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- Comment on A Florida restaurant chain says boosting pay and offering better benefits helped it end its labor shortage 1 year ago:
It genuinely blows my goddamn mind that this article is actually considered news and has to even be published.
Like, what the fuck do they teach people in business school these days?? Just cut costs endlessly? Like “I have this restaurant with no employees that serves nothing and charges $1B per customer. I will be rich!” ??
- Comment on New U.A.W. Chief Has a Nonnegotiable Demand: Eat the Rich 1 year ago:
I like the cut of his jib.
- Comment on Diane Feinstein Reacts to Child Climate Activists 1 year ago:
Fixed her fucking portfolio probably.
- Comment on Boy, 16, arrested over felling of iconic ‘Robin Hood tree’ next to Hadrian’s Wall 1 year ago:
Idk. How many teen boys has that tree survived until now? Maybe the kid has other issues going on, shitty parents, or who knows what.
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 1 year ago:
Just as Jesus commanded.
- Comment on How Frasier Is So Rich As A Radio Therapist Finally Explained By Original Show Writer 1 year ago:
If anyone needs a source how about this:
- Comment on Will it ever get to a point where data is so over-harvested that it starts to lose value? 1 year ago:
Hm I wonder if generative AI could somehow be used to create fake user behavior to obscure my real behavior.
- Comment on I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal 1 year ago:
Same. I’m still a little leery. Think I’ll give it another few months to settle down.
- Comment on Show HN: I rewrote the 1990's LambdaMOO server 1 year ago:
Wow that brings back some memories. Not LambdaMOO specifically but I was big into MUDs back in the day.
- Comment on Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities" 1 year ago:
Which is why I’m calling them the rabid right from now on.
- Comment on The brain is not an onion with a tiny reptile inside (2020) 1 year ago:
Huh. I had no idea. Always fun to unlearn myths and learn new things to replace em with.
The evolutionary tree © illustrates the correct view that animals do not linearly increase in complexity but evolve from common ancestors. The corresponding view of brain evolution (d) illustrates that all vertebrates possess the same basic brain regions, here divided into the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain.
- Comment on Jim Cramer Says OEMs Should Move American Auto Manufacturing To Mexico For $5/hour In Response To UAW Demands 1 year ago:
Hey but at least he’s an idiot.
- Comment on ‘Blue lights’ flash in sky moments before Morocco earthquake 1 year ago:
It’s not, according to the article. It happened 3 minutes before the quake in this case
And it’s commonly across the world before earthquakes.
Kind of fascinating.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
🤦🏻 yeah Iraq. Autocorrect probably. Daddy Bush probably also wanted to avoid a quagmire. Idk.
I agree we were justified invading Afghanistan and felt so at the time but it’s just not a great place to try and “conquer”. You might be right about the distraction of Iraq. However, Afghanistan strikes me as a country with the kind of deeply entrenched culture and politics so different from anything we are familiar with that I don’t know if we could ever actively transform it in meaningful ways.
- Comment on Toyota's Commercial in Japan - Father's View and Daughter's View 1 year ago:
Damn that was way too much emotion for a commercial. Somebody pass the tissues.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
We barely got to the point of impeaching Nixon for his bullshit and Reagan got off scott free for Iran-Contra. So it shouldn’t be too surprising that Bush didn’t get keelhauled for his bullshit invasions especially since most of the morons in Washington were totally on board with it.
Some of us could see it coming from a mile away with Afghanistan. (Just had to look back to how it went for the USSR and like every other country that tried before us (see “Graveyard of Empires”).
Iran looked an awful lot like bullshit driven by greed, oil, and “finishing what daddy started” at the time. Idk about the last one now but the first two? Definitely. But fucking Congress went along with all of it. Probably lobbied by billionaires.
So no way was he going to pay for his crimes.
People at the top in this country rarely do.
- Comment on New JFK assassination revelation could upend the lone gunman theory 1 year ago:
In a new book, former Secret Service agent Paul Landis, largely silent for 60 years, says he found a bullet in Kennedy’s limo. A sometime presidential historian explains why that’s so significant, if true.
“If true” is doing a lot of work here.
Ok I will go read the article lol
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 1 year ago:
Yeah that was a rough time indeed. I recall getting hit with a couple of those big worms back to back.
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 1 year ago:
PS the counter argument is smart locks come with added security controls: monitoring, logging, and the ability to auto lock in case someone forgets to lock it.
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 1 year ago:
Same concept but why pick a lock when you can break a window or sliding glass door?
In other words… The attack surface is indeed larger for smart lock than dumb lock – more ways to attack – but in practice it matters little because existing home attack surface is easily breached.
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 1 year ago:
If you’re not in infosec you should be. (Source: am in infosec)
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 1 year ago:
We have steel doors and protection metal bars in the windows in LATAM
Sounds a lot like Tucson…
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 1 year ago:
Man I am having some weird kind of deja vu today.
- Comment on Stray is being turned into a movie 1 year ago:
Well that’s a good sign. I really enjoyed that flick.
- Comment on Stray is being turned into a movie 1 year ago:
“In the beginning, animated movies starring Chris Pratt were spaced by 24 weeks, then 12, then six, then every two weeks. The last one, with Garfield, was a week. In four days, we could be seeing new casting announcements every eight hours, until they’re coming every four minutes.”
😆 💀
- Comment on New UK ‘net zero’ minister linked to oil-funded think tank 1 year ago:
As a stupid American, I think you might be right. Not sure though. Hmm.
- Comment on Andrew Tate prosecution files reveal graphic claims of coercion ahead of trial 1 year ago:
Same. Deeply sickening to think what they put those women through.
- Comment on What's their secret? 1 year ago:
I suppose the older Japanese folks didn’t work in the current climate of working yourself literally to death on the job. I can’t believe how stressful work life sounds for some in Japan.
- Comment on What's their secret? 1 year ago:
So the 112 year old is instead a youthful 108?
We have folks in the US that also lied about their age. They’re almost all dead now. So… Yeah.
- Comment on walkie talkie 1 year ago:
Guessing adjective noun ordering? 🤓 idk