Rivalarrival
@Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 12 hours ago:
Do you manufacture guillotines? That’s the only industry that is realizing actual, genuine benefits here.
Everyone else supposedly making money is in a circular ponzi scheme.
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 2 days ago:
Base-10 is objectively terrible, though. Too many fundamental principles of geometry rely on 1:3 and 1:6 ratios that can’t be properly depicted in Base-10.
If there were a god, they would have given us 6 digits on each hand, inspiring us to develop a base-12 number system.
- Comment on Happy Kirkday! 2 days ago:
Base-12 is absolutely gorgeous for geometry. A metric system on base-12? <chef’s kiss>
- Comment on For-Profit Health Insurance is a major cause of death in America. 3 days ago:
- Comment on I’m philosphying. You should philosophying too. 3 days ago:
I think that’s a plucked chicken.
- Comment on Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs? 4 days ago:
Exactly the kind of horseshit I’m thinking of. The demand for mindless busywork is truly amazing.
I can only hope that the next big idea in business is a widespread push to “replace” AI production with “nothing”.
- Comment on Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral. 5 days ago:
It’s fucking Walmart. Why are you there?
- Comment on Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs? 5 days ago:
2008, here we come!
- Comment on Wait, you mean workers *don't* love the automatic dumbass machines that constantly threaten their jobs? 5 days ago:
It is perfect for producing garbage that should never have been produced in the first place. Marketing wank. Nobody cares what it says, so long as it is aesthetically pleasing to the intended audience. It’s perfect for doing shit that never needed to be done in the first place. Perfect for busywork.
It is worse than useless for any technical purpose. Verifying its output requires more effort than manually producing that output.
- Comment on feces 6 days ago:
You can suck a fuck.
- Comment on Finding mid-00s DNS info? 1 week ago:
Certainly, and likely. In which case, the DNS records would tell us nothing.
But we can draw a completely different conclusion if the records were taken down deliberately.
- Comment on Finding mid-00s DNS info? 1 week ago:
If the DNS records for the mail server were missing, it would suggest that they didn’t intend to receive mail, even if a mail server were actually up.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
20g but 17ml?!? I was promised that metric masses and volumes were interchangeable! They told me I wouldn’t have to use any weird conversion ratio!
Liars!
(/s)
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 1 week ago:
Walmart plans for extraordinarily high turnover. If the median worker is there longer than a year, they are overpaying for labor. If less than a year, they’ll bring on new workers at higher rates than their experienced workers. Why give the experienced people higher pay when they’ve proven they will stay on at less?
Walmart is one of the scummiest employers on the planet, and they have an outsized influence on the rest of the labor market.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 1 week ago:
All of the essential, general information is true: Walmart, et al, deliberately short worker hours to avoid having to pay benefits. The end result of that is workers forced to try to live on the income from one or more part-time jobs, without employer-provided benefits like health or dental insurance. Without such benefits, they either have to pay those costs out of their regular pay, or we have to pay those costs on their behalf.
The exact amount of rent is not relevant, nor are any of the particular circumstances of this or any individual worker. The general condition is more than sufficient to garner outrage.
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 1 week ago:
The basic recipe for wine is grape juice, yeast, and time, and yeasts are everywhere. It’s not hard to “accidentally” turn an opened bottle of grape juice into wine.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 1 week ago:
You neglected the most likely one: The landlord’s exorbitant rent hikes.
Never rent. Always buy. Even if all you can buy is a 30-year-old RV, you’re better off with that than a rent payment.
The only routes out of poverty are equity and the lottery. Renting always deprives you of equity.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 1 week ago:
More likely she was charged $700 when she started. She could have afforded that mortgage, but no bank would lend to her, so she had to rent. Now that her landlord has increased her rent several times but her employer hasn’t increased pay, she’s falling further and further behind.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 1 week ago:
Stop tying health benefits to employment. Universal healthcare solves about 90% of this problem.
- Comment on Two full raccoons y'all 1 week ago:
Came here for the math.
- Comment on *Eyeroll* 1 week ago:
How about we Make Child Rape Abnormal Again? Can we start with that?
- Comment on Wages never caught up with costs 1 week ago:
This started at the same time that top-tier income tax rates were brought down from their 93% peak in the late 1950s. Turns out that when you find yourself above that line, you take efforts to actually spend money on things you can deduct, rather than buying up shares that you can’t deduct. When you find yourself $10,000 over the line, and you’re told to send $9,300 to the IRS, you tend to say “Well, fuck that, I’d rather pay out $10,000 to the guys who brought me here, rather than $9300 to the tax man. The good will I get from that bonus is worth a lot more than the $700 the IRS is going to let me keep.”
- Comment on Wages never caught up with costs 1 week ago:
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 1 week ago:
Our party didnt change,
Both parties changed. Both parties moved to the left. The GOP didn’t change as much as the Democrats did. The Democrats ran away from the kind of conservatism that gave us the Klan. The Klan found themselves more closely aligned with the unchanging GOP than it did with the left-moving Democrats.
- Comment on Canadian checkmate 1 week ago:
Cartoon beaver?
That’s a lawsuit.
- Comment on Mmm-mmm 2 weeks ago:
That would probably be pretty good. Like a root beer float.
- Comment on Colorado: to test the 911 service, you must first place a normal call to the 911 center. WTF, they don’t think you might be unable to do that? 2 weeks ago:
911 center: Okay, what is the phone number of the phone you are testing (so we know which inbound call to disregard)?
Your argument stems primarily from that point.
The purpose of contacting them is not to identify what phone number will be making the call. The purpose of contacting them is to ensure they are not currently in the middle of a mass casualty incident that you don’t know about.
They don’t care what number you will be making the call from. They care that they have the time and resources available to take it. If your test call is successful, you will tell them that it was a test call.
As for your argument about not having a phone to make the initial call, it’s 2026, not 1926. You have a phone, it’s in your hands right now, and you’re using it to read this.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 2 weeks ago:
Read the image. They charge a higher premium if you don’t use their auto pay.
The only way I can see around it is if you make annual payments instead of monthly. Fewer payments, less fees.
If we’re feeling petty, though, we can accept the higher premium, and send them weekly (or even daily) check payments instead of monthly. Let them process 30 transactions per month instead of just one.
- Comment on the trump agenda is working 2 weeks ago:
“Chief Executive Officer” should be the title of the guy driving the guillotine.
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 3 weeks ago:
Why trade with Canada when we can just start a war?