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Biden student loan repayment plan to resume amid legal challenges, federal appeals court rules
  • his administration has continued to forgive millions in debt through various other means.

    Hundreds of billions of debt forgiven. 167 billion and counting.

    Millions is technically correct, doesnt give the right scope of just how much his admin has helped people.

  • Baby shoes worn once, I admit...
  • The protagonist thought that "baby shoes" would be "babies, as shoes." It's either very morbid or weirdly cute.

    It's like assuming "girl scout cookies" have "girl scouts" as an ingredient.

  • Yup that's how I got depressed
  • It can be. I often find it "bursty." I've had months at a time when I had stand-ups and then "do whatever you want" for the rest of the day. I generally did do useful work, but there were plently of days when I was just chilling out.

    Ive also had months where I ran from fire to fire while on fire, spreading even more fire. Also, there was fire.

    It juat depends. If some org treats you as disposable, pays like shit and lights your hair on fire as you walk in, y'all should walk back out. The next org will probally treat you better, because there are good orgs out there. Even the good places get busy for a bit though. Just make sure that busy comes with money and that it ends at some point.

  • Undecided voters say they now support Joe Biden after debate
  • It was a nazi rally organized by nazis where they literally marched down the street in columns at night with flaming torches shouting "blood and soil" and "the jews will not replace us," both Nazi slogans. One of the nazis rammed his car into a crowd a anti racist protests at high speed, killling 1 and injuring dozens.

    This is the rally he replied to with "there are fine people on both sides." He then hedged and said he didn't support nazis, seconds after supporting nazis.

    It's almost like the man could have flat out condemned nazis with no intentional ambiguity, but nah.

  • Dr. Disrespect's YouTube Channel Demonetized After He Admits to 'Inappropriate' Chat With Minor
  • TL:DW? ACAB

    Slightly longer : corpos make money, they dont give a fuck about laws. Cops dont give a fuck about anything.

    Longer still : she was stalked/had her face photoshopped onto actual child porn. Gave detailed info about the child porn, including who did it/where they were/etc. Cops did literaly nothing.

  • Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers
  • The IAs point is that they should not have to do that, partly because of first sale doctrine. They bought each ebook, and only lend out that copy, the exact same as libraries do now.

    1 bought copy, 1 lend. That's a fair and simple system that mimics hundreds of years of physical book lending.

    Their other point is that the societal good of allowing anyone in the world to educate themselves for free far, far outweigh the value of monetary gain for publishers. Since copyright is intended to help society, their interpretation is the better application of it.

  • ‘You can expect everything’: what next for Julian Assange and WikiLeaks?
  • I think we should still be mad at foreign adversary nations colluding with one of our politcal parties and a not at all impartial "whistleblower" to turn the tide of a presidential election.

    The emails themselves were barely relevant at all politically. Out of some 30k of them, 3 were found to be inappropriately controlled. Thats hardly an earth shattering discovery.

    The spectacle that Assange, the GOP and Russia manufactured was the issue. It was a coordinated and targeted attack on our democracy, and he deserves to be derided for his outsized part in it.

  • Rivian (RIVN) reaffirms 57K production guidance, gross profit in Q4 2024
  • "per vehicle" losses are a weird metric. Each truck does not cost them 130k more than they are selling it for. That number is just the total revenue/vehicles sold. That "per vehicle" loss includes things like buying expensive machinery, buildings and various other investments in their infastructure.

    For decades Amazon also did not turn a profit, but it was because they poured that money back into their infastructure instead. It would have been a super weird metric to say that amazon lost $.000000003/widget sold.

    Once those investments are done, their numbers will flip drastically, as long as they dont overextend and they survive as a company. The recent 5 billion investment from Volkswagen should help there.

  • A ton of job postings might actually be fake
  • Nuanced? That sounds like your HR/Management is just bad at their jobs. Why post an advert for a job that you won't fill because it's the wrong job, then actually interview people? That's a huge waste of everyone's time.

    The first step when a role is open is to have the team review and update the job for the necessary skillset. Not doing that is a buisness process failure.

  • Threads can now show replies from Mastodon and other fediverse apps
  • They arent dead, but they are in the millions of users, not hundreds of millions.

    That is enough to sustain a social media platform, but none of them fully have the network effect going for them yet.

    With federation, hopefully they won't need it. That can be the network effect once interoperability is really here. Then everyone can still communicate, but not be beholden to any one service/owner/etc.

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    Source: Boba Yaga (by Beth Sparks - ArtStation) [https://www.artstation.com/artwork/18DB9L] > I was gonna wait and post this with some other drawings, probably, but it grew legs on twitter and i’ve gotten a couple of ‘did you draw this’ questions so i’m putting it up now to try and cut down on confu...

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