Nobody Cares: PRS

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

New York City is now the greatest tech worker hub in the US, bigger (roughly by 20K workers) than the Californian Bay Area.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/san-francisco-bay-area-dethroned-largest-tech-22396813.php

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Vanity Fair put Pope Leo on its list of best dressers.

Vanity Fair puts Pope Leo on its list of best dressers

The head of the Catholic church was feted for his ability to pair Nike trainers with a papal cassock

www.thetimes.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Poland: Man who ordered 300 pizzas in food-delivery pranks faces up to eight years in prison
The 300 pizzas were just one order. He's allegedly responsible for multiple such fake orders. I think calling this "pranks" is understating it rather severely.

The 23 year old suspect faces up to eight years in prison for stalking, identity fraud, and causing massive financial harm to local restaurants by ordering hundreds of unpaid meals (including 300 pizzas) to random, unsuspecting residents.

These actions left them feeling threatened and tormented, and also constituted an intrusion into their privacy, CBZC said.

The orders themselves also contained threats, including references to abducting a minor, setting fire to a notary's office and causing a road accident, the agency added.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Psycho terror/cyber mobbing is more adequate for that offence.

 

[detrius]

Nearly 25% of U.S. workers are "functionally unemployed," economic analysis finds

The U.S. job market is less robust than it looks, according to a new analysis.

The nation's unemployment rate fell to 4.1% in July, well within the range economists consider healthy. Yet that measure, which reflects the percentage of people 16 and older who don't have a job and who are looking for work, is an imprecise metric that fails to offer a full picture of the health of the job sector, according to Gene Ludwig, chairman of the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP).

The economic research firm's "True Rate of Unemployment" (TRU) seeks to capture the share of workers that the group defines as "functionally unemployed." This includes not only people who are unemployed and looking for a job, but also those who are involuntarily working part-time and who are earning poverty-level wages, or less than $26,000 annually before taxes. [...]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/functional-unemployment-us-labor-market-analysis/

 

[Innula Zenovka]

How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

"An in-group of one."

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/functional-unemployment-us-labor-market-analysis/

Also, if I'm not mistaken, the unemployment rate doesn't account for the chronically unemployed - people who have been unemployed and looking for work for so long that their unemployment benefits have run out and they are no longer tracked. I suspect our true unemployment rate is a whole lot higher than 4.1% even when you don't factor in the underemployed.

 

[detrius]

Also, if I'm not mistaken, the unemployment rate doesn't account for the chronically unemployed - people who have been unemployed and looking for work for so long that their unemployment benefits have run out and they are no longer tracked. I suspect our true unemployment rate is a whole lot higher than 4.1% even when you don't factor in the underemployed.

Yeah, these are Potemkin numbers.

It's almost funny how much alike Russia, China and the USA have become in that regard.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Yeah, these are Potemkin numbers.

It's almost funny how much alike Russia, China and the USA have become in that regard.

Imperial cores gonna Imperial.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by ICE in Louisiana

It's face season

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Milo Yiannopoulos arrested by ICE in Louisiana

It's face season

One of the things about Milo that makes me laugh the most is that his infamous joke about his sexual abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest that caused the US Right to drop him like a hot potato was, in fact, stolen from the British novelist Simon Raven, whom Milo wishes he had been. I remember an interview on BBC Radio 4 back in the mid 1990s when Raven said exactly the same thing, on the lines of "I wouldn't call it abuse. I enjoyed it immensely", about his time as a pupil at Charterhouse. Partly it's a matter of England in the 1990s not being the same as the US twenty years later, and partly Milo Yiannopoulos certainly not being the same as Simon Raven.

 

[Tirellia]

Please don't deport Milo. I'd much prefer that he remain in the USA.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Crowd of Gandalfs protests outside Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel's house in Argentina

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

You know the backlash against Flock is really taking off when the state of Florida revokes its contract and orders their removal from state highways. Florida. The MAGA capital of the US. It's surprising to me because this voter base is usually broadly supportive of police militarization and privacy violating tools and policies that "help solve crime", and especially when it's spun as a way to track and capture immigrants. So it's hard for me to imagine why the state government is feeling pressured to reject Flock.

 

[detrius]

You know the backlash against Flock is really taking off when the state of Florida revokes its contract and orders their removal from state highways. Florida. The MAGA capital of the US. It's surprising to me because this voter base is usually broadly supportive of police militarization and privacy violating tools and policies that "help solve crime", and especially when it's spun as a way to track and capture immigrants. So it's hard for me to imagine why the state government is feeling pressured to reject Flock.

Good old double standards.

MAGA likes police militarization and privacy violations when other people are being targeted.

But when it affects them, they're the most thin-skinned of all crybabies.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Hungary to introduce wealth tax

Balint Ruff, chief of staff to Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar, stated that the wealth tax will be a significant measure for Hungary, aimed at reducing inequality. The regulation has been prepared for a long time and will target incomes and assets exceeding one billion forints. The Tisza Party, led by Magyar, won the elections in April, promising to address rising inequality during Viktor Orban's government. The Prime Minister estimated that the tax could generate annual revenues of 300 to 600 billion forints, with plans to implement it next year.

Wealth tax proposals are gaining global popularity, but the results in countries that have adopted such measures are mixed. Ruff did not detail how the tax will be applied in Hungary, but emphasized that its purpose is not punitive, but aims to expand social responsibility, in the context of a budget deficit of 7.5% of GDP.

The turnaround this country is experiencing is...inspiring. It's giving me hope.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

You know the backlash against Flock is really taking off when the state of Florida revokes its contract and orders their removal from state highways. Florida. The MAGA capital of the US. It's surprising to me because this voter base is usually broadly supportive of police militarization and privacy violating tools and policies that "help solve crime", and especially when it's spun as a way to track and capture immigrants. So it's hard for me to imagine why the state government is feeling pressured to reject Flock.

And risk possible blackmail/exposure over with their habitual extra-marital activities? I'm surprised they didn't oppose it from the start.

 

[Free]

Kalshi Just Issued Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to the Funniest Person You Can Possibly Imagine

The prediction market Kalshi just handed its first every lifetime ban to a notorious career fraudster and former congressman.

futurism.com

That's right, it's the Broadway producer and college volleyball star, our old lying friend George Santos.