Fredthefishlord
@Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Gallium 2 days ago:
Because it’s funny as shit.
- Comment on John Wick Hex will be removed from sale on all platforms beginning July 17th, 2025 5 days ago:
Aren’t they a charity?
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 week ago:
Classic example of calling someone an idiot just because they disagree with you on something that’s primarily about subjective values.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 week ago:
A hunting cabin is purely a luxury. There’s nothing authoritarian about having high taxes for luxuries, and no, blanket taxes on luxuries are not inherently authoritarian.
Sure, it could unfairly impact people, but since in this situation there’s no needs, only luxuries, the balance of how increased housing supply fairly easily balances the scale.
And no, the point of my original comment is to understand impact. Realize harms the law could create, and don’t do it blindly. But that’s just to understand what you’re putting on the scales.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 week ago:
Progressive taxes are not authoritarian in nature holy shit man.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 week ago:
Genuinely, I’m saying this to bring up that it’s an ill effect that will come about. I don’t especially think an exception clause is reasonable, I believe they will just be abused, and it’s simply better to accept some level of negative consequences for the benefits.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 week ago:
They can barely split it because they’re all broke af not because the house is expensive. The house and land are pretty cheap
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 week ago:
No, it shouldn’t hold up societal progress. But not being aware of how your policies actually affect people is just plain bad. I agree with progressive taxes on multi house ownership, but you also need to understand that will mean people who are less rich than you think losing them, it’s not just people that can afford them
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 1 week ago:
My extended family in Michigan keeps a hunting cabin that they split costs between 5 people on and can still barely make the mortage… Is that clearly able to afford more taxes?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Groceries don’t really get more expensive, because the methods for producing food don’t really get less efficient over time; if anything, it’s more efficient. So there’s no real reason for them to become more expensive.
There is reason though. Making them more expensive increases money in flow. Prices aren’t just based on supply
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
… Are sewers private in your area? Must suck man
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
If it’s septic it’s whatever. Bigger issue if it’s not, then tax dollars are required to fix it, and it’s just wrecking infrastructure
- Comment on Anon describes experience 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you had lame ah teachers. Some of my would take the time to explain relevant future concepts
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Straight up vibes a lot of the time these days. It gets better and better
- Comment on Wake up babe new shape just dropped 2 weeks ago:
The way science advances is in part making definitions harder and harder to screw up
- Comment on How do you all keep the area around the toilet paper dust-free? 2 weeks ago:
You still need to dry your ass and vulva with a bidet.
As a frequent bidet user—no, you do not. What?
- Comment on Gravity 2 weeks ago:
I could buy an apartment and rent it out (:< (:< evil landlord time abt to paint over a power outlet
- Comment on Gravity 2 weeks ago:
I could buy a house with that much ~
- Comment on Genius 2 weeks ago:
Could do 5 minute interviews
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 2 months ago:
If you stick your hand in a bear trap…
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 2 months ago:
Pixel for pixel is not the requirement to be a copyright violation, just fyi
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 months ago:
Productivity goes up with shorter working hours, anyway.
That is pretty much entirely untrue with blue collar jobs. I’m working from the start to the end of my shift—working less or more hours as I do depending on the season doesn’t change that. Pace stays about the same.
It would be easy to implement at any company that makes a decent profit margin.
Slower production isn’t just about profit margins–it’s also about fulfilling your customers needs
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 months ago:
We are already unionized, which tbh makes it worse.
It’s part of my position as union stewards duty to walk these chuds through it
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 months ago:
Not “won’t work”. Considerably harder. Big difference. There’s companies who have successfully implemented it in blue collar jobs.
But more put simple, it’s that unlike white collar, output has a direct relationship with how many hours are worked, up to probably nearly 50, more or less depending on the job.
So, in practice it turned out that slower service was one of the largest problems with it.
Half of the benefit issue costs would go away with universal healthcare anyways
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 months ago:
Join a union. I work part time in America. After just one year of working I had 3 weeks of vacation. After 3 I now have 4 weeks and am taking my 2nd international trip of the year and 3rd vacation trip of the year.
Or better yet, unionize your own workplace with vacations as the primary demand
- Comment on Want happier employees? Start with a 32-hour workweek – and 4 weeks vacation. 2 months ago:
My dipshit coworkers think trump will actually be good for unions. Mfers.
I’d like to add that 32 hour weeks is pretty much purely something that works for white collar work. It’s considerably harder to implement in blue collar settings.
- Comment on Generational differences 2 months ago:
Fundraising typically isn’t something they have to do. That’s a wild leap. It’s usually just for an extra field trip or something.
And more importantly, it gives kids real experience
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Intelligent people in those countries do realize though…
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 months ago:
Yes, and when there’s no downside, that’s fine. There’s plenty of downsides to allowing kids to use smartphones. If the actual and serious concern was for their children, they could give their children dumb phones instead.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 months ago:
The same logic used to have nuclear drills where you get under the desks. It’s ineffective, does nothing, and will change nothing. It only serves for helicopter parents to feel better about themselves. As their kids brains rot away