wetbeardhairs

@wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think we've all been there.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what kind of conditions might allow that state chart to have a transition from Death back to Diarrhea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And we will let you because no one cares.

  Hey look Neatnit’s corpse is getting eaten by birds. Well… they’ve got to eat something. What was it he died for again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but all of the other Wall-Es were left broken by a mandatory Tuesday Windows Update

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually just words here and there. It’s the principle. I don’t need Disney’s censors to decide what is OK for me/China to hear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “well the military was ultimately responsible for holding those contractors accountable,”

  This is arguably one of the worst aspects of contracting any kind of service. The contractors act like they don’t have a duty to listen nor are they willing to be held accountable. Once the contractor and the signor shake hands then the contractors just go and do the worst fucking job possible with no one to steer the ship. The money has been spent, and accountability is nowhere to be found.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you did there.

  For real though it’s going to be hard to undo all of this. The political process for all public services is being hung by a noose made by contractors and GOP voters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m torrenting it. One thing I always hated was the needless censorship by BBCA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even know the new season was out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No my point is they offload too much to corporations and thus are beholden to the same concerns of those corporations by proxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I didn’t even realize until now how good the cropping is on lemmy compared to redd*t. holy shit the number of memes that came from screenshots of twitter screenshotted on insta screenshotted on whatever the fuck but this one was profile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been in PTA fights over this and yelled at superintendents in multiple school district meetings now. The real answer of where the money is going? Contractors.

  Everything is done by contractors now because it’s easy to sever and it allows organizations to focus on one thing they’re good at. Do you need janitorial staff or do you need to keep things clean? Well the answer is you need to keep things clean - so how? Just pay the contractors because the school board got bribed. Sure, it turns out the contractors cost 3x the cost of a dedicated janitorial staff in the long run, but they were quicker to set up and the board wanted a turnkey solution.

  That’s the approach that every school board uses to answer that question. Need X - ok well we don’t want to hire anyone because that makes people mad about how we use money… so we’ll spend MORE money on Y over the long run for something that will be a permanently reoccurring cost. Anyone go to a school cafeteria recently? Did you get food served on disposable styrofoam treys or were you given a melamine tray and plate with reusable utensils? Just kidding I know the answer to that already. Do we provide school supplies to students at the district level? No, every man for themselves go to walmart and pay $60 for school supplies for each child with all the markup instead of letting the district buy them by the pallet and distribute at the cost of wholesale for 15% the total price of everyone wastefully purchasing their own.

  Don’t forget that school boards are notoriously easy to corrupt. Usually it’s something relatively benign like a board member has a family member that owns a company that does contract work and they were recommended to the rest of the board. But often it is outright bribes.

  But this short sighted view of how to run things is making everything expensive in America. Everything has ten fucking middlemen between you and what you want. And they’re all goddamn contractors now. Cheap in the immediate but far more expensive over time. Why? Because we aren’t allowed to have honest conversations about government expenses anymore. We aren’t allowed to ask for real services for our children because of the short term demands of the bottom line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  School board officials are frequently bribed to hire expensive contractors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it’s not the administrators. They usually reduce overall headcount by performing the tasks of multiple other dedicated people with one role.

  The answer of where is the money going? Contractors. Everything is done by contractors now because it’s easy to sever and it allows organizations to focus on one thing they’re good at. Do you need janitorial staff or do you need to keep things clean? Well the answer is you need to keep things clean - so how? Just pay the contractors because the school board got bribed. Sure, it turns out the contractors cost 3x the cost of a dedicated janitorial staff in the long run, but they were quicker to set up and the board wanted a turnkey solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m seeing mini pcs for sale for basically the same price as a windows license. They must be quite literally giving them away at this point to compete with Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you put a ship inside a Klein bottle?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well no, but actually yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple TV+ is painful as fuck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to be the worst app because Netflix was so damn good. Then Netflix took a shit all over their user experience and jacked prices to the tits so we cancelled them. And HBO got bought by Time Warner who is actively antagonistic towards streaming because the CEO just looks at their entire catalog as a tax writeoff - so the max app is fucking dreadful.

  Then Apple decided to make things suck less and they succeeded. The one thing they screwed up is there is no way to disable that obnoxious auto-play bullshit at the end of each episode. All of the other apps are now so bad that we exclusively subscribe through the appletv app. My wife likes giving money to paramount for some reason - but at least if we do it through the apple app there are no ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ask for more pixels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  looky here we got us a man who earned a 99 in cleaning out the shithouse. Grab a shovel, “Professor”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ask for more pixels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I say we let them fight to the death to see which one is smarter. I’m putting extra money on the Philosophy Professor going on a rant about how physical combat has nothing to do with intelligence - and getting struck down in the midst of his soliloquy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon’s clingers attempt to slow his ascent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually it is way more important for OP to guzzle the other guy’s cum. He’ll get so much more testosterone that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The klingons weren’t the problem with Discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only way to be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only person I knew who really ate the Ayn Rand onion has fully gone off the rails. Last I spoke with him, he said the nurses kicked him out of the hospital where his wife was giving birth and was threatened with arrest if he returned. Also he voted for Trump. I’m still not sure how he reconciled that thought process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only way to be⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was a worthwhile watch. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fighter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently it is an instinctive way that chimps fight. First they gouge your eyes so you can’t defend yourself. Then bite your hands so you can’t attack. Then they rip off your genitals because fuck you that’s why.