SuddenDownpour
@SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 4 months ago:
It is indeed illegal, but unfortunately it still happens.
tuc.org.uk/…/workers-uk-put-more-ps35-billion-wor…
Workers in the UK put in more than £35 billion worth of unpaid overtime last year
www.cgtbs.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=…
58% of overtime hours in Spain during the 2nd semester of 2015 were not renumerated
- Comment on Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO 4 months ago:
What did you say? 100% income and capital gains tax specifically for Kinjil Mathur? Where do I have to sign?
- Comment on Before it's too late! 4 months ago:
How would they react if they were told that they’re using the colors of the trans flag?
- Comment on Before it's too late! 4 months ago:
I for one support him on his gender affirming medical procedures.
- Comment on Shocking 5 months ago:
All of these participants had received a sample of the shock and reported that they would pay to avoid being shocked again.
From: news.virginia.edu/…/doing-something-better-doing-… , so the chart is actually measuring the second shock.
- Comment on Shocking 5 months ago:
When you minmax your masochism stat.
- Comment on Anon puts on a smile 5 months ago:
Pity upvote.
- Comment on Sex 5 months ago:
“Yep. I can confirm that sex is indeed happening in this bedroom. I’ll send you an invoice.”
- Comment on Anon diagnoses a patient 5 months ago:
Certified House stunt.
- Comment on Anon is anti drugs 5 months ago:
To be fair to anon, they’re asking sincerely if you take them at face value. A lot of people just don’t know why others just fall down that rabbit hole.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 5 months ago:
It’s also a double-edged sword. The moment a domesticated species isn’t useful enough for us, its numbers (and therefore genes) will decrease dramatically. Plenty of livestock populations may be reduced to a tiny size if artificial meat production becomes cheap enough, or if it’s decided to be a necessity to fight climate change.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 5 months ago:
If you join the army because you’re fucking stupid in your 20s, and by your 50s you’ve become a wise, anti-war person who still has PTSD, you don’t deserve to get your PTSD triggered.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 5 months ago:
If you have any kind of anxiety disorder, sensory hypersensitivity or heart issues, the sudden noise of fireworks will at least startle you. The constant barrage of noise that takes place in some places through some celebrations or through the year provoke people to develop even more serious health issues. Ah, but don’t you dare to suggest that the health of vulnerable people should take priority over some brief dumbfuck fun, or that there exist less harmful ways to celebrate, or that constant fireworks in places with certain population density means annoying a lot of people for the sake of very few, because then it turns out that you just “hate freedom”.
- Comment on Benny 😍😍😍 5 months ago:
My condolences.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
My point is that plenty of high-information Democrat voters ultimately fall in line, but the party fails to reach further beyond, while Republicans don’t actually have to “fall in line”, because they like what they’re voting for. Is this not the opposite of the quote?
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
On top of that, it’s an issue that will easily change the leanings of a lot of low-information voters. Republicans know that the 2025 agenda isn’t popular with moderates, and while most of Biden’s policies have been short-reaching, they’re generally considered a positive (save for Gaza), so they attack at the very obvious and glaring weak point that isn’t actually policy-related.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
I actually disagree with this sentiment.
There’s clearly a split in the Democratic Party regarding the candidates and leanings of the old guard, vs a very large portion of their voter base that wants structural reforms in the country (universal public healthcare VS increased access to insurance, for instance), and I bet a large portion of the latter feel whipped into having to vote for a lesser evil rather than for a political project they actually have passion for.
Meanwhile, Trump was an outsider of the Republican party who managed to get their voters in love with him, to the point that he managed to hijack the party and leave it ripe open for a transformation from neoconservative to proto-fascist, despite the Republican old guard initially being hostile towards him.
The Republican party has managed to stay competitive, despite their political goals being less popular overall in the US than the Dems’, precisely because they allowed themselves to mutate and stay responsive to the changes in the electorate, the obvious tragedy being that democratic institutions (mostly referring to both political parties) have been far more willing to incorporate far right nutjobs who want to end democracy than they have for left-wing populism that wants to make housing affordable.
- Comment on Mildred 5 months ago:
Enough talk about trans rights, it’s time to talk about trans wrongs /s
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- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 5 months ago:
The vibes I get from the French left in social media remind me of the days when Podemos (in Spain) was soaring. It gives me a bit of hope. Good luck.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 5 months ago:
“The scary socialist madman” accompanied by the Democratic Party apparatus? A presidential candidate Sanders along with a moderate liberal VP would have gotten both the traditional Democratic vote (as long as the party collaborated with him, rather than giving him the Corbyn treatment, which I don’t trust liberals not to do) and a considerable chunk of the electorate who doesn’t feel represented by either party. The day you guys understand that you don’t have to fight the Republicans in traditional terms, but rather, to change the coordinates of the fight, you’ll force Republicans to choose between evolving or getting buried. But the real problem by this point is whether it is too late.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 5 months ago:
Look, you haven’t sold me on the idea, but I’m going to upvote you because, if nothing else, this is an original take.
- Comment on Anon is your financial advisor 5 months ago:
What I got from this is that Anon is undergoing serious financial struggles and is trying to scrape by.
- Comment on Anon gets calls from scammers 5 months ago:
Doesn’t that actually absolve them of their shit behavior? It isn’t the same to try and scam grandmas because you want a shinier car than because you’re locked at a basement and beaten up if you don’t make your kidnappers money.
- Comment on Objectivity 5 months ago:
The general laws of physics, sure, I have no solid reason to think they’ll be forever out of reach (only doubt), but in order to determine if there was intelligent life (even moreso civilizations) in galaxies that have already stranded away from our field of vision, we would need to have immense luck for physics to allow us to cheat the limits we know about today.
- Comment on Objectivity 5 months ago:
Man, NGT gets so much bullshit thrown his way. Sure, he’s an annoying shitposter on Twitter, but the vast majority of the time he makes a public discussion with someone he’s either one of or the voice of reason, and that sentence does definitely throw all nuance he has out of the window.
- Comment on Objectivity 5 months ago:
Even if we were beings of implacable logic, there would also be the issue that we aren’t omniscient. We are never going to reach the full truth of everything because we aren’t going to be able to gather all the data.
- Comment on I'll be so productive when i get home 6 months ago:
My mind fights my mind every day, and every day, my mind loses that fight.
- Comment on Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈 6 months ago:
Communism is when two old men kiss
- Comment on yay, no dunning kruger for me! hold up, oh no 6 months ago:
I was just mostly addressing the fact that none of the reasons for which you claim one of your kids isn’t neurodivergent is actually a valid refutation.
