pdxfed 11h ago • 100%
Lol legally mandated vacation? Try living in America
pdxfed 2d ago • 100%
- My use of "biological" is as it relates to the fact women in our species are the sex that bear children, and that there is a time limit for their fertility, not a position on the biological female being better suited or predispositioned for work, or certain types of work. The significant negative career/pay effects of having or (until recently) even being perceived as potentially having a child is well covered. Labor law has focused more on reducing the latter (e.g. it's illegal to not hire marsha because she's pregnant, or not promote Jenny because she has 3 kids) while the former has been nearly ignored until recently, but COVID lockdown showed companies can fix this if they wish. The host, Dubner has covered that significant early & mid-career movements often come at terrible time for women who have a child(ren, which completely alters their career & pay trajectories downward.
- The rapid change discussed in the (several year-old) source was due to optimism of change due to the massive improvement women saw in the first few years of the panedmic in pay and workforce participation in jobs and industries where they have traditionally been limited access to due to social norms or pressures of child rearing, workplace physical presence, and working hours. Essentially lockdown and the rapid change to remote work leveled the playing field for many mothers who otherwise might have had to take days off to care for their sick kids, attend events, miss worksite meetings or conferences, and not be able to work on their own schedule. Despite the data being fairly quickly and easily avaialble at the time of this incredible improvement in the "pay gap", many companies completely ignored it and launched "Return to Office" programs of different sorts--which had the predictable effect of immediately reversing this trend in companies that removed remote work. There is still much more remote work, and hybrid work available than pre-pandemic and in some cases that will remain a permanent improvement in pay data between sexes. It's challenging to level the euphoria of productivity around remote work by 2021 that was being reported and all it's positive effects on pay equity and poverty yet the surprising launch of return to office initiatives will mute improvements discussed. The gap will be decreasing but probably not as much as they may have suspected when they had this conversation, though I'm still hopeful companies dig into the data and continue to understand how much talent they're leaving on the sidelines by operating like it's 1947.
- Another reason not mentioned that gives me optimism for future improvements in general perceptions of pay equity is that with reduced birthrates (it's own discussion!), there will be the positive effect of improving even macro, almost useless-without-nuance statistics like $0.80/$1.00. If women are having far fewer children, they may be able to be less or even unaffected by the employment and social decisions, pressures and norms that have seen their careers not develop as they would have without a child(ren).
pdxfed 2d ago • 100%
If you get the new Air Dubai card and spend $40T within 3 quarters, you get 400,000 miles that you can redeem through their rewards portal for a Casio.
pdxfed 2d ago • 81%
This has been definitely addressed and answered. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/bonus-nobel-laureate-claudia-goldin-on-greedy-work-and-the-wage-gap/
The root causes of the gap are social, biological and unfortunately, unlikely to quickly change. These articles will continue to be printed though as rage bait is good for PPC.
pdxfed 2d ago • 100%
Reminds me of when Ex-Halliburtom CEO Dick Cheney was appointed as Vice President of the United States, the United States went to war, Halliburton was awarded no bid contracts totaling tens of billions of dollars...and then systematically overcharged and defrauded the government about the services they provided over the contract they were awarded.
edit: it's also interesting to see Liz Cheney quoted in this article arguing against a "left narrative" of grift and fraud when it clearly thrived under her father yet now she's against the pinnacle of it in Trump.
pdxfed 2d ago • 100%
No need, just say there is and we've deliberately destroyed education and society to the point functional illiteracy is probably 50% of the population.
Fact checking my guess: " According to a 2020 report by Gallup based on data from the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States lack English literacy proficiency.[2]"
pdxfed 2d ago • 100%
That's no boilerplate, that's "AI"™!
pdxfed 3d ago • 100%
The movie BIG from ~1985 I think that was the protagonist's pitch was t it? An electronic comic book reader where you could buy new episodes. His idea also had a Choose Your Own Adventure component/RPG angle but the fact it doesn't exist is a testimony to BIGs point.
pdxfed 3d ago • 100%
Didn't he come into a press conference after PG left and make a point to come and say he's "not mad about it" in a tone that seemed to say he was glad he left?
PG was at IMO his career best last year, moving on from Kwahi was clearly the play several years ago as he was never going to play substantial minutes again. Spurs knew it years ago and let him go and look where they are now?
