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Australia Woolworths and Coles: "Workers are paid a few cents more than the minimum wage. They just want a living wage, they can't even afford the groceries they're selling."
  • How does giving someone money get you more money?

    Best case scenario, where they spend 100% of what you just gave them on your product, you just get that money back- minus time and input costs.

    Higher wages is necessary, but I don't buy this line of reasoning.

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  • That's unusual, because most people I've met who are into astrology get most of their predictions wrong and, undeterred, make up an excuse afterward

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    As its workers strike, Kaiser Permanente strikes a deal for physicians to use an AI copilot from Nabla
  • That's correct, but IBM has been developing an AI doctor for over 10 years, and even used it regularly in a live clinical setting.

    Also, it wasn't the doctors going on strike for those 3 days, it was the support staff. So automating support staff is a strike breaking technique.

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    As its workers strike, Kaiser Permanente strikes a deal for physicians to use an AI copilot from Nabla
  • No, but the people making a living doing clerical or admin work that get replaced have to find new jobs. So do the Uber/Lyft drivers that get replaced by cruise/waymo. Or the devs who get laid off when the company realizes they can get the job done with fewer people now that bots can code?

    If they all start applying for phlebotomist or nurse then those workers will be hit with lower wages when there's a stack of applicants ready to replace them.

    Owners and executives get all the surplus value, and workers undercut each other for the stable jobs left.

    This deal helps Kaiser break the strike, and that will affect every worker, even those not working in hospitals.

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    Another 62 ‘Girls Do Porn’ Victims Sue Pornhub for $600 Million
  • That's not how AI works. You can use generative software to make pictures of astronauts riding horses on the moon, despite the fact the AI never saw real pictures of such a thing.

    It learns basic concepts from benign training material, and then has the capacity to create/detect combinations of those concepts.

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    Trans women taking hormones ‘up to 95 per cent more likely to suffer heart disease’
  • The Telegraph is not the original publisher of this information.

    The European Journal of Endocrinology published the research, and then the Telegraph decided to report on that.

    Medical Journals should be taken seriously, and it should concern the public that trans people have health concerns so they can further study it and find ways of mitigating the risk through an additional medicine, nutrient, or other treatment.

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    Trans women taking hormones ‘up to 95 per cent more likely to suffer heart disease’
  • The Telegraph is not the original publisher of this information.

    European Journal of Endocrinology published the research, and then the Telegraph decided to report on that.

    Medical Journals should be taken seriously, and it should concern the public that trans people have health concerns so they can further study it and find ways of mitigating the risk through an additional medicine, nutrient, or other treatment.

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    Philosophy meme
  • Rooting ethics in the idea that suffering must be avoided is not an agreed upon moral goal. Many cultures do not see the world this way.

    A Buddhist would agree with you, a protestant might not.

    Some view progress, wealth, understanding, or some other abstract goal as more important.

    You can objectively say one decision leads to more suffering, but you can say objectively that's what matters the most.

    Likewise with the potatoes, you can objectively say that one weighs more, but not that having more potatoes is the most important thing.

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