scarabic
@scarabic@lemmy.world
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 1 day ago:
The existing currency pool is not the reason. Paper money has a pretty short durable life, and coins don’t have enough value to operate society on. It’s actually a fairly big task for a government to maintain the currency supply.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 week ago:
I’ll just give some examples.
We know that construction workers build things, but many office workers are behind them. When you hear “office worker,” think “information worker” as that will help.
What information?
Someone has to pay the construction workers. This involves accounting and payroll tasks best done at a computer.
Architects design the project being constructed and this is done in an office.
There are permits, inspections, regulations, taxes, real estate licensing etc to clear the project and this is done through computers and telephones.
Coordination of the different work crews must be planned - we don’t just ask concrete, civil engineers, plumbers, electrical, and landscaping to all show up on the same day and just figure things out. These things are scheduled out and arranged with many different companies / subcontractors and this is mapped out on a computer and agreed to over the phone.
The new apartments being constructed will need tenants to rent them. Billboard space is going to be rented near the building. A graphic designer is designing the billboard on a computer in an office. Someone else is calling the billboard company to arrange the large scale printing of it and to purchase the time it will be displayed.
I’ll stop. This is off the top of my head. If construction workers, with their obviously valuable and easy to understand work have this many office workers behind them, you can imagine how it’s even more complex for things like tech companies.
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 1 week ago:
The amount of power is the same
There is only one pope seat at a time which they can influence. But that’s not a complete measurement of all the power involved.
Think of fit this way. Every time there’s an election, everyone comes out to kiss their ass and offer favors and so on to they themselves or “their guy” elected. If elections happen only every 20 years, then this ass-kiss-fest only happens every 20 years.
They’d rather it happen every 5 years.
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 1 week ago:
Mmm smart.
- Comment on Here’s an idea 1 week ago:
The biggest problem I see is that people don’t always understand others’ jobs and how to judge if they are doing them well. I know this will be unpopular but managers are the key example here. Everyone thinks they know who the good and bad managers are but until you’ve been one, you dont understand their job to truly know more than who you like and who you don’t like. That’s no way to decide anyone’s pay.
- Comment on Hottest Star Trek character? 1 week ago:
Are you the kind of guy who hires a dominatrix to stand on his balls with high heels?
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 1 week ago:
I guess weight is more important than height for that maybe. Tall often means heavier but not necessarily.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If they also consume it over the border, sure.
If they bring it back, they are importing it and that’s when you have to pay the tariff. If you’re thinking “just keep it in your trunk how will anyone know?” just consider how long smuggling has been a thing and ask yourself if you think border guards have thought of this. They have.
- Comment on The inconsistent naming for insert row/columns in the German MS Office 2 weeks ago:
I develop software products and we put so much attention into how we design and arrange them, including the naming of things.
Then we send everything off for batch translation by some service that probably doesn’t give a flying fuck because they’re just using AI anyway. And we have no way to check their work because we don’t speak all the languages.
I wish we could have in-house people for this.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 2 weeks ago:
Of course signals are for inter-driver communication. It’s a signal “to” someone, right?
We don’t need to discuss how to use your signal when no one’s around.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 2 weeks ago:
Physically moving into the other lane also tells them that you are moving. The sole purpose of having a blinker is to use it in advance.
- Comment on Driving Upside Down in McMurtry Spéirling Electric Hypercar 2 weeks ago:
Thanks - that video was more explanatory. I honestly didn’t know what was looking at in the OP video. I know nothing about cars but I can imagine how this would be a game changer.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 weeks ago:
Yep it’s always been shit.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 3 weeks ago:
And it wouldn’t tell a citizen they are at the same risk as someone on a work visa.
- Comment on welp, Patreon just destroyed my stable income after a decade on the platform - what now 3 weeks ago:
I guess I just be weird because an ongoing monthly subscription to a creator is never something I’m willing to consider, though I have made many one-time contributions.
- Comment on How's them tariffs going 4 weeks ago:
Goddamit I’m just sitting here waiting to lose my job over this fuckery.
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 5 weeks ago:
I miss the minutes when this term was just used unironically and hadn’t yet become a magat slur.
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 5 weeks ago:
Show zero tolerance for others speaking in favor of it. You don’t have to win every argument. You have to let them know that their “political beliefs” are fighting words and they’re going to get a fight whenever they try to speak them.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 5 weeks ago:
Yep, convenience of plopping the phone down really is 100% of it for me. Especially with Apple’s magnets setup, it’s a one-hand, one-second operation. The thought of having a dangling cable on my desk and picking it up and fiddling to plug it in seems like something from 10 years ago. I’ve even forgotten once or twice what kind of port my phone has.
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 5 weeks ago:
“Source of all problems?” If you exaggerate it right in your question and then ask if it’s exaggerated, of course the answer will be yes.
“It’s just a tool” yes and when people say “social media” they mean the whole combination of the tools and how they are getting used. The whole “it’s just a tool” argument isn’t worth much. Yes, it is, and now that it’s been let loose in the world, we see how it is being used.
A match is “just a tool” but in a forest that’s dripping with gasoline, you can see how that tool will do exactly one job.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 5 weeks ago:
Elon held an all hands at the company to announce “I’m back in charge” and the financial press are reporting that “the markets rewarded it.” Meaning the stock went up. Which makes me want to puke.
- Comment on I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud 5 weeks ago:
That’s disgusting. I can set time delay on my 10yo Bosch at the push of a physical button.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 month ago:
A 14yo was the first to fire at Marshalls at Ruby Ridge.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 month ago:
Forgive him for what? I recall there was drama around this show but I legit couldn’t understand what actually happened.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 month ago:
I’d rather do that than arm people with assault rifles so they can live in remote rural areas where herds of feral pigs are an issue. Yes this is an actual argument people make in favor of keeping assault rifles legal. “What if I need to stop a stampede of 80 feral hogs? This is a weekly occurrence on my property.”
Frankly, if feral hogs have you running scared, it’s not your property, it’s theirs.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 month ago:
Yeah OP needs to define what “slow” means to them. You could say that a one-week delayed effect is slow. Or you could say that it’s only slow if it takes months of exposure.
- Comment on Why Does This Industry Get Special Privileges? 1 month ago:
Because yeah, sugar just isn’t cheap enough in America.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
LOL I knew that was going to be the link :)
Keep those out of my pants too!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
He wants to be guaranteed a woman and then to have her loyalty guaranteed.
These are obviously the desires of a man who cannot find and keep the loyalty of a mate just on his own merits. No, he needs the state to help him bag a wife.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve heard it said that marriage was invented by men as a sort of peace agreement to guarantee one woman per man so that no men were totally shut out of sex. In earlier times, when wealthy or powerful men hoarded the women, this led to serious problems from those men on the losing end of the society.
So yeah, in essence, this douche is trying to level the playing field between his sorry ass and more successful men.