chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 11 hours ago:
Lots of employees did keep the stipends as a pay bonus, but then it was on them if they used their personal phones for work and they got caught up in Open Records.
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 12 hours ago:
Fun fact: I work in municipal government and they started making us use 2-factor that sent messages to our cell phones. That came back to bite us when we got an Open Records request that included a request for text messages between staff containing specific keywords. Employees who didn’t have a city-issued phone and hadn’t been using their personal phones for work got pretty upset when I had to take their phones and search their text histories.
And that’s how every remaining employee down to the guys running the lawnmowers in the parks department got a monthly phone stipend.
- Comment on This community in one meme 1 week ago:
My even-more-pedantic take is that poisonous is correct, but imprecise. There’s lots of ways to be poisoned. Ingestion, inhalation, dermal contact, and, yes, injection. But it’s all poison.
A poison is a harmful substance. A toxin is a poison created by a living organism. A Venom is a toxin that’s delivered subcutaneously.
Poison is the parrallelogram to venom’s square.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
I cut my teeth on bulletin boards. We actually ran a 2-node bbs with 2 dedicated phone lines out of our house.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
I absolutely remember Trillian. It’s what convinced me to finally make an AIM account to talk with my “mainstream” friends who didn’t have ICQ or IRC, since I wouldn’t actually need to run any new software.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 1 week ago:
Yeah. My conditional formatting makes some of my Excel tables look like I’m defragging my harddrive.
- Comment on Happens when you always think the worst of people 2 weeks ago:
Could just be Milwaukee or Cleveland. They kinda froze in the 80s.
- Comment on he forgor 2 weeks ago:
College degrees demonstrate you can complete a long-term project with disparate, often competing priorities while meeting deadlines and milestones.
- Comment on sales =/= quality 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but then they tried going all woke in the late 90s with the CD-RW stuff and data reassignment procedures.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 2 weeks ago:
Write-offs are deductions from income, not reductions in taxes owed. They only get to deduct the taxes they would have paid if they had kept the donations.
Let’s imagine their annual income was $10,000,000. Their nominal tax rate would have them owing $2,100,000.
If they received a $100,000 in donations, that would make their income 10,100,000. But with the donations they could write off the 100 grand, reducing their tax bill by $21,000, for a total of $2,100,000.
Either way, they pay the same in taxes with or without the donations.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 2 weeks ago:
That’s not how tax deductions work. All the write-offs allow is for them to not count the money donated as income, so they make the same amount of money on the sale whether or not you donate.
The benefit to the company is PR or donating to a non-profit with a mission that aligns with their corporate goals. For instance, Bass Pro may ask you to donate to wildlands preservation non-profits that maintain environments in which people fish and hunt.
- Comment on Ron Ejaculated Loudly 💦 2 weeks ago:
Order of the Phoenix took the longest book and made the shortest film.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 2 weeks ago:
He said rape is bad, but also any sex outside of marriage is bad.
So, by his logic, raping a woman is no worse than getting consent if you aren’t married.
- Comment on Womp womp womp. 2 weeks ago:
You have to stay with the agency several years. The plan is to fire them before paying.
- Comment on Uhhhh sure? 3 weeks ago:
For me it’s for traffic. There’s about 4 major routes I can take between my home and office, and with different traffic changes (wrecks, construction, conventions, etc) the difference between them can be over an hour.
- Comment on Not gonna lie, I kind like it 3 weeks ago:
That’s what happens when the boomers refuse to let go.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 3 weeks ago:
For some media formats there were legitimate issues.
For instance, American NTSC encoding’s 30fps (29.97 actually, but not diving into color encoding right now) refresh rates were due to the 60Hz American electrical grid, whereas PAL encoding’s 25fps was due to a 50Hz electrical grid.
It’s also why American tvs showing a panning shot of a film (24fps) or a European TV program will sometimes look choppy. They added filler frames when re-encoding for NTSC.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 3 weeks ago:
Were GBCs region-locked?
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 3 weeks ago:
Nope. The concept of the contract is that those who do not practice tolerance are not protected by it.
It’s also worth exploring what intolerance is.
