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giuseppe_petri commented on "Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay   propublica.org/article/bl... · Posted by u/ceejayoz
throwawaysleep · 5 months ago
So they vote for the shenanigans? As that’s what they did.

The American people basically legalized fraud and looting for the next four years.

giuseppe_petri · 5 months ago
> legalized fraud and looting

That's just government in a nutshell, regardless of country, party, political leanings, etc.

How does it go? "What's the difference between government and organised crime? One of them is organised."

giuseppe_petri commented on Basic Income Pilot Project: Study results   pilotprojekt-grundeinkomm... · Posted by u/3Vbgx5ro
giuseppe_petri · 5 months ago
€1200 per month is around £1000, there are 43.1m working age people in the UK, that's £517.2 BILLION per year.

The NHS costs £181.7b per year and climbing & we struggle to afford that.

HMRC collected £828.9 billion in taxes in 2023 to 2024

UBI would cost 2.8 NHSs per year and 62% of all the tax revenue.

"Tax the rich!" You're probably thinking... "The combined wealth of the 350 wealthiest individuals and families in the [Sunday Times Rich] list totals £965 billion," even if you took every penny real and imagined from the rich, you'd only manage it once and get not even two years of UBI from it.

UBI isn't going to happen.

giuseppe_petri commented on GIMP 3.0   testing.gimp.org/news/202... · Posted by u/wicket
CyberDildonics · 5 months ago
Everyone knows you need the mouth open dumb face or the completely fake AI image for max brain rot which drives views and "engagement" (commenting on the fact that it's nonsense with people then defending the video as an authority as if it isn't stock footage with an AI voice reading a reddit comment).
giuseppe_petri · 5 months ago
I've been calling this concept "enragement". I'm sure I'm not the only one.
giuseppe_petri commented on NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/jjgreen
andrewflnr · 6 months ago
I'd hope so, but you never know what you can get people to tolerate "for the children". This is, after all, the same UK population that voted these halfwits into power.
giuseppe_petri · 6 months ago
>these halfwits

You're doing them a favour calling them halfwits, if most of the current crop of British politicians were light bulbs they wouldn't be bright enough the light the cupboard under my stairs.

giuseppe_petri commented on 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure   azsh.it... · Posted by u/SlyHive
wayne · 6 months ago
Your story reminds me of when Microsoft acquired Hotmail in the '90s and they tried migrating from FreeBSD & Solaris onto Windows NT/IIS. Having the world's largest email service running on the Windows stack would have been a huge endorsement. It took years until they were successful.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-moving-hotmail-to-win2000-s...

https://jimbojones.livejournal.com/23143.html

giuseppe_petri · 6 months ago
Pre Microsoft hotmail is one of the things I miss about the 'old' internet, logging in with Navigator 3.something in the library at uni.
giuseppe_petri commented on Elon Musk's terrifying vision for AI   garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/TheAlchemist
dgfitz · 6 months ago
> In short LLMs can influence people’s attitudes; people may not even know they have been influenced; and if you warn them, they can still be affected.

Sounds like tiktok

giuseppe_petri · 6 months ago
>Sounds like tiktok

And 24 hour news TV, and newspapers... magazines... Steve in accounts... Any person that is easily lead, will be influenced regardless of the source.

giuseppe_petri commented on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm   blog.emojipedia.org/x-red... · Posted by u/donohoe
edwinjm · a year ago
Yes. Try making a death threat with a water gun
giuseppe_petri · a year ago
Or... you know... /words/...
giuseppe_petri commented on Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/green-eclipse
6510 · a year ago
We will keep the secret quotas secret from hereforth.
giuseppe_petri · a year ago
Not... double secret quotas!
giuseppe_petri commented on Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)   yaledailynews.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/rzk
bowsamic · a year ago
I got burnout and I'm still recovering 3 years even with extensive therapy

EDIT: It would not be an exaggeration to say that I have been (and still am) convinced I will never be able to work again, in any job, at all

giuseppe_petri · a year ago
I'm 8 years post nervous breakdown, it took me 5 years before I could even consider going back in to work, any kind of work.

You'll get there.

giuseppe_petri commented on This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years   tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/marvinborner
giuseppe_petri · a year ago
If it was put together with tin solder it's not lasting 200 years.

u/giuseppe_petri

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