wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Hooaaaaaa!! 4 days ago:
I’ve left all these bodies in the sun
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 5 days ago:
Yeah, if it’s the same price why the hell would you not stay in a hotel instead of “pretend this random house is a hotel, but now with the added magic of no regulation”
- Comment on The perfect date 1 week ago:
If you work at a company where all of its offices are in the same time zone and you’re time-stamping logs, then it’s more expedient for understanding and placing an event in time against other things to use local time.
Unless everything is already standardized as GMT with offset I guess, but I feel like down that route lies madness.
“I got your email at 20:37:45-7:00” is a few more steps than “I got your email at 1:37PM”.
It’s not a big hurdle, but I try to design for the newest member on the team scrambling in panic rather than a calm cool professional already familiar with conventions.
Now, as soon as we do start dealing with multiple time zones I would just cut my custom time formatting string down to the shorthand to have the scripting language output in the full ISO 8601 format. But until then, being able to easily sort the the date properly and having the time be more human readable is a more “workable” compromise.
- Comment on The perfect date 1 week ago:
Except I can’t get behind the time part of it, personally. I can see the point of doing GMT with the offset if you’re working across multiple timezones, but it’s overkill for situations where you aren’t.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 1 week ago:
While better pay for care workers could end up being a problem resulting in higher costs, when people like you bring up this topic it is without addressing the potential cost savings to be had by clawing back “administrative” costs.
Yes, there is absolutely some level of administration needed, and no one is arguing that we should make some aspect of care worse to enable better pay for nurses and other care staff.
The argument generally is that there is more than significant overpay happening at high levels (executive and levels close to them) which could be drawn from at little to no noticable difference to the executives and overpaid themselves while significantly improving things for the levels below them.
Oh no, one of them made 3m in a year instead of 4m? That’s 5 whole six-figure positions even with your 20% overhead.
Until such time as these sorts of hypothetical talks about the impact of raising pay begin to also including the hypothetical that this additional pay could come by redirecting money that already exists and already goes into these systems, examining executive compensation packages and the like, you aren’t going to make any ground on the “costs” argument.
Because there’s currently a lot more than 20% of expenses going to “overhead”. Maybe 20% to administrative overhead, plus 50% to executive compensation packages.
And look, I get that not every exec is Musk, and the margins can be smaller than people may assume. I have family that run a small family business who have to make those sorts of decisions and costs absolutely do add up fucking quick.
But that’s all the more reason to be open and honest about this shit instead of trying to frame this with only one side.
There probably are some hospitals out in podunk nowhere where there isn’t anything left to cut from the execs and administration, but there are plenty of places (at least in the US) that are explicitly for profit.
So just as I have family running a small family business where things are fair for their grand total of… four employees I think, my wife’s family used to be close with the elder care magnate in their area. Wife’s family matriarch was close friends with the lady who married the elder care magnate.
We had to sit and watch this entitled bitch have a puff-piece novel ghost-written about the trauma of having a dedicated live in care team for her own mother while she declined, dedicated driver and multiple handlers so they could go on beach days still… while her former supposed best friend (my wife’s mother) suffered in one of her husband’s facilities. Had the audacity to message asking if there was anything she could do, but couldn’t even get off her ass and visit. To even risk seeing the true mess of elder care as her husband ran it.
So yeah, all that shit to say: Yes, the money has to come from somewhere, but there’s a whole bunch of fucking money right fucking there that keeps going into hoards instead of actually being put to use for the betterment of the company/workers/etc.
- Comment on Praise the Corn Maiden! Praise her! She is your god now! 1 week ago:
It was originally a shitposty way to drown out/protest the overwhelming flood of every goddamn post in the shitposting and meme communities being about American politics.
- Comment on how babby is formed 2 weeks ago:
They need to do way instain mothers
- Comment on welcome home 2 weeks ago:
No, if you knock it over it holds nothing you useless prat! God dammit this is why we can never have anyone over! Ten years. Ten. Years! I kept thinking, maybe this is the time you’d be able to- to- fuck it. It’s not worth it anymore. I’m done. I think I’ve been over this for a while now, but it’s real now. You can be here, with your cans and your beans and your fucking shit mess everywhere! Without me.
No, it’s fine. It’s fine! You just go do exactly what you want. What you’ve always done. Just without me now. It’ll be even easier for you. Goodbye.
- Comment on Howdy 2 weeks ago:
Nice fuckin model!
- Comment on Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron 3 weeks ago:
I’d have to guess it’s something weird with how they’re using web fonts or something. Looks fine on my end.
- Comment on Why does not LW have it's only little icon that can be seen across the fediverse? To let people know which area of the Fed we represent. I would totally put it by my name. 3 weeks ago:
What? Nearly every UI for the fediverse displays the instance of the poster after their name if they are not from the same instance as you.
That’s why to you I show up as wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com, and to me you show up as Patnou@lemmy.world
There’s no need for some sort of icon, you show your home instance wherever you go already.
- Comment on Shameful display 3 weeks ago:
Ugh, when the food places near my work started recognizing me. Yuck.
- Comment on The Head 3 weeks ago:
Lol no. Very no. Getting gut shot is a wonderful way to die slowly and in agony.
- Comment on If i use Greenluma from a specific site, can i cybersafely play FFXV performing this post Description process, you get combining the processes that appeared there, in the order those appeared? 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure there’s like one teenager from india that makes a new account around once a month just to ask stupid questions in varying levels of awful English about pirating Steam games safely.