I'm glad Kwahi got Toronto, it was a good storyline for him, and the city. Still thought he was overrated after Spurs.
pdxfed 3d ago • 100%
Someone finally eclipsed LeBron James' attempt to copyright Taco Tuesday
pdxfed 3d ago • 100%
The size of the text box on the "complaint" form tells you all you need to know. Barely visible on a page, limited to 1,000 characters, odd character restrictions with no instructions, no attachments---they aren't trying to facilitate resolution, they're trying to minimize contact. Also, this is after I signed into my account, so this is their "member only portal" where they nice explain they don't accept e-mail for HIPAA reasons...but their substitute is a deliberate farce.
I received several texts today on my personal phone number addressed to a minor child in my household for whom I provide health insurance from Kaiser. 1. I opted out of Kaiser text message communications. They don't respect it because Marketing? 2. The messages are addressing a minor child, yet sent to me, the adult. Kaiser would know their age. If they're young, directly texting them is a violation of parental consent. If they're a dependent there could be all kinds of privacy concerns for say a teen who maybe doesn't want their parents to be involved in such conversations. 3. I went to Kaiser's website to make a complaint. They don't provide an e-mail contact so you have to use a web submission form. Attachments (e.g. screenshots) aren't allowed. I copied in the text of the text messages after noting my concerns above and tried to submit. The web form said "unsupported characters", which I then spent 30 minutes trying to guess which of the characters from the texts they sent me might be unsupported by their website. 4. I decided to call their web support to find out which characters were unsupported, I'm sure I wasn't the first person to have the issue. They asked for personal identifying information that isn't necessary to provide website support, spent 5 minutes locating my account, and then told me they'd have to transfer me to a different region as they don't support my region. 5. They transferred me and I received an audio notice that the region was experiencing technical difficulties and the call disconnected. 6. I went back to the web form to open a complaint about their web form and submitted it suggesting they identify which characters are not permitted. The form also is about 3 lines of text high but accepts 1,000 characters which makes it very difficult to read as the web user (I'm sure a dark pattern to reduce form submission) 7. I called support again to try to reengage them to find out if they could identify the characters so I could submit the ticket myself. I got a different agent and had to tell them my original complaint and then what had just happened. They said they didn't know which characters were permissible, that my regions support shouldn't be down as they had no alerts, and wouldn't be able to find out which characters the form could use, despite being web support. They said they could take my complaint over the phone. 8. I asked what else they needed to make the complaint. The woman said just a minute and pulled up a form after talking to a colleague and asked me to start from the beginning to make my compliant. I hung up. 9. I went back on the website, typed out the entirety of the text messages I had received, my concern and the form allowed me to submit. The text messages must have had a hidden character or space that wasn't visible to me when copying/pasting. Now I wait to hear back on my two complaints. All so that, after furiously and competently struggling against the machine, I get back to a place where maybe if I'm lucky they will respect my communication preferences, not contact my child without my permission, potentially fix their shit website, which would leave me maybe about as good off as I was before I was aware of these issues. I feel like Calvin at the bottom of the big snowball hill he and Hobbes used, only in the modern US it's a shit snowball and it's full of companies who are technologically incompetent and aren't incentivized to follow even the laws they likely helped shaped through lobbying. The above issue is hardly even bad compared to other situations I or others have been through, it's the routiniety of it that is so dystopian.
pdxfed 4d ago • 100%
"Resistance Fingerprinting detected in Produce."
pdxfed 5d ago • 100%
Photo taken from a good Engel
pdxfed 6d ago • 100%
Loved both movies, this looks terrible, typical Disney cash grab. Empty, lame gameplay with decent visuals.
pdxfed 6d ago • 100%
Yes, and when all the other car manufacturers add it, then it's all on the consumer too, right?
Enshittification is a problem, because in our "this quarter's profits trump all" world, sales leaders would be fired if they don't join the race to the bottom on whatever their product. This then takes away the power of the consumer marketplace to push back by not buying shit products and ideas. Remember airline bag fees? Know anyone who doesn't think they're a bullshit cash grab? Yet do 100% of consumers thinking it's shit have any power to change it in an industry with ~4 choices who all implemented similar policies within months of each other? There are countless other examples.
The mindset you argue pretends there isn't collusion, and that there IS a competitive marketplace.
pdxfed 7d ago • 100%
But tiktok is what we should be focusing on...
pdxfed 7d ago • 100%
Rest easy, the non-funny article about Mazda product enshittification by subacription is here https://www.motor1.com/news/729233/mazda-connected-services-remote-start-subscription/
pdxfed 7d ago • 100%
That and the librarrrrry
pdxfed 1w ago • 75%
On the flip side, NFTs were invented because there is always a sucker out there.
