pelespirit
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- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 5 days ago:
Here are some descriptions and photos of what most small towns look like: www.onlyinyourstate.com/…/slow-paced-towns-in-wa
A really small town is like what you’re calling a village. I think most people outside the US think that rural is closer to urban areas than it usually is. It typically starts a half hour outside a major city and then can be 7-10 hours to the next major city depending on what state you’re in. The upper east coast is probably closer to Europe. Rural encompasses a huge swath of the US land, and most are very isolated physically and mentally.
- Comment on Washington Post Tech Guild overwhelmingly votes to certify union in historic election | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA 6 days ago:
In a 171-38 blowout vote, The Washington Post Tech Guild has officially won its union election, marking a significant milestone for over 300 technology workers across engineering, product design, and data roles at The Washington Post. After weeks of aggressive union-busting tactics from Washington Post management, tech workers at The Post persevered and have been recognized by the National Labor Relations Board. This is the first successful organizing effort to take place at The Post under Jeff Bezos’ ownership.
- Comment on pokémon or dopémon? 1 week ago:
Even though I know it’s a pokemon, it sure would be a great drug name, Tranquill:
- Comment on I am convinced the makers of those ads are on something strong and very illegal 2 weeks ago:
He may normally, but this song is bad and as I said, the audience is hilarious.
- Comment on Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you! 2 weeks ago:
Being a tech savvy individual, the complainant additionally examined what exact data was being sent to Ubisoft when playing. The complainant discovered that, over a period of just 10 minutes, the game established a connection to external servers 150 times. Among the recipients of the complainant’s data: Google, Amazon and US software company Datadog.
- Comment on I am convinced the makers of those ads are on something strong and very illegal 2 weeks ago:
I like that one, it makes sense for a toilet paper company and is funny. The Church’s Chicken ad is unbelievably bad. I can’t find it though. It has a white rapper with the most rhythmically challenged customers appreciating his horrible rap.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If a racist says you’re not white, they’ll kill you over your protests. They may even pretend to think you’re white up until you’re useless to them.
- Comment on who are you? 2 weeks ago:
That makes sense.
- Comment on who are you? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you can answer this. How can whipping cream have such a long shelf life? It’s like a month. Milk is usually a week or two.
- Comment on Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true. 2 weeks ago:
The Icelandic experiment began in 2015 with a pilot phase involving around 2,500 employees, or just over 1% of the country’s working population. Following the resounding success of this initiative, with 86% of the employees involved expressing their support, the project was made official in 2019 . Today, almost 90% of Icelandic workers benefit from a reduced working week of 36 hours, compared with 40 hours previously, with no loss of pay. Initial concerns about the four-day week were widespread, both in Iceland and elsewhere in the world. There were fears of a drop in productivity, increased costs for businesses and difficulties in adapting to maintain service levels. However, the Icelandic experience has swept these fears under the carpet.
The Icelandic experiment began in 2015 with a pilot phase involving around 2,500 employees, or just over 1% of the country’s working population. Following the resounding success of this initiative, with 86% of the employees involved expressing their support, the project was made official in 2019 . Today, almost 90% of Icelandic workers benefit from a reduced working week of 36 hours, compared with 40 hours previously, with no loss of pay. Initial concerns about the four-day week were widespread, both in Iceland and elsewhere in the world. There were fears of a drop in productivity, increased costs for businesses and difficulties in adapting to maintain service levels. However, the Icelandic experience has swept these fears under the carpet.
- Comment on WHAT HAVE I DONE 2 weeks ago:
Glad you’re back.
- Comment on The private home listings most buyers aren’t seeing 3 weeks ago:
Because that’s how redlining happens.
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- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 3 weeks ago:
The landlord I know that makes a shit ton of money inherited the homes from their parents.
- Comment on At 100, he's the last original owner of a Frank Lloyd Wright house 3 weeks ago:
He’s 100? He’s so present and doesn’t just look younger, but he really acts younger.
- Comment on As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver 3 weeks ago:
Hey workers of any kind, remember how fast these companies tried to replace you. It wasn’t because they thought the tech was cool.
- Comment on The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business 3 weeks ago:
What is the last one that doesn’t collect anything? I’m not familiar with that logo.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new features for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, including an AI agent in Settings and updates to Start menu, Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool 3 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on Pope 4 weeks ago:
Plus, Left Shark is one of her followers. I’m on team Left Shark.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 4 weeks ago:
I understand what he’s saying, he’s saying that the followers believe something different.
I’m saying none of that matters. It’s like being Catholic versus Lutheran, but Jewish vs. other Jewish that thinks Jesus was the Messiah. Still Jewish for at least decades, probably centuries.
They believed that while he was still alive. We know this because he and his disciples celebrated Passover at the last supper.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 4 weeks ago:
Also, Jesus probably meant for this rule to end for adherents of Christianity.
I mean, Jesus was Jewish and he wouldn’t have called his followers Christians because he hadn’t died on a cross yet. He would have called them his Jewish brothers and his followers would have done the same for decades afterwards. He was the leader of a sect of Judaism.
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 4 weeks ago:
We have to protect Wikipedia. We have to.
- Comment on Redditors shocked to learn they’re arguing with AI bots | Fireship [4:12] 4 weeks ago:
This is an ad for AI at the end. Kind of disappointed.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 5 weeks ago:
I did not communicate that well. I didn’t mean “just left” as in recently, I meant I left out of the blue 100%. When I’m done with something, I’m done. Did the same with lemmy .world. I don’t log in and I don’t look at any of the old places. Randomly, I get info from a search, but that’s it.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 5 weeks ago:
I bet they’re focusing on the old.r users, they’ve been wanting to get rid of that for awhile. If they shadowban you and leave on your own randomly, there won’t be another mass exodus. That’s conjecture though.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 5 weeks ago:
Having gone cold turkey and just left, it’s weird no matter how you leave. Realizing how addicted I was, was kind of hard for my psyche.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 5 weeks ago:
Gates must be rolling in his grave
Eh?
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 5 weeks ago:
I think you have to have copilot installed to have the recall spyware though.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 5 weeks ago:
Glad to see it. It begs the question though, if they could get computers to want to talk to other computers and Microsoft could somehow make money, would that make them happy? Is computer to computer business something corporations want?
That’s right; Microsoft Copilot’s weekly user base is only 5% of the number of people who use ChatGPT, and it’s not increasing. It’s also worth noting that there are approximately 1.5 billion Windows users worldwide, which means just over 1% of them are using Copilot, a tool that’s now a Windows default app. This is quite scary from Microsoft’s point of view, which has put so much effort and money into its AI ventures that it really cannot afford for its business to dwindle out so soon.
- Comment on Six Men Are Charged After Woman Was Dragged From Idaho Town Hall 1 month ago:
Here’s the video. The one police guy nopes out almost immediately.