thinks about the upcoming movie
Shouldn't most religious people in theory be excited to die because then they get to experience the afterlife?
esp if you're one of the devout ones who think they've been really good
Kristi Noem defends killing her own puppy ( www.motherjones.com )
What is your opinion of Hazbin Hotel?
I've heard some mixed reviews, I personally think the concept is interesting but I haven't actually seen anything besides like, 10 minutes of episode 4. I'm not expecting anything exceptionally deep or even that great, I was just wondering if it was even fun to watch.
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People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them ( www.techdirt.com )
The Louisiana Town Where a Traffic Stop Can Lead to One Charge After Another ( www.propublica.org )
The city of Gretna, Louisiana, in the shadow of New Orleans, brings in more money through fines and related fees than some larger cities in the state. An investigation by WVUE-TV and ProPublica shows that much of that money comes from drivers who rack up multiple violations and hefty fines....
Toyota unveils two new EVs: the bZ3C and bZ3X ( www.arenaev.com )
Why are SMS messages so expensive?
Is there any reason, beyond corporate greed, for SMS messages to cost so much?...
FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote ( arstechnica.com )
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president....
Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion ( arstechnica.com )
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Aluminium drawback? Why US still uses so many plastic bottles?
Thoughts? I am currently trying to avoid using plastic packed drinks as much as possible due to it’s limited and finite recycle count
TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell ( www.entrepreneur.com )
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