The famines, which outside of World War II when the Nazis deliberately attacked their farms, and outside of the 1930s, which had famine induced by weather disaster and magnified by privledged capitalist farmers called “kulaks” destroying their livestock and grain to prevent collectivization?

You’re really looking at this through red-tinted glasses. It’s ok to admit that there were also serious missteps by Stalin that magnified the extent of this famine, and that it was intentionally made worse for some ethnic minorities.

Are you seriously thinking this is how revolution in the US would go?

Commercials have always done that, though. They exist to lie to you

Russia and brutal dictatorships? They’re both up there

Commercials exist solely to convince you to spend money. Turning to commercials for life advice is gonna give you a bad life

Whoa, you weren’t joking

Some people aren’t mincing their words about it either, calling the deals “circular financing” or even “vendor financing” - where a company invests in or lends to its own customers so they can continue making purchases.

“Yes, the investment loans are unprecedented,” Mr Altman told me on Monday.

But, he added, “it’s also unprecedented for companies to be growing revenue this fast.”

OpenAI’s revenue is growing quickly, but it has never turned a profit.

Don’t forget he was a “close friend” of Jeffrey Epstein’s

Is there a solution to QWOP? Like an order of operations that results in a successful sprint?

I just didn’t get what you titled this post from the actual article. The article just says McKinsey found only 30% of AI deployments they looked at actually saw a return on investment and that AI vendors have to figure that out in order to continue to sell AI services.

While this may be something that has happened, this definitely is not something “the homeless do” in the US

Therapists should never impose their own beliefs on a client. This should be grounds for a disciplinary hearing before their licensing board and potential loss of licensure.

What is it that will make your parents happy? It sounds like nothing that you want will make them happy, so at some point you either need to do what they want and be miserable or do what fulfills you and let them handle their own misery. Secrets are not sustainable.

Caveat that most of the advice you’re going to get on here, including mine, will be from western countries.

Everyone is only there for the money. No one would be there if they weren’t getting paid. It sounds like you’re walking around telling all your coworkers “I’m only here for money,” which very honestly sounds insufferable. When you say the “C suite” wants to talk to you about this, are you referring to your boss, or your boss’s boss? Unless you’re in a high level job at a large company, those people are definitely not in the “C suite.”

Like a thumb

We send my son to private school. It’s not for multimillionaires, but it’s basically the cost of a second mortgage. We make his lunch every morning. Today it was a bean taco with cantaloupe, olives, cherry tomatoes, and cheese crackers.

You’ll notice I said “many” and not “all.”

the average price for an apartment just under 800 sq ft a month is about $2500

That’s usually a second home they’re paying for, because most of them have places to live and families in their respective states when not in session. Does the federal government reimburse for flights back and forth from their home to DC? Because there are a lot of those too

It should be noted that not getting paid during a government shutdown would disproportionately negatively affect Democrats in the House, many of whom rely on that income. More House Republicans are independently wealthy.

May was in his third term in the South Carolina House and was attacking fellow Republicans to go in a more conservative direction before he resigned.

“We as legislators have an obligation to insure that our children have no harm done to them,” May said in January 2024 on the House floor during a debate on transgender care for minors.

After his election in 2020, he helped create the Freedom Caucus. He also helped the campaigns of Republicans running against GOP House incumbents.