Thinking members of a religion/party/social group are wrong or crazy isn’t being intolerant - that’s simply disagreement. Intolerance is saying they shouldn’t be allowed to exist or to have the same rights as you.
The fascists discriminate on religion, sexual orientaion/identity, gender, political affiliation, race, national origin, and more. They are wildly intolerant, and therefore do not have to be tolerated.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t play the second of the remake games because it was a PS5 exclusive. I usually buy into one platform (it was Xbox this gen) and hop on late in a console cycle for the other side to get cheap consoles and games, but for the first time consoles are getting more expensive over time, so I still don’t have a PS5. It’s on PC now, but building a PC costs as much as a modest house right now.
- Comment on Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night | After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move. 4 weeks ago:
Bilbo Baggins is in the files. By conflating “in the files” with “took part in the crimes” a lot of innocent people will be falsely accused.
And that’s the point.
Trump and team want so many innocent people to be called out that it provides cover for the guilty.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 4 weeks ago:
Things were bad in the 80s in general.
Look at movies from the time. Revenge of the Nerds has one of the nerds dressing up in the same costume as a jock to have sex with his rival’s girlfriend. And when she finds out after the deed, she loved the rape so much she decides to dump her boyfriend.
Blade Runner - the beloved classic sci-fi has Harrison Ford pinning a woman who says no to a wall and sexing her up as the romantic climax of the film.
- Comment on Price gouging 4 weeks ago:
It’s a joke.
But also, there are other, better forms of metal printing. One is to use metal powder and laser-weld it layer by layer.
- Comment on Dogs welcome 4 weeks ago:
A lot of people don’t understand the difference between service dogs and ESAs, including store owners and employees.
The American with Disabilities Act does not include ESAs, and businesses can prohibit them.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
There’s a mix that’s designed to work with rim fire and other lower-velocity stuff. It’s not as powe4ful, but is more-easily triggered.
A dumb friend put some in a chewing tobacco tin and launch it from a skeet launcher to shoot with a shotgun using bird shot. I personally would not be that close to anything I was blowing up, even with a plastic shell.
- Comment on Start-up idea 4 weeks ago:
That’s a horrible plan for a start-up.
How do your investors cash out?
- Comment on Hrmmm 4 weeks ago:
A phone can upload automatically, so even if they take it the video is out there.
Just use a burner phone bought with cash.
- Comment on Praise Be 4 weeks ago:
This is at least an area where I’ve seen improvement in many denominations. The Episcopal Church in particular has gotten pretty hard-nosed about its sex abuse training. I was volunteering for a food drive and they made me take a 6-hour course along with any other volunteers who hadn’t been through it because children may be present and they have instituted strict rules.
The training had video confessions of people who had used church activities as a way to become “trusted” sonthey could abuse children. They talked about what they did and how they used their positions of trust to grrom their victims (e.g. “accidentally” touching kids while playing to gauge their reactions).
They then make crystal clear that the rules they have are not optional, or meant as an attack on the adults either. An adult roughousing with kids or talking with a distressed kid alone is most-likely not a rapist. We all understand that, so when someone says “hey - make sure to leave the blinds open with talking to Kelley” or “Steve - we can’t play flag football with the kids” it isn’t an accusation. It’s a reminder that we’re there for the kids and we all follow the rules so that if someone evil does show up they can’t engage in probing through “harmless fun”. If anyone can’t respect those rules they’re not allowed to participate.
The one exception we had for the “no touching” rule when I worked for a Methodist church was for a specific teenager who was usually very sweet but had developmental issues that would occasionally lead to extreme behavior, including occasional violent outbursts. For him we had a few specific adults that had special training (and waivers) that were allowed to restrain him. We also made one of his parents accompany any activity he was involved with. I only had to physically intervene one time when we were bowling and he took a ball into the parking lot to attack cars.
- Comment on So how would you handle this? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been popped by 120 volt a few times.
It hurts like a motherfucker, but should throw a breaker or GFI before it kills.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 5 weeks ago:
There were no regional managers named Jhonny. Your friend is a liar and you should cut them out of your life.