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He would be awaken in the night to his mother screaming in pain while United healthcare denied claims and refused new treatment. She had severe neuropathy.

Holy shit this would leave a scar on anyone. I couldn't even imagine the emotional pain this causes.

Not saying this justifies murder but what would you do if a close loved one was screaming in agony daily and there's nothing you can do about it because the insurance company is blocking treatments?

What do you think were the dynamics of the engineering team working on this?

I'd think this isn't too crazy to stress test. If you have 300 million users signed up then you're stress test should be 300 million simultaneous streams in HD for 4 hours. I just don't see how Netflix screws this up.

Maybe it was a management incompetence thing? Manager says something like "We only need to support 20 million simultaneous streams" and engineers implement to that spec even if the 20 million number is wildly incorrect.

Can someone provide the unbiased game theory strategy on what happens next? And what will this conflict look like in 12 months?

Isn't this a damning condemnation for the tech world? Can anyone think of another product that was so popular and then people started abandoning it for their own mental health? This sounds like drugs!

We created the most influential hardware device in the past 30 years (smartphone) and within 5 years it was used to weaponize human vulnerabilities (high jacking dopamine, porn, propaganda, etc...) and has had a huge negative impact on our young people so much so that social media* is now being compared to smoking. I think the takeaway is "Don't trust anything this industry makes because eventually they'll use it to extract profits and harm you in some sneaky way". Kinda like how most people rolled their eyes when tobacco companies push vapes as "safer".

Most of my non tech friends are starting to look at the tech industry like the oil industry. Greedy, hurting society for profits, and delusional. This is sad because most people I work with are amazing and great people who build fantastic products.

* I think social media would be a fraction of what it is today without the smartphone

I too feel every ounce of this. It's in the air. As a data oriented person I'm uncomfortable relying on "feels like" and "intuition" but that's all I have.

The best way I can describe it is "societal rot". Just 10 years ago there was optimism in the air. Now every damn day I see SEVERELY mentally ill people losing their shit in the streets and there's more and more of them each month (I live in a medium sized US city). There's human shit all over the sidewalks. Nudity in front of children. Are we supposed to think this is ok?

I recently ordered food delivery and the girl delivery driver passionately thanked me for a $9 tip. The desperation and despair in her eyes was disturbing. I see this same look in too many people. It's not normal. People seem to be struggling in a way that I've never seen in my life (I'm 34).

Also its difficult to find hope. It's no longer easy to support yourself with a high school education. In response to that more people got educated. Great! We currently have the most educated population in the history of the United States. But oh no we now have an AI rat race where the main monetization strategy is replacing those white collar jobs with AI. People can only take so much.

BTW I'm a typically very positive person (based on feedback from peers and co workers)

Folks seem terrified to really "let loose" and have fun. Fear of judgment seems to be the basis of their fear. I don't think this fear is completely irrational. Social media (or something) seems to have made people jump to unjustified conclusions fast about people they don't even know. People assume the worst now.

Before: "Oh random person X just asked if I want to dance. How fun!"

Now: "Can you believe a random person came ask me to dance? What a creeper!"

Before: "Look at the kids having fun playing in the ditch and making mud pies!"

Now: "Who leaves their kids unsupervised in the rain? Should we call the police?"

Before: "I think I'll try an improv class. It looks like fun. Why not!"

Now: "I want to learn piano but I'm scared to be bad in front of everyone while learning."

Your right about this occuring mostly at night.

The store looks dead but do you know if the night crew is caught up on their closing responsibilities? Doing dishes, stocking nuggest sauces, cleaning the grill, disassembling the fry hopper, organizing the stock room, etc...

If the store closes with none of these done the manager will blow their labor budget due to taking 3 hours to close and the employees will be pissed.

Your rebuttal is a good one and your somewhat right. Grabbing you an ice cream cone when there's no customers likely isn't a big deal. The manager usually cuts the ice cream while being overwhelmed (Ahh! 7 ice cream cones and we have 10 cars behind them. No more ice cream!) and never tells employees to start offering it again. Offering ice cream again would piss off the employees and also slow down the manager who's trying to hit labor and drive through times

As a manager you can't tell the customers this. You'd lose your job if your store manager or any higher ups find out.

You lie to the customers and the workers cover for you (the shift manager) because they hate making ice cream.

Exactly! Our ice cream machines were well made and always worked as they should. They'd be down for a couple hours a month to clean but that's it.

The machine would flash and beep when the ice cream mix was low so we were always eager to shut it up.

Yeah I think you're right. I'm out of touch now.

I started working there ~10 years ago and my starting pay was $7.30/hr. I made $10/hr as a manager

Yes. Lunch rush is the baby of all McDonalds management. You'll rarely see an understaffed store then. Coincidentally this is the shift that most store managers work.

Night shift is where you'll see the cluster-fucks occur most and it's when the ice cream machine will be "down" the most in my experience

You may be right! Just my experience working there for 4 years at 6 different stores.

This happened all the time at every store I worked at.

BTW Our machine would legit break too. Maybe once a year it would be down for a day.

I'll counter you. How do you find competent, reliable people that show up to work consistently and work hard for $9.00 an hour?

You're doing the work of your buddies who called in. Your buddies called in because they're 17 and they're dad made them get this job. They hate it! This happens every damn day.

It's a relative time sink and the toughest logistical challenge in the whole store for workers due to soft serve melting so fast.

You must make the ice cream last. The car has to be at the window (or customer at the counter) when you start. This is the only item in the store that must be prepared like this so you must always have a free person to do this. McDonalds does't provide the labor budget to have "free people" standing around to get your ice cream when you need it. Making ice cream almost always hurt another area of the store in a small way.

