Mirshe

@Mirshe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is so difficult to organize a strike⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It also requires a lot of free labor and money from other workers that are willing to donate or put in time voluntarily. When you’re only just able to put food on the table and a roof over your head, that’s hard - and it’s harder to organize it all because you don’t have a critical mass of unions that communicate and understand each other’s struggles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give the People What They Want⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like them trying to “it’s just a joke” a topic into local public discourse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect this to show up on that fascist Pioneer Woman’s website in about a month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, even a coordinated attack on physical networking backbones wouldn’t be TOO rough. We’d have to piece together what’s left and figure out what to replace, but there’s enough worldwide structure that we can do that in a pretty coordinated manner even without the Internet - it would probably just take a lot longer. I feel that a lot of the West would be the worst off, but surprisingly, a lot of governments already have plans for stuff like this. I feel even with incompetence, you’d be looking at 2-3 years max, but I don’t think you’d see Purge-style societal collapse or whatever you’re envisioning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FEMA Official Who Claimed He Once Teleported to a Waffle House Is Leaving⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He claims he was driving around late at night with his kids, then suddenly was at a Waffle House 50 miles away in the parking lot. It’s a very typical “hi I’m an alcoholic” AA-style story, and I’ve heard it tons from various people in my life as “this is when I knew I had a drinking problem”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Honk honk*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was about to say, you nod along with Ted until he starts into the racist bits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come assassinations went away for the most part? Why send a bunch of god fearing young kids into a battle the upper class started or wanted when clipping one leader would stop it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Much easier to say when you’re not the one invested with massive power, and often massive wealth too. There’s a reason the saying goes that power corrupts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The struggle is real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For doctorates, sometimes. For Master’s students, the answer is usually no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, a situation like this can easily wind up where even if you’re asking for consent on every little thing, and making them know they can say no, there’s no real way to KNOW certainly whether or not they’re actually consenting eagerly, or just think that saying no isn’t allowed or whatever. They might even justify it in their heads that “I signed this contract” or “I’ve got nowhere to go” or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The secret to happiness is living in the moment and not fearing the future⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the real issue. Their values systems are broken because you can literally do ANYTHING with that much money, so long as you’re willing to also put in work. Wanna become a world class athlete? So long as you’re choosy with your definitions of both world class and athlete, you can hire people to teach you, hire chefs and nutritionists and doctors to plan every single thing that goes into you to make you good at your Thing.

  Money is truly a superpower, but that superpower is reality warping. After you’ve created your fourth harem and played poker with Einstein, metaphorically speaking, what else could you want to do? It’s part of why all these guys believe in some sort of apocalypse, space travel, AI God, or metaphysics - with money alone, they can basically shape their entire world to their whim, so you want something that you’re still nominally able to ride out, but that will radically alter your reality so there’s SOMETHING new you can experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was a husky boy and look how I turned out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of this is just the loss of proper third spaces where kids can get outside. Now if you and your friends are walking around the mall, you get security hassling you. Hell, even if you’re just in a park or wandering your neighborhood, cops/rangers/randoms will give you shit if you don’t have a specific reason to be there. Don’t even think of trying to hang out at your school after hours, or using their fields/playgrounds to play on.

  Yes, some of it IS cultural. But at least from my N=4 between my nieces and step nieces, kids really enjoy playing outside weather permitting. It’s just that they don’t have places to do that. Sure, you might have a park in your neighborhood - does it have sidewalk access? Sure, your kids might have bikes or scooters or skates - can they safely ride them without getting turned into a speed bump by a high-line truck or SUV?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Also we’re just doing this to make HR happy, we’re already gonna hire my nephew.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian Symbole of Peace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hitler actually sent material support to India during WWII (because keeping England bogged down fighting a revolution is obviously a good thing if you’re trying to stop them from redirecting those efforts to either Japan or yourself). So there’s that too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked audio of JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon Slamming Remote Work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot that “golfing with clients” and “dinner with clients” and “yacht party with clients” are also work for these people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not a Pokemon fan, there’s also a pile of quality hacks for the Fire Emblem games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials Owe 500% More in Student Debt Than Their Parents Did⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot one factor that’s also highly important: sports. College sports ALONE makes a lot of universities an eye popping amount of cash, and also costs them a boatload too. Couple that with donations and profits from those sports being earmarked ONLY for those sports (can’t use your basketball money to do anything but improve your basketball facilities and pay the staff), and you’re putting a stranglehold on a lot of ways to reduce cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am about to learn everything.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That being said, it’s important to know how to sanity-check the math, especially in the era of Copilot in Excel. We just found that our company’s configuration enables it by default on new workbooks, as we found when it was just…making up numbers when asked to do simple addition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot ‘and a friend to pull you out in case’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up sheeple⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This mission especially brought the “space travel is fake” crowd out. The rocket launch explodes over a deserted area, nobody’s onboard, all the missions are faked, and the splashdowns are in restricted waters to sell the simulation.

  Usually this is on top of “well you can’t survive the Van Allen radiation belts”, as if radiation safety and shielding is not a problem we understood and solved before we even lit off Mercury.

  Ultimate reasoning for it is either a vague notion of “control”, bread and circuses, or “they do this to defy God”, because space isn’t real and the Firmament lies above the sky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talk like an 👽⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprising amount of Esperanto speakers, and a few people who speak it as a native tongue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Loser Celebration Day!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not throwing propane bombs at libraries if you’re doing some sort of “precisely targeted attack”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear attack on Iran? UN diplomat resigns to leak plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not because he’s a bitch. He’s so obsessed with LEGACY and his name being on SOMETHING that he’ll do it just because the headlines will read “Trump deploys weapon not used since 1945”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't worry, be happy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Money does buy access to a lot better treatments, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to live on Super Earth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heinlein was…rather directionless on his politics. I think it was Clarke that once remarked that Heinlein’s politics depended on who he was sleeping with - which is why you get weird whiplash from the anti-governance free-love (and incest and racism) in Methuselah’s Children and Farnham’s Freehold to a full throated defense of utopian fascism in Starship Troopers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, their sales team is incredibly fucked over from their only significant revenue being various AI farms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Mar-Kwane⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, Corey is out of the house now too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Push to eliminate sales tax on food and groceries in Missouri runs into resistance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s only been the last 30-40 years that we’ve been falling down the same rabbit hole that places like OK or AL have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI:⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much exactly this. You stick useless people in these important roles so they can’t get enough traction to try for your chair, but you also want people who are at least smart enough to do whatever you tell them to do. Patel is actually a smart pick, he;s just too dumb to know how to push around actual field agents and only knows how to push around analysts and media

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quidk! I need a chili recipe. What would you add to a pound of hamburger, diced jalapenos, chili powder and bloody mary mix?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no! I don’t know who started this fucking thing, Cincinnati chili has never contained cocoa. I literally live here, and I’ve heard it from tons of transplants and natives alike. No chili parlor here uses it, no recipes I’ve seen use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the fact that there’s an enormous machine of conservative think tanks and funding groups and PACs and corporations that will fight every and any change tooth and nail. The obvious ones like abolishing ICE? They’re an enormous source of revenue for dozens of companies, from tech to defense, not to mention that private prison companies are running the concentration camps. They’d need to be ready to effectively run things as a true dictator in order to get anything done, because large portions of the economic sphere have been retooled to rely on things continuing the way they are.