M0oP0o
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- Comment on Anon uses Discord 1 week ago:
You are who you associate with.
Must be why in most democratic nations you have no freedom of association.
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 2 weeks ago:
I would be willing to toss a couple of loonies a month at it if it helps with the instance.
- Comment on Issue with images expected tomorrow over a 12 hour period 2 weeks ago:
Things are getting really chunky now. Is that maybe a good thing? (maybe they are finally doing the migration)
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 2 weeks ago:
Hope they are at least cheap.
- Comment on Trouble uploading images 2 weeks ago:
Any news today? I miss pictures.
- Comment on Bawitdaba 4 weeks ago:
Well I don’t own a horse, so how else am I riding one?
- Comment on Bawitdaba 4 weeks ago:
Although I agree, some of this things songs live in my head. For years.
ON A STEAL HORSE I RIDE. (but I am not a cowboy)
(make it stop)
- Comment on 1987 4 weeks ago:
TEETH ARE OPTIONAL IN THIS HOUSE
- Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if that would be a great or the worst. But I am down for it.
- Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 4 weeks ago:
“Hands full of penis” is a great title.
Mrs. Jane “Hands full of penis” Smith or Mr. Samuel “Hands full of penis” Finch
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 5 weeks ago:
The stock market is delaminated from the real market, and has been for a while.
How this has happened is not simple but a short version is that as the stock market has evolved it became a key place to put assets with a level of growth expectation. As time goes on the demand for a place for investment without effort (starting your own business vs investing in a businesses stock) keeps getting larger and the alternatives keep getting less desirable (bonds, GICs, etc.) causing a sort of investment feedback loop. There is X amount of money that needs to be invested each year lets say, and if every thing is crashing (waves at the general state of things) it means nothing is since pensions, people and firms still need to have that investment somewhere.
As long as there is still some expectation of return and faith in the current stock market you will have investment and as stocks (and therefor the market) are measured by the demand (the buy vs the sell) we have the current situation. If you want to see what happens when a stock market looses people faith and therefor investment look at China’s stock market crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_Chinese_stock_market_turbulence
- Comment on Basic courtesy 5 weeks ago:
The most basic test to separate people from beasts.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 2 months ago:
So between this and trumps statements on Canada are we getting the commonwealth back together? I could go for another burning down of a white house.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
What personal obsession? This is a comment on an article about being late. Did you expect no one to have a time based discussion here?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Odd response, it is mildly insulting yet brings nothing to the discussion.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Time clocks have been around since 1888 and people have been getting fired for being late even longer.
Stop trying to make this a generational thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think the issue is they are not “keeping the class war active” but trying to make the class war into a generational one. I have worked with, for and had worked for me people who are often late and never did I see one age group of people show up more late then another. Hell I have had issues with staff showing up over an hour early and that was only people under 25 so far (not an issue with them doing it, just an issue with feeling I am taking advantage of them).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Its wild that people can think a whole ass batch of people (a generation) thinks being 10 min late to anything is not a bad thing. Like if you show up to meet someone and they are 10 min late, its not the end of the world but if it happens every time you are going to judge that person.
I don’t think jobs should be tied to timecards (I hate time keeping systems, I had to fix some) but to job requirements.
Some examples: Office work normally does not matter until it does. I once worked in a banks head office and had to at or shortly before 7:30am tell all the ABMs to change to the next business day (this would cause them to go offline briefly) and pull the reports for that day. If I was 10 min late the reports would not be there on time for 8am where they are needed for another task a co worker is expected to do before the bank opens (at 8am in some places).
