[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 32 points 6 hours ago

Harris’s economic agenda also includes the expansion of the existing $5,000 tax deduction for start-up firms to $50,000. This, The Post has reported, is an attempt to draw a contrast with Trump, who has called for reducing the tax rate paid by corporations and maintaining lower tax rates for high-income people, along with policies aimed at helping people in other tax brackets.

That’s what American politics has come to, “giving additional tax breaks to corporations” vs “giving additional tax credits to new corporations” is presented as the “divide” between the two pseudo-state parties.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 1 points 21 hours ago

Question is, which is more annoying? The people who care about policy but think democrats will actually make good on the promises? Or the people who don’t care and just want vibes?

The first group are showing more intellectual seriousness in caring about policy, but that they think democrats are serious about policy shows they’re either naive or only care about appearing serious. The vibes people are less serious on the surface, but it f it is all spectacle then there’s a realism to doubling down on the spectacle.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Mind you I’m not talking about what an actual Harris presidency would accomplish, I’m talking about campaign marketing.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

Yeah coconut brat summer works for the immediate, but summer’s ending soon and her campaign is going to start looking shallow if there’s no Big Idea policy proposal.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

“M’lord Roberts! I do so hope my tributes please you. Look, I have adorned my least greasy Rush shirt for the glorious occasion of meeting you in the flesh.”

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago

Yes, the personifications of corporate inefficiency will bring about government efficiency, very big brained.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago

The advertisers are selling a dashboard that the marketing department can use to razzle dazzle the higher ups

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 60 points 3 days ago

So this is bullshit on a few levels:

The overall population levels listed correspond to England, but the data they used for the number of trans women is for England and Wales.

Furthermore, the census data showed ~262,000 trans individuals in England and Wales however:

In response to the Census, 118,000 people indicated that they were transgender but did not specify whether they identified as a trans woman or a trans man. Of those who did, the data was evenly split between those who identified as trans men, and those who identified as trans women – with 48,000 people identifying as each.

So that’s not the number of trans women in total, it’s the number of trans women who chose to disclose their gender identity. The ratio of those that disclosed was a third trans men, a third trans women, and another third nonbinary or other gender identities. Assuming the did not disclose trans individuals follow the same pattern, that’s 78,600 trans women.

I couldn’t find where the 92 trans women sex offender stat was derived from. However, it’s important to note that sex work is typically lumped in as a sexual offense. And we know how cop love to arrest people for “being trans while walking.”

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 33 points 3 days ago

The leopards continue to feast on faces

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[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 29 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure this is the pinnacle of asablackman tactics

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 62 points 3 days ago

If your primary interest in being a woman is sexual, I hope you have a plan for your 40’s and onwards

Because we all know the moment a woman hits forty, her sexuality just ceases to exist overnight and they never want to have sex or are sexually desired ever again. Transphobes can’t help but shuttle in some misogyny in with the transphobia.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago

John “greed is good but only when it’s capitalists being greedy” Stossel.

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I saw some dope field caps of the North Vietnamese army, but the only listing I could find was an original that had already sold, and searching for “Vietnam hat” just gets me a bunch of boomer participation trophies.

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Take the World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, a green giant with over $600 million in assets. WWF and McDonald’s are both founding members of the beef roundtable, and later, the two worked together on other beef-related projects. In fact, that inaugural conference in 2010 was officially titled the World Wildlife Fund Global Conference on Sustainable Beef. (WWF has helped to found similar industry roundtables for poultry and soy — most of which is fed to farmed animals — and a certification program for seafood.)

For its collaboration, McDonald’s makes sure WWF is well compensated; from 2015 to 2022, the company donated $4.5 to $9 million to WWF-US.

From 2017 to 2022, WWF-US brought in approximately $12 million to $28.6 million from various meat, dairy, seafood, fast food, restaurant, and grocery companies, including Tyson Foods, Cargill, Burger King, Costco, Walmart, Red Lobster, Chobani, and Dairy Management Inc., a dairy trade group.

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You hate having to deal with an automated voice recognition system when calling customer service? Well we put it in an app and called it AI and now you piggies love it. That’s right, eat your slop.

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A judge in the United States has ruled that Google spent billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly for its search engine, exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation.

Monday’s landmark decision that Google broke antitrust law marks the first major success for US authorities taking on the dominance of Big Tech, which has come under fire from across the political spectrum.

“The court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” US District Judge Amit Mehta wrote in his 277-page ruling.

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I mean, the name of the guy they follow means “I suspicious” in French.

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But bosses' resemblance to toddlers doesn't end with their credulity. A toddler's path to getting that eye-height candy-bar goes through their exhausted parents. Your boss's path to realizing the productivity gains promised by an AI salesman runs through you.

A new research report from the Upwork Research Institute offers a look into the bizarre situation unfolding in workplaces where bosses have been conned into buying AI and now face the challenge of getting it to work as advertised:

https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models

The headline findings tell the whole story:

  • 96% of bosses expect that AI will make their workers more productive;
  • 85% of companies are either requiring or strongly encouraging workers to use AI;
  • 49% of workers have no idea how AI is supposed to increase their productivity;
  • 77% of workers say using AI decreases their productivity.
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