birdwing
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- Comment on Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language? 11 hours ago:
More accurate version:
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 15 hours ago:
Communities are largely similar, but the underlying hardware and tweaks are slightly different.
- Comment on My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time? 2 days ago:
If you only ever hear bad news, this can also demoralise and disincentivise people from taking action. That’s why I usually balance them a bit, to avoid doomscrolling.
- Comment on I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization] 3 days ago:
Isn’t Signal readable through Israeli spyware the US bought?
Threema then, I’d say.
- Comment on Is there a place online to ask for Non Money donations? like books, jerseys, or whatever? kind of like go fund me or kickstarter without giving someone money kind of like a gofundme donations thing? 4 days ago:
Like a gift economy thing?
- Comment on Which Linux Distribution has the best Community Support? 5 days ago:
Live image and test?
do you mean I’d download a distro, put it on a USB, and then extract/open it in there, and test it out?
(and ofc, saving my data on my own desktop on an external hard disk, before committing to switch)?
- Comment on Which Linux Distribution has the best Community Support? 5 days ago:
Would it work for general usage too?
Within Linux I see ‘beginner’, ‘intermediate’ and ‘advanced’ users mentioned, but I’m not sure where I’d fall, or what those would roughly denote.
Like I’m familiar with what a terminal is and how it can be used for commands, I’m not like an old grandma not knowing what the big red X button does, I know not to delete system32 or to avoid sudo rm rf, but I’m not familiar with a shell, setting up an IP of your own, that stuff. I think this would label me as an average user for whom intermediate distros would be possible, but I’m not sure.
- Comment on Which Linux Distribution has the best Community Support? 5 days ago:
Re: the EndeavourOS, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed also has a nice installer, no?
- Comment on Awkward interaction with my doctor 1 week ago:
This is honestly the answer.
- Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company? 1 week ago:
Terrible, it should never be allowed that companies can grow this large.
- Comment on Apologies if I'm making an incorrect judgement, but does anybody else get dystopian propaganda vibes from the Working with Cancer Pledge? 1 week ago:
Definitely dystopian, yes. It’s your classic “Go work, you’re not ill at all” bullshit. I recall the story of a mum who had to work while having to undergo stressful chemo, being in the hospital. All because if she took more than a few days off, she’d be ineligible for health reimbursements etc.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 2 weeks ago:
Why’d one buy a “smart” fridge with spyware? Wouldn’t it be better to buy a dumb fridge?
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 2 weeks ago:
Compensation car for a Clansman.
- Comment on stupid bird 2 weeks ago:
Just use the desktop edition, add an ad blocker and there you go.
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 2 weeks ago:
Omae wa mou shindeiru
- Comment on [NSQ] What are you actually looking forward to this year? 3 weeks ago:
Onto the mood of Hey Ya! We all need one in our lives, really.
- Comment on [NSQ] What are you actually looking forward to this year? 3 weeks ago:
getting progesteron :3
- Comment on Anon learns the dangers of polyjuice potion 3 weeks ago:
Polyjuice would be a nice thing tbh. I could imagine it being OP for people who want to permanently swap bodies. Just collect a lot of hair, cut in tiny snippets so you can last a lifetime with it, wait for each others’ hairs to grow back, and let’s go.
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Time already is that.
- Comment on Name it 4 weeks ago:
Great game indeed, felt like it personified my experience with dysphoria, all without talking.
- Comment on Florida GOP votes up bill to allow “opportunity” to earn subminimum wage 4 weeks ago:
Florida RINOs*
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Combined with Holocene calendar and decimal time… hnrggh…
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 4 weeks ago:
Why 37%?
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 4 weeks ago:
Just 37%?
Why not tax wealth+income above $2 million USD with a 99% tax? Someone having 1 billion then still will have 10 million.
- Comment on Do it for your country's debt! 4 weeks ago:
And tax the billionnaires properly - and if they don’t want that, make them unable to flee their capital from being taxed.
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 4 weeks ago:
Unions aren’t even that expensive, here they cost about €4-22 a month, depending on your net disposable income and whether you study or not.
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 4 weeks ago:
Sadly not a member of one, though I’m a union member. How is stuff there?
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 4 weeks ago:
When workers are not exploited, there are fewer in precarious situations. Consider the following scenario.
You have to work 12-hour long shifts, 6 days a week. Travel to and from work takes one hour each way. You need to sleep 8 hours. Eating takes up an hour (let’s say 30 min breakfast&lunch, 30 min dinner).
That leaves you with effectively 2 hours a day that’s for yourself. And that’s excluding meal preparation times, so you’ll likely prefer to microwave. And if you’re a parent, you have even less time. You also don’t have much of a “weekend” to recover. So you cut on sleep and that will directly impact your wellbeing. That won’t help raise children in a safe environment. Nor will other coworkers and people be that thrilled to deal with a constant grumpy person. And nor do you want to be this person!
Now, how much do you then make? Let’s say you make $10 an hour. You’ll thus earn $720 a week, but most of that will go to groceries, travel costs like petrol/electricity, energy and utility, and rent/mortgages. So you’ll en up with barely any reserves to stock up… so if there’s a crisis, you’re fucked, and need to go into debt - and who will profit from that? The banks and CEOs, again.
Let’s say also that there are 1,000 employees, of which 900 workers, 75 mid-range and 25 CEO-board. The workers earn $10, the mid-rangers $15, the CEOs $115 an hour. Together, that all makes $13,000 an hour.
Most of the profit made, goes to the CEOs. When we divide income far more equally and remove those excess bonuses, and enable shorter travel times by good urban planning, we can imagine a scenario like this:
You’ll work 4 days a week, 6 hours a day, 30 min both ways total for travel. Dinner can now be prepared instead of microwaved, and that’s healthier and cheaper, so let’s say food total takes 1.5 hours now. That leaves you with 8 hours for yourself. Much better.
You work 24 hours a week, of which most hours now productively spent at work instead of dozing off and counting the hours. And due to co-ops distributing the income much fairer among all, you might earn $20 an hour.
Let’s now assume there are no CEOs, only workers who all can decide, although some do the day-to-day administration and can be directly recalled.
All earn $13 an hour. The workers significantly benefit, while the mid-rangers also benefit from the much better work-life balance. It’s also conceivable that with this improved live standard, they will be able to produce more, and eventually, go beyond $15 an hour for all… perhaps $20.
Hence, a co-op not only improves wellbeing for all, but also for society. Reduced healthcare costs, reduced travel time costs and waste of fuel, and so on. But in my view, wages are part of the problem; a gift economy with a give-it-forward system would be ideal, with market co-op democratic socialism (with independent trade unions) a close behind.
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 4 weeks ago:
Only public companies have that ‘duty’.
Co-ops don’t, their duty is to maximise wellbeing for all workers in them and concurrently society.