Any retail store that has some respect for their employees and customers needs people to not be late, showing up 10 min late might just mean rushing to open or relieve some co-worker but that also is likely increasing the risk of accidents. I don’t think its fair that someone gets to work an extra 10 mins or wait to buy whatever for 10 mins just because some one thinks “eh, 10 mins is close enough”
Task based jobs on the other hand (say programming, maintenance, sales, repair centres, etc.) should not really matter as much. When you start is less important then if you meet a deadline when finished. I used to work a job that wanted me to “start” every day at 7:42 AM (we used time units of 1/10th an hour) but would get real pissy when I did not leave my house until 8:30 or so since the stuff I was working on was in places that did not open until 9 or 10 am. They told me I should go to an arbitrary location (a warehouse or McDonalds where the examples they gave) by 7:42am to log in “in order to show I was ready for work”. That was stupid and irrational, so I did not do it. But I would also not show up 10 min late if I could help it for any appointment (work or otherwise) since I value my time and the peoples time I am interacting with.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And it cuts both ways, if you consider it rude for a person to not show up by a mandated, arbitrary time, it’s equally rude to mandate a meeting or other function a person has to show up to that has nothing do with their job. I’ve been in the workforce nearly 20 years now, and frankly the number of meetings, events or functions I’ve been expected to go to that served no purpose other than to waste my damn time is way too high. The meeting could have been an email, the training might as well have been a check box, and if the party/event was so damn important why wasn’t I paid to attend?
Yes. Both of these things can be true…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Are we really trying to make this of all things a generational thing? Why?
It depends on the job, if you have to say open a store then 10 min late is a problem. You have to say make a thing, then 10 mins is not an issue as long as the thing is done.
I have seen people with no respect for other peoples time (so they where late often) and they where not of a single generation but more commonly of a class (the people with means tend to think they can be late).
- Comment on Selling as is. 3 months ago:
I KNOW WHAT I GOT!
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 3 months ago:
Most people don’t even care and did not know this even started, its just another failed attempt of the current government to gain support.
This one is extra silly, but the silver lining is that it has got people of drastically different political viewpoints something to agree on. You could have a talk show with the most rabid pundits from opposite sides discuss this and the only arguments would be what the worst part of this plan is.
There is also another component to this as well, everyone is supposed to get $250 in the mail (or direct deposit). And that’s also just bad tax policy that has been made fun of in the past. On top of that they have not managed to actually pass legislation or even figured out how to do this at this point. Oh and the post office is still on strike.
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 3 months ago:
Yeap, this is Canada where stuff like this is rolled out in a month or so and businesses are just told to comply.
(Oh and those examples are from the Canada.ca official list not hyperbole)
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 3 months ago:
I am just really glad none of the crap I sell is included. The list and logistics to comply with this “holiday” is insane.
Lets say you run a liquor store:
- Beer, cider, sake and wine are now not taxed
- But wine, cider and sake over 22.9% is still taxed
- Spirit coolers and premixed alcoholic beverages are now not taxed
- Spirit coolers and premixed alcoholic beverages over 7% are still taxed
- Gift boxes/baskets are taxed
- Unless those boxes/baskets have more then 90% the value in beverages that meet the tax holiday requirements
This is not even opening the other categories (Oh don’t even think about child car seat/strollers). The cost of this program on stores and taxpayers (the cost of it is payed by the lack of tax and also the tax collected being diverted to this program) is not worth the 5% off some people will see (since most places will just up the price 5%).
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 3 months ago:
Well there are a few stories on it so far. Guess we will find out if real in the next few days.
- Comment on Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing 3 months ago:
Well to be fair, the advertisers have always been the real customers. Most media loses money in distribution.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Wait, you can get assisted death after losing an emotional debate? Or can the winner also partake?
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 months ago:
Sorry, I am out of line.
But I do think it could catch on.
- Comment on ugh i wish 3 months ago:
Wonder if they tried heating the milk up to 63 degrees C for 30 mins before consumption?
Maybe that would help.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 3 months ago:
Biden was able to move 6-7 million more people to vote than Kamala, whereas Trump got about the same as he got in 2020.
Trump got more votes then Kamala, that is how elections work. There was not 6-7 million people not voting (2.6 million delta from 2020), but more people showed up for the orange man and this blaming non-voters is just lame.