Pyr_Pressure
@Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Anon accepts a prestigious job 14 hours ago:
You do realize monkeys would be qualified to be rocket scientists as long as they could do math right?
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 1 day ago:
I hate it. I hate how there’s no colour in the world any more. Houses are black and white, cars and black and white, clothes are black and white.
Why do people hate colour?
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 1 week ago:
Upper management isn’t only about the work.
Yeah you can do the work, but also probably the person in the office can also do the work.
If the person in the office is the one interacting with the upper management more and the work is being done equally well between them and some unknown person that works remotely why would they hire the person you do not know?
The management position / next level probably entails more people skills and dealing with people so someone you have hardly ever spoken to might not have those skills but the person in the office they know can at least deal with people well.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 2 weeks ago:
That is literally the entire point of shares. You buy a percentage of the company and give them money so they can use that money to expand and develop.
Why would I give a company money if I don’t get a percentage of that company? It’s not a fuckin donation.
- Comment on Worm logic 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s technically true lol
If your parents were infertile than you wouldn’t exist so you wouldn’t have kids either.
Nothing in that sentence implies that you not being able to have kids means your parents couldn’t have kids.
- Comment on Georgia homeowners are being forced from their homes to help power AI data centers: "It's theft" 2 weeks ago:
Honestly if AI data centres are the reason your electric grid gets upgraded it’s probably worth it. AI bubble will pop and data centres will get closed down but your grid will still be upgraded.
- Comment on 62 Percent Of Countries Won't Have Access To The PlayStation Store On Digital-Exclusive PS6 2 weeks ago:
I was going to skip 5 and get a 6 when it finally came out but I guess 4 will be my last playstation
- Comment on Heh heh 2 weeks ago:
If it’s something like bacon grease you can just wait for it to conceal and then scooped it into trash and wipe with a paper towel.
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 2 weeks ago:
Even if this were actually going to happen, what is he doing? Renting out the US Navy for profit?
Sure maybe a few servicemen may die but at least America will get some money!
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
I recently tried to plan a night out in “the city” and was looking for a hotel since I would like to have a few drinks. I can’t believe how stupid prices are.
A shitty motel is like $400 a night, so you would have to hire a cab already to drive you to a cheaper hotel like 15-20 minutes away.
Nicer hotels are going like $600-$800 a night.
How on earth does anyone afford a vacation for prices like that?
- Comment on They have already decided to promote an existing employee. But play the "search" game and screw you 2 weeks ago:
No all three accepted offer, signed employment letter, went through a certification test that’s required for the work and cost the company $100. Then 2-3 weeks before the start date they say they got a better job.
We hire early to make sure certification can get done, which is why there’s a lag before start date. It’s an outdoor seasonal summer job usually university students.
- Comment on They have already decided to promote an existing employee. But play the "search" game and screw you 3 weeks ago:
Not sure about this situation but I know my company interviews for jobs in order to get redundancy picks. Interviewed someone for a position that had already been hired for, then three weeks before they job was supposed to start the guy phoned and said he wasn’t going to continue with the company for the position. The person that was interviewed late got a call back and hired.
We hire for a short term seasonal job and people screw us over all the time by accepting the job and then continuing to look for a better one and bailing at the last minute, so we have to interview a lot of people as backup options. Had three people bail last minute this year, one of which we didn’t have enough time to re-hire for and had no backups so now we have to try and cover it on top of our normal duties which is a big strain.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 3 weeks ago:
I never got a PlayStation but I was holding out for a PlayStation 6 once it finally got released. If there is no version for physical discs I will definitely not be getting one. Nothing worse then wanting to play a game you haven’t played in a while and then having to redownload it because you had to delete it to free up space for other games.
So much nicer just to be able to throw a disc in and go.
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
You can keep cash in a credit card slot in the phone case. Maybe not coins but I usually keep a 5, 10 and 20 on me for emergencies. Sucks to need to buy something and your phone is dead or fell in water.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 3 weeks ago:
I think it would be great for a lot of our transportation to be underground. Underground roadways if needed, otherwise a much expanded subway system in cities
Road cause so many issues it’s ridiculous. Have all the roadways and motor vehicles underground and only pedestrian/bikes up top with green spaces and public areas.
- Comment on The President of the United States gave a speech today 4 weeks ago:
Those are some very clean, new looking vests in the background… as if they have never been used by a real worker.
- Comment on Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station... 4 weeks ago:
Because he gets a steady supply of money and then in 10-20 years it will be worth 100 years of your rent on top of the 10-20 they collected already.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 4 weeks ago:
Probably over 10k CAD. Not sure how old the account Is but it’s quite old.
- Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate 5 weeks ago:
Good luck
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
I don’t even know why they charge such high prices.
I don’t work in academia but I am curious about thing and look up papers all the time.
I have never bought a single one at those ridiculous prices. But if they were reasonable like $1-$3 or something I probably would have an di imagine a lot of people would have.
You make more if 100 people buy a $1 item than 3 people buying a $30 item and the world benefits more.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 5 weeks ago:
As a treat it’s worth it once in a while but definitely not regularly unless you are quite wealthy.
- Comment on How come soccer and tennis never caught on in the states? Also why hasn't there been an NFL team vs a Soccer Team and vice versa. Just to prove which is the better sport? Details inside. 1 month ago:
I’m not a sports person in general, but I have as much enthusiasm to watch a tennis match as I do to watch a game of ping pong. I don’t get it.
- Comment on Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes! 1 month ago:
Ah, simple. Roman numerals. 1,2,2,50
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
It’s only for about two months thankfully, which results in 6 months of 4 day weeks and a few weeks of extra vacation time. Biology is pretty seasonal so April/may are quite busy.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m not saying multigenerational housing is a bad thing, I’m just saying it should be the only option for a lot of people who would prefer to have their own space. I’m in a multi-generational household myself and it has its benefits and faults.
You shouldn’t be forced to live that way because it’s you’re only option though
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The people saying living in a multi-generational home isn’t so bad are also the most likely to complain that the country is turning into a third world country (where multi-generational homes are common) because of immigration.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
I worked an average of 12 hours a day last month, 251 hours. Had zero life.
Make up for it in the winter when I work 4 days a week 😆
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Zero
Just don’t have the drive. Perfectly happy with not bothering with the social dynamics required to flirt / commit etc. I don’t have much need to have a partner either short term or long term.
No idea if I’m just weird or if it’s a somewhat common thing for some people.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 1 month ago:
I can’t see it as being a high expenditure business. Majority of spending should be towards rent/mortgage and repair and maintenance. It’s not like there is a lot of consumables or anything. All that money has to go somewhere.
- Comment on I'm just better 1 month ago:
It would be really weird going to work at 5am instead of 8am, despite the sun being out