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You bought a product from a company known to lock people into their services then complain about this.

Was it the constant commercials that sold you? The fruit logo?

I'm with you.

We will all catch this unless we stay locked up until the vaccine comes.

So, expect everyone to catch it.

No. there is an extra 4+ years of classes.

Just an idea (that would never happen)-

Why not make it like Engineering?

You do your 4 year undergrad and at your first job, no one trusts you. Your supervisor/senior engineer checks Everything you do. You are reserved for paperwork and unskilled manual labor which is also checked. After a few years (4) you get some Freedom, but still checked by your seniors. Anything important, even when you are a senior engineer goes through your Managers and directors.

I don't see why this system wouldn't work in medical. We build airbags and bridges. Both safety critical.

I would even say having 1 physician is more dangerous than having a team of Engineers with less Schooling.

Nah Apple takes advantage of their walled off system. They know they have users and changing to an alternative is too difficult.

It's a useless industry, it's a disposable luxury. I feel for the workers, but as a whole, less disposable luxuries sounds good for fiscal responsibility and productivity.

It has not worked for every test city that tried it. Why is this different?

Same but due to bad sales. Mine is postponed until people go back to work.

Hopefully 9 months of mortgage is enough to survive this.

Ancedote time.

My job was ending due to bad sales, my next job is on hold until people return to work.

Our daycare said they are charging us money but we can't come (they said this week only... But this is after we complained).

The only business but really affected? My wife's company who treats people 1 on 1. But who knows even that might be slowed down from paranoid customers.

None of those are paid by the federal government.

I think I'm with you. I don't think it can be contained anymore.

Even if it seems gone, it can pop up and we go on lockdown again?

I wonder if the lockdown people are anti-math.

If I didn't pay taxes my mortgage would be paid off, I could quit/work from home for a decade.

How much abundance would we have without the federal government?

I haven't considered that the lower class needs to buy Apple products as a status symbol.

Is this really a problem?

As an educated 10%er, seeing Apple products is an immediate red flag that the person falls for marketing.

Less new equipment?

But really people bought Apple products and want the company to act differently. Don't buy from bad companies and it doesn't affect you.

You can win?

I assumed it never ends.

I'm trying to refinance my mortgage. Is now a bad time to put 20% of my savings into the market?

I've been waiting for this moment since 2018

WHO also claimed children under 1 year old should see 0 TV.

Not even 1 second of TV in the 12 months they are alive.

I was curious why, and after researching they had 0 Data. This decision was made by a panel.

Ahhh good old tradition and mysticism.

So they literally stole equipment?

That's not cause for war?

It did the trick. Everyone is talking about it and my friends are buying.

In 2013 I wouldn't be predicting a recession.

In 2017 after Trump announced tariffs and it was ~10 years since the last recession. I was concerned.

Maybe stock prices were fine, but multiple companies I've worked for became unprofitable and got rid of tens of thousands of contractors.

Recession? Definitions are toxic to the real problem.

Huh... Maybe I haven't done anything too complicated in WP, but I didn't find it bad.

Worst case I use a dedicated PHP page and MySQL. But in reality I think I usually put my code in functions.php(?) And it works fine.

Junior - mid engineers: EW WordPress! Doesn't that use PHP

I related too hard.

I had an intern say something like this but didn't give a reason. So I asked "why?". He couldn't give me an answer.

Interesting. How many family members?

What particular bits?

I have questions about populism.

Hearing about Roman populism makes me think it's better than Nobel rule. At least occasionally the masses get a policy that benefits them. For instance the Trump tax cuts and Obamacare took money from the 10% and gave it to the masses. (I'm a bitter 10%er that thinks it's time for the 10% to unite)

So what's wrong with populism? The class warfare?

Is the actual issue demagogry like Trump and Bernie that have fake policy that wins the emotional and uneducated Masses?

I agree. Do we know the actual rulers? I'm thinking a few Russians who gave Trump loans and owners of American steel companies, but I'm not sure who the specific billionaires are.

their health insurance has favourable terms, and they need to care for a family member

At 200k per year, you can buy Obamacare which is 6k per year and for an individual 6k max out of pocket.

So many people are fooled into thinking their companies health insurance is worth something beyond 12k/yr. And that 12k is firefighters union tier.

I think the book was written to teach us the importance/uses of towels and bags.

We just take it for granted.

Another reason web apps are the future.

Don't develop for evil companies. I tried explaining this to my coworkers but they couldn't see beyond the $$$. Now I understand why Engineers take a 2 hour ethics class.

I'm a FOSS person.

This is a massive step back in progress. I weep for everyone stuck in a single company's ecosystem. You will be abused before it's over.