paysrenttobirds
@paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why dont hackers just do white-cap hacking and figure out loopholes in valuable companies' stuff and use their fiduciary duty as a legal basis to compel patronage of their services? 1 week ago:
Some people just want to be criminals. They are gamblers or just enjoy feeling superior
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 1 week ago:
While I don’t agree with her sentiment, I can absolutely believe some human union employees would say this. I don’t know if this applies to Amazon jobs, but in the union I know (caregivers) one problem is workers with very few hours have to pay the same monthly dues. Still not really a valid point for most people, but for those few that get caught in it, definitely bittersweet and they will grumble.
- Comment on How to Keep Your Own Soul Safe in the Dark 1 week ago:
History simply affords too little evidence that anyone’s individual protest is of any use. Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one’s own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.
When the fears hit, I am always vaguely comforted that no matter what happens in the world, I will still have opportunities to act with love, and that’s the least and the best anyone at any time can do.
- Comment on Trump demands immediate release of Oct. 7 hostages, says otherwise there will be 'HELL TO PAY' 2 weeks ago:
What does he think we’ve been paying them this whole time?
- Comment on Starbucks wants a Bachelor's degree for a barista 3 weeks ago:
It’s saying that it doesn’t match the job-seekers profile, ie seeker does not meet requirement
- Comment on Has anyone ever come up with what a Palestinian State would look like without wiping Israel of the map? If so have both sides ever been presented the offer? If not why? 3 weeks ago:
The first proposal for separate Jewish and Arab states in the territory was made by the British Peel Commission report in 1937.[3] In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a partition plan for Palestine, leading to the 1948 Palestine war.[4][5] As a result, Israel was established on the area the UN had proposed for the Jewish state, as well as almost 60% of the area proposed for the Arab state. Israel took control of West Jerusalem, which was meant to be part of an international zone. Jordan took control of East Jerusalem and what became known as the West Bank, annexing it the following year. The territory which became the Gaza Strip was occupied by Egypt but never annexed. Since the 1967 Six-Day War, both the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip have been militarily occupied by Israel, becoming known as the Palestinian territories.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution
Basically from the beginning until 2014, that has been the basis of every proposal.
- Comment on Did 70% of Wisconsin voters just delete their own constitutional guarantee to be eligible to vote? 1 month ago:
I think op is right. A new law that says you have to own real estate or something would have been unconstitutional before and is not now.
- Comment on Meteorology Gatekeeping 1 month ago:
Oh, funny, I was thinking maybe it was written for two audience with different terminology where one names wind by where it’s going and the other by where it came from. Somehow the truth is more aggravating.
- Comment on Do you think a Team America: World Police sequel would work 20 years later? 2 months ago:
Not much has changed, yet. Twenty years from now they might need to change the team logo. For me the whole dicks and pussies spiel is still resonating.
- Comment on The Three Kinds of Scientific Research 3 months ago:
The map from the third is the “circumstances” of the first two.
- Comment on Flying Ants 3 months ago:
But, that’s sperm, right? Half the chromosomes, like an egg, only motile.
- Comment on Two Illegal Aliens Steal $1 Million Patek At Gunpoint In Beverly Hills Hotel In Broad Daylight 4 months ago:
Don’t wear your investment on your sleeve
- Comment on ‘It affects everything’: why is Hollywood so scared to tackle the climate crisis? 5 months ago:
I thought the Tomorrow War was super clear.
- Comment on Cyberfish 5 months ago:
Much simpler. Kind of disappointing.
- Comment on Father of woman with ME/CFS scared she will "die in hospital" 5 months ago:
One thing in this horrible story that will be familiar to anyone worth lifelong illness is the divide between pediatric and adult care. At age 18, you will experience an immediate shift in professional knowledge, care paradigm, access and support, either for better or worse, and it’s just ridiculous because the condition is the same. This just shows how much more important the system as a whole is compared to the intelligence, curiosity, or work ethic of any individual doctor. We were advised with my daughter (different illness) to keep pediatric specialists as long as possible and many of them regularly made these exceptions for patients for this reason.
- Comment on Cyberfish 5 months ago:
So a relative of mine is a serial entrepreneur who self describes solving problems by basically just asking (nicely) for the same thing over and over again until she gets it. Personally I’ve been amused and frustrated by her inability to follow other people’s line of thought or suggestions (or rules) even though she’s as smart as anyone else so long as she’s the one directing things. I’ve thought that she is a leader more or less because she can’t be a follower and other people find it easiest to go along (if they want to work with her, which after her first success was increasingly likely).
So this robot fish, by not understanding or responding to the group has effectively made it necessary for the group to follow it as they instinctively all want to stick together.
