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  • Physical Collectors "Should Plug In" Switch, 3DS And Vita Game Cards "Every 5-10 Years" To Avoid Data Loss

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  • dump them to SSD RAID storage.

    Because people totally have DS/3DS/NX card readers and do personal exports before running their emulators. (/s obviously)

    The reality is that for 99.999% of owners of these consoles, they're probably going to boot up their old games and wonder where the saves are, if the old games even work anymore. I've already had this happen to the PS Vita with their first party hardware, I should have found a way to install a CFW and get micro SD cards working instead, but I paid for all my licenses and for expensive first party memory cards and now i'm SOL, just like most people.

  • Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day

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  • The rent seeking is so hard with this automate-the-profits bullshit.

    The moment we perfect auto-taxis the service should be a public benefit and run by a nonprofit.

  • 'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

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  • The funny thing is that if they used the 100k/year for labor, they would be able to pay out $87,600 after 12.4% employer tax, this equates to ~$42.11/hr. I absolutely promise workers will line up for that wage.

    Course that still doesn't provide healthcare. That being said, the farmer is pocketing more money by paying the employee so little than what the employee actually makes, and this money is not at all earned by the farmer, but a handout from taxpayers. The employer gets to profit from the fruits of their labor on top of making more money simply by paying them the legal minimum they can pay with the program.

  • 'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers

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  • Importing workers to make 16.84/hr. Just what American is going to accept that kind of wage when the boss is getting grants of hundreds of thousands of dollars?

    The immigrant would have to work 11,876 hours to earn the 200k handout that the boss gets for hiring him seasonally for two years. How is this sustainable? Are we all going to be working to subsidize farmers by 100k/year to hire a single foreign farmhand?

    Not to mention the program for that grant has only 141 members... it just doesn't make sense.

  • ‘Necessary to quell the rebellion’: DOJ tells 9th Circuit that Trump can deploy National Guard from every state and can’t be second-guessed by judges

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  • Isn't the national guard supposed to be a state level militia?

    Makes zero sense that the federal government should dictate where and how they are used. The feds should be going to states and asking to borrow their militia for whatever happens, typically national disaster response and not murdering political dissenters.

  • 700 troops have been mobilized to help ICE in raids in Florida, Louisiana and Texas

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  • I have assumed they want downward pressure on labor costs but by removing labor you just raise the cost of it. Supply vs demand... cut off the supply and the demand peaks.

    Raise the labor cost on manufacturing, food, landscaping, etc and you just raise prices for everybody, more runaway inflation happens and the US competes even less with the rest of the world.

    Just doesn't add up to me. Maybe for billionaires the math works out in their favor though.

  • 700 troops have been mobilized to help ICE in raids in Florida, Louisiana and Texas

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  • I'm really wondering what the real reason is behind the anti-immigrant actions. Sure, racism is part of it, but there has to be a money aspect for somebody because of all the extra business.

    This is generating a ton of jobs in louisiana, which is basically the last slave state as-is with how their prisons are run anyway.

  • Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers

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  • They removed that from their official code of conduct in 2018.

  • Why Won't the Media Mention Israel's Nukes?

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  • mainstream media?

    e.g. all of them

  • World’s most popular TikTok star Khaby Lame leaves the US after being detained by ICE

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  • RIF

    was detained Friday at Harry Reid International Airport but was allowed to leave the country without a deportation order

  • Rep. Mary Miller loses it over 'a Muslim' speaking in Congress

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  • they were literally fleeing religious persecution. Why would they bake religion into what they were creating?

    Because everyone thinks their opinions are the right ones.

    Someone persecuting you doesn't mean you'll go somewhere else and not persecute others who are not on your side.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • Realistically they will hire someone in the dominican republic or some other nation with fairly neutral english accents on a call center farm who end up getting paid way under US minimum wage.

    Tons of companies do this. Choice hotels, boost mobile... many many more.