Also making a soft serve ice cream cone is much harder than you think. Took me ~2 months to get it down. Dont even get me started on dipped cones.

Fun fact: This is why your mcflurry doesnt have candy at the bottom. Workers hate ice cream! They dont blend it with the machine, they'll just hand blend it to be quick.

The fix would be to take the burden off the the employees. Automate it just like they did drinks. Or increase the labor allowance to have the staff to handle ice cream. They'll probably never do that though.

I worked at McDonalds for 4 years. 2 as a kitchen worker. 2 as a shift manager. I've personally cleaned these machines too many times to count.

I've never heard one person tell "the truth" about this (at least in my personal experience).

Our ice cream machine was often down too but not because it was broken. Because we were short staffed and making ice cream is a HUGE time sink for employees. The manager would just tell the employees "no more ice cream" and they all knew what's up. They'd be very happy that they could focus on food and McCafe and thus not disappoint customers too much due to slow service.

Folks don't quite understand that McDonald's is consistently short staffed and the workers are often doing the work of 2-3 people just to try to get you fast and hot food.

I had the same question.

If you had to guess why it's currently flagged, what's your hypothesis?

This thread seems a bit out of touch. Most folks are speaking on the practicalities of a 3 party system but are missing the elephant in the room.

IMO This isn't so much support for the 3 party system. It's the American public saying "Hey this is obviously broken so we need to do something.... anything".

Just like if you ask the average person "Hey what should we do about AI?". They'll say something like "Stop it immediately! I don't want that crap taking my job". We all know it's wayyyy more nuanced than that but the takeaway is people are uncomfortable with AI. Most people are too busy to be well read on everything.

Could someone please enlighten me on why we don't treat governing like we do software solutions?

When I'm given a task to complete, my first instinct is to find where other developers have done what I'm asked to do and then utilize their wisdom into my own solution which will likely look very similar to theirs.

Why do we see such drastically different approaches to solving issues in society and government?

Want better education? Step 1: Find a state/city that has great education and study what they did to achieve it

Want less crime? Step 1: Mimic a state/city that has successfully reduced crime

Seems so simple to me but yet I never hear politicians/people saying things like "Boston has successfully raised their level of education by doing XYZ so we're going to follow those steps here with minor tweaks to best suite our area"

The FDIC's actions indicate that the insured deposit limit is really unlimited instead of the advertised $250,000.

This takes away a huge risk associated with recklessly handling depositors money because now the FDIC will swoop in and make ALL depositors whole.

With this news, I'm opening a bank. Here is my business plan:

1. Make risky investments and offer better terms than other banks

2. Watch business flock to me

3. Get filthy rich on yearly bonuses

4. 10 years later my risky investments blow up (Make sure to sell stock before)

5. Get taken over by the FDIC

6. Don't return those years of bonuses

7. Let other banks pay for my wrongdoing with a "special assessment"

8. Walk away as a filthy rich failed bank executive

Yep! Dont really care who's in the White House in this instance.

I referenced the Biden team's verbiage because that's the only verbiage that was posted with the implied intent on getting tweets removed (besides the DNC). I'd love to see the email's from the White House asking for tweets to be removed.

Interesting point!

The white house in this case was the Trump white house so it could have been received positively by the media that twitter is standing up to Trump by suing.

Could you elaborate on why you dont think it would be a free speech violation? Is internet communication not considered speech?

This is a good point!

The wording probably matters too. The Biden team asked Twitter to "review" certain tweets instead of "remove" certain tweets. So technically they're not suppressing speech explicitly but implicitly we (and twitter employees) all know what they mean by "review".

This isn't true. White House requested tweets be removed.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752

Not surprising but sad.

Politicians should be excluded from what you're talking about IMO.

They're elected to serve the people and stand for our American beliefs including the freedom of speech. A political party (the DNC in this case) getting tweets removed probably isn't a 1st amendment violation. But it's really shady and anyone from government (the white house in this case) getting tweets removed is likely violating the first amendment (or coming REALLY close to it).

Honest Question: If the white house contacts Twitter and asks for a tweet to be removed, is that a first amendment violation?

Most concerning thing here is that this proves political parties (including the white house[0]) have a direct line to Twitter[1] to get stuff they dislike removed. One would have to assume that there was also a direct line to other social medial platforms. It's so wild to have the slimy-ness of our American political system be revealed in yet another way. So in America you cannot say negative things about political leaders online?!?!

Since this is true, then where else are political parties trying to get unflattering speech suppressed that we don't even know of yet?

[0] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752

[1] https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598827602403160064

I honestly have no bulletproof solution and I also have no desire to "defeat" social media.

I just think that people would be happier and social media would be a better place if the public were educated on what it truly is.

Your right! So simple but I say this because I've never seen a well funded campaign or organization spreading this message.

We have large organizations with great solutions tackling climate change, starving children, etc....

I guess maybe like war, spreading this message would hurt pockets that are far too deep to be challenged.

This entirely misses the point IMO. Social media is the most powerful propaganda/idea pushing machine in the history of the world and it ain't even close.

Lies, half truths, and everything in between are presented in the most riveting ways possible and our monkey brains just can't help but soak up every last bit of it. If a person believes everything on social media then __they__ should be fixed, not social media.

A great solution is for people to see social media for what it is: 99% garbage that gives you a quick dopamine hit.

People should be made aware that on social media you are likely:

    1.  Reading misinformation

    2.  Viewing content that's created with the sole purpose to manipulate you into a certain view (Often times by a bad actor)

    3.  Reading opinions by trusted people who've been compromised by the above two points