CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Apply today! 2 days ago:
Cigarettes are an unfair comparison because of sin taxes. A Big Mac is a simpler international comparison, or a loaf of bread.
- Comment on It's been a while since I was fired from my job, so here's a picture of Windows updating at the wrong time 4 days ago:
No, not on a business owned device. The updates should give warnings, of course. Some companies don’t seem to know how to supply those warnings before mandating the install, for some reason.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 5 days ago:
Needed to buy a car several years ago and I went out of my way to try to find a car with a COLOR. It was a bit more of a hassle, but I’m glad I did.
I’m at a point where I’d take the mustard yellow Prius. At least it’s got a colour. And don’t get me started on the “we forgot to paint it” primer base colours.
- Comment on The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week 1 week ago:
It’s great to see this in ultra mainstream NYT.
- Comment on Most 80s interior 1 week ago:
I can smell this room.
- Comment on How I mapped Britain’s hidden ‘battery cows’ 1 week ago:
Factory farms are A-OK, but look at the multitude of issues that a (relatively wealthy) landowner faces in trying to make a more traditional mixed production farm be profitable in the current environment. Harry’s Farm and Clarkson’s Farm paint a pretty dark picture; it’s less risky/more profitable to plant flowers (government guaranteed income) than it is to produce food. Consolidation of abattoirs can mean that animals need long-distance transportation for processing. Dairy market rewards only factory sized production. Etc.
- Comment on Is Britain's Plug-In Solar Revolution Really Just Months Away? 1 week ago:
I’ve got two 250w panels set up feeding a 1kwh battery box/inverter which in turn feeds my ‘fridge and works as a UPS.
Around the solstice I can run it all about 12-14hrs but even a month later it’s down to 8-10 already, never mind winter, and with current rates it’s at least a 10 year payback. I don’t really understand the financials of microsolar. It seems like something that scales better if the building management put it up rather than individuals with 400w on the balcony.
- Comment on If you work with food, how can you control yourself so you don’t eat it? 1 week ago:
There’s a fine line between over producing food and having waste and having enough food.
A wise manager ensures that there is a family meal and manages production so that waste is minimized. A stupid manager accuses kitchen staff of stealing when they’re eating food in the restaurant.
Eating off of other people’s plates is a disease vector, don’t do that.
- Comment on “Gaming is becoming unaffordable” — Xbox CEO says the industry has an accessibility crisis 1 week ago:
Everything is more expensive. Leisure activities are early budget cuts.
- Comment on How come Nurses are not bound by the same rule is a lawyer is to a defendant or a wife to a husband or a priest? If someone says something on their death bed why are we suppose to report? 1 week ago:
In a perfect world you’d have gotten this explained thoroughly for your local jurisdiction as part of your registration requirements.
Doctors, lawyers, and priests have professional expectations to keep things secret, but if there’s ongoing harm to others, or certain crimes (child molestation, murder, etc.), they will report it.
- Comment on Flat Screen TV's are a waste of money 1 week ago:
It was also a handy place to put all the AV equipment that has fans and clanks around and stuff. People still have AV rooms now, but the TV usually isn’t part of the room.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 1 week ago:
Can you expand on the point? If they can’t deliver water the CEO shouldn’t be paid out; that’s the point of the salary/bonus ratio.
- Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak 1 week ago:
Executive officers get large compensation because they have responsibility over the organisation.
That means that when “accidents happen”, they bear responsibility, and should not receive their bonuses and possibly should be fired.
If a potable water company is unable to deliver potable water to their customers, it’s a gross failure of the leadership to take all measures to ensure that the company does what it exists to do.
- Comment on UK considers forcing social media firms to prioritise trusted news 1 week ago:
Some people I know talk about some wild ideas. I can’t imagine, even with what strongly appears to be symptoms of mental illness, that they came up with it in a vacuum.
There’s some really awful stuff on Facebook and YouTube and xitter.
- Comment on Men against bush 1 week ago:
There’s been pubic hair removal going back to ancient Egypt, through Greece and Rome and into modern times.
- Comment on We are witnessing the slow death of the prestige career 2 weeks ago:
The professional bullshit artist is threatened by a mechanical bullshit artist. Say it isn’t so!
- Comment on Anon loves marvel movies 2 weeks ago:
LoTR Extended Editions are something like 40 minutes of credits after a 2.5 hour movie. I don’t think I could.
- Comment on Why is Amazon Prime overpriced in the Anglosphere demographic? 2 weeks ago:
Amazon also pays employees differently based on the local economy.
The marginal cost of a customer of a digital service approaches zero, so it doesn’t matter what they charge. In Japan, perhaps they’re working on getting customers. In India, they need it affordable.
- Comment on Hillary Clinton Says Biden’s Re-election Bid Was a ‘Terrible Mistake’ 2 weeks ago:
Three years too late.
- Comment on Sprout 🌱 2 weeks ago:
Not unlike mammals, really.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Same, I never wear a seatbelt either. In summer I just take the doors off, it’s so much better to just fly out of the vehicle at 70mph than get trapped! /s
Glasses are special material, and don’t shatter easily. It’s not a cheap water glass. Your risk assessment is inverted.
- Comment on Hay fever season is upon us 3 weeks ago:
Go outside and enjoy the tree jizz up your nose!
- Comment on Foreign workers say they were paid less than $2 an hour to build a new US Consulate in Milan 3 weeks ago:
Whenever a worker is brought from a less-developed country to a more-developed country to work, there’s almost certainly exploitation.
- Comment on Electric cars are starting to take over the world 3 weeks ago:
It’s a textbook example of protectionism ending up with industry leaders slowly going bankrupt. It didn’t start with EVs, but it might end with them.
- Comment on If a person goes "missing" and never found. How long does it take for life insurance to kick in and bank accounts resort back to the family? 4 weeks ago:
Alzheimer’s diagnosis is going to make those premiums hefty
- Comment on Tax-break trees: how woodland became a store of wealth for the rich 4 weeks ago:
One of the things I’d love to do if I suddenly became a billionaire is to buy land - especially near cities - and reforest it.
But not to cut it down again. Why must everything have a profit for the rich?
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 4 weeks ago:
Same as post Y2K, but with more stressed out IT and programming staff.
Y2K didn’t happen, because of massive coordinated efforts to avoid it. Nothing changed as a result of y2k.
The dot com bubble burst and a few years later web2.0 happened. Those events were much bigger.
- Comment on What would happen if the US got rid of the majority of their bases and brought all the stationed soldiers home? What would be the impact on society, the economy, and other things? 4 weeks ago:
Not unlike how the 2020 work from home shut down many businesses and demonstrated how much infrastructure is dedicated to travelling between two arbitrary places rather than for living. Businesses that exist to serve bases would shut down (ghost towns eg Rammstein) on both sides of the border - USA has a lot of businesses that sell things mostly to supply a base on the other side of the world with limited practical uses in the USA. Jet fuel demand etc would be reduced. We’d start hearing again about the enormous piles of [toxic] garbage the USA military leaves behind.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 4 weeks ago:
Very simple; the shareholders get value.
- Comment on In Hollywood why do all actors and such have fake names besides their own? How do they come up with them? If I went to hollywood could i make up something like Don Dickle Pickle Wiggler? 4 weeks ago:
- To use Anglo-friendly name - eg “Estévez” markets worse than “Sheen”.
- To separate themselves from others with similar names. Nicolas Coppola, for example, wanted to distance himself from his uncle Francis.
- To make a memorable name - linked to 1. Thomas Mapother doesn’t stick in the brain as well.