invertedspear
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- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 1 day ago:
This is how they had to dress. Even the cashiers and cooks had to be business casual. And they had to buy the uniforms out of their wages.
Today they wouldn’t be able to afford to, but that’s what stagnant minimum wage and soaring corporate profits has gotten us.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 4 days ago:
Funny, I have the opposite complaint about Fallout 4. In what is supposed to be a nuclear wasteland of a city where everyone is struggling to keep their small communities going, there are just too many people in such a small space to make this feel real. I liked Fallout 3 and New Vegas more because the world was properly empty, but still had so many things to discover.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 week ago:
Specifically he swapped the place of the R and the M and then rotated just the M so it’s a W. Surprised I don’t see that more often with the odious around here and their punisher stickers on their compensators.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 2 weeks ago:
Death doesn’t even notice Thanos exists, but finds Deadpool amusing. Thanos is watching his crush go on dates with the class clown.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 2 weeks ago:
Lady Death is an anthropomorphism of death. The marvel comics version of the grim reaper. Not a hero, just a thing that exists.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 3 weeks ago:
Instead of getting a membership, get a gift card. I don’t think a membership is required to send a gift card.
- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t delude yourself into thinking they won’t. I had a CTO fire the whole office in a tizzy fit because one of my coworkers commented negatively and rudely about his strategy. I was literally the only person that knew anything about our core home grown CRM. Everyone can be sacrificed on the ego of the C suite.
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 5 weeks ago:
For reference: handmaids tail was published in 1985, the mist was published in 1980. There are probably examples of that trope prior to the mist, but the handmaids tale isn’t one.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 2 months ago:
I was playing punch out on the switch the other day and 100% this. That game was all about proper timing and reaction speed. All the little latencies add up to it being nearly impossible. I never beat the game as a kid, but I could get to the last fighter, Tyson in my version, Mr Dream? In the non Tyson version? Anyway, can’t even beat the Russian dude that laugh taunts me on the switch. I know what to hit, and when to hit it, but HDMI lag, upscaling lag, blue tooth controller lag, all add up to it being nearly impossible to react.
- Comment on New Android POS at work has 4 notifications but I can't clear them because their MDM locks the notification bar. 3 months ago:
Point Of Sale, a generic term for everything that functions these days as a cash register did in the last. Typically has to be computerized to be a POS
MDM, mobile device management. What corps do to keep people from doing things to devices that the corp doesn’t want done. Company issued mobile phones might use this, but so would a POS company since they wouldn’t want people installing games on a cash register.
- Comment on Please help 3 months ago:
Can probably still run doom
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Credit cards caught on to this around 2010 or so. That’s why balance transfers always have a fee now. You could do this with either balance transfers or cash advances, both of which have fees now. So you’ll end up increasing the balance by 3% each month.
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 4 months ago:
The powers that be have no fear of ignoring protestors any more. Or education presents civil rights protests as peaceful and effective, that all we need to do is raise awareness and show solidarity and oppressors will relent. Education speaks of the black panthers, but doesn’t go into depth on how they were the armed wing of the movement.
So now today we’re protesting because we don’t like what’s happening, but what is the consequence to the power hungry? If the protests get anything approaching non peaceful, or even if they just want to, those in charge can escalate to military actions.
We also don’t have a clearly defined win condition. What is going to make things better? When do we stop? Is the goal just to raise awareness to get people to vote for a change in 1-4 years? Or are we looking for something more immediate?
Finally how far are we willing to go? If I’m not willing to die for it, or to risk my current comfortable life style, can I ever really push hard enough against current conditions? They’re willing to kill to keep their power, am I willing to kill to pry it from them?
They don’t fear us because they know we have so much more to lose than they do. We are not yet playing a game with equal stakes.
I don’t have a solution to this, so I’ll at least keep doing the peaceful thing, because it’s better than doing nothing.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Someone stole your purchase, police should never call that a civil matter. Cops aren’t going to help anyway, but without the police report neither is BB, DD and ultimately your bank because the lack of getting police involved makes it look like you are committing fraud. Get the police report and get it to your bank before the back concludes their investigation because it’s harder to reopen one once it’s closed.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Walmart has Spark which is a delivery network they control that’s similar to door dash but AFAIK doesn’t require any logos on the vehicles.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
When I worked for a bank call center the first question before initiating the dispute/chargeback process is “did you attempt to resolve this with the merchant first?” It is a requirement for doing the dispute. OP needs to clearly say yes, and they prevent it by not letting me speak to a human.
OP should also file a police report immediately. They won’t care, but at least the store can’t accuse OP of not following properof procedures.
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 4 months ago:
So long.