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- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 3 hours ago:
A pub near me has a serve-yourself beer wall that works pretty well without a bartender. It meters by the ounce but that means everything has to be the same price.
I have no idea if that would scale to larger, busier places or where people are likely to get drunk
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 8 hours ago:
As a DevOps guy, automation has already greatly impacted software development. I’ve made a good career from being the guy that makes it so. However we’ve always had enough growth that it hasn’t noticeable reduced the number of jobs.
I’m ambivalent about AI. Companies clearly want it to reduce jobs but so far it is only good enough to be a tool to make developers slightly more efficient. I have a hard time believing that replacing developers could be successful without huge improvements in the technology
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 9 hours ago:
The article gives the example of a bartender. Not as much skill as other jobs but yes I’d expect that to be difficult to automate. Especially profitably. But that’s a far cry from claiming that is a job that can support a family with a middle class lifestyle
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 9 hours ago:
Bs. Looks like it’s based on over-exuberant tech predictions and a study that “Bartenders and baristas are even seeing bigger pay raises than desk workers, right now”. There’s even a line about being prepared for any new jobs that might appear without connecting that to whether an education is likely to make you more prepared
- Comment on Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers wins lawsuit against Colorado. Judge claims there is no evidence that gas stoves cause or contribute to health issues 12 hours ago:
Wait, really? You’re telling us there are rural areas with unreliable electricity, yet are piped for gas?
- Comment on Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers wins lawsuit against Colorado. Judge claims there is no evidence that gas stoves cause or contribute to health issues 12 hours ago:
Why not both? Even before I understood the indoor pollution caused by gas stoves, I never understood how it was legal to have a “vent” blowing supposedly filtered air back into the kitchen. cooking causes pollutants and should always require venting to the outside
- Comment on Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers wins lawsuit against Colorado. Judge claims there is no evidence that gas stoves cause or contribute to health issues 12 hours ago:
Another warning label is a step. It will raise awareness and convince some. Most importantly it should ease the process for more significant steps.
Given that induction ranges are so hard to find and so much more expensive, I hope the warning can lead to incentive programs to convert. Maybe having a predictable and growing market will help companies with the decisions to manufacture more choices at more reasonable cost
- Comment on Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers wins lawsuit against Colorado. Judge claims there is no evidence that gas stoves cause or contribute to health issues 12 hours ago:
My reading of this article shows the judge issued a temporary injunction saying the evidence suggested looks like the manufacturers will win. That is something a judge should decide.
It’s the wrong decision but we don’t know what was presented or how.
I believe it hinges on “controversial” but how do you give the controversy any credence when it is only manufacturers with a profit motive to disagree with science?
- Comment on What should the next President of the United States do? 3 days ago:
The current one isn’t likely to face justice in his lifetime. It’s not worth trying to hold him accountable: let history be the judge.
However we have tens of thousands of criminals who have not put themselves above the law, are not at deaths door. All those people who denied human rights, issued illegal orders, violated government data protections, enriched themselves are within the reach of justice. Let’s start with the cabinet and the orange family, and work our way down to every ice agent, including effing billionaires buying votes and interfering with government
- Comment on I need. 5 days ago:
Someone keep Vance away from that
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Does Cuba have oil? Do they export illegal drugs? There really don’t seem to be any similarities
I’d buy Ukraine more as a prelude to regime change in Cuba. Russia may be falling apart but they still have nuclear weapons and historically defended Cuba. Drimp beeded to return to his master saying Ukraine agreed to cede territory in return for peace, so his master gives the go ahead to attack cuba
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Sure, there’s that, and oil.
Also the economy sucks for non-billionaires, and oil
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 6 days ago:
Sometimes. But sometimes you might consider it fact-checking or parody, especially based on whether you agree.
I think that’s arguable but the fundamental point here is what value is being added? I guess I posted partly in response to the point about small content creators where this is an all too common occurrence that probably does no real harm.
I find them annoying even when I agree with them because reaction videos with no actual commentary added are just wrong
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 6 days ago:
What if it’s a political reaction by “the other side”? Where I’ve noticed it is political commentary where they’re holding someone up for ridicule, but they don’t add anything of value other than showing it to a different audience in a different context.