    Alternatively those gig workers will get paid even less than DR wages and be from far worse countries. Those DR call center farms literally do not allow you to bring any personal belongings onto the floor, or take anything from the floor. Way too easy to steal financial information if you can write it down somewhere. Now imagine gig workers who work remotely and how they could handle financial data... doesn't seem feasible but maybe they have the liability angle figured out.

  • A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them

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  • It's not that it's gone, it's that the platform continues to enshittify.

    It's really hard to remove all their bloatware garbage, and features seem to get worse all the time. Subtitles had a big change and they really don't do a good job of supporting them anymore, as an example. Had one show that no matter what I did the subtitles just wouldn't work after updating to a modern version that had the modern 'updated' subtitle handling. I've continued to update but it's still questionable.

    When I got it they never had 'ad supported plex tv', now they do and they promote it everywhere. All I want to do is keep supporting what they have, newer modern codecs, squash bugs, and act as a crappy dynamic dns so I can not setup a domain that goes to my home network connection which is a dynamic ip.

    What I don't want is to have to go into settings to disable or hide all their garbage ad revenue supported services everywhere in my private media library I paid a lifetime license fee for. It didn't have that advertisement when I bought it, they shouldn't be adding it afterwards, and I shouldn't have to keep updating my config just to stay on a version that supports evolving hardware.

    I tried Jellyfin but it's even worse for subtitles which are unfortunately mandatory in my household.

    Edit: this literally just popped up in my lemmy feed. https://lemm.ee/post/63954487

  • A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them

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  • Yep, two years before Borderlands delivered a much superior experience.

    At the time I had spent six years playing EverQuest, Ultima Online, Anarchy Online and World of Warcraft in various capacities, and this was looking like an MMO borderlands like thing. Few MMOs had gone under so soon after release.

    Apparently the same devs are making a sequel, and I think i'll make sure to pirate it unless they give it away to lifetime Hellgate London subscribers.

    Nowadays I know better than to trust any kind of weird offer like this announced before launch. They'd only do it if they knew they were going to win... or were so worried they were going to go under.

  • Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

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  • This seems to be a lie, there are no customer service positions available on Klarna's career page.

    They also have zero US based roles available. Canada and europe only.

  • A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them

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  • GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica

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  • You sure this isn't a poison pill?

  • Elon Musk’s DOGE deletes dozens of claims of cost-cutting after investigation reveals they are false

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  • UnitedHealth CEO suddenly steps down for 'personal reasons'

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  • So we CAN afford these drugs to begin with, because employer sponsored health plans with minimal coverage cost around $14000 and have $6500++ copays (I don't remember today's limits for copays, but you have to pay those copays out of pocket before an insurance company covers drugs typically.) The actual drugs cost pennies to make but sell for hundreds to thousands to hundreds of thousands. The prices that are listed for these drugs at retail are not actually what the insurance pays for these drugs, we're never going to see those figures, but they're aligned to maximize profits from the industry. Pharmacy benefit managers also collude by using a third party service to recommend pricing.

    I'm too lazy to find good sources of material, but revenue in the US for pfizer is more in the US than the rest of the world combined. https://www.statista.com/statistics/267877/revenues-of-pfizer-in-submarkets-worldwide/ (I was able to view this without a subscription.)

    Last year they had about ~63600 million in revenue. ~38691 million last year was in the US alone.

    ~16057 for "developed markets" aka europe and wealthy nations ~8879 for "developing nations" e.g. africa, latin america, poor asian countries.

    So 38 billion in the us vs 63.6 billion total revenue.

    If you have to choose between keeping US revenue or keeping non-us global revenue, you're gonna choose the US. It's not even close.

    I'm guessing they can license their drug to some other business to sell internationally and get out of first party sales, but it's possible they may have a legal mechanism to skirt this already since it's typical for the US business to be a separate company than the holding company, and all the international businesses are separate companies under said holding company, it's hard to say. I don't have any inside information for today's strategy.