@adacosta@twit.social cover
@adacosta@twit.social avatar

adacosta

@[email protected]

#Technology enthusiast

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

arstechnica , to Random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Is having a pet good for you? The fuzzy science of pet ownership

It turns out the pet care industry has funded a lot of studies.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/is-having-a-pet-good-for-you-the-fuzzy-science-of-pet-ownership/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

adacosta ,
@adacosta@twit.social avatar

@arstechnica Having a pet is a full time responsibility. Just as having a child and ensuring its taken care of provided with the essentials to thrive. Its expensive! If you can't taken on that responsibility, don't have one.

rbreich , to Random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

Target's profit increased 49% to $4.1B last year, even with slower sales.

Its CEO received $18M in compensation on the year while the company paid $508M in dividends in Q4.

Makes you wonder if Target could have lowered its prices a lot sooner but just chose not to.

Hello?

adacosta ,
@adacosta@twit.social avatar

@rbreich Has anyone from the liberal media ever tried to sit down with these CEO's and just plain out ask them why they need so much ? I know they will give surface responses like, its the nature of a capitalistic society, but dig deeper, ask, what are you gonna do with 18 million dollars in your lifetime?

rbreich , to Random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar
adacosta ,
@adacosta@twit.social avatar

@rbreich This is not benefitting me at check out. My 401K and IRA's look good, but and daily living is still too high. President Biden needs to understand a huge difference between the two. Grocers and hedge fund land lords need to be regulated. No one must ever pay more than 20% of their income on shelter/mortgage. Thats where Biden needs to work. This thing is gonna likely destroy him in November. Let him know that, NOW!

arstechnica , to Random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

Google Cloud accidentally nukes customer account, causes two weeks of downtime

UniSuper, a $135 billion pension account, details its cloud compute nightmare.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-accidentally-nukes-customer-account-causes-two-weeks-of-downtime/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

adacosta ,
@adacosta@twit.social avatar

@arstechnica When you are managing 135 billion dollars, at that point you really should be able to afford a few datacenters as a precaution.

arstechnica , to Random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar
adacosta ,
@adacosta@twit.social avatar

@arstechnica I was thinking maybe 40K, I'll take my broke self back to dreaming.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • random
  • All magazines