Not to excuse them, but this is from 2019. Yes, that behavior was so outrageous at the time, but hopefully it is no longer happening

A better analogy is search engines. It’s just another tool, but

• at their best enable your I to find anything from all the worlds knowledge
• at their worst, are just another way to serve ads and scams, random companies vying for attention, they making any attention is good attention, regardless of what you’re looking for

When I started as a software engineer, my detailed knowledge was most important and my best tool was the manuals. Now my most important tools are search engines and autocomplete: I can work faster with less knowledge of the syntax and my value is the higher level thought about what we need to do. If my company ever allows AI, I fully expect it to be as important a tool as a search engine.

One of the points here was those syntaxes no longer work

• search engines are usually free text, with no concept about fields
• the syntax you specify usually depends on specific sites implementing “filtering” which is usually a lot more annoying to use, and people here complaining that no longer works. Plus that’s limited to a specific site
• google search specifically, used to accept syntax like quotes to match a phrase and plus or minus to indicate required presence or absence, but those no longer work.
• certainly part of it is merchandisers using SEO for greater attention rather than better match

I’m currently looking for a new light fixture and haven’t yet found the magical search phrase to get there or a site with filtering that works. Of course it may not exist but all my attempted searches so far return random junk, so I don’t even know

It turns out many of us do search for specific terms when we want specific items.

Huh, I had no idea Dremel was genericized

I’ve only read your comment so far, but I thought it was obvious enough to be surprised your comment was in top

If Chamberlain can give up Czeckoslovakia for “peace for our time”, and be remembered as a great man (or at least as a garage door opener) surely Trump can be remembered for all time by giving up Eastern Europe for profit for his time

This is a war of attrition that’s ruining Ukraine’s interior, devastating its population, and obliterating its economy

And yet they choose to continue. As is their right.

I hope everyone here will continue to support aid to Ukraine long after they drive the Russians out. While nothing can correct the horrors of war, we can help rebuild at least some of what they’ve lost

https://www.csis.org/analysis/cluster-munitions-what-are-they-and-why-united-states-sending-them-ukraine

Dud rates vary from 2 percent to 40 percent, with U.S. submunitions on the lower end and Russian submunitions on the higher end. Duds act like landmines and can injure civilians

While everything to do with war is a varying amount of horrifying,

• Ukrainians are desperate enough to choose to use them in their own country
• they’re being given far more reliable munitions than what they’re already being attacked with

I haven’t even seen bacon donuts in a few years

The question is: what should we be making in the US?

Tariffs can give domestic manufacturing a temporary reprieve from lower priced foreign suppliers, to build or improve domestic manufacturing.

They can also be used to try to punish other countries for unfair trading practices

For example

• 100% tariffs on Chinese manufactured EVs are claimed to be in retaliation on for unfair Chinese government subsidies
• US government is offering incentives to domestic EV manufacturers and purchasers of domestically produced EVs, which could help build domestic production, in conjunction with temporary tariffs

I’m not convinced that they’ve put this much thought into it, nor that domestic manufacturers will use this window of opportunity

Flippers. Any kind of flippers

Right, this is much more important. We don’t need to require unnecessary jobs for ex-cons to find work, we need to do a better job of reintegrating them into society after they’ve done 5heir time

Or to mop the floor. There’s a low skill job that is actually necessary

There are necessary jobs that are low skill.

I’ve read this response online and have seen online videos, but never met anyone who actually saw any such disaster. I’m not convinced this is at all common

Yeah, hatred for lobbyists may realiy be hatred for corporate influence, but they don’t have to be the same thing. Limiting corporate money in politics, and adding some thirds rule would be go a long way

It’s usually an old woman, and that keeps drunk bros from getting out of hand, assholes from littering paper towels, and you can just get your own damn towel.

I think it’s mainly higher end places thinking actual towels would be a nice touch but not willing to pay for them to be lost or stolen

How long were you off caffeine for the surgery? I believe it only takes a couple days for your body to lose its tolerance

Yep, both sides, amirite?