I just signed up for Sam's Club last year with the military discount and got a great price on the first year (Club level) last year. Today I got an Auto Renewal. Crooks
Warning: They hide the auto-renewal — I was just charged $64.20 when it renewed automatically at full price.
Go into your account settings right after signing up and turn off auto-renew if you don’t want the surprise charge next year (~$60 Club / $120 Plus + tax).
Check your renewal date!
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Fair point on wage suppression — that’s exactly why consistent enforcement matters. But the “Americans won’t do these jobs” claim usually weakens when employers actually have to compete for legal workers.
Burnstein was publicly advertising competitive starting pay earlier today on their own site. They’ve since removed the wage information. In a county where median household income is well below the state average, that kind of posting suggests they were capable of offering real money when they needed people.
When the underground labor pool shrinks, employers generally raise wages and improve conditions to attract legal workers. We’ve seen this pattern before. The jobs aren’t magically unfillable — they just stop being subsidized by wage suppression and off-the-books arrangements.
The real issue is companies building their model around immigration violations instead of paying market rates to citizens and legal residents. That’s what ultimately hurts local workers in places like Abbeville.
@mattvanswol I wonder if we can set up a free Coffee and Donut stand to support those brave officers during their raids. It must have been a long day for them. Maybe a lunch truck style operation that can rapidly deploy.
@runningpuma2019@mattvanswol Abbeville has a high unemployment rate among Americans, which has a significant impact. Many people in the area are either underemployed or unemployed will be happy. I have family in that county.
Creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup:
AI-generated code isn't ready — it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate
"senior developers are already retiring rather than deal with it"
The problem is that even a small prompt change can shift the entire codebase in unpredictable ways