krayj
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- Comment on How does dog pee ownership work? 1 year ago:
I have always thought of it as how graffiti taggers work. They are always tagging over each other’s work. The last one to paint gets the most exposure but you can still see remnants of more recent taggers the lay under the topmost. Eventually the oldest stuff just gets covered completely. They don’t necessarily pick their canvas because there is other work they try to cover up, they pick their canvas for the location and exposure.
- Comment on De-escalation 1 year ago:
Low reading comprehension skills, eh?
…says the person who lacks the skills needed to read the title of the original post.
- Comment on De-escalation 1 year ago:
I’m just pointing out the hilariously poor timing.
If you are going to claim that McDonald’s employees have superior de-escalation skills to police…the absolute worst time to try and make that claim is fresh after a McDonalds employee murders a customer and the national news is still talking about it.
- Comment on De-escalation 1 year ago:
So you are saying that their de-escalation skills were not better than police?
- Comment on De-escalation 1 year ago:
Sure, and that’s great…but the topic is ‘de-escalation skills’. I’m just pointing out the obvious irony.
- Comment on The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit 1 year ago:
The only negative of going in for me is the commute
That’s a pretty HUGE negative. Calculate how much time is wasted by your commute, calculate how much your transportation costs are, and then use that info to recalculate your compensation.
For me, commuting is aprox 1 hour each way (I’m only 27 miles away, but traffic is bullshit), and it costs me about $8 per day. That’s 44 lost hours of free time EVERY MONTH, plus $176 lost out-of-pocket just to commute (this is based on an average month with 22 work days).
I don’t understand how anyone can be in favor of commuting in to a job site if it isn’t absolutely essential for the type of work being done.
- Comment on De-escalation 1 year ago:
This might be an insightful post if it weren’t so hilariously poorly timed.
From JUST a couple weeks ago: McDonald’s employee to face murder charge after shooting NC woman inside restaurant, police say
- Comment on Post deleted twice with no explanation 1 year ago:
There is no need to suspect conspiracy theories.
It’s not possible for a moderator to delete a post without it showing up in the modlog. Admins with direct access to the filesystem and databases could theoretically do that, but that’s unheard of for any well run and organized instances.
More likely, you didn’t post it to Lemmy World, but to a community on some other instance and it was removed by mods of that other instance community for cause.
Lemmy.ml also has a big and popular world news community, I checked their modlog, and sure enough there are two recent posts of yours removed from c/WorldNews@Lemmy.ml. They were removed for violating the community rule of posting links to articles that are more than two weeks old.
- Comment on My CO2 / Smoke Detector Scared a Year off my life today, and I have questions. Long. 1 year ago:
I assume you mean “CO” detector. CO2 is Carbon Dioxide and I don’t think you went out and purchased and installed a detector for that.
High humidity levels can absolutely cause a false alarm on a CO detector. Example: safeinhomeair.com/carbon-monoxide-humidity/
I’ll also point out that not all CO detectors are created equal. There was a lot of news about this earlier this year where a number of CO detectors sold on Amazon simply did not work, or did not meet published safety and detection standards. Here’s an example of some of the serious warnings that were published: cpsc.gov/…/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Immediately-St… . Following that announcement, there were several other brands and models that were flagged as being non-compliant. If you haven’t done so already, find your make/model and verify that it’s not one of the sub-standard units that were pawned on Amazon for years.
CO detectors also need to be replaced (they don’t last forever). Most use chemistry to detect CO levels, and that chemistry begins degrading as soon as the unit is built. Some last just a couple years, some are designed to last up to 10 years, but the point is - they all go bad eventually. How old is your detector?
- Comment on Now everyone must pay for someone else's vandalism. 1 year ago:
Anonymous tips are less than worthless.
The first problem is that anyone who is anonymously tipped on is just going to deny it. And not its the word of a named person vs an anonymous tip. That isn’t going to fly.
The next problem is that people will quickly learn to weaponize the anonymous tip process to persecute the people they dislike - regardless of whether the target was even involved in the vandalism.
