Jimmycrackcrack

@Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a podcast called hot money that goes in to this. Got shelf check it out, I reckon you’ll like it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You better say "Thank You"!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope the EU aid has some doctors as well to help that woman with get creepy event horizon demon eyes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Receipt checkers trigger me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t live in the states but there’s similar systems in some department stores here in Australia and I suspect, but don’t know, that applicable law in these cases is broadly similar. The store and their employees aren’t law enforcement and can’t arrest you or have any legal recourse for you ignoring their demands to stop and allow your receipt to be checked. They likely also have the right to refuse service to you and deny you entry to their premises and so long as this isn’t being done for a small number of specifically forbidden reasons (such as on the basis of race for example) they don’t need a legal justification to do so. This would mean that refusing to comply with their receipt checking policy might be enough if they see fit, to decide to deny you entry to their stores going forward. Many large department stores are incorporating facial recognition and don’t it seems feel the need for proper informed consent beyond some printed signage saying that but entering you’re consenting, so the practicality of them doing this is at least a little bit higher these days but I guess there’s no way to assess how likely this really is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t believe they couldn’t find a way to include one more t in that acronym, I mean come on, at this point you’re just obligated to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the most obvious answer but given OP’s strong feelings on the matter, they presumably already thought this would be the best course of action and would already be doing it were it so easy. They didn’t say it directly but I think the problem they’re having is that their colleagues are not only themselves choosing to waste their time in this manner but because they are, they are expecting it of OP and it sounds like they’re having some kind of conflict about it that they’ve brought up with OP directly. I’m guessing some of them have complained to OP or indicated to them that they’re “supposed” to be ready by 12.30 even though they’re wrong.

  This makes it difficult because in that scenario OP can’t simply plough on doing their job to the letter of the contract and just ignore the others, they have to choose to actively fight it out with them or just relent and start arriving early. It sounds like what they’re having the dilemma about is if it sounds reasonable to have that fight, given that although it feels important to OP, they recognise that it’s more about the principle of the matter than the objective scale of the problem. Seems like they recognise that 5 minutes of their time wouldn’t be that big a deal as their colleagues have concluded, making it seem petty or disruptive to have that fight and all the awkwardness that will ensue just for those 5 minutes, but the principle that they should have to give up any extra time at all, regardless how long, just because their workmates are doing it is troubling OP.

  Depending on how whiny and motivated his colleagues are it might be advisable to pick their battles and let this go, but if they think they’re in a position to stand their ground and not have to suffer too many consequences and loss of standing with their workmates then of course they should, and even encourage others to do the same. I don’t think we have enough of an idea what their workplace is like to know which one of those situations they’re in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes there’s always the seven seas I guess. They were always a refuge for me before YouTube as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube won't let me watch a video unless I sign in...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically we didn’t need it before YouTube existed and I should be fine without it, but I think it’ll be tough, I don’t have an aerial for FTA tv anymore, nor a tv in my bedroom and I don’t really want to sign up for a subscription streaming service. Plus a decent chunk of my employers use YouTube as end point for the videos I edit so that could be a bit of a hit too. There’s always reading I guess, that might be doubly necessary if I end up poorer and can’t afford much else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants $3 million⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. Aside from the people that will hurt themselves trying to break that glass, it’s a public bus stop. People will hurt bystanders and damage the bus stop and make it in general a place no one wants to be because of idiots constantly hurling stuff around or kicking it while you’re trying to wait for the bus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon sets up a prank at school⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit that’s some serious preplanning and manipulation. It’s impressive and kind of fucked up all at once. Everyone else was here was just fucking around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon sets up a prank at school⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha we all did that one. So funny watching angry teachers trying to click on things that were just screenshots. We also did it with things that were like annoying pop ups so you’d be really motivated to click to get rid of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon sets up a prank at school⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did anyone summarise the porn site?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you eat soap for acid reflux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Future topic of a chubby emu video in the making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are “female jocks” called?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t jock kind of pejorative though? Athlete wouldn’t communicate the same disdain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the weirdest argument you’ve overheard?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was walking through own of the dodgier parts of my city fairly late at night with not too many people around. I could see these 2 drunk weirdo guys with a kind of homeless vibe. There was an older guy and a younger dude, sitting on a bench, I could hear the older guy. Imagine this with a thick crocodile Dundee Aussie accent.

  “I don’t believe it, I CAN’T believe it, after all I’ve done for you. I was nice to you. I bought you cheese, I… … …”

  An awkward 4 to 5 second silence followed as it slowly dawned on the older guy that his list of benevolent acts only had 1 item before he followed up with

  “I bought you CHEESE mate!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gee these men-children are going to be awfully sad when there’s no one left to make their games for them anymore and they have nothing left to do but face the shitty reality they’ve created.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are dating apps a fraud since the beginning?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With that kind of hit rate and timescale did you ever think the apps were unnecessary vs just meeting people? Or were you not really in a position to meet people by other means anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you are the democratically elected leader of a liberal democratic country which so far has had a good relationship with the US, how do you and your country survive 4 years of trump?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in Australia Trump puts us in an awkward position. For a long time we’ve meshed our interests with those of the US both necessarily and very much unnecessarily. Some say we’re the 51st state. This makes the increasing power of the US’ executive branch over the past 2-3 decades and the decision to put a joke candidate with the mind of a child in charge of that branch particularly worrying. Our politicians did what you’d expect and more or less refused to make much comment about this and publicly and emphasised the strength of our relationship with the US and how we’ll work with the incoming administration like any other. Unfortunately though we couldn’t really avoid being hit by some of the whirling shitstorm going on over there.

