Badeendje
@Badeendje@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts 3 days ago:
H1Bs are payed 40-60 cents on the dollar while you can work them harder and they can’t whine or get sent home… So…it does help the bottom line.
- Comment on Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts 3 days ago:
Making room for the new tranche of H1B coming in I guess.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I had to turn it off… especially the sales guy with AI… The amount of buzzwords he kept repeating made it just unwatchable… and once they trotted out the business partners I had to just turn it off.
- Comment on Allianz boss calls on Germany to withdraw sick pay on first day off 1 week ago:
And then there are political incumbents wondering why they are so unpopular… You need to be the counterweight to these assholes, not do their bidding.
And give Ukraine Taurus… In the case of Scholz
- Comment on itch.io was taken down by Funko because of some automated brand protection service 5 weeks ago:
Automated systems talking to automated systems
- Comment on Lesson learned 1 month ago:
Now it is degloved?
- Comment on Do Not Buy NZXT | Predatory, Evil Rental Computer Scam Investigated - Gamers Nexus 1 month ago:
Lol at all the down votes… people could also have not engaged with your post… but apparently there is a right way to use your posting privileges and you broke the law.
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 1 month ago:
Why not? This is contingent on the US being an unreliable nuclear umbrella… And Germany deciding they will be part of the EU’s nuclear deterrence.
- Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons? 1 month ago:
You don’t need many nowadays. They can be city killers all by themselves… a single satan 2 missile Russia is so desperate to get working would be able to wipe new York of the map…
It would additionally require a few subs for second strike capability.
- Comment on Evan Almighty and flushed away 1 month ago:
Tom green was … special.
- Comment on Steam tighten rules for games with season pass DLC 1 month ago:
It will just cause promises to be more vague
- Comment on California voters reject Prop 32, raising the state's minimum wage to $18 1 month ago:
Are you on minimum wage? Or did you help the noble savages on minimum wage with this decision?
- Comment on Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’ 1 month ago:
Ending remote work is just a way to get people to quit.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 1 month ago:
Got some links… I wanna see. I probably normally don’t venture on these forums where that happens.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 1 month ago:
I fear it is the latter. Nuance seems to get lost over time. It’s maybe the opposite of black people in the US using the N word amongst themselves in an attempt to take it back… I don’t think that this was successful by any measure as it just caused the racist to point at it and say… see they even say it about themselves because only hoodlums (what a word) use it…
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 1 month ago:
That’s why these conversations are so cool. It helps all of us give words to some of the things we cannot express properly. Why I also enjoy reading co tributuins by others… especially if they challenge my preconceptions.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 1 month ago:
Pepe to me seems like the opposite of the Confederate flag.
Pepe is an internet meme that is in some cases used by racist and hateful people to carry their message, but the primary function is internet nonsense.
The Confederate flag is a symbol or hate and oppression that in some situations is used to express country & westerns ideals of freedom and roaming the country with not a care in the world… without the racist subtext… however you cannot deny the basis of its use and thus should not use it.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 1 month ago:
If you follow the links, they refer to copy pasta’s of hatefull stuff including swastikas but no breakdown of what is counted, the use of the happy merchant (a meme with an antisemitic origin used to convey greed) and the use of pepe the frog in profile pics (pepe is a symbol of hate according to the ADL).
The issue I have with the whole here is that I don’t subscribe to the premise on which the analysis is based.
IF you assume pepe is a hate symbol, then each case it is used is an expression of hate and furtherance of that hate. I however reject the premise that pepe is a symbol of hate.
The use of the happy merchant is a bit more of a problem, because I see the antisemitic message it has. However I also see a lot of stupid people that don’t… and have seen the image used (probably in antisemitic context referring to greed) but people associate it with greed primarily… so this one is an issue, I think I refuse part of the premise, namely that the antisemitism part is a dominant factor when the image is used.
These are the 2 main examples, a lot more in the report that have similar caveats.
- Comment on Weekends were a mistake says Infosys co-founder Murthy 1 month ago:
Was about to comment, this guy should be at the front section of the line.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A friend who works and lives in Thailand told us that ladyboy is a fairly common naming used there.
- Comment on Boeing issues layoff notices to 400-plus workers as it begins drastic cuts 1 month ago:
The machinists got their concessions, Boeing staff should be 1 big union… but divide and conquer.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 2 months ago:
That’s just the dishonest pundets though… and the people ratcheting the Dems right. Kamala ran on a Y2K republican program and got annihilated because Y2K republicans are now maga and there are no moderate republicans.
- Comment on Can someone give me atleast 5 examples of Democrats being against the working class? 2 months ago:
Clinton repealing glass steagall
- Comment on I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging 2 months ago:
He just checks the no fly list.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 months ago:
Except in this case the tax is levied across the entire value chain. But yes, this would favor high margin business over low margin ones. But isn’t the current system doing that too? Investors throw money at high margin companies while not so much at low margin ones.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 months ago:
That would be true if companies did not create elaborate constructions and park money in tax havens.
I’d almost say that companies should be taxed (a different rate) not on profits but on revenue. If they make the revenue in your country, it should be taxed in your country.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 months ago:
Except your argument on small ownership is quick decision making has a counter arguement… shareholders… they appoint a small group for daily operations and decisionmaking. But the real power is with the shareholder meeting and a large group of possibly anonymous owners.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 months ago:
Exclude a mortgage for your primary residence, capped at the median house price or something… And only exclude it IF it is paid back in full over a max period.
This is the case in the Netherlands… paid back in full after max 30 years… No cap in how much. This was because the interest on the mortgage are tax deductible. So some bankers figured… we keep the loan maxed, and put your paybacks in a special fund… and at the end of the 30 years the fund pays back the mortgage. That way we get max interests and you get max tax break. In the end the banks made a lot of public funds private this way.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 months ago:
Assets are taxed all the time (real estate tax, car tax… ). So taxing the value of a share portfolio at the 31st of December each year is perfectly doable. And if it has depreciated since last year, you get a tax deduction… which is capped by the income tax to maximally reach 0… No carrying over till next year… or maybe 1 year… whatever, that’s implementation details.
How much do you tax these assets is the point that needs consideration… it’s not fully income… But a percentage is only fair. And if this means people need to realize gains to pay for it… that’s fine… Why would it not be?
And borrowing against an asset portfolio should mean that it counts as realizing gains of the asset portfolio and the amount is seen as income and thus taxed. (You loan 10 million against your shares, that’s income) And to avoid fallout for the normal people you can build in a threshold and exclusions for example for the first million in your lifetime… or for the mortgage on your primary residence with a cap at the median house price or … something. So for these people borrowing against assets means they can keep the assets… but pay interest on the loan. Alternatively they can actually realize the gains and pay cash.
It’s not hard at all, it’s a matter of political will, and writing proper laws that state your objective and exceptions.
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 months ago:
It should be E and the DOJ should have made sure that this was handled in a court of law in the first 100 days. Or maybe even a specialised tribunal for insurrection.
How did they handle the insurrectionists post civil war?