MnemonicBump
@MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 1 week ago:
New hires were, yes. Because of automation (and position hybridization, the rise of the gig economy, despecialization, and the rise of Walmart, of course). This is exactly the point that I’m making.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The U.S. We still had strong union grocery stores right up until automation hit. Then you get the big UFCW strike in California in 2003-2004, and what you’re left with is a store full of a bunch of people who are making middle class wages, but all new hires are making $8/hr with no benefits. Get on another 20 years, and that’s basically everybody working at a grocery store now.
Reaganomics absolutely blazed the trail, but self-checkout finished the job.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m talking about pre and post self-checkout. 2005 absolutely could have done that for you.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
20 years ago a cashier position in a grocery store was a well-paying union job with a pension. It could literally be your career. You could buy a house, raise a family, and retire from that position.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
In a theoretical society in which all of my material needs were met, and I was given ample time off, I would volunteer to sit behind a cash register for a few hours a day and help people check out their groceries. I’m sure I’m not the only one. What do you even mean by “productive time”? When you say that it “does not provide value”, do you mean monetary value or social value?
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 4 weeks ago:
Weird aside, but Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Is actually kind of base on a true story. Oil, tire, and car companies did actually conspire to dismantle Los Angeles’ then extensive street car network.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 5 weeks ago:
Is there a way to interact with this quiz that doesn’t involve me giving the NYT a dollar?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Oh, without a doubt
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
OP, your friend is the victim of criminal cyberstalking and harassment. This dude should be reported to the authorities
- Comment on Home made Soup 1 month ago:
Hmmm, some tasty soup does sound pretty good right now…
- Comment on Home made Soup 1 month ago:
Oh shit, Baba Yaga’s coming. Better run
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean, that’s just how I see it. Not disparaging anybody for their name or child’s name. Like, my parents named me Michael, and I happen to like it. But if I didn’t I would change it in a heartbeat (officially or not, it doesn’t really matter to me).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Just my opinion, but your name is exclusively a label for other people to call you. If you don’t like it, you can literally ask to be called anything else, but how other people will be able to pronounce it or not should be at least some small percentage of the thought process. Especially considering that children can’t pick their own names when they’re born
- Comment on redwoods 1 month ago:
Growing up in California (especially Southern) you learn about “Fire Ecology” and how wildfires are a normal and natural part of the ecosystem and that many California-native flora are dependent on semi-regular burns. The problem with the fires lately isnt that they’re happening, it’s that they’re happening too frequently.
Basically, don’t worry, those sequoias will outlive us all
- Comment on The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid 1 month ago:
California was this close to high speed rail from San Diego to San Francisco and I will never forget that Musk and the Boring Company are the reasons it didn’t happen
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 2 months ago:
It’s real.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 3 months ago:
Oregon has entered the chat
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 3 months ago:
I wasn’t familiar with the term, but I always (until this moment) assumed that everybody viewed science that way.
- Comment on Pirates are Popular 3 months ago:
Hi there. I’m an artist who gives away everything for free because I don’t personally think it’s ethical to profit from pure human emotional expression. I also don’t think it’s ethical for some faceless corporation to profit from my art. I will ABSOLUTELY fight against my art being used to train AI models, but I have ABSOLUTELY no desire to profit. In fact, I have the opposite desire.
So tell me exactly what is rent-seeking?
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 3 months ago:
Nah, driving is a privilege, not a right. You don’t NEED to d I’ve and you absolutely don’t need to drive while impaired. Even if you think you’re good, you’re not. There are THOUSANDS of cases of people being killed by drunk drivers who thought they were good.
- Comment on The scientific method 3 months ago:
I like to think of life as the universe reaching out and trying to know itself
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 3 months ago:
It’s not EXACTLY the same, but this guy does a pretty good job of hitting the same vibes:
- Comment on Why does Dairy Queen sell food? 4 months ago:
Dairy Queen has been selling food since 1958. They are not “an ice cream store” any more than McDonalds is
- Comment on Living a lie 4 months ago:
You have big “tipping the waitress a penny for bad service” energy
- Comment on Are their any romance movies where there is a male protagonist who is a part of the manosphere? 4 months ago:
No, but this manosphere shit isn’t new. It’s been around since at least the “Men Going Their Own Way” movement in the late 90s and early 2000s, which me too and the Right’s culture wars are a reaction to. So yeah, watch, like, ANY movie starring Michael Douglas, or basically any movie that involves a male/female relationship dynamic and you’ll probably see a LOT of proto-manosphere stuff. (Pretty Woman?)
- Comment on Are their any romance movies where there is a male protagonist who is a part of the manosphere? 4 months ago:
Like basically every movie prior to the 2010s, yeah
- Comment on I felt sorry for them 4 months ago:
Yes, that’s the meatspace hacking I’m talking about
- Comment on I felt sorry for them 4 months ago:
Signal can only be hacked in meatspace. It’s totally end to end encrypted.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Yes, but you assume they know literally anything about the academic system at all. They think anybody who works at a university is an “elite”, and is therefore somehow being treated better than them.
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 5 months ago:
There are entire books written about this. People here just don’t want to write one for you