  Last time he got his knickers in a knot about a refugee deal from the previous administration where we’d send refugees headed to Australia, to the US. I have to provide some context for that to make sense so I’ll be as brief as I can. I’ll just point out that this deal was the crowning capitulation on top of about 15 years or so of absolute bullshit xenophobia and cruelty on behalf of our successive governments who used refugees as political pawns and entered into a brinkmanship of which party could more cruel. For most of that time the public enthusiastically cheered them on but around the time of Trump’s presidency there’d finally been a seachange and the government of the day found themselves needing to avoid allowing refugees in to the country or be accused of no longer believing in cruelty to refugees as policy whilst also needing to seem maybe not quite so cruel anymore so they tried to make it the rest of the world’s problem instead by finding other countries to dump them in. This mostly involved Papua New Guinea who they paid to take them but who had little capacity to do so and also, a small handful of them to the US to try and take the sting out of some of the criticism about dumping them all in PNG where the locals were already threatening violence against them.

  Obviously this deal would look bad for Trump given his politics and given his tendency to try to solve problems by personally throwing a tantrum at people, he did just that to our Prime Minister at the time. That guy, nor really anyone in our political system, isn’t known for his backbone or courage but nevertheless the leaked phone call seems to show he was mostly confused and bewildered by the directness and stupidity of Trump but still didn’t give him what he wanted which was a demand to immediately cancel the deal. You could say he stood his ground, I personally think he was more just confused about what to do next probably because I assume politics doesn’t usually work that way and they’d normally operate through technocrats and underlings on anything of consequence but however you look at it he didn’t concede and Trump had a removed fit, publicly that he somehow didn’t realise made him look even weaker, and then he just moved on to the next mess of his own making in the 20 minutes it likely took him to make one.

  Basically, by that example I want to highlight that, though he is a threat, he does make things hard for us, and in general, long term, moves need to made to begin the long path of finding ways to live without such dependence upon the US, the good thing about Trump is also much of what makes him bad. He’s a baby, he’s got a very short attention span, and he doesn’t like it when he can’t win quickly by just throwing a tantrum and so it appears that when he indeed can’t, he has a little fry about it and seems to just kind of move on and pretend he was never interested in the first place. This is a kind of silver lining because it seems like you can pretty much just ignore the dumbest of his statements and just try to put out smaller diplomatic and economic fires as he creates them. We’re still in a pretty shitty position here though because we’re so interwoven with the US culturally, economically and as far as defence is concerned entirely, that trying to untangle from that is going to be really complicated and long term and looks near impossible. Unfortunately the chickens are coming home to roost on some seriously dumb and unimaginative decisions for 30 plus years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean, that's literally the opposite of what I want⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Simplicity is key, a good cut of beef, salt, pepper and olive oil”. Ironically I suspect that, despite it being steak and being posted by a woman talking about cooking, such a post would still cop a lot of flack and trigger a lot of the type of people that would choose to use Truth Social because of the mention of seed oil over animal fat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sand Boa⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At thumbnail scale this particular one also resembles a very tasty looking bread roll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hulu quizzing about the ads played⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Re-aducation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV: It's January 19th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s a shizo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What realistically would happen if someone came back to life from the dead ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s hope they never start counting all the times you jacked it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Under the premise that eventually this endless growth cycle reaches some kind of an end point, then ultimately yes. The wealth has to keep increasing somehow. When you have have saturated every market, eliminated every competitor, captured every last regulator, innovated every last facet, optimised every metric, you have to start cutting wages, or replacing labour with machines. When evey worker is replaced or the wages are less than enough for survival no one’s getting paid. Who buys the stuff?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eloquently phrased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being clock blocked by your Dad’s smoking habit. Tough break. Thanks Dad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's in trouble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is your comment highlighted blue in Lemmy Connect?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wipes his ass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So until they read about it on the internet they were leaving their butthole covered with shit all day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan appears to be confused about Christmas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they actually try to run with the idea that the KFC on Christmas thing is how it’s celebrated outsideof Japan as well? I just assumed that they’d kind of formed their own tradition that’s less formal and less associated with home cooking since it’s not a real holiday and just a kind of for fun thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tired of hearing about “The offshore team”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since it isn’t happening to you personally I guess it would be hard to back up with evidence but is there not somewhere you could anonymously report these abuses and concerns to? Any government department? At the very least the misrepresented conditions seem like they must be a violation of something . If it’s anonymous hopefully you’d be shielded and you don’t personal face the same risks to your well being. If there’s anything that is actionable it could result in better conditions all round.

  Your tip might be a piece of information that they can add to any other such information to trigger an investigation maybe. Here in Australia at least, the government does at least sometimes act on abusive labour practices, they’ve swooped in on farmers employing fruit pickers who are almost entirely foreign and who suffered absolutely blatant wage theft and abuse and other high profile instances such as foreign embassy staff being treated as slaves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great tee shirt with words of wisdom that I bet you never realized⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah but is it still the same hand?