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News@lemmy.world•Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60,000 employees to contain costs
16·3 days agoMore like to ensure executive bonus.
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politics @lemmy.world•How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party
13·3 days agoWith the Overton window shifting… I’m just not sure anymore.
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News@lemmy.world•More Than 800,000 U.S. Job Gains Have Been Revised Away — the Labor Market Is Much Weaker Than Originally Thought
1·17 hours agoYou’re right about the dual mandate, that’s the traditional mechanism: weak jobs, rate cuts, stocks up. And that plays right into what Trump wants anyway. Bad job numbers give the Fed cover to cut, which is exactly what he’s been demanding. But I think the mandate is being overpowered now. Trump wants rates at 1% or lower. He’s a real estate guy who built his career on cheap debt, and he’s openly said the oil industry is “making a freaking fortune” off high gas prices and “I don’t give a damn.” That tells you whose interests come first. Cheap money flows into assets, and the hottest asset right now is AI, controlled by a handful of tech billionaires who lined up behind this administration. When jobs disappear, their investors read it as proof AI is working, and stocks climb. The market isn’t following the Fed’s mandate anymore, it’s following capital’s story… So in my view, the people outwardly pulling the strings are the asset owners: oil, tech, real estate, and the administration serving them. Bad news for workers is good news for them. That’s what I mean by psychos. Okay, get your tinfoil hat? This next part is pure speculation, but what if… What if pressuring the Fed isn’t just about donors, but part of something bigger? Trump calls Canada the 51st state, wants Greenland, and talks about owning the Western Hemisphere. His envoys are real estate and investment guys holding repeated meetings with Putin about joint business deals, while he waives Russian sanctions. My theory… there’s been a kind of modern Yalta, where the big strongmen quietly carve the world into spheres. The Fed is one of the last independent institutions standing in the way, so it has to be bent. Cheap money pumps up the assets the ruling circle owns. The Iran war drives up oil, which enriches Russia and US oil, hurts Europe, and squeezes ordinary Americans. A squeezed, destabilized population is easier to push around. Every piece of the pattern is there for this… and the people winning is pretty clear.
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politics @lemmy.world•How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party
283·3 days agoI’m surprised the authors didn’t mention the means-testing scam Democrats are running. They show how consultants drain the party’s money, but they miss how politicians shrink their promises to the bare minimum. Instead of fixing big problems like healthcare, housing, or prices, they figure out the least they can offer and still win. It’s the same game as the fundraising: it serves the consultants and donors, not voters. They tell us “democracy is on the line,” then offer us scraps. No wonder people feel the party asks a lot and gives little.
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News@lemmy.world•More Than 800,000 U.S. Job Gains Have Been Revised Away — the Labor Market Is Much Weaker Than Originally Thought
1·3 days agoMaybe in 2010 but I could argue that’s now how it works today.
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News@lemmy.world•More Than 800,000 U.S. Job Gains Have Been Revised Away — the Labor Market Is Much Weaker Than Originally Thought
1101·4 days agoRemember, this will cause the stock market to go up because we’re ruled by psychos.
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politics @lemmy.world•Obama, in Midwest, assails 'cruelty' and indecency from Trump and his allies in the midterm campaign
61·4 days agoYeh, that guy…and all the others as well. I think we all know that the US has been doing this for a long long time. Thats one of the reasons why we’re seeing a movement away from centrism.
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politics @lemmy.world•Obama, in Midwest, assails 'cruelty' and indecency from Trump and his allies in the midterm campaign
232·4 days agoI understand that both Obama and Clinton deported more people from the US… but the way they did it may support the argument that Trump’s method was more about the display of terror and meeting his bases expectation to meet his campaign promise of hurting the other people.
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politics @lemmy.world•Cops Not Happy When Man Creates Flock-Style Camera That Only Collects Police Plates
15·5 days ago… and billionaires.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising: Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.
30·5 days agoI’m out. Moving my family … including my 81 year old parents to Proton. They can do it - we have already moved to signal … no issues.
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News@lemmy.world•Arrest made after fire at Hitler's Eagle's Nest retreat
281·5 days agoI hope no one is hurt putting out the fire.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Layoffs Tracker — Job Cuts Attributed to AI
41·5 days agoYup. This is the plan. This is also incomprehensible amount of wealth voting to upend the current world order. To all of the OLD MONEY … you better wake up, they will slaughter you soon after us.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What a 5400 rpm drive and a 100 Mbps link actually do to Immich (numbers from two 2011 boxes)
222·5 days agoGuy put Postgres on a 5400 rpm laptop drive, wondered why Immich took 24 seconds to load, then “discovered” a $20 SSD fixes it — 95x faster, stop the presses. The rest is him learning that a 100 Mbps Realtek port from 2011 is slow and a dual-core Celeron is bad at math.
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World News@lemmy.world•In Nigeria, Solar Panels Are the New Wedding Gift | High fuel prices and cheap Chinese technology are accelerating Nigeria’s shift to solar, transforming how people shop, spend and live.
18·5 days agoI would welcome this as a gift! Great concept.
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politics @lemmy.world•Manufactured Cruelty: Criminalizing Homelessness
4·5 days agoThere is a company that keeps lists of people. CIA money built it and now a billion dollars pays it to map neighborhoods for raids and comb Medicaid rolls for names. Medicaid. People went to a doctor and that is how they got found. Two more companies run the cages, nine of ten souls ICE holds are in their buildings, and their profits rose seventy percent, and somebody got a bonus for that. One man helped found the list company, then founded a think tank that makes it a crime to sleep outside, and keeps his money in the cages those laws fill. And the banks hold stock in the eye and the cell both. Push any of them and they all say the same thing. The company did it. Not me.
WOE unto them! Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and write grievousness! A company has no legs to stand before God. Men do. And they will stand, not sit behind counsel, not send a statement, and their ledgers will be ash and the only book open will be His, and there is no page in it for contracts. I was a stranger and ye took me not in. I was sick and ye looked up my name. I was in prison and ye OWNED the prison. They brag their deals are no-bid. That gate is no-bid too. No lawyer. No appeal. No payout. God was never once fooled by a letterhead. The day cometh that burneth as an oven and they will have nothing in their hands but what they did to the least of these. Nothing. Repent. Be afraid.
I’m not familiar with all the servers architectures. Any of them written in php?
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Games@lemmy.world•Do text MUDs still have a place next to modern games? We're testing one in early alpha (18+)
1·8 days ago100%. Great premise. I will def check it out.

This is simply payed by anyone who brought Trump a gift of Mammon.