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Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts

I think Google is headed to breach the trust thermocline (warning: a twitter link). I think why these collapses seem sudden and so large in scale is because there's so much inertia. Services / products that have become the standard can go well below the line that would be accepted otherwise and that's why they don't see big changes in user base while the enshittification process goes on.. So, for them the point where a large portion of the user base is even willing to try alternatives is already way too far.. and no small corrections is going to cut it. They try to find out what they did in the last months to cause this exodus but the reality is that they've been worse than competitors for years.

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What’s Happening in Italy Is Scary, and It’s Spreading

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One of the biggest problems when it comes to integration is that those immigrants were massed into certain places, usually poor neighborhoods where they formed their own somewhat closed communities and didn't intermingle with the local population. So the local population didn't "have to" interact with them and vice versa. So, they didn't learn the language as fast, didn't form connections to get somewhere.. those areas plummeted deeper into poverty.. which radicalizes both sides.

It would've been better to sprinkle them among various areas so they could have taken part in the existing communities, they would've learned the language faster and prejudices would've dissolved faster.

Why didn't that happen? People with more money and power didn't want them among themselves. Classism, racism and also capitalism at work. Government can try to change those but it can take decades.

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“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator

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this plus:

  1. For many companies the majority of operating expenses are related to employees, so they will try to resist raising wages, preferably cutting them and/or firing people (also, union busting)
  2. Product quality will suffer
  3. They'll try to skirt regulations and lobby to overturn them
  4. In capitalism there's no such thing as enough when it comes to ROI so we go back to 6.
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Thousands of S Korean teachers rally for protection from abusive parents

I must admit I don't know the situation well but I feel like "immunity from child emotional abuse claims" is not the right move. This feels like a symptom of much wider problems. Parents work way too much, kids spend too much time in school, too much revolves around being "productive". Parents can't parent much but they feel the pressure to provide their kids with best possible future.. Much is left to the teachers who probably need to do parenting work too without necessary time and tools. So they suffer, because kids suffer because parents suffer.