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- Comment on Trump's eligibility 1 month ago:
I think there are two answers to this. First, there is a long standing tradition in the US that the new guy doesn’t put the old guy in jail.
Look at so many other countries and so much of world history to see how that style of governing is problematic to the transfer of power from one regime to the next and why it causes its own set of problems.
The second, and arguably the most important, is that the American people as a whole can elect whoever the fuck they want to be president, no matter what any mid level beurocrat, judge, lawmaker or even current president or other official says about the issue, even if said person is in jail at the time.
The law and its punishments should still apply to all, including the president and former presidents, however.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 1 month ago:
He seems to lack competence in many ways, but some of the guys around him are a whole lot more conniving and potentially effective.
It’s also not likely Trump feels any urge to hire a somewhat moderate(ish) cabinet of professionalls like he did last time. I assume he learned his lesson given that they all eventually turned on him.
So let’s see. I think he’s spent the past 4 years surrounding himself with some bad hombres, to borrow a saying, and now he’s ready to act with fewer guardrails.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 1 month ago:
It’s important to realize that in most democracies this isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of the system. The founders of these systems wanted to ensure that major decisions were deliberated, not rushed into, and that there wasn’t a lot of room for an executive power to make snap choices that would determine the future of the nation.
- Comment on What bug is this? 2 months ago:
Detroit assassin hornet
- Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 2 months ago:
It’s normalized in the US to be fat. All the people around are fat too, so they are rarely shaming. You’ll fit right in.
If you’re the only fat one in the group (like when you go to most of Asia) they usually make sure you know - repeatedly - that you’re the fat one. It’s a pretty big incentive to not be that one.
If everyone else is fat too, then why bother (aside from the million health and happiness reasons)
- Comment on Facebook 3 months ago:
She understands there is a problem, just doesn’t understand the solution. Good on her for having privacy concerns and paying attention.
- Comment on Sorry 3 months ago:
Thanks for your patience while I researched the details.
Yes, I’m free for a lunch meeting last Friday. See you then.
- Comment on Break science with this one weird trick 4 months ago:
Nail it to the side of your house, in the sunlight, for a totally free charge from the sun
- Comment on Anon is true romantic 4 months ago:
The class clown kid from my high school (looked like a clown too) ended up with a smoking hot wife, seemingly way out of his league.
Around high school I can remember him asking and being rejected by just about every girl.
Only reason I can think of is he got so used to rejection that he was completely unphased to keep going and the numbers game eventually worked out for him.
Good on him and a lesson for the rest of us, lol.
- Comment on Mushroom Guides 4 months ago:
No clue if you have any idea what you’re talking about but appreciate the Information dump. If I’m ever near death from hunger but surrounded by forest floor growths I’ll try to remember this.
- Comment on Anyone else noticing more and more duplicate posts? 5 months ago:
I see this often. That tells me I’ve done enough scrolling and it’s time to get back to work.
I usually browse /all and top 6 hours
- Comment on If it ain't broke 5 months ago:
There are Udemy courses on cobol, I’m sure any developer can get up to speed pretty fast.
Or just use an LLM, like the rest of us now
- Comment on Ikea’s CEO has solved the Swedish retailer’s global ‘unhappy worker’ crisis by raising salaries, introducing flexible working and subsidizing childcare 6 months ago:
It sounds obvious on the surface but higher wages don’t always equal happier staff or more output.
I don’t think the staff making 500k at OpenAI will be measurably happier with another 100k, for example.
But there is definitely a lot to be gained by getting staff as far away from a sense of poverty as possible and ikea might have helped their line workers a lot with this change.
- Comment on Why Megadonors Are Unfazed by Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict | Money flowed into the former president’s re-election campaign from Wall Street and Silicon Valley following Thursday’s historic conviction 6 months ago:
Where in useful idiot territory. They might not like him, but he’ll probably do what they ask him to.
