morgan_423
@morgan_423@lemmy.world
- Comment on If it’s 100 degrees out, does your boss have to give you a break? Probably not. 4 months ago:
He doesn’t have to, but he probably should, if he wants future value from you as a non-dead worker.
- Comment on Poll: 61% of young adults confess they are not saving for retirement 6 months ago:
Presumably gambling that society will break and either reset or be destroyed before they get to retirement age. They might be correct.
- Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense 8 months ago:
Non-neutral nouns have always struck me as odd. They provide no info gain whatsoever outside of actually providing a gender if you’re referring to a person or animal (for example, in Spanish, gato -> male cat, gata -> female cat). And in those situations, a short sentence can provide instant clarification.
It’s a language feature built to be helpful in one use case, whilst simultaneously being worse in about a bazillion others. It’s a very odd choice.
- Comment on California Dem Barbara Lee defends call for $50 federal minimum wage: 'Just barely enough' 9 months ago:
This sounds high to most people, but if the minimum wage had kept up with its inflation-adjusted peak (1968), it’d be somewhere in the range of $31 to $32 an hour right now.
It never caught back up afterward, and has been severely harpooned in the years since, shifting unfathomable quantities of money to the wealthiest people. And it’s not just minimum wage workers… when you sink the wage and salary floor, nearly everyone made less than they should have been.
- Comment on [News] The Game Awards is Giving Away 100 Steam Deck OLEDs During Show - Steam Deck HQ 11 months ago:
I… don’t think that’s a thing that works on Lemmy.
- Comment on Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect 1 year ago:
Replacing People costs an absolute fortune in time and money.
Something that corporate America seems to not care about for some reason these days.
- Comment on Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...😑 1 year ago:
Far too little, far too late. Even if this was the most glowing revision ever (it isn’t, but even if it was), the trust is gone.
- Comment on What does cigarette smoking do for people? 1 year ago:
What does cigarette smoking do for people?
Gives them an assortment of cancers with a side of breathing and cardio issues.
- Comment on How do you describe color to a person who has always been blind? 1 year ago:
You can’t really describe colors to someone blind from birth. They just have no reference or mechanical ability to do so.
Someone below linked a Tommy Edison video (it’s a good watch, as is pretty much everything on his entire channel) where he talks about how people have tried to describe color to him all his life, but nothing they’ve said has ever actually made him see a color. He doesn’t see anything, he doesn’t have a working optic nerve.
- Comment on Does The US President have a better chance to win a second term with or without Kamala Harris? 1 year ago:
The debate shouldn’t be about voting for the lesser of two evils. The entire debate should be focused on opening up more options and the actual ability to vote for third party candidates without throwing your vote away, by implementing a different system, like ranked choice voting.
Continuing to focus on which Sith lord will blow up the country the least if elected is a losing play. We have to do better and focus our attention elsewhere if we have any chance of getting anything reformed.
- Comment on why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread? 1 year ago:
From experience, I can tell you that your bag is safe lol
They are designed so that the angle of the spray comes nowhere near there. You’d have to do some sort of gymnastics moves to be able to whack the piñata with it.
- Comment on A real estate billionaire said Fridays are ‘dead forever’ for offices, and remote work guru Nick Bloom says he’s right—it’s part of a new 3-part week 1 year ago:
I’ll just keep working from home and not getting a bunch of covid, colds, and flus from being jammed into small office spaces with a bunch of other people at once, thanks.
- Comment on How do names of countries get translated? What is the reason why Nippon/Nihon is called Japan or Ellada is called Greece in English? 1 year ago:
There are actually specific words in the English language for precisely what you’re talking about.
Endonym - The native name of a geologic feature or place. From your example: Nihon in Japanese.
Exonym - The foreign name of a geologic feature or place. From your example: Japan in English.
- Comment on When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps 1 year ago:
It’s hard to get steam into tablespoons. I was really impressed.