Policies like these are dumb. They don’t discourage the bad behavior (the opposite, actually, perpetrators know that the damage they do will impact far more people, which is the entire point of doing it in the first place, so this policy actually works as an incentive to do more vandalism).
- Comment on Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule 1 year ago:
Whether you realize it or not, you have one. Some companies might refer to it as your “Employment Agreement” rather than your “Employment Contract” - but it’s still legally a contract even if they call it an ‘agreement’. It is the sum total of everything that was negotiated and agreed upon when you accepted the position. Things like your starting salary, the amount of annual vacation you get, the sick pay/leave policy, agreements for annual bonuses or bonus modifiers, agreements for any stock grants or options rewards, stock option vesting policy and schedule (if applicable), whether your position is regionally bound to a specific region or location. In addition to all of the above, the state you reside in both when you accepted the position and where you live now (if it’s different) impact your employment contract.
I also work for a very large company as a salaried employee and even though I started over 5 years ago, I can still download copies of all my original onboarding documents and forms, including my employment contract. My last company was just a small 35-person startup, but we had employment contracts there also. I still have my hardcopies of all that (including my required modifications).
- Comment on Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule 1 year ago:
How did we get to a point where people started becoming corporate anti-employee apologists?
- Comment on Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule 1 year ago:
I’d imagine you aren’t getting severance for this.
It really depends on what’s in their employment contracts…and I will bet that it makes a huge difference whether they accepted their positions as an advertised full-time remote position or not.
Even employers who don’t make a habit of offering severance can be convinced to offer it when negotiating the compensation package. I have a pretty standard requirement in all my employment contracts that I am willing to give an equal amount of notice of departure as the company is willing to provide contractual severance. Example: if the company offers zero severance, then I have it written into my employment contract that the amount of notice I’m expected to give before resigning is zero days. If the company wants and expects 2-weeks notice, then I require my employment contract to mandate 2-weeks severance…and then I tell them that I’m happy with anything from zero days to a month and that they are free to choose the amount. This has always resulted in me getting 2-weeks or more of contractual severance even when other employees don’t have that provision.
- Comment on Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule 1 year ago:
Exactly right - this is a thinly veiled excuse for a planned large scale workforce reduction sidestepping some of the normal repercussions.
What I find most interesting here is that WFH is essentially a benefit (a big one) at this point, and they just eliminated a huge benefit. That usually has the effect of causing some of your greatest talent to walk - and leaving behind those people who either don’t care about the benefit (there may be some, but I think this number is small) or don’t immediately have the hireability to resign and go for greener pastures.
The tradeoff for grindr is that it’ll make them temporarily look better on paper, but the loss of talent will probably hurt them in the long run. If there’s one thing that seems to be true of modern capitalism, it’s that companies are more than willing to fuck their futures over some perceived short term gains.
Grindr isn’t the only company doing this. I’ll be interested to see how this works out for all the employers using this same tactic.
- Comment on How is woke a religion? 1 year ago:
TIL, my belief in calling out bullshit when I see it is considered a religion now.
- Comment on I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation? 1 year ago:
It usually means you reside in a multi-block sized apartment complex and that the dumpsters are on one end of the complex rather than being centrally located, and your apartment is on the other end… and those distances feel doubled if it is raining, or there is snow or ice on the ground.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 1 year ago:
Well, to keep up the analogy, it wouldn’t be the gun manufacturers advertising that…that’s more the realm of the ammunition manufacturers. For a given gun, some ammunition is designed to be lethal, and some ammunition is designed to be non-lethal.
- Comment on Why shouldn’t firearm manufacturers be held accountable for the use of their weapons in crimes? 1 year ago:
Because it sets a precedent that has ludicrous outcomes where the manufacturers of any product that are used for wrong are liable for the damages caused by their use and suddenly nobody wants to manufacture screwdrivers any more. PC manufacturers are now responsible for the actions of hackers and so no more pc manufacturing, etc, etc.
- Comment on How did Peter Piper pick pickled peppers? 1 year ago:
Rewritten with synonyms that are more understandable:
Peter Piper selected a 2-gallon quantity of pickled peppers.
