i_stole_ur_taco

@i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AT&T's CTO tells his US team there won't be 'one-for-one seating' upon the return to 5 days in office — read the memo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My company is the same. I love when we all come together in person once a week to sit at our desks and put on our headphones and spend half the day on Zoom calls with our colleagues because they work at an office in a different city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Lemmy is the Worst Social Media Platform I Use⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A+ shitpost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting analogy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect the real solution is somewhere between that and corporate land acknowledgements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Last week, a vendor sold an item for $10. With tax, that item costs $12. Let’s pretend a 50% markup (which is reasonable for retail but insanely high for groceries):

  • they made $5 profit
  • they recouped $5 for their costs
  • they collected $2 of tax for the government

  Now the government has a GST holiday and there’s no tax. I went to the store and bought the item and it still cost me $12.

  • they made $7 profit
  • they recouped their usual $5 for their costs
  • they collected $0 of tax for the government

  The main thing is that their costs for that item didn’t increase and they’re still selling it at its original ”final” price (because they added the tax amount to the sticker price). That tax savings went straight into profits. It was intended for the consumer to save money but the consumer is spending the same amount and the government isn’t getting anything. That money went somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Explain your math. It’s absolutely 100% benefit to the seller and 0 benefit to the buyer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨github issue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “PRs are always welcome”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen players after giving Chris Roberts a month’s pay for a 400-meter Liberator-class carrier by Shitfuck Industries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? I backed it what feels like over 10 years ago and still don’t have a finished game.

  Chris Roberts is the Elon Musk of game dev.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama's boy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, just a shopping complex near where I live…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not gonna lie, I kind of want this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where do my fingers go in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will vote for whomever bans happy birthday.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You just gave me opinions I didn’t know I held.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also:

  A bite on the inside of your cheek

  Canker sore on your tongue

  Broken baby toe

  Broken off splinter in your finger

  Sunburn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stars & sharks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably died off because they couldn’t use Polaris for navigation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopping website search is terrible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better yet, there’s sites that have filters you can set. So you set the wattage filter to 60w and then…. no fucking results. But if you clear the filter, there’s lots of results, because it turns out their entire inventory has a wattage of “n/a”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think companies understand that the words “we will make a one time exception for you as a courtesy” is the magic incantation to ensure that customer never returns.

  I got that from Staples last week because they did me a real solid by refunding my online order they cancelled instead of going to a store with ID and the invoice and original credit card. Who the fuck goes to a physical store to get a refund on an online order the company themselves cancelled?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unwatchable!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you eat a fang and it gouges into your skin and injects venom, did you eat it or did you get bitten?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  lol. They’re promoting their employee shuttle. Classic Felon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA to be renamed to XXX⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but he’ll change every base unit to x, so now we measure acceleration in x/x^2 and volume is measured in x^3 and the highway speed limit is 80x/(x/60).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those poor plants⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can tweak this metaphor and get plenty of real life examples. Cats are obligate carnivores. There’s been lots of morons who went vegan and decided their cats could be vegan, too. I’ll leave guessing the outcome of that as an exercise to the reader.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you put regular detergent in a high efficiency washer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial Recognition⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I took photos at a friend’s wedding and most of the photos of his new wife had her wearing a lace veil.

  I dumped all the photos into Picasso (precursor to Google Photos) and it did its background facial ID on everything. Then it suggested more photos that might also be tagged as her.

  The extra photos were all just tables with tablecloths on them. It thought she was a tablecloth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toot toot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a manager once who had 3 small kids and he rarely caught himself when he excused himself from a meeting to “go potty”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Centipedes Don't Fuck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The DoorDash approach to sexual reproduction. Fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t watch it but my guess is the context is something like “all these groceries got more expensive under Joe Biden!” He was bitching about not being able to afford bacon a couple days ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water Cycle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do that and eventually wake up and go the toilet and spend 2 minutes afraid to go in case I’m still dreaming and about to piss the bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average Amazon user intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fakespot is great at catching these. It’ll give a really low score to products whose reviews don’t appear to have anything to do with the listing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accept message request?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He did his best, but the attic is really dry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch toilets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to do the ‘ol’ push ‘n flush and hope you got the timing down.

  Turns out your shit sitting exposed on a dry shelf smells exponentially worse than when it drops into water. Anyone still using these toilets in the 21st century is a psychopath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Living in interesting times⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read that aircraft mechanics were sad when smoking stopped because the nicotine smears on the aircraft were such a good visual clue of where air was leaking and it made theirs jobs a lot easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨90% of billionaires are men, and only 15% of female billionaires are self-made⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we know that for certain?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the craziest or funniest Wikipedia outline you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in order of how impactful it is on the whole as a whole, I imagine.