If anyone else uses this emulator and (unfortunately) Windows, are you seeing turbo run throughs when loading ROMS? This updates were installed yesterday and they're the only thing I can think of unless the rom speed can be controlled elsewhere in the system I'm not seeing: 2024-10 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 23H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5044285) 2024-10 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8.1 for Windows 11, version 23H2 for x64 (KB5044033) Cheers. --------------- edit - fixed with tip below (- key slows down emulation)
www.yesonmeasure118.com
I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count. Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.
www.yesonmeasure118.com
I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count. Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.
www.yesonmeasure118.com
I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count. Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.
www.yesonmeasure118.com
I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count. Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.
There is probably a link somewhere but it would be nice to have the essentials in the boost comment/post forms somewhere so that if I'm trying to remember how to link a user/forum/instance or how to strikethrough text it would be right there.
19% YOY usage drop last month, 3.6% bill increase. It's been like this for months. Even if you're trying to limit your usage and save money, you get fucked. Such bullshit. Meanwhile the PUC came out and said they don't want to not approve these large increases PGE has requested every year because "it would set a bad precedent". Talk about in another world. Their "why are my electricity charges higher" are also incorrect on weather, actually the exact opposite--the same page notes the period was 1 degree cooler than last year.
Replacing a dishwasher. Most of the mid-range options now come with fucking Wi-Fi. Found a model I liked, no info in manual and support from Samsung was of course, useless since it wasn't already in the manual and wanted to keep talking about their exciting "smart things" app. gag. I saw a youtube video of a guy disconnecting wifi cable on a fridge. I'm fine doing that if I have to open up the board but it'll probably be smaller than the fridge and who knows if it'll be helpfully labled like the one in the video was. Internet searching showed me there may be oven keypress combinations to turn wi-fi radio on/off. Anyone have anything similar/advice for Samsung appliances, specifically dishwashers?
www.oregonlive.com
Whatever way you take this: - 1. A way to be able to remove anything that is deemed "offensive", "unpopular", or "unpalatable" and a good option - 2. A way to ensure conversations critical of entrenched interests and dominant practices are censored and don't take place It seems hopelessly broad attempt to shape discourse and thought. Even giving administrators the benefit of the doubt and saying this policy was created so if someone puts a swastika on their door they can take it down, it also means that *anything* someone claims is political could be removed. As we've seen in the last 10 years, is there anything that *can't* be politicized with enough money thrown at it? With this policy, if a history or biology teacher put "vaccines save lives" poster on their door, someone could say it's political and offensive. Giving extremists the opening to say something is "political" means that they could say, "Oh your LGBTQ poster is offensive and political to me", and it would be hard to make a case that would stand up under this crap policy that sexuality hasn't been politicized and that is should stay up to support diverse students. Hasn't diversity itself been politicized? The administrator's comment that "LGBTQ flags are ok because they support groups that have been marginalized" is 100% correct, but I don't think they're really working through how "political" and "personal" are so broad anything could be attacked and claimed "offensive", "political", or "personal". What if there was an educational poster about climate change? Economics? History? How, in any universe, could you have those discussions without broaching potentially "political" items? TLDR; policy thought up by 5-year-olds who apparently haven't been watching the attacks on school boards, policies, postings and education elsewhere to understand where it will lead. Support your teacher's unions, the administrators leading them are scared of conflict and open dialogue and we can't educate without them.
I've been using ST for ~6 months and sync camera folder on my new phone to an old phone with UL photo uploads, works great. What I need is to import ~10k photos from external drive from a relative, but would like to have them synch in google photos to a specific folder so my relative's photos aren't interspersed with my own photos since imports will read the photo date and sort them accordingly most times in google photos. I'm guessing I need to synch a desktop folder on my computer to my "new" phone's camera folder that is synched to my old phone and that gets me uploaded and free storage, but the photos would be all over the place. Thanks for any ideas!