- Comment on I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns. 6 months ago:
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- Comment on I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns. 6 months ago:
Counterargument: I’d hire you to leafblow 2.5 hrs more area
- Comment on Think Tobey planned this? 6 months ago:
A lot of people talk about decision fatigue in their jobs. So it’s a gift of self care to buy 10 of the same shirt, eat the same lunch every day, etc
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 6 months ago:
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Oh, nvm, sorry
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- Comment on Report: In Western Countries, 41% of the Jobs Done By Young People are at Risk Disappearing Due to Automation 7 months ago:
This is the ideal outcome. I’m afraid other factors will conspire to make this an unlikely outcome.
A glaring problem is that the people doing the jobs that take 20 years of experience were once young and needed to get their start somehow. If young people never get their start… They will never have the skills for the older person job, further incentivizing more centralization and automation.
My next concern is that humanity as a whole has some fundamental flaws. One of them being laziness to pursue endeavors that are hard when there’s a lack of motivation. I think the underlying message of the movie Wall-E kind of address that.
If there’s any doubt, look at the economic output of regions around the world where food is never in short supply because there is never a winter. The people are poor, largely uneducated, not entrepreneurial, oftentimes ruled by dictatorships or regimes, not really going anywhere, and yet they are fed and sleep in a hovel.
Whether they are happy with this outcome relative to a wage slave in a different kind of culture is a topic for interesting debate, but I think their stories show that people left to do whatever they want with their own time do not necessarily, on the whole, become mass producers of the arts or automatically find joy with their lives.
- Comment on If TikTok in the US is spun off as a separate entity, how hard would it be for the current company to put in a back door to still access the data. 7 months ago:
Terms of Sale:
Buyer agrees to sell user data to TT DataVacuum, LLC
Buyer agrees to install For You page algorithm updates per the requirements of TT DataVacuum, LLC on a quarterly basis.
Btw our lawyers are still setting up our new LLC with nominee directors. Dont worry, totally American.
- Comment on What animal could you take in a fight? 8 months ago:
What’s the women’s version of this?
Which of your friends do you think is cheating?
- Comment on How I cannot be worry?? 11 months ago:
Worrying about problems definitely helps to keep you alive, but the motivation to do something ideally comes from a prefrontal cortex desire to improve rather than a fight or flight response to threats.
- Comment on Happy Same Year! 11 months ago:
It’s definitely strange how the pandemic kind of created a time warp for everyone. It’s like we just lost 2-3 years into oblivion.
- Comment on Electrician job 11 months ago:
Yeah these people have only a rudimentary idea of what’s going on and very little idea what happens if they make a mistake
- Comment on This airBNB was supposed to be a "relaxing retreat" but now I need therapy after this shit. 1 year ago:
These kind of ultra niche subs really need a huge audience. I’m afraid contributors would be posting in the dark for a while if it was here.
- Comment on Really? 1 year ago:
Only a majority vote is required to expel a member. The Dems would probably help too.
Get started 😂
- Comment on Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class. 1 year ago:
Even China knows this. Give the hard working people a better job than mom and dad had and they won’t rebel.
The people who are rolling in their next billion have forgotten what happens when you take that away.
- 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:
Turned out Saddam was a meanie after the USA helped make him. Had to slap that idea down lest any future installed dictators try any funny business.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay 1 year ago:
True… realistically knowledge workers are only productive for a few hours at a time. The rest of an 8 hr+ day is just wasted pretending to be busy.
Getting them out of the work environment gives a good chance to reboot and come back fresh.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders Champions 32-Hour Work Week With No Loss in Pay 1 year ago:
I was with you until:
And personally I’d say 35hr week is a better idea - as in 5 days of 7hrs .
I think the idea is to free up an entire extra day, allowing travel, an extra day to run errands, etc. For many, there is basically no difference between working 8 hours or working 7 if they still have to commute, get dressed and get their brain wrapped around whatever is going on in work mode.