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alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•CEO of UnitedHealthcare fatally shot outside of NYC hotel, source says40·5 months agoHealthcare is a human right. Socialized medicine is cheaper than our current system, gives more people access, and prevents incidents like this.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Why Does Elon Musk Still Have a Security Clearance? The U.S. government seems to think he’s too big to fail.9·7 months agoSocialism for the rich.
Rugged capitalism for the poor.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?1·7 months agoWe do have lots of places like Sheetz that serve a similar function, but to be entirely automated is rare.
Automats might be a closer analog.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?26·7 months agoVending machines work better when there’s more foot traffic and more density.
Vending machines with specialty goods (as pictured) need to be restocked every day and they require even more foot traffic. I think this is the biggest factor why OP’s vending machine is not viable in a lot of places in the US.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Sanders Pledges Resolution to Block $20 Billion US Arms Sale to Israel50·8 months agoBernie should have been president.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Big Crypto Is Spending More on US Elections Than Any Other Industry1·9 months agoYou know very little about the stock market. You should read up on the OTC markets.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Big Crypto Is Spending More on US Elections Than Any Other Industry31·9 months agoThey’re not intelligent enough to realize their arguments are outdated.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Big Crypto Is Spending More on US Elections Than Any Other Industry53·9 months agoBy your definition stocks are also a pyramid scheme and everyone knows it. The more people that buy it, the price goes up! Sell? The price crashes! What a revelation!
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Teacher says contract wasn't renewed because he wouldn't use trans students' preferred names41·9 months agoSomeone should start going by the name, “I owe you 5 dollars”. It’s a fool-proof way to get rich quick.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto Canada@lemmy.ca•Is 13 too young to work? A Saskatchewan proposal has reignited debate around kids and labour17·11 months agoBillionaires don’t work. Why should children?
Let kids focus on their studies. We need a better educated population, not one where people are trained to work mindless jobs where corporations pay you the least amount possible.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Parents called for mental health help. Police arrived and fatally shot their son.691·1 year agoStep 1) Find out the name of the cop who shot your son
Step 2) Call a mental health check on the cop
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says47·1 year agoAll of the megacorps are raising prices because they know consumers cannot do anything about it.
Meanwhile, wages can’t keep pace with inflation because, “tHaT wOuLd MaKe ThE pRoBlEm WoRsE” Yes it would, but only allowing huge corporations to do that shit makes the class disparity worse and not allowing individuals to match is boiling a frog in water.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally in new attempt to appease antitrust regulatorsEnglish0·1 year agoNobody is forcing me to use Office or Teams, but I’m stuck with a single ISP.
Why won’t regulators even LOOK at the ISP oligopoly? For fucks sake.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Serial Killers Have Rapidly Declined Since The 1980s51·1 year agoThis is really great info. Appreciate all the links backing up the data too. Thank you!
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Taylor Swift launches legal broadside at a college student who tracks private jets via public data701·1 year agoIt sounds tough being a billionaire. She should give it all up.
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Taylor Swift threatens legal action against Florida student who tracks her jet | CNN Business1273·1 year agoFuck billionaires
alienanimals@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin189·1 year agoPOW has been out of date for years. POS solves these problems, but that would take an informed person to realize which seems to be in short supply.
AI has it’s usecases, but it’s not currently at a place where students can be left alone with an AI. This is dumb.