“Friedrich #Merz und die rechte Versuchung
Die Union steht vor der Entscheidung: Will sie ihre Rolle als konservative Kraft in der demokratischen Mitte bewahren oder sich einem rechten Projekt anschließen? Letzteres würde Deutschland nachhaltig verändern.” Lesenswert & unheimlich…
Essay von Jonas Schaible im @derspiegel #pay https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/friedrich-merz-und-die-rechte-versuchung-wie-steht-es-um-die-regierungsverantwortung-von-cdu-csu-a-15c4b459-093c-422d-b038-d54a37016277?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh #Brandmauer #kulturkampf #noafd #Demokratie #Trump #Vance #Rechtsruck
“> Yep! The #Firefox Browser is free.
> Super free, actually.
> No hidden costs or anything.
> You don’t pay anything to use it, and we don’t sell your personal #data.
Now it simply reads:
> Yep! The Firefox Browser is free.
> Super free, actually.
> No hidden costs or anything.
> You don’t #pay anything to use it.
Again, a pledge to not sell people's data has disappeared. #Varma insisted this is the result of the fluid definition of “sell” in the context of data sharing and privacy.
“Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about ‘selling data’), and we don’t #buy data about you,” he said. “We changed our #language because some jurisdictions define ‘sell’ more broadly than most people would usually understand that word.”
#Mozilla / #TermsOfUse / #TOU / #AjitVarma <https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/mozilla_introduces_terms_of_use/>
The technology white collar eradication continues. Since 2022 where #TCI Fundie #ChristopherHohn* decided he needed a pay rise, one way was to demand #google loose it’s “over paid” #Engineers. Big Tech has followed by stripping workers and looking at #AI as a replacement,
It’s 2025 and…
“Meta's plan to erase 5% of workforce starts today”
<https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/meta_to_toss_5_of/>
VS
“Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses (Meta/Facebook)”
#WhiteCollar / #tech / #tehc / #pay / #conditions <https://theregister.com/2025/02/22/meta_pumps_executive_bonuses/>
“Breaking video: workers storm French supermarket that sacked over half its staff and attacked pay”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox
“Collective response to attacks on jobs, pay and conditions shuts down Paris Carrefour store”
Normal Island News
Huge pay rises coming for the most deserving workers in the country: politicians
I'm sure this makes you feel better, doesn't it?
Thanks to Rachel Reeves’ ruthless cuts, which include reducing disability allowance, treating disabled people like scroungers and forcing them to look for work, you will be delighted to hear politicians have found enough money to give themselves a £2,558 pay rise!
Philadelphia Whole Foods workers form first union in Amazon era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv6l5xA47Gw
Workers at a Whole Foods store in Philadelphia voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union on Monday, Jan. 27. The group became the first Whole Foods workers to unionize since Amazon took over the grocery chain in 2017.
Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30
Good morning.
15 January 2025
After I got out of Marine Corps Boot Camp in 1971, I got paid twice a month. I was going to say every two weeks but that isn't quite right with the exception of most Februarys. But anyway, back in those days we reported to a pay officer who would pay us in cash, for me he would snap out two brand new $20 bills. That's right my take home pay was $80 per month. Take home isn't quite accurate either because I lived in a barracks, so hey, free room and board. I should mention that I did automatically purchase a savings bond every month, which would increase my net pay to $100. My payday was all spending money, which lasted a week until I was again waiting for payday.
"Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines." - Nate Dogg
"Signs of #Oligarchy:
- You must #pay to the ruling party.
- You must #show your allegiance with the rulers.
- Therefore the rulers look the other way and you can make #money.
Watch this market take of #CNBC and think what the US has (openly) become:"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eJ4E4gl0qls
Source tweet:
https://x.com/maxschrems/status/1877675277741855007
From the article:
"Amid the widespread discontent Americans have expressed, some health insurers have taken significant security measures. Many have opted to close headquarters, remove executives’ photos from their websites, and bolster armed security for key leaders as a precautionary response."
Q. How are they going to #pay for all that #extra #Security?
So for reasons I'm on the hunt for a new #job.
If you're around #Asheville and have a good position open, let me know. Aside from back breaking physical work I can pretty much do anything.
The reason for this post is for my disgust at what passes for #pay. With a living wage of $22/hr here, finding an entry or even midlevel position above $17/hr is #ridiculous.
What a hellscape.
@lproven @theregister as much as I love the #freedom and #autonomy of #linux it's definitely a #purest #technically #adept approach to self #digitization
The majority of people I've worked with want nothing to do with knowing how anything works. They just want their computer to auto-load all their bents like #magic , be able to access anything on the #Network without getting permission and install any #app on their #device they choose.
#Government , #libraries especially, need to untether from #broZone #architecture and do things for themselves again.
I'm not a #statistician and only have #anecdotal #evidence to go by, but I don't see a whole lotta folks doing, or even wanting, to do things themselves. Let alone, pick up the #skills required to do so.
The worst part, the people actually willing and able to help, can't afford to, because it doesn't #pay well, enough.
So, we all have to figure out a way to fix "that" first. But, that would require everyone believing doing #work themselves is better for them and the #Earth in the long run rather than #automating each and every #human #interaction out of #existence
#MuzakLessons #Automation Don't lose your #touch make them #visible and #purposeful each time; every #time
#Disney settles suit over #women's #pay for $43 million | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/legal/disney-settles-suit-over-womens-pay-43-million-2024-11-26/
To put it in perspective: they were accused of not paying $150 million and managed to buy their freedom for less than half that amount.
Even if the initial figure was exaggerated, the fact that they settled indicates that the hush money they paid was less than what they actually owed.
So much for the trickle-down theory.