Showroom7561

@Showroom7561@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again.⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  When should I sell my unused Series X? Because I feel like I’d make a profit if retail prices keep increasing 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry you went through that. The entire pay model is crap. The industry needs to scrap it and start over. It’s unbelievable, actually.

  The good thing is, there are plenty of examples around the world (outside of North America) where service workers are treated and paid like people!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather work somewhere where the patron can buy my labor directly

  Ma’am, nobody should be paying a 30% tip for someone to pour a drink, or walk an order up to your table, simply because the employer isn’t paying a fair wage.

  Restaurants should pay people like every other business, and kill tipping culture.

  But what I do know? I’m just the customer who decides where my money goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  isn’t all people get paid in food service industries.

  Of course, but we all know that tipping is used pretty much everywhere to make up for poor wages. The vast majority of the industry does this, and it should be dismantled and rebuilt, so people are treated (and paid) as people!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to ever agree with McDonald’s on anything, but…

  Kempczinski also noted that in many states, sit-down restaurants are allowed to pay servers as little as $2.13 per hour, a federal minimum set in 1991, with tips making up the rest of their pay.

  FFS. Burn the restaurant industry down if this is how they’re doing it.

  Anyone who patronizes a place like that should know how workers are paid, and then not go there again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, it may be possible that all the ass-kissing is being done by people who also need their names scrubbed from the Trumpstein files.

  Or else, they really just have no problem associating with a child rapist. Business or not, it has terrible optics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Zealand is proposing changes to make getting a driver licence easier, including scrapping the full test. Experts are worried.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost 40 percent of New Zealanders are failing their full licence test the first time around, leaving experts wondering why the government wants to get rid of it.

  New Zealand has one of the worst youth road safety records in the developed world.

  I know nothing about NZ politics or lobbying groups, but I’d follow the money on this one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. The bare minimum because the law says you must.

  These fuckers would all keep slaves if it wasn’t illegal. It’s not the ethical and moral disgrace of slave owning that stops them, but the legal aspect of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RFC Jr has no medical degree, no public health credentials, no scientific publications.

  It’s even worse than that. He isn’t even scientifically literate, or honest, for that matter.

  Just yesterday, one of the top vaccine officials at the CDC resigned because of Kennedy’s gross incompetency and anti-vaccine agenda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius: Landlines encourage connection—without the downsides of smartphones.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Car dependency is a big problem in most of the US.

  I agree, and that often ends up being the excuse why kids aren’t allowed to walk or bike to school, and it’s fucking terrible.

  But when you look at stats from countries in Europe, you have some countries that have kids being fully independent (in regard to walking or biking or taking public transportation) by their time they’re 10 or 11 and able to do considerably more than North American teenagers, even at younger ages. It’s kind of disgraceful for us North Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius: Landlines encourage connection—without the downsides of smartphones.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now about 15 to 20 families in their South Portland neighborhood have installed a landline.

  This is awesome.

  Also, let kids walk to their friend’s home to see if they want to play or hang out. It will build independence, get them exercise, and it gives them an opportunity to physically connect with their neighbourhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does that make it any better? He’s the president taking world leaders, including one at war, to a MAGA gift shop showing hats with “Trump 2028” on them as if any of this is normal or sane? 😮

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The White House has become a redneck dollar store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The guy President Trump nominated to lead the US Bureau of Labor Statistics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst human beings ironically end up being the “best” people to work under Trump.

  Friendly reminder that Trump is a child rapist and is purposely withholding the Trumpstein files from the public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sixt wants to store a scan of my face⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never rented a car so I’m curious, what benefits does checking-in early actually get you?

  Nothing. Just like checking in early to a flight.

  In fact, I can only see downsides and risks… for example, if something happens on your way to the rental company or airport, which makes it impossible to actually get the vehicle or take your flight.

  “But you checked in, sorry!”. 😒

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies are monitoring and enforcing office attendance at the highest rate in 5 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how not a single word was about productivity. Because it’s only about control, regardless of the negative impacts to the employees or company. Useless management trying to justify their existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find this odd to believe though.

  Census.gov reports over 12% of people in the States are poor (38 million people).

  The NPR reported that half the population can’t afford rent.

  A good chunk of the rest are able to afford it, but unlikely to have several thousand laying around for a trip.

  A vacation doesn’t have to be extravagant. A good chunk of U.S states have PTO even and driving to Arizona isn’t that extravagant anyway.