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 1 week ago:
No, really not. While I haven’t had catastrophic leaks and it doesn’t leak every time, I’ve spent way more time than I like cleaning out the fridge from milk left on its side
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 1 week ago:
The only reason they need to be refrigerated is the convenience of preventing them from separating. They do fine in the cupboard.
In the other hand I stopped getting Costco bulk sizes because it was frustrating to mix them back in effectively, and the normal sized jars get used quickly
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 1 week ago:
That’s annoying - it’s the only place my milk fits. And my shelves aren’t adjustable enough to change that unless I remove a shelf
- Comment on Belief 1 week ago:
I almost used a Fred Roger’s quote for evil, before I caught myself. It was a thread in the magazine groupies abusing government power for personal agenda. Someone was lamenting how the Supreme Court made this administration above the law, so I almost said “Look for the helpers”. All those groupies and minions are NOT above the law and should face justice for their actions. As long as the charges are brought in three years, it could happen. Perhaps mass jail terms for everyone depriving human rights or violating the constitution or enriching themselves at our expense or following personal agendas will keep this situation from happening again
- Comment on Belief 1 week ago:
Someone had a very sad childhood to not believe in human goodness as a kid
- Comment on Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt? 1 week ago:
For example an event like chaotic policy means countries no longer use your currency as a global reserve currency - would mean a sudden drop in investor faith that could trigger this. Or even deliberate disrupting the economy to devalue your currency, depending on whether we believe they’re smart enough to have a strategy or just take their chaos at face value
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
I’d like to remind everyone the infrastructure act in 2022 set aside craploads to build out electrical transmission infrastructure. Not that they could have made a difference yet but that money allocated by Congress got pulled back by the executive branch.
Remember that next time your rates go up - we could at least be distributing power across larger areas to effectively increase supply, while also giving more opportunity for power generation to connect.
And since I live in New England, fuck taco Don in particular for his senseless war against wind turbines - these were like the only new power generation we had about to come online
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
Yeah but the examples I read about also used that strategy to get around state and local regulations for things like renewable energy portfolios.
Good for them if they’re building acres of solar and storage. Bad for us if they’re using diesel generators
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 1 week ago:
Smart meters aren’t necessary for that. We already have different rates for different usage levels.
Smart meters are more useful to vary rates by time of day, to help adjust demand for the level of supply
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 1 week ago:
Huh, I never thought about replacing them ….
- used to wash towels when they stink, and I was good about hanging them to dry so I didn’t have to wash them
- now I wash towels weekly, religiously
- beach towels never get replaced. They tend to be cheap scratchy towels anyway, rarely used and easily get lost, so keep them until I no longer have them. Actually these days they’re more likely used to dry my dogs feet
- bath towels … huh. Still on my first “real” family set and my kids are in college. They still work, but new ones are probably fluffier
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
That’s a really good point!
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
Ridiculous pay for star athletes and celebrities is at least fair: they’re directly bringing in tons of money/profit, so why shouldn’t they be rewarded?
However they’re more a symptom than the actual problem. The real problem is the manipulative nature of sky high ticket prices, merchandising, ads, etc. how can these firms of entertainment command prices people can no longer afford, exploiting captive audiences, etc, to generate so much profit? The stars should get rewarded with a share of the profits they generate, but it’s ridiculous how much those activities generate.
In a sane world, I could afford to take my family to a game/concert/theme park, we can decide to bring in our own water, food and t-shirts only cost a little more than in the outside world, there are no ad timeouts, no region locking, no public funding, and the owners should be taxed at a higher rate than I am. But at every step, we’ve adopted anti-consumer policy, increased inequality, and it just adds up - society rewards exploitation, removes consumer protections and fairness. We’re no longer people, just products
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
profit generated by teachers is too indirect, too long term. Most people can’t even seem to conceptualize it, much less quantify it, plus who’s going to stay at a job 20+ years before they get a payoff
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, I’ll have to try that.
For a while our standard appetizer to bring places was onions and Brie on saltines. It just works and is simple.
But from that I assumed onions want a creamy cheese like brie, so hard cheeses never occurred to me
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 weeks ago:
For me even that isn’t enough. I love the taste in something like hot and sour soup, but anything more than soup is just a horrible experience
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 weeks ago:
Some of us laughed.
I was trying to extend the joke but then looked at everyone’s responses and decided it wouldn’t go over well