https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill#Problems

Except a lot of men who fought over there were rewarded with returning back to the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder.

Status quo was maintained. Women and people of color were promised opportunity and reward for helping with the war effort, but largely didn’t get it.

To explain your downvotes.

Women were encouraged to join the work force on top of all of the parenting/wifely duties they were saddled with for generations. This was a lot of work, but it also provided a glimpse into financial independence and equal placement in the workplace for the first time.

But when the war was over, women were encouraged to jump right back into the kitchen.

should men returning from war not be entitled to their job back

There are many jobs that need to be done to make society work. There are plenty of jobs at home that they could have taken.

Yeah and “we can do it,” until the men come back home and take the jobs back.

https://nebula.tv/

Lots of popular Youtubers are already there, and they strip the sponsor segments out of their content too.

My personal rule is female adjective is okay, female noun is not.

a loan for a used car sounds wild to me.

Predatory car loans has entered the chat.

I don’t know about Carvana, but plenty of scummy dealers will give insane rates to people with no credit check, repo the car while they’re still underwater on the loan, and sell it to someone else. You can have two or three people paying off the same car.

Oh, also, they somehow encourage the most gullible people who can’t afford their loans to just let the car get reposessed instead of attempting to sell it back to the dealer.

For anyone struggling, lemmy web interface added the colon into the URL for the blog post link. Here’s a clickable version without the colon:

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

Yeah, no issue there.

To use your car metaphor, there was a time when you basically needed to know how a car worked in order to own/operate one. I’m talking like the 1910s-1920s. They were unreliable, simply made, manual transmission, hand crank start, and needed a lot of maintenance.

Millennials grew up at a time when you needed to have some understanding of how a computer worked in order to do basically anything.

I suppose the issue is that the car metaphor breaks down because a vehicle really only does one thing. Push pedal and go. Maybe worry about snow conditions if that affects you.

Meanwhile, computers can still be used to do thousands of different tasks and the only thread tying all of those tasks together is that they’re done by the same machine. So knowing fundamentals about the machine gives you access to a lot of capability vs. just memorizing how to do a few tasks.

Yeah except one is a private entertainment establishment, and the other is a public transportation service.

The perfect consumer-facing example of this is Clear at the airport.

Instead of waiting in line to have your ID checked by a TSA agent, you let an iPad take your picture and then have an agent walk you to the TSA agent and vouch for you.

The whole iPad thing is marginally faster than just checking your ID by hand, so really they just found a way to monetize cutting the line. This provides zero net benefit to society except for extracting money from people for something that’s supposed to be free.

Also, when everyone has Clear, we’ll be back in the same boat with long lines and they’ll probably charge more for Clear+ or some shit.

“Trade it”

TO FUCKING WHOM? The whole point is that you made it useless.

(Unless this is Microsoft providing some free advertising for Linux)

Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.

I’ve been to a protest where the organizers announced what the chants were going to be. The alternatives were…terrible.

They literally have us trying to finish developing a product and get it through certification. They want first 10 units built at our location and for us to train up the people at the new location. I’m phoning it in for sure, but that’s not the expectation.

I feel for you.

My company got bought in June '23. I was offered a retention bonus with a final payout after two years. 1.5 years in (last month), they announced that they’re laying off our entire office in June '25.

The reason provided was that we can’t keep up with the expected demand of the product despite nobody ever coming on site to evaluate our abilities and us exceeding the goals set for us. It couldn’t have anything to do with the salary range in our area naturally. I asked the goon they sent us if the person who made the decision was on the phone. He said no. It was explained that “these things happen” in business.

And they expect everyone to stick around and happily assist in the transition. The retention bonus sounded good when it came with continued employment, but it’s not nearly enough to put up with that shit.

I’ve already interviewed three places. Fuck if I’m giving them two weeks.

There should be a requirement where the people who decide to lay folks off actually have to show up and tell them in person.

A little shocked the Rabbit R1 outlived them. Mine is still chugging, though a lot of the features (like MidJourney integration) have been halted.

Gonna be a fun little Android media player in a few months I suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ntPxdWAWq8

My point is what’s the point of downloading kindle ebooks if they can only be read after connecting to the cloud or whatever anyway?

Read the second part of your comment lol.

What other software?