- Comment on If a post gets a lot of downvotes should it be removed? 1 year ago:
No, because that would open up an exploit that would give vote brigades a form of censorship power.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I investigated that instance and am not seeing what you claim they are doing. Any chance you just stumbled across a rogue community there that has already been banned by their own admin team? The instance and communities there are pretty adamant about not posting any content that violates US law (which is pretty strict when it comes to the kind of content you describe).
- Comment on why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread? 1 year ago:
This sounds totally made up. Where are you getting this info from?
- Comment on Is it just my parents, or do most Boomers view saying "please" and "thank you" as an afterthought? 1 year ago:
In some parts of the country, people wont even tell you to “go fuck yourself” without throwing a ‘please’ in there. Is “please go fuck yourself” any more polite than just “go fuck yourself”? The word “please” is so overused as to have no inherent meaning at all.
- Comment on Did lemmy.world really defederate from the pirate instance? Totally unacceptable if so 1 year ago:
The people who have to fight the battles are the people who should have the responsibility and the privilege of picking those battles, no?
Everything you said may be true, but it’s not you that would be responsible for fighting their battles is it?
They may be completely wrong…and they may be putting themselves in a more legally dubious position…but it is there battle to fight if it comes to that…so the ONLY people who should have a say in what battles they pick to fight are them, not you, not me.
- Comment on Did lemmy.world really defederate from the pirate instance? Totally unacceptable if so 1 year ago:
Most rational people choose to limit their exposure to liability before it happens rather than increase their exposure to liability and wait around to later have to defend yourself.
Are you suggesting the proper course is to maximize your exposure to liability and then be forced to defend yourself later?
- Comment on Did lemmy.world really defederate from the pirate instance? Totally unacceptable if so 1 year ago:
they just blocked the instance
They did not block the instance. They blocked a community on the instance. Huge difference.
The rest of dbzer0 and all its other communities are still federated and visible from lemmy.world.
- Comment on Do you exerience back spasms pain so intense it makes you black out? 1 year ago:
Over the past 30+ years, I average an episode every 18 months. I’m currently in my 9th week of recovery from my latest episode and mostly past the crippling pain and now into that constant mild/medium pain and range of motion limitation that seems to never get better and lingers for months.
Of my nearly 2-dozen lifetime episodes, a solid 2/3 of them washed me over with such sudden and intense pain that I entered an hours long state of shock accompanied by cognitive disability and short term memory loss. I don’t think I’ve ever actually blacked out, but I expect everyone responds differently.
I am not a doctor and am not qualified to diagnose your specific issue, but if you are suffering from herneated lower disc (my problem), then a mass of inner disc material is breaching your outer disc and putting direct pressure on a major nerve bundle…triggering the most intense pain imaginable.
My standard recovery is to immediately get a perscription for a round of Prednisone (powerful steroid) to quickly reduce inflamation and immediately get on a perscription for muscle relaxers.
Long term, when you are not injured or recovering, you can work on core strength and posture which is supposed to make episodes less frequent.
There’s also surgery option: three main types available. The most modern and least invasive is the micro-discectomy. My doctor (and all my previous doctors) always try to talk me out of the surgery for numerous reasons.
- Comment on Are there any US banks that provide automated access to account data? 1 year ago:
Well many 3rd party services such as “Mint Financial” (part of Intuit) offer the ability to connect to a vast number of US banking and financial institutions to ingest your transaction information as it happens, so I assume there must be APIs they are using for it. The number of institutions they support is greater than the number of institutions they don’t.
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 1 year ago:
Religion has been sucking the tit of conservative politics for a LOT longer than Fox News, Televangelist, and Trump have been around.
It goes for deeper and is way more fundamental than those things.
- Comment on Can iOS apps leak private data without being used? 1 year ago:
iOS generally allows apps to perform background tasks for several minutes after closing - to wrap up any proccessing, file writing, network transmission, etc, they were in the middle of before closing. So yes, an app can leak your private data while not actively in use.
Additionally, some apps can be given background activity permissions to keep running in the background (things like music players, navigation/mapping apps, etc) and those also could be leaking your private data while backgrounded.