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- Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 2 days ago:
Won’t someone think of the
childrenshareholders??? - Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 3 days ago:
If you want to open your eyes even more, check out the neat overlap between commercial real estate and large businesses that require an office. Often, it’s one and the same, so it’s easy to see why they wouldn’t want their buildings nearly empty.
- Comment on Pretty interesting when you really think about it. 5 days ago:
You think that’s bad? Every April I have to hand the country I live in a bunch of papers with numbers on them just to exist. If I don’t, they send men with guns. How crazy is that?
- Comment on Crisco in a Terracotta: Decoding the (Mostly) Useless Candle Meme 1 week ago:
This isn’t my picture, which is the whole point. People are making these bizarre contraptions without even a theory of what they would do.
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- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
Right, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
Violent crime has decreased since the 1990s as video games (including violent ones) have continued to grow in popularity. If anything, this establishes that violent video games prevent violent crime.
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 1 week ago:
What change was accomplished by OccupyWallstreet?
They were angry about economic inequality – it’s worse today than in 2011.
They wanted an end to corporate personhood – still totally cookin’ in 2024 with no end in sight
More regulation of the financial sector – we are more deregulated than ever today
I had to admire their aims, but as a movement it was profoundly ineffective…
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 1 week ago:
“Two more weeks”
I wish there was a prediction market about this outcome, as I would gladly bet against it. I don’t see America suddenly growing a spine. As long as there is (fast) food available and the electricity and football games are flowing, 99.999% aren’t picking up that pistol.
- Comment on Just kill one guy 1 week ago:
One was head of state, the other is some CEO that was replaced by another one in the lineup before the day was even over.
- Comment on Anon eats lunch alone 1 week ago:
Why did normalfags get censored? Who’s comfortable mining content from 4chan but not seeing the word “fag”?
- Comment on Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway. 1 week ago:
As someone that was at the protest, at no point did I think it would result in the war stopping. It was still worthwhile, however. In retrospect, the war was so much worse than any of us knew at the time and also based on flimsy and/or no evidence of WMD. Business as usual in America. We’d do it all over again today, I have no doubt.
- Comment on What do people who promoted the "FEMA camps" conspiracy theory think about Trump's mass deportation? 1 week ago:
Why do right-wing people tend to portay the government as incompetent boobs EXCEPT when it’s convenient. They are too inept to do anything, except they can easily staff, coordinate and orchestrate a nation-wide roundup and subsequent detainment of tens of thousands of people.
For this conspiracy to be true, tens of thousands of Americans would already have to be in on the plan and you would see large construction projects (that are easily observed) located in each and every state. Just like the moon landing being faked, it would rely on so many people keeping the story perfectly secret, even though the scale of it would need to be breathtaking for the conspiracy to be true.
- Comment on Should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea? 1 week ago:
No.
- Comment on Why are kings almost always redheads? 1 week ago:
If I go to Google image search and put in “cartoon king”, there appear to be a mix of blonde, black, red and white haired kings. Red doesn’t appear to be over-represented here. What cartoons are you thinking about?
- Comment on I'm having second thoughts about quitting my current position, I'm scared and I don't understand myself. What's happening to me? 1 week ago:
I’m scared that my new position will be as bad or worse than the old one, the same drama, the same backstabbing and playing favorites. It would be really tiring to get out of the frying pan to get into the fire.
As with any job, there will be some things that are better than your current one and some things that are worse. It seems like you already opened up the “quitting” can of worms at your current job. Reversing course is not impossible, but it is atypical. I would probably follow through with quitting based on what you said about your manager’s attitude, and it also seems like you don’t really like the job.
Apply to a bunch of places, do a bunch of interviews and get some offers. If you don’t like your next job you can always leave that one. I would encourage you to try to treat people right at each job. You do not want to leave a giant wake of burned bridges. Eventually, people you work with at job A will show up at job B, and if you’ve been an asshole, no one is going to want to work with you. Conversely, if you are pleasant to work with, people will even recommend you for a new job.
Look up friend, change is scary and it’s OK to be nervous. Put in some work to find a new job, re-examine your life. If it feels better, stay, if not, quit. There are new jobs all the time, and if your work is valuable in any way and you have a good attitude, you’ll never have trouble finding work.
