These things are useless as fuck. I am guessing they see usage because most people aren't technologically literate and have questions about basic stuff.
Another piece of capitalist innovation is AirBnB having their hosts do customer support for some reason.
Right now there is literally no good news when it comes to plastics and oceans. Apparently even marine organisms in the deepest depths have their biology and environment contaminated by microplastics. Unless the world as a whole comes together reduce, or maybe eliminate, indiscriminate plastic usage and acknowledge the finiteness of the ocean, we will be marching towards the point of no return relentlessly but I don't know how close or far that is.
I remember reading that fishermen have no choice but to use plastic ropes and net because traditional jute ropes are both more expensive and less resilient. But these also end up breaking and sometimes strangling marine animals. It's an example of how deeply systemic the problem is. Resource allocation via markets causes immeasurable damage.
It's subtitled "Act of Kindness". While it is that for sure, I cannot image the ghoulishness of the people who write shit like this. This incident is a tragedy and should be portrayed as such.
What does regulatory credit mean here? What exactly is Tesla doing here? I don't understand finance capital much.
During the beginning of the article my thought was the most common one which is that the problem is just the same one that plagues India but on a different scale. Here developers are busy erecting housing societies, apartments etc. for the expanding middle class (in wealth at least, I don't know about the absolute numbers). But there is a patttern of fraud, delivering the housing much later than agreed upon date, delivering really poor quality of construction, not taking maintenance seriously at all because it is just more cost incurred to the developer and so on.
But the article has some gems like this one:
The disputes at 432 Park also highlight a rarely seen view of New York’s so-called Billionaire’s Row, a stretch of supertall towers near Central Park that redefined the city skyline, and where the identities of virtually all the buyers were concealed by shell companies.
Not much to say about this but what the fuck.
Now, correspondence between residents, some of the richest and most influential people in the world, reveal thorny arguments over how to remedy the problems without tanking property values.
Wow what the fuck even more.
I was under the impression that these buildings came about because of some engineering breakthrough but:
Luxury developers use a loophole in the city’s zoning laws to build these soaring towers in New York City. This may be one reason why these supertall buildings are facing a range of problems
Fuck everyone involved in this.
There is no way this is anything more than pure bullshit lmao
China’s propaganda in the US
I don't think we can qualify the success or failure of this without knowing whether and how much China is investing resources into something like this. They have a strict policy of non-interference in the internal matters of other nations which makes ultras very mad.
Edit: Actually I think simple things like the CGTN YouTube channel qualify for this too. Regardless I don't think they pour that much resources into it.
What does a devops person do exactly?
I have only read part of the article but the common sense answer is no. Children definitely don't need to learn coding at 4 or 5 before they understand basic maths.
The whole thing is pretty much a scam. Indian edtech companies rely on fear mongering tactics to extract money out of parents who are very much aware of the narrowing of opportunities for prospective employees which their children will be when they come of age. There is no scientific proof of any benefit ofof such courses and there probably won't be, because as I said, it is a scam. This is a problem that stems from the underlying issue of educational institutions serving the function of manufacturing wage slaves rather than, you know, taking care of children and giving them the room and opportunity to flourish.
Why I say White Hat is a scam is because they were embroiled in controversies lately. One was where they made up a fictitious child who had made a highly valiable fictitious app. Another was when it came to light that their instructors aren't qualified. The parent company, Byjus, alsp got flak when an audio clip was leaked where a manager was hurling verbal abuses at a salesman for not pushing their product to parents hard enough.
Edit: I really dislike how long this article is lol
Yeah the smothering with advertisements is absolutely ridiculous. I actually never liked adverts but couldn't articulate why. Much later (but before the turn to tankie town) I read this blog post which I agreed with mostly. This along with using uBlock Origin on the browser and not consuming stuff like movies, TV shows etc. now really makes me conscious of advertisements when I see them, even the covert ones. But most consumers are used to having a constant barrage of adverts being dumped on them. It blows my mind when I see my friends and family subject themselves to ads on YouTube and such. It takes some time to get out of that mentality.
Worst part is this mentality is so ingrained in general mentality in capitalist society that people are appalled at the idea that someone might get their daily bread without having "earned" their fair share by slaving away for an already rich dude. It also shows in the anti-welfare ideology where people think giving handouts will make people lazy though it is a scientifically debunked myth.
Now I am wondering if miniority racial groups are overrepresented in prisons in the UK like they are in Freedomland.