Plenty of people (including myself) have engaged with them in good faith and gotten absolutely nowhere. It’s like the same three or four games, the same manual method they’re trying to use to crack the DRM themselves instead of just grabbing a repack from fitgirl, this complete obsession with perfect safety, obsession with using the game unmodified, a complete language barrier or lack of any comprehension, and an inability to do any searching themselves past the single idea they’ve already landed on.
- Comment on Oh no, oh Pizza Hut marketing team what is that logo 4 weeks ago:
What’s that logo? Safe bet that it’s an entirely intentional attempt to go viral by getting people sharing it like you are, going “oh my god that looks like goatse”.
They can safely let it spread brand awareness and salience through posts like this, then never actually roll it out, or make some sort of “apology”, but the goal is already accomplished.
- Comment on You drink? I are did done drunks myselv and I plane on doin moar 4 weeks ago:
That’s one hell of a story, especially with the little I saw scrolling your profile. Anyway, just wanted to say that a bunch of folks have reverse engineered Lego Island into an open source codebase that they can get running on just about anything now.
You can play it in your web browser even, but it’s a little tough to control on a phone.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 4 weeks ago:
Waiting for buses and other public transport especially. In college I had no car and continued working a part time job that I previously borrowed my parents’ car to commute to. My options were: spending an hour and a half to commute taking a bus with a reasonable schedule but I’d have to walk over a mile alongside a busy road to my job, or spend three hours to commute due to how two route schedules matched up to drop me off at the entrance to the shopping center.
Each of those options was one way, and this was before smart phones. I wasn’t getting anything done in that time besides listening to music and maybe reading a book while on the bus itself.
And then I learned that on Saturdays, over half the time the bus just didn’t fucking show up at the stop where I got on, and the support phone line would just fucking lie about it.
Plus, if I had a vehicle, the commute would have been only 20 minutes in bad traffic.
Will say, the regular distance power walking helped keep me in great shape though.
- Comment on SBA #173 insposting 4 weeks ago:
Oh hey, it’s that thing from my last therapy session that hit me like a fucking train because I had to come to terms with the fact that despite the truth of this, I’ve rarely if ever actually felt it.
Thanks for the reminder friendo.
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 4 weeks ago:
Always one of the character ones. The others you can get at stores pretty easily. Not as a kid, but still.
- Comment on “Teaching crabs how to read” 4 weeks ago:
It only takes a few taps to go from a meme, video, or picture you’re showing someone to the browser.
Didn’t have smart phones when I went to college, but I had some friends who prided themselves on how fast they could get to browser history on an “unattended” laptop, as in, I turned around to talk to someone else for ~60 seconds.
- Comment on Well you see, uh... 5 weeks ago:
Also toddlers:
Me: “Why did you just throw your toy? We don’t throw things in the house.”
Toddler: “Because I needed to.”
Me: “Why did you need to?”
Toddler: “I meant it! Hmph.”
- Comment on Post-coital ARAM 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately a number of my friends from college fell prey to League. A few of them were already dating who they’ve ended up marrying, so I can only assume yes.
The key is that they grew out of it.
- Comment on First and final day of posting Subarus slathered in quirky bumper stickers. 5 weeks ago:
My kind of people. Lesbians, apparently?
- Comment on Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty 5 weeks ago:
So much for data being anonymized. They correlate individual users between multiple, completely unrelated apps.
- Comment on This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. 5 weeks ago:
At around 22 years old, I met an athletic little stick of a 19 year old lady who hadn’t grown out of her rebellious phase yet. She was into a somewhat rare combination of dad-bod and bad boy, trying to maximize parental upset. Going for the complete opposite of how she appeared at first glance.
A friend in their late 20s had brought the young one along to help pretend they weren’t rounding the corner on 30 themselves. Funny thing is, the 19yo and nearly 30yo had a falling out later when the younger one settled into responsible adulthood before the older one.
Younger one got out from under her parents and settled into responsible (and domestic) adulthood almost immediately, dropping the bad boys and keeping the dad-bod thing. Married pretty quick too, to what looked like a kind snuggly bear of a guy, before I lost touch with her.
- Comment on boioioioioinggg 5 weeks ago:
People doing crazy shit instead of just finding a ladder.
- Comment on one beer 5 weeks ago:
But I need my armpits for THE STINKING
- Comment on NSA's SIGINT Enabling Project includes sabotaging cryptographic standards. 1 month ago:
To surface some important info from the link: IETF standards votes are open to anyone on the mailing list, and a number of NSA workers are voting for the first time on any of these standards in favor of weakening one particular one.
Given that it’s effectively open to the public, the creator of the linked site is urging people to sign up and vote in opposition.
It’s a quick read and all the relevant links are there for involving yourself if you wish.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 1 month ago:
So your complaint, for posterity
Pretty much. It’s an unfunny failure of a caricature of these fuckers, based off what is years old news, that does nothing but stoke impotent feelings of elitism.
It’s self-making your own circus for the bread and circus distraction from doing anything useful about the problem, and I find it awfully similar to public masturbation at this point.
A more succinct comment, and what I probably just should have went for my initial comment given this is a shit post community, is the meme of Squidward saying “brave today, aren’t we?”
It’s boring and overdone.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 1 month ago:
No shit Sherlock. So why are we trying our best to turn them into the clowns to make a circus to go with the bread instead of talking about how to do something? Why are we helping them make things worse by just turning them into a punchline.
More so, why are we settling for such a weak ass punchline about a version of the problem that’s from multiple years ago?
This limp dicked masturbatory elitism just downplays the seriousness of the situation while stoking a futile feeling of elitism that goes nowhere. “Look, aren’t we better than these hilariously sad excuses for a cum stain? Time to go be smug and continue sitting on my ass doing nothing.”