  I guess it depends on what “vacation” means. In the context of this article, it seems like this lady actually travels for vacation.

  If we mean visiting the local beach as a “vacation”, we’ve really been screwed over by wealth hoarders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes me mildly infuriating:

  The unemployed Massachusetts woman figured she could roll the dice as a healthy woman in her early 30s or at worst, could hastily buy private health insurance in a pinch, Kahn said.

  The near-$21,000 burden will probably lead to fewer vacations

  A huge percentage of the population doesn’t have enough dispodable income to take a single vacation, yet this FAFO situation “will probably” lead to fewer vacations for this woman?

  My empathy meter is at near zero, TBH.

  That said, fuck any country for not having a healthcare system available to all without having to cost a few vacations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s explanation for socializing with Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  His excuse is he hangs out with a lot of rapists

  And just how casually that comes out, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated search result descriptions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus Christ. Enshittification because of “AI” is getting out of hand.

  If this isn’t happening in other search engines, then DDG is likely doing it, which would be awful as it neuters the point of showing snippets for search results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This article makes me want to vomit. Like blaming people who are forced to work multiple jobs to survive and treating them like criminals.

  Fuck you. These aren’t billionaires hoarding wealth, they are people who can’t afford school, a place to live, or their next meal. If one job can’t support them, then they’ll take five!

  Even if the work is getting done, Maleh says employers care because:

  It creates trust issues: If you’re hiding this, what else are you hiding?

  Even if the work is getting done, eh? These are the same employers who underpay and want to spy on their workers as if they were prison inmates, right?

  Fuck you twice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Businessman Josh Kraft, son of Billionaire Robert Kraft, is running for Boston Mayor. He is accusing the mayor of worsening traffic by building bike lanes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And I will still continue to point out that places which have the most traffic congestion, like highways, also do NOT have bike lanes in them.

  Strange how that happens, eh?

  You’d think that without bike lanes, 18 lanes for cars, no pedestrians “jaywalking”, no stop signs or stop lights, “go as fast as you want” speed limits, and no speed bumps that you’d NEVER see congestion. But then reality kicks you in the balls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What water bottles are completely free from the problem of weird chipping/shavings of the material which could put material in the water, even when dropping it or when using Bottle Bright tablets?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never encountered a water bottle getting chipped or leaving shavings.

  I’ve heard of people complain that steel bottles that use steel tops “scrape” together when you are using the lids, and that can cause metal particles to shed into the water.

  That’s one of the reasons why most steel bottles have plastic lids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wipe your ass with that.

  As demonstrated in Montreal, Toronto, Paris (France), Netherlands (pick any city), Berlin, San Francisco, and every other place that takes transportation seriously, you have to degrow car-centric infrastructure to build people moving infrastructure, including bike lanes.

  The growing urban population needs to find more sustainable ways to get around, because you can never satisfy car-centric infrastructure. “One more lane, bro” isn’t an actual solution to anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too many non-working holidays in America.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  300 million people can’t have a single fucking day off every once in a while because it will “cost billions”, while less than 10 people are hoarding over a TRILLION in wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it will happen.

  And when will he force every home and business to have a portrait of himself on the walls? Because, that will probably happen, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are all over here, specifically at crossings that join MUPs (Multi Use Paths).

  But they have made some areas more dangerous because of drivers who don’t stop behind the line. A pedestrian walking slowly might not be hit, but a cyclist going bike speed is at far greater risk of “not being seeing”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  be PREDICTABLE

  This is why I strongly support banning on-street parking. Cars that randomly park on the side of the road, big, small, tall, some too far out, some blocking signs, some creating blind spots… they just create unpredictability and randomness for other road users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … someone stopped in the roundabout to let a car in.

  I wish more people realized how dangerous some nice acts can be.

  I’ve been in plenty of situations where someone might wave me on in situations where it really isn’t appropriate or safe, so I have to basically yell at them to continue.

  The last thing I want is for a driver with good intentions to be rear ended, and me getting hit. Three people’s day would be ruined, at the very least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I turned around and gave him the “what the fuck” hands and gestured at the stop sign, and this mother fucker looked at me like I fucked up.

  Not long ago, I was going through an intersection on a green… from one bike lane, continuing into the other on the other side of the intersection.

  While I had a green, a driver making a left nearly ran into me, honked and did the same “what the fuck are you doing” to me.

  It’s pretty amazing that we don’t hear of crashes every minute of the day, because some people quite literally have no idea what the hell they are doing.