Th4tGuyII

Problem is its not actually about the children. As always they're the excuse. The UK Government will stoop to almost any excuse possible to give itself more surveillance powers - it took 1984 as a goal rather than a warning.

Well that's gross. I'm just thankful you have to explicitly opt into this for now, cause I'm staying the fuck away

By that calculation, even on the lower end of only losing $20 billion that'd still be 10 years before it'd cost them anymore than this rancid business decision did.

They're so determined to not negotiate with the union that they'd rather throw away the shareholder's money than give it to workers... And that's just this scheduled strike. If talks fail again, I bet you there will be more to come.

Samsung might have a difficult time explaining that one at their shareholder presentation next year.

What?! A soulless megacorporation pocketed refunds for tariffs that they never actually paid (because they forced the end user to eat the cost)??

I seriously hope this lawsuit works, because it'd set one hell of a precedent for future lawsuits.

Probably - because the amount of money they're about to lose was probably less than what actually negotiating with the union would've cost them

Weirdly enough there's a pretty easy way to stop emissions limits from being bypassed - make it a physical limitation, not in software.

But like with putting tablets into every fucking car nowadays, doing anything physically would require just a bit more money, ergo it won't be done.

According to the Seoul Economic Daily, daily losses could approach 3 trillion won ($2 billion) if fabrication lines are paused entirely. Professor Kwon Seok-joon at Sungkyunkwan University previously estimated that the 18-day walkout alone would cause 10 trillion to 17 trillion won ($17 billion) in direct losses, while JPMorgan has projected total losses of up to 43 trillion won ($28 billion) when factoring in labor costs and extended production disruption.

Wow. What a huge amount of money to lose just because you won't pay your highly skilled workers more.

As @osanna@lemmy.vg said, you really have to wonder how much it would cost Samsung to pay their workers more if they're willing to tank a potentially $20-40 billion loss instead of giving the union what they're asking for.

The report notes the Government's chief commercial officer informed Palantir of his concern about the firm's practice of offering a zero- or nominal-cost initial offer to gain a commercial foothold.

This, he argued, was contrary to public procurement principles requiring open competition.

I've got a weird suggestion for you then Mr. Commercial Officer - don't allow obvious bait-and-switch tactics during public procurement!

Of course they can afford to take a 6 month loss when they intend to just jack up the price later.

This is literally the kind of scammy BS we're told to be weary of, yet the UK Government is just letting this happen, wasting millions of taxpayer pounds.

This game is so circular as to be ridiculous... Who's actually making money if everyone's just passing the same billions of dollars around and around?? At some point something's gotta give.

Oh no! How will I ever know what to do when my step-sibling is stuck in a washing machine?!

Seriously though, while it is definitely weird when an adult pretends to be a minor in porn, is it really 5 years in prison weird??

Like are we really going to put people in prison for pretending to do something illegal when we already have a problem with huge delays in court times and severely overcrowded prisons?

I'd much prefer the limited public resources go towards locking up actual pedos than people fetishising them.

All of this is fairly obvious to someone not wearing a MAGA hat.

Productivity per person has increased since the 80's, but wages have not followed - rather they have remained largely stagnant.

As such, the increased profits are instead going into an increasingly small amount of very rich people's pockets

How did we manage to move almost completely away from Pseudo-random password generation, only to come straight back to it via LLMs again.

People will really just shove these things into anything like they're a bloody panacea, when really they're just extremely well-trained parrots.