randon31415
@randon31415@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon shares their highschool mascot 1 week ago:
Are they young? Do they dress in suits and chase Cloud Strife?
- Comment on Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30 1 month ago:
Does quest 1 have access to virtual desktop? If so, can you just keep playing off of your computer hardware? Or are those 10kB patches virtual desktop has to download RIGHT NOW five minutes after you start using it really important to the operation of the streamer app?
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 1 month ago:
Are we talking about the kids or teachers?
- Comment on How I cannot be worry?? 4 months ago:
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
Seek out the competitors to near monopolies? I heard somewhere that all glasses are built and sold by one company (that then sells them to a bunch of different companies so it looks like there is competition), and they can charge incredible markups. There probably are very small companies that make and sell glasses that don’t have the economies of scale or ad budgets to get the word out. If enough people bought from them, the monopoly would have to lower prices to their “kill competitors” level to steal back the market-share (or just buyout the little guy). Once dead or absorbed, they can go back to incredible mark-ups, which means we can start the cycle over again and find a new little guy to support.
That or support the maker movements so that anything we need we can just make ourselves (3D printing, bio-hacking, hydroponics and seed banks, general lathe and mill loner libraries, open source software, etc…)
- Comment on Guys!!! It gets good around chapter 1176. 5 months ago:
One piece is the definition of “It’s the journey, not the destination.” Nothing the One Piece could actually be would be worth 23 years worth of content hyping it up.
(I myself am still a fan of the “one-(head)-piece” that make someone a king, but has to be an item that has been around since the first season theory. Gee, I wonder what that head-piece could be?)
- Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 6 months ago:
I had an old car whose engine would die if it didn’t get gas, so you would always be giving it a bit of gas at all times. When you came to a stop, you had to push slightly down on the gas and all the way down on the brake, otherwise the engine would shut off.
Also would allow you to take the key out of the ignition while the car was running and it would keep running so you could unlock house doors with your keys. My parents actually sent it into the shop to “fix” that. I still don’t know why they spent money to get rid of a feature. Were they afraid I would leave it on without the keys? The engine would just die without someone to push down on the gas petal.
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 6 months ago:
Fox News was founded in 1996.
The columbine shooting was in 1999.
Maye it isn’t guns or mental health but fame.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 6 months ago:
1990 was around the time of Hillary-care and Romney-care, so the politicians knew that they were going to have to fix it sooner or later by that point.
- Comment on A Poultry Plant in Ohio Is Under Federal Investigation for Hiring 24 Children 6 months ago:
The children yearn for the poultry mines!
- Comment on Simple, right? 7 months ago:
New office buildings will be like new malls or new nuclear power plants. No one will want to build them, since businesses know WFH is cheaper. Just right now, they have a lease and they have to keep up the act but as soon as they can, they will cash out. After a generation, population growth will be enough to get the reduced office use back up to full, and then the people of this generation will swoop in with a office downsizing buzzword trend that will make “de-office-ing” the rad new thing once the leases terms are up and the company stands to SAVE money.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 7 months ago:
You killed all of our kids!
- Comment on And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere 7 months ago:
Tried to cancel my paramount plus account. “You purchased the year subscription. In 6 months, you will not be billed.” Two months later: “Oh, Lower Decks is cool. I should keep this subscription.”
- Comment on Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem 7 months ago:
The way I invision it is that everyone gets an assumed travel time (like 30 minutes or something) and if they are closer they get more free time, and if they are further, they don’t get paid for the extra travel time.
- Comment on Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem 7 months ago:
I would propose a $1.50 decrease in the minimum wage IF it was coupled with a pay for commute law. I would go down by $3 an hour if it also had a half pay for “on call” hours amendment.
- Comment on Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule 7 months ago:
Surprised to see no one making the default joke about how “half of their staff is still 3 inches.” Guess people here actually care about the method that the people were laid off.
- Comment on Bunch of other empty parking spots and this jerk chooses to park there. 8 months ago:
It’s not nice making fun of the mentally handicapped.
- Comment on What if employers could gauge the ‘moods’ of workers? A dangerous new tech gains ground in India 8 months ago:
What type of family? Found family? The kind of family that requires restraining orders for abuse? The kind that only sees each other on Chirstmas?
- Comment on How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him? 8 months ago:
If you come for the King, you best not miss.
- Comment on Tick tock 🕚 8 months ago:
I think they mean before 2015. If Trump went to jail for 20 years in 2009, he would never been able to run.
- Comment on What's their secret? 8 months ago:
I had some relatives that lied about their birth date making them seem older so that they could join the arm forces (strange, if things like that were possible now it would be younger to escape them). Maybe some of these people at 14 suddenly became 18 year Olds to fight in WW2 or the Russian-Japan war before that.
- Comment on Study: Fewer Working Hours Propel Pregnancy Intentions Among Koreans 9 months ago:
That the bill got defeated, and that the cap was 69 hours of work is true. Sadly, the rest was a joke.
- Comment on Study: Fewer Working Hours Propel Pregnancy Intentions Among Koreans 9 months ago:
The 69 hours a week bill got defeated. Apparently someone suggested 69 as a way of getting more babies, and the PM was like “hours of work a week? Deal!”
- Comment on Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy? 9 months ago:
Productivity was never the point of work. Increases in productivity thus was never a boon to those in charge.
- Comment on Push For A 4-Day Work Week Picks Up Steam — And Critics 9 months ago:
Why, it is the others that don’t know I’m working 5 hours less…
- Comment on Push For A 4-Day Work Week Picks Up Steam — And Critics 9 months ago:
Then there is me, a professor, who works every day because students do homework on weekends and need help. I figure instead of a 4x10, I am doing a 7x5.
- Comment on What are the most mindblowing fact in mathematics? 9 months ago:
- Comment on PLEAAASSEE PLEASE COME BACK TO THE OFFICE PLS 9 months ago: