WhatAmLemmy
@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 1 week ago:
While most work is hard, and I dunno how bespoke this gig is, there’s a massive difference between a generic fry “cook” and a restaurant line cook/chef.
Most fry cooks, like a Macdonald’s, are a finely tuned production line where most of the food is pre-prepped and premade (most of the “cooking” is done in a factory). The “cooks” in those roles usually just assemble the pre made components, and in the case of fast food, have finely tunes tools to serve their generic menu.
A restaurant cook/chef requires significantly more attention to detail, skill, flexibility, and knowledge because most of the food is made from scratch, using raw ingredients, which is why there are culinary schools. Real restaurants can’t succeed with a kitchen full of deep fryers and teenagers pushing buttons.
- Comment on graceful wombats 1 week ago:
I once came across a large adult wombat just chilling in the middle of a single lane road in a national park. Wikipedia says they grow up to 35kg, but I swear this one was pushing 50kg; like a large bulldog crossed with a pig. He continued to waddle down the middle of the road as I swerved from side to side, trying to get him to move over so I could go around. I had places to be, and drugs to consume. He did not give a fuck. He couldn’t give one single iota of a fuck. I eventually got outta the car and chased him. The majestic chonk ran faster than I could for a solid 100 meters before he darted off into the bushes. Don’t fuck with a wombat. They are the honey badgers of Oz.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
Take that time! We totally futured your ass!
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 weeks ago:
because I came from a farm
I know what you mean but this amuses me immensely.
- Comment on California voters reject Prop 32, raising the state's minimum wage to $18 4 weeks ago:
You’re basically saying you voted against it because it was only 3/4 of what you wanted, with zero downsides.
This is the dumbest take I have heard in a long time. This take is so mentally deficient it is special needs.
- Comment on Why is Gen Z so Poor? 5 weeks ago:
Every day I see posts by Liberals bashing Gen Z for being stupid, without any self-awareness that 50 years of neoliberalism created Gen Z and gave them a horrific future outlook in housing security, employment security, financial security, climate security… all the conditions necessary for fascism to flourish.
We’ve told them this would lead to fascism for decades, and they still think they were right, spending their time pointing their fingers at everyone but themselves.
- Comment on George Carlin everybody. 1 month ago:
Yup. I already had a vasectomy years ago, in my late 20’s. I wish I did it at 18.
At no point was I gonna accelerate the collapse or force my children to experience it.
- Comment on George Carlin everybody. 1 month ago:
When you look at what humanity has done to the planet, especially in the last century, an extremely selfish humanity — deserving of the suffering they cause themselves in their confusion — was always self-evident.
We’re quite literally killing the planet to the extent that it will likely become unviable for human civilization within a century or so, most living species will be exterminated, and billions of people will starve to death … and every day most of us choose not stop the destruction because it individually grants us a constant stream of dopamine hits from consumption and consumerism; the consequences are out of sight, and out of mind.
We’re extremely ignorant, arrogant, dopamine-drug-addict, talking chimps, on a one way trip to oblivion. If it makes you feel any better, we never really stood a chance.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 1 month ago:
Considering the mass of the earth, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’d be nearly impossible to capture a difference between a feather or bowling ball. You might have to release them at 100m or 1000m above the surface, but then maybe the moons miniscule atmosphere or density variances will have more of an effect.
- Comment on Unsubscribe? Nope! We'll Just Add You To An "Unsubscribers" List! 1 month ago:
Don’t contact the company. They’re breaking the law, and they know it. Report straight to the regulating authority.
- Comment on Volkswagen to shut three factories, axe jobs and cut pay by 10%, says union 1 month ago:
If the controlling shareholders and board can approve spending money they don’t have on a dividend, they should be held personally liable and fined for that 4.5 B.
We’re taught that corporate criminals can act with impunity behind the liability shield of an LLC, but it is only this way because the people accept it.
- Comment on Boeing workers reject contract proposal with 64% saying Boeing hasn't done enough. 1 month ago:
Multiple crimes were committed throughout the development and rollout of the max, including lying to the FAA, and killed several hundred people. I’m willing to bet some, if not all, of them should be serving life in prison.
But we live in corporate plutocracies, so they only suffered negligible financial consequences.
- Comment on The 1900s 2 months ago:
Statistical modeling and machine learning theory goes back several decades. I’m not sure LLM’s even use new algorithms. They may just apply various techniques that improve the performance and accuracy of pre-existing algorithms.
- Comment on The 1900s 2 months ago:
TBF, the veracity of the information is relatively field dependent. Structural engineering? Yeah, probably still as relevant as the day it was published… Quantum computing or astrobiology theory? Far more likely to be superseded or debunked.
- Comment on Probably 2 months ago:
This is straight comedic gold. I like to imagine some elderly stenographer refused to retire and this is a common occurrence… or it’s some 3rd rock from the sun aliens first day.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Sorry for your loss, thank you for your service, my condolences, best wishes, etcetera.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Mental illness in its raw dog, rambling, least distilled form.
- Comment on Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower 2 months ago:
Maybe the solution to return-to-work is manufacturing a bunch of fake news about remote workers being significantly less likely to unionize and more likely to take an ass pounding from corporate overlords?
- Comment on Tibetan Sand Fox 3 months ago:
It’s Glenn Powell’s spirit animal
- Comment on Useless Calendar Widget 3 months ago:
The problem is a lack of emphasis. Apple routinely completely ignores basic features and UXD in their apps, for years. If you don’t want to use an app in the exact rigid structure they want you to, you’re gonna have a bad time.
That’s why I only use a handful of Apple apps — the apps that have no possibility of vendor lock-in, and can be instantly replaced on any other OS (e.g. calculator).
- Comment on Disneyland unions agree to ‘historic’ 31% pay raise 4 months ago:
Realistically, this probably isn’t even a pay rise but an adjustment to align with inflation since 2020.
Reminder: every year your pay does not increase with inflation is a pay cut.
- Comment on Linguistics 4 months ago:
Adequately pondiferous.
- Comment on How I explain my job 5 months ago:
Stuff goes in. Stuff goes out. You can’t explain that!
- Comment on Bellbirds 5 months ago:
Never seen a goober-flange before?
- Comment on PSI 5 months ago:
As far as numbers go, it’s definitely a number.
- Comment on Elsevier 5 months ago:
It sounds like all it would take to destroy the predatory for-profit publication oligarchs is a majority of the top few hundred scientists, across major disciplines, rejecting it and switching to a completely decentralized peer-2-peer open-source system in protest… The publication companies seem to gate keep, and provide no value. It’s like Reddit. The site’s essentially worthless. All of the value is generated by the content creators.
- Comment on The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake 6 months ago:
Che was a cunt. Still probably not as much of a cunt as you, though.
- Comment on The fast-food industry claims the California minimum wage law is costing jobs. Its numbers are fake 6 months ago:
Irrelevant. Studies have already been done and countries with a high minimum wage (literally 2.5x the US) have cheaper 1:1 menu items than the US.
Corporations exist to extract as much value as possible; not provide value.
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
What a shitty superpower
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
I don’t mean just stepping on an ant. I mean when you were little and climbing a tree or playing on the ground and crushed some ants, smelled your hand to figure out what it was, and it smelled like ants…
