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This is obviously some sort of cost cutting exercise although restricting users from views will also have a huge impact on the already dwindling advertising revenue. Twitter stopped paying for its Google Cloud services some time ago, no wonder its now concerned about the data usage. According to The Information's report, Twitter had ultimately continued to pay its Google Cloud bills because of the huge advertising revenue it gets from the company – but Platformer now reports that "at some point" it changed its mind and stopped paying the invoices, and was now planning to stop using the platform completely. Platformer reported that Twitter was scrambling to move services off Google Cloud before the contract ends on June 30, but cited sources who said that this was taking longer than expected and that it was uncertain what would happen with some of the services. For example, it's unclear whether Twitter would try to migrate Smyte to its own servers, sources told Platformer. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-stopped-paying-google-cloud-bills-money-platformer-2023-6

So Musk's frequently touted "world’s digital town square" has now had its meter throttled even if you are a paying blue ticker. I wonder what happens if you make a few replies to some tweets, then run out of viewing status, guess you'll have to wait till the next day to see if you had any responses....lol

Amazing. 9 pages of the riots on the BBC website from the live feed, right from the first night

Looks like Elon is falling out with a number of techies not just Jack Dorsey . A cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg in the offering? A ‘Cage Match’ Between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg May Be No Joke The day after Elon Musk challenged Mark Zuckerberg on social media to “a cage match” this month, Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, received a text. It was from Mr. Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta. He asked Mr. White, who heads the world’s premier mixed martial arts competition, which is fought in cage-like rings, if Mr. Musk was serious about a fight. Since then, Mr. White said, he has talked to the tech billionaires separately every night to organize the showdown. On Tuesday, he said, he was “on the phone with those two until 12:45 in the morning.” He added, “They both want to do it.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/technology/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-cage-match.html image from above article

As a past Director of Social Services I can assure you it was affirmative action (not a criteria) to meet the needs of the children that were looked after by our agency, be that in foster care, residential care, outreach or residential school. If it was a criteria we wouldn't have that dilemma in the first place, as in the recruitment process we would only advertise by gender or race. Which you are very rarely allowed to do.

Wait in your previous reply you said: But yes if the situation was reversed as you described then we would pick the male residential social worker and the white foster carers. (so long as the child agreed if age appropriate)

Yes they are very sound examples of affirmative action, ones taken daily in the social sector.

It really depends on the situation. In its most basic form, if there are 3 different foster care couples that need to be interviewed to look after a black child, if the potential carers are all around the same in terms of skills and other factors then we would always pick a black couple first so long as the child agreed if they are of the age to agree. Or if we are looking for a social worker for an all girls children home that is under represented in female residential social workers then of those who fit the same criteria we would go for a female pick. There's lots of examples where affirmative action is required to fit the individual cases.

I wish! One of my favourite restaurants when I go back to the UK and also on the few occasions I've visited Malaysia. They also do a delicious Pastel de nata (Portuguese custard tart)

May be in your experience but not in mine, interviewing 100's of people over a few years in the social care sector. Affirmative action in the case I described is not necessarily to take into account race but can also take into account sex and culture.

No, I agree, not the same with college admissions but relevant to the post I was replying to.

You're assuming a person hired for a job will be the only one out of a group of interviewees who was the best qualified at all times. In reality that's not the case, often when recruiting for a post you come by 2 or 3 people who are all suitably qualified regardless of race/colour. The decision then is which one? If you are recruiting in a low diversity area or organization then it could be said that taking affirmative action in that case is more than justified.

They must be on the growing list of VIP Wagner members, 30 of them identified so far Russian Gen. Sergey Surovikin was secret VIP member of Wagner, documents show Documents shared exclusively with CNN suggest that Russian Gen. Sergey Surovikin was a secret VIP member of the Wagner private military company. The documents, obtained by the Russian investigative Dossier Center, showed that Surovikin had a personal registration number with Wagner. Surovikin is listed along with at least 30 other senior Russian military and intelligence officials, who the Dossier Center said are also VIP Wagner members. https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-29-23/h_f3cb66107686a173d74307a8cb8775b8

Some good news for Ukraine following that so called Russian mutiny: The loss of this aircraft is likely to have a negative impact on Russian air and land operations. In the short term the psychological shock of losing a large number of aircrew in this manner will almost certainly damage morale within the Russian Aerospace Force. In the longer term, there is a possibility that current tasking levels may have to be reduced to safely manage the remaining fleet. This will likely undermine Russia's ability to command and coordinate its forces, particularly during periods of high tempo operations. https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1674296770250113026

The United States has had the highest economic growth in the G7 since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with its economy 5.4 percent larger in the first quarter of 2023, when compared with the fourth quarter of 2019 https://www.statista.com/statistics/1392678/g7-gdp-growth-since-covid-19-pandemic/

Lighten up, its ok, I'm sure Jesse didn't mean it.............lol

No he's just the one making fun of the president, then gaff's himself. As I said, the irony.

Oh the irony with Fox. While making fun of Biden's gaff they do the exact same thing:

Not sure its so easy to claim they are the most most transparent administration in American history but Biden's administration is certainly more transparent than the previous one where Trump made White House visitor logs secret breaking with Obama's initiative to make them public when he was in office.

Fox News (LOL) are suggesting Trump leaked the audio himself............ Fox News host suggests Trump may have leaked audio in classified documents case Fox News host Steve Doocy suggested former President Trump may have been behind the leak of an audio recording showing Trump talking about his handling of classified documents. “You know what? If Trump thinks it’s an exoneration of him, perhaps somebody on his side actually did the leaking to CNN and Maggie Haberman,” Doocy said Tuesday morning. “That makes sense,” co-host Brian Kilmeade chimed in. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4069757-fox-news-host-suggests-trump-may-have-leaked-audio-in-classified-documents-case/

I'm starting to think that nobody actually knows, which is quite possible considering the number of lies told regarding this subject But you said yourself you can't be bothered even when given the links that give the answers from people who do know.

I wouldn't mind betting that the people Trump was talking to in this audio are part of the 80 odd included in the prosecution witness list.

My first link supplied to you contained the sub link to the complete WHO list of variants but as you say, if you're too lazy to research it then there's nothing more to be said, don't forget the sub lineages of each major variant in your quest to tot it all up.

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This is about as clear as possible: Omicron, Delta, Alpha, and More: What To Know About the Coronavirus Variants A quick guide to the coronavirus variants that have been top-of-mind. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-variants-of-concern-omicron