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And your mild comment is a magnet for downvotes.. Which is really highlighting your point.

Headline clearly leads "Auto industry warned" implying this is an industrial issue specific to them. And it is. This is not misleading.

The issue is that they are offshoring the lead recycling to very poor nations that have no environmental protection laws. Why? Cos cheaper.

Same issue with almost every industrial problem - the dangers are off-shored. Out of sight, out of mind. The US auto industry was warned about this exact prpblem and pleaded with to set up monitoring and a clean battery sourcing program - and of course they did nothing, because the only way corporations listen is with law and effective enforcement of those laws.

I remember in the late 80s and early 90s multiple kids were killed in the US over their shoes. Usually by people they knew.

When the designer luxury worship culture gets so bad that kids are killing each other over attaining it.. something major has to change.

Solution is to raise minimum wage, increase social support, and raise the poorest up out of poverty. These killings are incredibly rare in the rest of the developed world.

But thanks mostly to conservatives we know that this hasn't happened in the US, and kids who live in borderline poverty are still killing people for their designer sneakers. The only thing that's changed in 30 years is the brands.

WinDirStat imo is a better alternative - same functionality, much older and open source.

Wiztree borrows a lot from WinDirStat's interface.

Article author doesn't actually elaborate on what they mean precisely by "cut them loose" but from context it seems to be cut off all their federal funding.

Not even sure how you'd do that to be honest - even Trump's admin has struggled to legally withhold federal funds from states he hates, the funding gets pushed through in the end by legal action. So you wanna out-crime Trump? Dumb article.

If the author wants to make bold demands then along with that comes the requirement of suggesting how to achieve them, else it's just performative whining.

Depends if it's a young tech coming up to fix their computer, or an older tech coming up to elaborate what the recent Capex request is for, because it just takes to damn long to write in email.

If it's the latter then yeah that checks out.

The NDIS scam claims are far overstated from what I understand speaking to people in the system.

The biggest scam recently was the payouts to businesses during Covid. Just to scratch the surface for example we paid $13bil to businesses that increased their profits during 2020-21 covid crisis, under the guise of Jobkeeper. I know many businesses that took payment despite knowing they had not had 30% downturn, because there were no clawback methods in the legislation. Free money from the taxpayer.

remembers Gofer programming language from CS unit and shudders

Let's run the job requirements list:

• amoral
• talks a lot about things they don't understand
• comfortable with lying if it benefits their goals
• emotionless psychpathic traits
• uses enormous amount of resources for questinable gains
• good at manipulation
• bad at maths
• occasional racist outbursts on social media

Yeah all seems to check out. Replace the CEOs, AI can't do worse.

Pre-WW2 use of the swastika: all good.

Post-WW2 use of the swastika, specifically in the context of this discussion (for armed service members in the western world): very, very not good.

There are no personal insults in my comment. Hope you're well 🍻