- Comment on Do you consider Taylor Swift to be of the working class and why? 1 week ago:
What is your definition of working class? I would need to know that before I can weigh in. She doesn’t meet MY definition, but YMMV.
- Comment on I don't have a purpose in life and feel like a robot. This cannot be good for my mental health, but I don't know how or what to change. How do I change? 1 week ago:
Do you have any hobbies, no matter how obscure? That’s often a great gateway to meet people with a shared interest. If you don’t have one, look for nearby homeless shelters / churches. They often have volunteer programs where you can do anything from feeding the homeless, to helping pick up trash, etc. This work tends to be very fulfilling because you can cause a positive impact in the area that you live in. You will probably also meet a person or two while doing this.
People love to talk about themselves, so if you do manage to chat someone up at one of these events, ask them about their life. Try to steer the questions towards one that don’t have a yes/no answer, and keep engaging them and asking follow up questions. Making acquaintances is basically as easy as that. Do that long enough and you’ll have more than one friend.
TLDR: Find people with shared interests; engage them in conversation. Repeat until friend[s] acquired. Easy as that.
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 1 week ago:
Non mainstream opinions. Anything outside the extremely small overton window on Reddit is immediately hidden, deleted or downvoted. Lemmy has far more diverse opinions, and I also believe that it leads to more interesting discussion. I enjoy being in the same room with people who don’t share all my opinions. I find it more interesting and engaging.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Meta commentary: note that “LEFTISTS” are not this bloc that is perfectly aligned. You need to ask the individuals whether they hate small scale as well as large scale landlords.
There is no universal “LEFTIST” belief. People exist at every point along the spectrum. Stop thinking in binary terms and you can have far more productive discussions with people.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 week ago:
Well, good on you man. I’m skeptical this event can be pivoted into actual positive change for the average American, but if you have enough resolve to make a go of it, you’re a better man than I.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 week ago:
But without rich people, who’s going to fund it?
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 1 week ago:
Which is why it can never work
That’s right. OP had an amazing moment of self-awareness.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 1 week ago:
Idk, people are doing it already. Seems like this isn’t really a good reason.
You seem to be wondering why people aren’t starting an “easy” coop. Have you ever owned and operated a business of any sort? Why not try it yourself instead of speculating how easy it is for people to start and run a cooperative business.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 1 week ago:
If you’re saying “money was too tempting”, then isn’t that an inherent flaw in any Marxist Leninist theory in practice?
HA, yes, yes it is. Marxist Leninist works most effectively when everyone is moralistic and considers the larger picture. It doesn’t work when you have a world of selfish money grubbers. Notice which system is winning today?
I’d like to see you own a small business and get offered 10x its value by a large corp. Then you can see whether you want to maintain your praxis or retire on a nice beach somewhere the rest of your life.
- Comment on Before buying this printer, I made a quick search to confirm that it has wifi connectivity... (the algorithm lied to me) 4 weeks ago:
There’s lots of reasons that that phrase could be in the document:
“Open up the world of Wifi by purchasing our optional Wifi Adapter (not found in base model)” “Open up the world of WiFi with our new wireless printers (coming soon)”
Op’s lazy approach of doing a search and not even bothering to read the documents that he found is the core of the approach. The “algorithm” didn’t let him down. It found the most relevant document for his search.
- Comment on Before buying this printer, I made a quick search to confirm that it has wifi connectivity... (the algorithm lied to me) 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, I can’t follow this logic. What I THINK you are saying:
“I searched for ‘Canon G2570 wifi’. Since there are results, that means this particular printer has Wifi.”
However, If I search for “canon g2570 aliens”, I also get the same support page. Does that mean the printer was created by aliens?
Especially these days,you must actually read the links that appear in search engines. Their job is to take your search keywords and to find the most relevant document. From what I can see above, the indicated document WAS the most relevant to your search. For all you know, that bit about Wifi was for a blurb of a separate product linked from the indicated page.
If this is how you conduct internet research, I would urge you to actually read and confirm the documents you find in search engines.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
He types REALLY slow.
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
Bad faith argument:
In the holy book, inspired by this god, he tells you he DOES deserve worship. Furthermore, were you to ignore his advice, he will punish you eternally.
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
Here’s the bad faith argument:
At the moment of creation, God placed some partially decayed metals on the planet to fool the non-believers.
This is basically why the existence of dinosaur bones doesn’t bother them either – they just hand-wave it away.
