chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on My hands are filthy, burned and calloused so hers can be filled with chicken nuggets. 1 day ago:
You don’t fix a road with a dude and a shovel. The horror you’re seeing there is exactly what happens to a road when you just keep shoveling gravel and cold mix when you need to do at least a mill and overlay, but probably a full-depth repair.
And when you start doing stuff like that now you’ve got to start planning around the underground utilities. Beneath the road you may have water, sewer, gas, electricity, telecoms and more. You’ve got manholes, handholes, storm sewer. And on top of that, half the owners on either side of the road don’t know where their property line is and they’ve installed irrigation systems in the ROW without a permit and the contractors hit water lines they don’t know about every hundred feet, stopping work and costing more money.
And all of this has to be coordinated with the various utility providers to try and make sure yout plans and theirs align. You don’t want to spend millions fixing a road only to have the gas company come in a week later cutting a bunch of trenches and holes they just fill back with a patch, causing the road to fall apart in 2 years instead of 20.
- Comment on My hands are filthy, burned and calloused so hers can be filled with chicken nuggets. 1 day ago:
Fuck Flock.
But the cost of road repairs are orders of magnitude more expensive.
My small town entered a contract for 11 flock cameras, and it cost about 65 grand. We also repaved 10 small streets and it cost 8 million.
- Comment on Oh no 2 days ago:
Proud Feet!
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 days ago:
Slay the Spire. Gonna totally die trying to force a claw build.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 3 days ago:
The US used to have the Job Corps program…
- Comment on We can all agree on this 4 days ago:
Or even if you do remember the brand and decide you’ll never buy it, the product category is in your brain. Don’t buy Milwaulke and instead save money on a Ryobi? Same company.
- Comment on We can all agree on this 4 days ago:
But with Hello Fresh you get meals delivered direct to your door!
- Comment on Never Gonna Give You Up 4 days ago:
Just a reminder that Super Mario Brothers was released closer to World War II than to today.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
If my life is the result of my successful re-loads, that’s a really bad sign.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 4 days ago:
The dumbest thing in all this is that NFTs could have been legitimately useful for a bunch of tasks, but the whole thing got burned by cryptobros.
- Comment on YUM 6 days ago:
Yum! used to be Pepsi’s fast food division.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 week ago:
3D printers are already running on FOSS
That’s what the bill is designed to stop.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 week ago:
And the primer. They want the firing pin to stamp the serial.
- Comment on Love Wins 1 week ago:
You can get a male-ended socket on the house for that exact scenario.
- Comment on The legendary PS2 1 week ago:
I started on an Atari 2600.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 1 week ago:
That’s why they’re working so hard on militarizing AI. As they become more and more obscene, the risk of getting killed by their own private security gets higher.
They want killing machines protecting them instead.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 1 week ago:
AI is already keeping them from becoming smart. The majority of college students are having gen “AI” write their essays now.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 1 week ago:
Social security is a social safety net, not a personal retirement fund. That’s what my pension, 401k, etc are for.
When social security was instituted with the retirement age of 65, the average life expectancy was 63. It was only “retirement” income for people who had lived longer than expected and would otherwise be living on the street - especially since so many had lost their savings in the Depression - but retirement savings wasn’t its primary purpose.
But people started living longer and stopped saving (either because they knew they had social security coming, or because we suck at planning ahead, or because corporate America sucks donkey balls and people are always living paycheck-to-paycheck) and it became something it wasn’t meant to be.
It should provide income for retirees who have no other income, but like other social programs it should be based on need. Super rich people should pay into jlot just like everyone else, but they shouldn’t be able to collect it because they don’t need it and it’s not intended to take the place of personal savings.
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 week ago:
Yes. That’s what I’m saying.
- Comment on MeIRL 1 week ago:
You’re a nobody too, then?
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 1 week ago:
If I touch the phone in just the wrong way it starts doing AI at me. Turns out it starts doing AI at me if I hold the power button down to turn it off.
Execs: “AI engagement is extremely high.”
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 week ago:
I finally got into a proper career path in my 30s, and it wasn’t because of my degree or my skills.
It was because I had an old friend working for that city that told them to pull my resume from the stack for a low-level position that I was way overqualified for. That got me an interview. That got me the job. I kicked ass once given an opportunity which lead to my promotion within 6 months. I quickly became known in the area and was poached by another city a little over a year after that.
Getting my resume pulled by a friend lead me to more than tripling my income within 2 years. I still don’t make amazing money, but I no longer have to worry if I’ll be able to pay the bills.
- Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch. 1 week ago:
And that’s wonderful. But you should all be government employees with access to full benefits. People shouldn’t have to worry about proving they qualify for the right to have access to food.
Food, shelter, healthcare, and clean water are human rights that should be guaranteed to anyone regardless of income, citizenship, criminal background, or anything else.
- Comment on All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch. 1 week ago:
In a better country, your non-profit wouldn’t need to exist because it was a government service.
- Comment on Those damned leftists!!!1!! 1 week ago:
Is it common for conservatives to have sepatate, genered bathrooms?
I mean, my ex and I used different bathrooms, but that’s because she really didn’t like sharing bathrooms in general.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Prove it
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
No-kill shelters are a myth. They just outsource the killing.
My hometown went no-kill by just sending the animals to a kill shelter. It’s why you have some big cities where the average life of a dog arriving is like 20 minutes.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
My idea for preventing wars of choice is for there to be a designated loved one (child, spouse, grandkid, etc) the President has to personally kill with their own hands in order to order military action not pre-authorized by a 3/4 vote by Congress.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 week ago:
Usually for hospital visits, your plan either has an annual deductible that must be met (e.g. $5,000) before insurance contributes, or on a better plan you have a co-pay where insurance will cover 60% while you cover 40% up to a different annual deductible (“Maximum out of pocket”).
The shitty thing is the insurance companies make deals with the providers along the lines of “We’ll pay $X or 20% of the sticker price for Y procedure, whichever is lower”, so the hospitals increase their price to 5 times the insurance rate to maximize their income. The do this so it’s financially ruinous not to have insurance.
So the patient on the good plans get charged double the insurance company’s rate (that the insurance companies only pay after you’ve reached maximum out of pocket), while the insurance company doesn’t actually pay anything on their “60%” co-pay.
And you and your employer end up paying the insurance company like $1200/month combined for this service.
And if you get really sick, you lose your job and therefore your insurance.
It’s a truly fucked system.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 week ago:
We have the same problem.
I have “good insurance”, but it still takes 6 weeks to get an appointment. It’s why “Urgent Care” clinics are taking over. They cost more than a GP, but less than an ER, but don’t require appointments.
We also have places that pretty much pretend to be urgent cares, but have an ambulance parked out back so are technically an emergency room, and you don’t realize it until you get a $1900 bill in the mail for your ear infection.
And then we have Urgent Care + ER places that are Urgent care during business hours, but after hours change into ERs, so if it takes too long to get in to the the NP your bill jumps 20 fold.