Kroger wants to buy Albertsons, a major competitor, who also owns Safeway, which Albertsons somehow was approved to buy 3-4 years ago. The attached is a good representation of what “choice” would look like if the merger were approved by the FTC for SE metro area of Portland; 6/10 larger grocers would be run by Kroger (WinCo, Costco, Grocery Outlet and New Seasons the only exception). This is a big deal because: - Kroger has already been price gouging like crazy since the pandemic as we all knew but has been recently confirmed by Kroger themselves (https://www.newsweek.com/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation-1945742) - This would make bullet #1 above worse with that scale of market dominance - Kroger was among the most appalling for worker and customer safety during the pandemic. They had sneeze guards up in their 172nd location in May of 2021, a full 1.5 years after the pandemic started, never enforced masking and refused to take any returns during the pandemic for any reason, but mainly to pad their bottom line. - Kroger’s local workers are currently on strike for the crap wages and conditions they have endured. A larger corporate entity would only grow the awful employment and labor practices Kroger has. - Pharmacy services are already under-served and with Rite-aid and Walgreens closing hundreds of locations nationwide, it would force more medically dependent customers to Kroger, who demonstrated its absolute indifference to worker and customer safety before, during and after the pandemic. If you want to slow grocery price gouging, support better conditions for customers and employees, be able to choose other companies when one isn’t meeting your needs, I highly recommend sharing your thoughts with the FTC and boycotting Kroger/Safeway/Albertsons as much as you can.
Kroger wants to buy Albertsons, a major competitor, who also owns Safeway, which Albertsons somehow was approved to buy 3-4 years ago. The attached is a good representation of what “choice” would look like if the merger were approved by the FTC for SE metro area of Portland; 6/10 larger grocers would be run by Kroger (WinCo, Costco, Grocery Outlet and New Seasons the only exception). This is a big deal because: - Kroger has already been price gouging like crazy since the pandemic as we all knew but has been recently confirmed by Kroger themselves (https://www.newsweek.com/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation-1945742) - This would make bullet #1 above worse with that scale of market dominance - Kroger was among the most appalling for worker and customer safety during the pandemic. They had sneeze guards up in their 172nd location in May of 2021, a full 1.5 years after the pandemic started, never enforced masking and refused to take any returns during the pandemic for any reason, but mainly to pad their bottom line. - Kroger’s local workers are currently on strike for the crap wages and conditions they have endured. A larger corporate entity would only grow the awful employment and labor practices Kroger has. - Pharmacy services are already under-served and with Rite-aid and Walgreens closing hundreds of locations nationwide, it would force more medically dependent customers to Kroger, who demonstrated its absolute indifference to worker and customer safety before, during and after the pandemic. If you want to slow grocery price gouging, support better conditions for customers and employees, be able to choose other companies when one isn’t meeting your needs, I highly recommend sharing your thoughts with the FTC and boycotting Kroger/Safeway/Albertsons as much as you can.
Kroger wants to buy Albertsons, a major competitor, who also owns Safeway, which Albertsons somehow was approved to buy 3-4 years ago. The attached is a good representation of what "choice" would look like if the merger were approved by the FTC for SE metro area of Portland; 6/10 larger grocers would be run by Kroger (WinCo, Costco, Grocery Outlet and New Seasons the only exception). This is a big deal because: - Kroger has already been price gouging like crazy since the pandemic as we all knew but has been recently confirmed by Kroger themselves (https://www.newsweek.com/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation-1945742) - This would make bullet #1 above worse with that scale of market dominance - Kroger was among the most appalling for worker and customer safety during the pandemic. They had sneeze guards up in their 172nd location in May of *2021*, a full 1.5 years after the pandemic started, never enforced masking and refused to take any returns during the pandemic for any reason, but mainly to pad their bottom line. - Kroger's local workers are currently on strike for the crap wages and conditions they have endured. A larger corporate entity would only grow the awful employment and labor practices Kroger has. - Pharmacy services are already under-served and with Rite-aid and Walgreens closing hundreds of locations nationwide, it would force more medically dependent customers to Kroger, who demonstrated its absolute indifference to worker and customer safety before, during and after the pandemic. If you want to slow grocery price gouging, support better conditions for customers and employees, be able to choose other companies when one isn't meeting your needs, I highly recommend sharing your thoughts with the FTC and boycotting Kroger/Safeway/Albertsons as much as you can.
Seems to work on Desktop, but on android mobile, when I edit the search results in brave to not include AI, it doesn't save and pops up when I reopen browser/search in regular or Private window. Don't want to wait for AI or get is crappy results.
Going into quick settings or full settings from search result menu, I disable AI in Search Results. It goes away. Opening Firefox again and searching it turns back on. How can this be disabled in Brave permanently? Not only do I want to not wait for AI, it's trash to begin with. TIA
www.youtube.com
When the music, the creativity, the stars and a story are unforgettable.
Instead of posting, then having to tediously copy/paste to different instances with similar communities, it would be nice (although potentially crazy spammy) to allow x-posting from one post. This may be less of a Boost idea and more of a Lemmy discussion, but if it can be enabled in Boost I thought that would be a nice addition.
www.oregonrebate.org
Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to *each* Oregon resident (including children). Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.