Which makes me think the fish are naturally inclined to follow the most socially oblivious among them. But this only makes sense if the leaders are not really socially oblivious, but have only temporarily found a stronger motivation, which they communicate by overriding their normal group-school behavior, forcing the rest to follow their lead.
- Comment on The Code 5 months ago:
I could be wrong, but my understanding is the reviews are done by other academics for free, if at all… That’s why getting published is kind of reputation based and circular because the cheapest review is just to look up whether they’ve been published before.
- Comment on Anon has an itch 5 months ago:
Sometime needs to be watching him all the time. This is why they invented God.
- Comment on The little-known but successful model for protecting human and labor rights 5 months ago:
In 2001, the CIW set its sights on Taco Bell and called for a boycott over the reportedly abysmal conditions in its tomato supply chain. Four years later, Taco Bell signed an agreement that included vital demands from the CIW: Taco Bell would pay a premium for its tomatoes that would go directly to workers’ paychecks, it would only buy from growers who met the code of conduct that protected workers, and this would be monitored and enforced by an investigative body with help from the CIW. It was all backed by a legally binding contract.
An amazing concept spreading around the world.
- Comment on Contraception Is Free by Law. So Why Are a Quarter of Women Still Paying for It? Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has called on a government watchdog to investigate. Here’s what you need to know. 5 months ago:
I did not know that, and I and my two daughters have been paying copays for years. Now we pay the whole cost out of pocket (pills, so it’s pretty cheap) because our current insurance only covers one month at a time while we can get 4 months at a time if we pay cash.
Being something you absolutely have to take every day to be effective, and also the apparently extreme software confusion resulting from the difference between lunar and calendar months that messes up pharmacy refill windows, not to mention travel, etc, and the fact that they are as safe as dirt, there is no reason there should be any restriction to 30 day (28 actual) supply. Now I wonder if that’s just one more way they’re getting around the law.
- Comment on When people speak English but with German grammar 5 months ago:
That’s fun, reminds me of high school Shakespeare performances
- Comment on In Secret Recordings, Alito Endorses Nation of ‘Godliness.’ Roberts Talks of Pluralism. 6 months ago:
Living together peacefully is the whole work of human life and society. For the position he is in, saying “it’s just too hard” should be regarded as a resignation.
- Comment on Biden wants U.S. government to scan all images on your phone to comply with new AI rules 6 months ago:
The plan is to have mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS automatically scan and analyze people’s private photos to determine which ones are sexual or non-consensual. Users would not have the ability to keep any of their images private from government spooks.
It might sound like a good thing
No, no it doesn’t. Are people stupid?
- Comment on Mona Lisa, Smile: You’re in Lecco, After All | A mash-up of geology and art history has identified a likely setting for one of the world’s most famous paintings. 7 months ago:
I love how the art snob is like “who cares, we already knew that, it makes no difference” and then points to an article from 8 years ago that makes a guess on the 500-year-old mystery.
In fact, I was told by art teachers that the landscape was imaginary and this was an important novelty in portraiture at the time and meant to add mystery and allure to its subject, an idea that receives plenty of attention in Sassoon’s own book on the subject.
- Comment on My friend's boyfriend's therapist said that he is an abuser who is trying to look like the victim. What does this mean? 7 months ago:
I’m not a therapist, so this is just a guess, but the “scared you off” comments and maybe the hints at depression could be seen as manipulative, especially when he really never wanted anything from the relationship beyond the online attention. He made her feel guilty for not spending more time and energy on him while exaggerating his own interest in her. Perhaps in his previous relationships the manipulation went further. Your friend needs to know she is not at all to blame for the end of this relationship. Nor is she dumb for caring about someone more than they cared about her: you can’t always tell. But perhaps she will take from it the idea that she could ask for things that are important to her, like in-person contact or space to be doing something other than talking to him without being nagged, sooner in the process to be sure the other person is on the same page. Help her understand that whatever anxiety she felt to shore up his emotions should be at most a small part of their interaction. A relationship shouldn’t feel like a tomagatchi pet.
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 7 months ago:
Absolutely, this has to be addressed. Owner-occupied makes the best neighborhoods and cities, in addition to righting the market.
- Comment on Helpful diagrams 7 months ago:
But where’s the mouth functionality?
- Comment on rejuvination 8 months ago:
I’ve always thought they were trying to escape the soggy mud. Too moist. Drowning. Lane is for bikes.
- Comment on Anon finds his people 8 months ago:
I remember an early wtf Internet moment for me on fark.com someone linked a car-fucking forum complete with diy “muffler cosies”, etc. Probably at least half joking, right??
- Comment on irrefutable 8 months ago:
I think they are suggesting, tongue in cheek, that liberal propaganda is encouraging some tiny cellular being to shift from cis to trans. What the illustrator actually intended, I have no clue.