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- Comment on Amazon Teamsters Vote to Authorize Strikes at Two New York Warehouses, Union Says 1 week ago:
They don’t really have that much extra bandwidth though. This is the busiest time of the year.
This strike is well timed to put a squeeze on
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
100% - it’s obviously a company run by slack jawed morons but the original comment had assumed it was only those affected getting the email, which is a different context
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
Easy mistake to make - it wasn’t exactly front and center
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
Totally - just pointing out that implied in the first comment was those included in the email were the fired ones when that’s not the case
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
The stressed employees were almost certainly the high performers lmao
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
That email is company wide, not specific to those fired
- Comment on Is it possible to fix one's eyesight? What are working methods? What is to be cautious about? 1 week ago:
I pay $100 for my eye exam and $150 for my glasses every couple years.
It would take 30+ years for that cost to reach the Lasik levels you paid, and that’s assuming I’m not doing anything with the $3750 remaining after the first appointment.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 weeks ago:
I pay for services (including lemmy - support your instance leeches) and use an ad blocker for everything else.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 4 weeks ago:
???
There’s a lower cost ad plan for YouTube music is that what you mean?
I thought everyone wanted YouTube premium without the music. That’s the ad plan: it shows ads on music because you’re not paying for ad free music.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 1 month ago:
… No but Bimpson is… www.houseofnames.com/bimpson-family-crest
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 1 month ago:
The original community was namenerds and digging through the original poster’s submission history I’m seeing some pretty bad poetry, 90 day fiance content and grieving the death of their parents: all spread out across the past year.
… I don’t think it’s a shit post.
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 2 months ago:
Let me take the tag off my bird then snap it’s wings back together
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 2 months ago:
Even then those are bad cleaning instructions…
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 2 months ago:
I got an Acebeam EC35 Gen II a couple years back and while there are many settings you can use there’s a big button onto he back that turns it on full blast and you click it again to turn it off. Done.
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 2 months ago:
That’s not entirely true: sacrificial anodes attract and collect calcium and magnesium as well as preventing rust.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 2 months ago:
“Rosy retrospection” is the phenomenon.
Humans are flawed. We forget how much things suck and remember what was nice about them. That can be good in getting along better with other people - but it sure causes a lot of problems in a modern context.
No - the internet pre-eternal September was not perfect. Objectively speaking it was less useful and less helpful than the modern web. A bunch of old heads got mad that they couldn’t keep using the same crusty Monty Python jokes ad nauseam when they had to routinely interact with the general public.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 2 months ago:
I have family in Taiwan, that’s not a convincing argument. Thanks.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 2 months ago:
Everything always has a spin. It’s important to be critical.
That’s different than being paranoid that the CCP is controlling my mind by showing me a dog waking up it’s owner at 3am with a bowl in its mouth followed by a truck saying “Fresh milk inside” and then a stereotypical Los Angeles Latino gangster wearing an It mask and huffing from a red balloon in a storm sewer followed up with a woman in purple talking about Victorian street slang.
You’re being influenced by commenters on lemmy you should probably log off you can never be too careful. I’m actually a CIA psyop here to convince you that TikTok is bad by using reverse psychology.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 2 months ago:
The quality of a meme recommended by a tuned algorithm well exceeds the quality of leekspin on its own, much less in the quantity served.
Don’t use this shit for your news or to inform your world view but use it to fuck around and enjoy yourself. That’s the point. It’s an endless feed of human creativity and the bizarre. Using it for the serious is the worst way to interact with it.
Who cares if it’s a human recommending it to me - it’s a human making it and I’m here for the creators not the middlemen.
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 2 months ago:
Controversial opinion: the Internet didn’t die, you just got left behind.
Gotta keep up. The edge of culture is always moving and trying to stay put is a guarantee that you’ll miss out.
The community of memes is more varied and nuanced than leekspin ever was. There’s more lowbrow comedy sure but there’s more of all types of content.
If you only see shit you hate online it’s your fault. Go find places you enjoy (for me that’s lemmy, as an example) and teach your algorithm to stop showing you rage bait by not falling for it.
Tiktok has plenty of problems but if you teach the algorithm that the only reason you’re there is absurdism and the bizarre: you’ll end up with an absurd and bizarre feed.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 2 months ago:
To be fair to my naive past self: it was the first mass layoff at Google, ever.
Based on my friends still there: the vibes are decidedly less trusting all around.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 2 months ago:
Having worked at Google there wasn’t any anti-unuon propaganda or anything: it was just genuinely the best work environment I’d ever experienced… Right up until they laid me off.
So while I was there the thought of joining a union would have been “meh - what can they realistically get me?” and after the layoff was “oh yeah right they could’ve gotten me protection”
- Comment on Guess what this product is without looking up what it is! 2 months ago:
Snowboard, ski or surfboard wax
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 2 months ago:
That’s pretty normal for financial charts like this though.
- Comment on Academic writing 2 months ago:
Every single word in the original post clarifies more than plain English. It is more specific and has better nuance than a plain translation.
That doesn’t make it a useful explanation because the audience of the statement is not the in-group using the jargon.
One part of my daily job is translating “technical” into “manager”. The translation always loses fidelity to the original. Jargon exists because it’s useful, not because there’s a deliberate attempt to keep others out. Some will then use it as a shibboleth but that does not mean it’s original purpose was such.
For what it’s worth: that’s true of all translations. I’ve done real time translation from Italian into English and it’s always missing the nuance of the original. I’ve read the divine comedy in English and Italian and the English is always missing the context and nuance.
Language is an abstract representation of concepts and never maps faithfully.
- Comment on Coding whiz had another talent: inappropriate insults • The Register 2 months ago:
I am not! I hadn’t heard of it until just now. Very neat project.
No I’m just someone with a particular interest in corvids who feels represented by a god of Thought that is a bird
- Comment on Coding whiz had another talent: inappropriate insults • The Register 2 months ago:
What a mediocre story
- Comment on You Viewed From the Street 3 months ago:
That’s some Mussolini SI SI SI SI SI shit
- Comment on Anon is a good samaritan 3 months ago:
22% if started immediately
As you put it in your other comment: “ignorant cunt”
- Comment on Anon is a good samaritan 3 months ago:
The suicide rate is 14 per 100k.
Being suicidal isn’t the issue here; it’s a question of actually dieing. Suicide rate, not “how many people have thought about dieing”