zephorah
@zephorah@lemm.ee
- Comment on Donald Trump Team Plans to Cancel Biden's $7,500 Tax Incentive On EVs 16 hours ago:
Given our current education deficit, we’ve already had to import quite a bit of talent to keep up with being a first world country.
Example: when was the last time you encountered an Indian doctor?
Given the plans to make real/higher education accessible only to the wealthy, we’re going to need to import even more talent.
- Comment on AI Elections 1 week ago:
According to polling the last couple weeks, this is probably accurate.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
Oh hell no. Not until the first two patches are rolled out.
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You could return to sender what has addresses. And just return the junk that does not by dumping it in a blue drop off box, if you have one in your town.
Or do what others do, syphon off one tied off grocery bag of trash at a time each time you go to the gas station.
Or, fire pit.
- Comment on Assassin Bug 1 month ago:
So they’re the Reavers of the insect world.
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 1 month ago:
It was just one theory, backing his advise. We didn’t have the sharpest teeth or claws, but we could run away. And far better than our lazy asses generally can today.
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 1 month ago:
The science on how humans survived through some seriously apex predators tags this as the reason. We evolved to run, the Usain Bolts of the world not being rare back in the day, which is why we are even here, and now we’ve de-volved into a sedentary society where Usain Bolt is the only one.
- Comment on 63% of Gen Z Would Rather Play Video Games Than Watch a Movie 1 month ago:
PC here, I don’t play sports games. RPG stuff. Larian, Bioware, Bethesda, yea the damn Ubisoft AC games, RE, and such. Some of the indy stuff. If it’s DND I have it. And 4x. I love and hate 4x. I’ve not seen ads in any of that. I suppose they could’ve worked McDonalds or some bullshit onto Mars station or the Presidium, but they didn’t.
- Comment on 2 life pro tips in one meme! 1 month ago:
Oooo, that should be a tshirt. That can be embroidered with a company logo.
- Comment on 2 life pro tips in one meme! 1 month ago:
Talking to a friend this week who works for Cabelas/Bass Pro. Worked their asses off since this is their season, hunting then gifts, inclusive of OT whether you want it or not, pretty much until after Christmas.
There’s a movement quota. They met double that. Post day debrief with boss, they’re like what do we get for that apart from this praise you have for us?
Nothing. They get nothing.
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It’s not quiet quitting, it’s just doing your job, as is, as agreed, nothing more, nothing less. Meet the quota as required and go home. Because working extra hard gets you nothing.
- Comment on Do all there former Republican leaders endorsing Harris do her any good? 1 month ago:
Maybe. Republicans usually toe the line. DEMs individually fight about what the line is all the time, it’s a defining characteristic. Not so much with repubs. So, maybe.
- Comment on 63% of Gen Z Would Rather Play Video Games Than Watch a Movie 1 month ago:
The story lasts longer. And there’s no commercials. Why not?
I say that as an old person.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 2 months ago:
It’s this bizarre thing. Management want them to “look busy” or some bullshit. Aldi looks busy.
You’ll see this on some factory floors too. No chairs even for the management or QA logging numbers on computers. Chairs are for break time or some such.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 2 months ago:
And, the cashiers can sit down. Which makes sense.
- Comment on ‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours 2 months ago:
It’s called being on call. It requires an hourly wage for the duration. That said, call pay is usually garbage (like $4/hr). I would posit that call pay should be minimum wage, or more.
This is no different that being required to pay out a lunch break if and when you’re required to remain available during said lunch break, can’t leave campus, or have to carry a live walkie/radio while “on break”. Federal definition of a lunch break defines it as “uninterrupted”.
My on call works with garbage pay but if I’m called in it’s automatically OT, even if that’s my one shift that week. Ofc, I’m Union. Even so, the stand at the starting line, available pay, should be at least minimum wage.
- Comment on Illegal voting by noncitizens is rare, yet Republicans are making it a major issue this election 2 months ago:
It’s the only thing they’ve got, to explain conservative losses. Distracts from the perpetual popular vote losses.
- Comment on I hate people like this 2 months ago:
One of the many definitions “Asshole” is applied to.
- Comment on Surreal Convergence 2 months ago:
People are taking their resin crafting a bit far.
- Comment on Is assasin's creed origins good? 2 months ago:
That’s a solid estimation of the three.
- Comment on Is assasin's creed origins good? 2 months ago:
Refinement wise origins is to Fallout 3 and Odyssey is to New Vegas.
I liked Origins. Tomb exploration. History lessons. Angry hippos. It was solid.
Odyssey is my favorite of the 3. Worth it.
Valhalla was too long. They took the Odyssey formula and just did too much. Normally I completionist games, but I could not finish those repeatable side quests. Odin’s marathon runs among other things. After Valhalla I had no interest in buying Mirage and doing it again.
- Comment on Attorneys General of 24 States Ask Supreme Court to Block EPA’s Methane Reduction Rule 2 months ago:
The air quality is about to go 1980s again.
- Comment on Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace 2 months ago:
It’s not so much the argument it’s workplace policies that say 6 or more days a year means you can be fired with cause. A late clock-in counts as half of one of those.
At least that’s been standard at most places I’ve worked.
- Comment on Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace 2 months ago:
Between the younger generation and COVID redefining the acceptability of coming to work sick, the workplace does look a lot better.
- Comment on Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement. 2 months ago:
You’re driving with a camera fine tuned on your face for the entire trip, set to trigger to your bosses when your face moves.
Not creepy at all.
- Comment on My job offers "free" online consultations for mental health reasons. Every single "available" slot is during working hours. 2 months ago:
The system is set up such that if you lose your job you lose your health insurance, for you and your children.
And if you miss a paycheck you’re toast. Probable eviction notice in the future. Paycheck to paycheck living is real, even more so in the post 2020 world.
- Comment on 17,000 AT&T Workers Strike Across Southeastern US 2 months ago:
Good for them!
Having belonged to unions it has always been an exercise of concerted effort to make a strike happen. Sometimes in the direction of the people to the union leaders. Idk why. In some cases, especially hospitals, a strike likely wouldn’t last more than a day or two.
The CEOs can’t make their revenue from an office chair when we are not working. Also, it’s good energy. If you’ve ever been on a picket line, there’s nothing quite like it. I doubt anyone goes home from a picket line unhappy.
- Comment on I'm not a good liar but need to pretend I like my current job and not rant about how much I dislike it till I find a job I like more. How do I make my coworkers and supervisors believe this lie? 2 months ago:
I have to ask. What is a PiP?
- Comment on Why won't some people pay for news? (2022) 2 months ago:
Because there are too damn many sites for that and streaming services have used up all of that fund already. And at my age I still want a paper copy of the NYT crossword to carry around for the day if I do pay for it. iykyk.
- Comment on To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says 3 months ago:
We did get 7 computers back by 1am last night just by constantly rebooting.
That said, 40 out of 47 never came back. So clearly something more is needed.