isles
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- Comment on Starbucks is giving incoming CEO Brian Niccol $85 million in cash and stock as he departs Chipotle 2 months ago:
You just need to do an aggressive head nod at the barista and you’ll get a slightly bigger portion.
- Comment on Day 16 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
I feel like this is a shader or texture mod that makes it look like World of Warcraft, I’d be interested in details too, OP.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 4 months ago:
The climate change slogan that works: “Yeet the heat!”
- Comment on Amazon hit with $5.9 million fine for violating California labor law 5 months ago:
They don’t have to - if the penalty is a fine, then it’s just the cost of business. Everyone is fine with the system - as long as the profits gained from breaking the rule are bigger than the fine, behavior won’t change.
- Comment on Ubisoft Excited To Let You Know Prince Of Persia Remake Is Still Years Away 5 months ago:
Kotaku excited to write a story about Ubisoft being excited to let you know Prince of Persia Remake is Still Years Away
- Comment on Jimmy Carter : The Most [Unfairly] Hated President of the United States - Documentary 5 months ago:
Sure are a lot of Reagan defenders around here.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 5 months ago:
“Consent” was not a popular topic on early Reddit. Or the internet writ large, I guess.
- Comment on U.S. workers are less satisfied with nearly every aspect of their jobs than they were a year ago, survey finds 5 months ago:
Is that the methodology used here? I’d have guessed the Overall was an aggregate of the subcategories, not it’s own question. I wonder if the overall would be lower if it was asked last, after considering all the other areas.
- Comment on For security reasons 6 months ago:
Ah, the age old “right” vs “effective” argument.
- Comment on Steam is now banned in Vietnam 6 months ago:
Why buy one steam library when you can buy two for twice the price?
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 months ago:
As long as you can profit from new data, data scarcity will never end.
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 6 months ago:
This is why I always try “Jenny’s Number” for loyalty programs when I can enter an phone number (Local area code +8675309). A Safeway near me used to offer fuel points with grocery purchases up to $1 discount per gallon. I saved a lot of money in gas for a while, then it seemed Safeway got wise and deactivated those numbers.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I mean, if we’re being pedantic, traditional cheese did/does use male goats to make baby goats and get milk. We just generally artificially force pregnancy instead.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I feel weird explaining this, but male goats are not used for cheese.
- Comment on Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason? 7 months ago:
Ha, great skit. Last I visited was for a wedding between a Swede and a Dane, they both claimed the other spoke like they had mashed potatoes in their mouth.
- Comment on Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason? 7 months ago:
My grandmother took me to her birthplace in Denmark and kept saying she couldn’t speak Danish with the locals, despite having spoken Danish with her family in America semi-regularly. I never thought it was because her vocabulary and accent was stuck in 1940s and she didn’t feel confident speaking that way.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 7 months ago:
This may be No Stupid Questions, but there sure are a lot of stupid answers.
- Comment on New Study: A $500 monthly basic income led to significant employment growth, enhanced savings, improved debt management, and better quality of life 7 months ago:
- Comment on They're afraid 7 months ago:
Isn’t that essentially just an extension of Aladdin?
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
This will be interesting for you to learn: You not wanting a thing is not the same as nobody wanting that thing. This applies to all things.
- Comment on Take it from a former banker: the budget is for ordinary people. The mega-rich look on and laugh 8 months ago:
Right after he bragged about being paid millions of dollars to bet against the people.
- Comment on Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more 8 months ago:
relying on private for-profit companies to provide basic transportation services in a city is stupid
While true, it hurts fewer people to build up the alternative before cutting off the current system. I don’t know (and doubt) if Minneapolis is doing that specifically, but Minnesota has been on a progressive tear and I hope they keep going.
- Comment on California’s minimum wage isn’t enough to keep up with workers’ costs of living, new report says 8 months ago:
Perhaps tied to CPI?
- Comment on UAW president Shawn Fain on labor's comeback: "This is what happens when workers get power", says 'billionaires should not exist' 8 months ago:
We used to have class warfare… We still do, but we used to, too.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 9 months ago:
I’m going on a long plane ride, so I have my phone loaded with Zelda Link Between Worlds and some Mario 3d Land for 3DS. I have Titan Quest and Baldurs Gate 2 on my Chromebook. I’m probably going to be tending to kids the entire flight, realistically.
I just started up Spiderman Remastered. I hate the militarized police propaganda, but as an action game, zipping around on webs and aerial combat is entertaining.
- Comment on I'm a California restaurant operator preparing for the $20-an-hour fast-food wage by trimming hours, eliminating employee vacation, and raising menu prices 10 months ago:
Paid time off is not a guaranteed/protected benefit in the US. Even getting paid for the hours you work is lightly protected.
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 10 months ago:
Some laws are reactionary and some are preemptory. Laws are, most simply, a codified agreement on how we live.
- Comment on Why did Pootin threaten the whole world with nuclear weapons, but then stopped doing so? 10 months ago:
you get into a state where militarily no one can do anything (except wage a war in a country that doesn’t have nuclear weapons)
ok, I got it. Give every country nuclear weapons and then there is nowhere to wage war.
- Comment on If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen? 10 months ago:
the youth don’t vote
We estimate that 50% of young people, ages 18-29, voted in the 2020 presidential election, a remarkable 11-point increase from 2016 (39%) and likely one of the highest rates of youth electoral participation since the voting age was lowered to 18.
45-64 year old voting is in decline, declining from 75% to 71% over time.
- Comment on Are mall Dojos more common these days? Given the vacancies. 10 months ago:
Guessing, but just what it sounds like - a martial arts training gym. Generally, they are low revenue businesses, relegated to subleasing from other athletic gyms (like gynmastics facilities), out of community recreation centers, or in industrial warehouse areas. Sometimes you’ll find them in strip malls, as well.
Theoretically, vacancies put pressure on mall owners to lower rents, perhaps to an affordable level for these dojos. Lowering rent also makes the mall less valuable than a vacancy. And owners don’t like lowering value if they can afford it, because they can leverage existing values.