Earflap
@Earflap@reddthat.com
It burns when I poop
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 5 days ago:
Basically you encode data in a digital stream and send it over the air as a radio transmission. Here a very brief overview: www.arrl.org/digital-data-modes
I’m not actively involved in radio but I do have my license. Last I looked hams in general really poo-poo’d digital modes.
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 5 days ago:
Embrace digital modes.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
Don’t kid yourself, they’re here. Make sure they know they aren’t welcome.
- Comment on Anon uses Discord 1 week ago:
Yeah, in constitutional law. Not in Discord lol.
- Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 1 week ago:
No judgment, only curiosity.
- Comment on Anon uses Discord 1 week ago:
I’m in exactly 1 server, that my friend uses to organize game night at his place with many other people. If I could get him to switch platforms I would delete my account.
- Comment on Anon uses Discord 1 week ago:
I mean if they have channels called like “CP Central” and the users all talk about how great the CP is on CP Central all the time then it really doesn’t matter how many messages you skip.
Also
I’m not scrolling through two miles of unrelated nonsense and sub-convos to get to what’s currently relevant.
This bullshit is exactly why I don’t use discord.
- Comment on Anon uses Discord 1 week ago:
Just because they didn’t participate doesn’t mean they didn’t know it was there.
- Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 1 week ago:
That seems oddly specific.
- Comment on I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear 1 week ago:
I think its more about how Tim Buckley is terrible than anything. It sort of collapsed into its own joke.
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 2 weeks ago:
Who said these were part time jobs? No one. A lot of Batistas work full the jobs actually, because they can’t get any other jobs. Should they die of starvation or exposure or buried in medical debt just because you think they’re beneath you? What if you lose your job and the market is shit and all you can find for a year or more is some “shitty unskilled labor” job? Should you be forced from your home to live on the streets just because you can’t find a job in your career field through no fault of your own?
Let’s do some quick, back of the napkin math. I’m going to round for simplicity.
This asshole took a bonus of 96 million dollars. Let’s assume that all 1,000 employees have an average salary of $45,000, which was the US average salary last time I checked. Employee benefits, which include health insurance and retirement contributions, typically cost an employer 1.5x the salary but I’m being lazy so let’s 2x it. So each of the 1,000 employees costs the company $90,000.
$$96,000,000 / $90,000 = 1,066
Or in other words: At $90,000 per employee, the $96 million bonus could fund these employees at full time schedules with full benefits for an entire year. This asshole stole their salaries for themselves.
Just because the government lets them do it doesn’t make it moral or OK. If he didn’t take the bonus he’d still be a gazzilionaire and one of the highest paid employees in the company, but he elected to steal 1000 salaries instead.
No one is in this thread calling for Starbucks specifically to change their ways, they’re outraged that this is allowed to happen at all. And yes, the only organization that can stand up to corporate power is the government, but that has been completely sucked up corporate Americas asshole, so all we can do is point out the injustice and hypocrisy of the system and hope enough other people get as angry as we are so we can all overthrow this bullshit system of oppression, and your “well what did you expect working a shit job” attitude does absolutely nothing to help, and only reinforces the idea that this is all somehow normal or OK.
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 2 weeks ago:
Do you keep a list of workers who you feel are beneath you and don’t deserve a living wage?
- Comment on This garbage 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, I bought three pens and four inks that the internet assured me was high quality and none of them are as smooth as my pilot G2 fine tip.
Fountain pens are way cooler though.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only ever played Pokémon: Blue, but I enjoyed it. I used to like doing the MISSINGNO cheat to get infinite master balls and rare candy to capture the three legendary birds and roflstomp the rest of the game. Good times.
- Comment on James Cameron will reportedly open Avatar 3 with a title card saying no generative AI was used to make the movie 4 weeks ago:
James Cameron doesn’t do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron!
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 5 weeks ago:
Woah hey what did we ever do to you?!
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 5 weeks ago:
Everyone thinks rules 1 and 2 are:
- Be attractive
- Dont be unattractive
But really they are:
- Be a nice person
- Dont be an asshole
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
Haha yeah. Websters dictionary is the sole arbiter of political upheaval and is the singular source of authority on all events, past and present.
Its not like there is an organization that catalogs and studies such events or anything. That would be ridiculous! Oh wait
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
The people that define these things disagree with you: clinecenter.illinois.edu/…/statement_dec.15.2022
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
Honestly democrats have been spouting off about how dangerous republicans are but when push comes to shove they serve up the same bills but somehow even worse and them drink tea with the fascists.
The dems better get real fuckin lefty real quick if they ever want to win an election again. But they wontt, they’ll just emulate dump even more like they did with Reagan.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
They literally attempted a coup when they lost the election, so no, everything was not “fine”.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 5 weeks ago:
The constitution was created for the sole purpose of containing a tyrant and mitigating any damage they could do.
Its never been tested on a real tyrant before though, so I guess we’ll see how well it accomplishes that. It uh, isnt looking too great though.
- Comment on Gone 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Remember 1 month ago:
sinK
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 1 month ago:
Not in America
- Comment on Reddit Refugees 1 month ago:
B E A N
- Comment on Anon cheats through college 1 month ago:
Can not confirm. LLMs generate garbage for me, i never use it.
- Comment on Uncanny sandwich 1 month ago:
Steve Burger
- Comment on Anon watches Puss in Boots 1 month ago:
Hahaha! "I just happened to see your search history
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 2 months ago:
The OG SW:KOTOR RPG. One of my friends raves about it but I couldn’t get used to the controls.
I did like The Witcher 2, for reference.
