Duamerthrax
@Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on Oof 17 hours ago:
- Comment on Oof 17 hours ago:
That and a lot of the early books had an editor tweaking things.
Remember when Harry traded some food he bought with Ron even when he didn’t want Ron’s food? Then later he and Ron crashed the family car and Harry couldn’t be bothered to help pay for a new one?
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 4 days ago:
Once a company reaches a certain size, being able to micro manage individual workloads to max efficiency become impossible and individual middle managers have an incentive to appear like their whole workforce is necessary.
They’re not intentionally throwing money away because to them, the appearance of growth has to come before actually growth. They consider useless hires the cost of doing business. And when it fails, “they can just make the though decisions” and do the layoff the shareholders want. Otherwise, how to do explain the waves of mass hirings and mass firings?
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 5 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs which cause psychological harm. He contends that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive (when paired with a work ethic that associates work with self-worth) because workers are required to pretend their role is not as pointless or harmful as they know it to be.
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 5 days ago:
They do do that with fake job listings.
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 5 days ago:
A lot of jobs are pure bullshit jobs that only exist because the corporation needed to hire inorder to appear growing. They then do mass firings to appear like they’re cutting costs. It’s all smoke and mirrors for the shareholders.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I stopped reading half way though the books, but I had assumed that the SPEW storyline would come back up later and vindicate Hermione. I was very surprised when I heard it never got brought back up. The last word on that story line was that House Elves were a natural slave race and Hermione was wasting her time channeling that. If you read Hermione’s cause as just, that’s because you have better morals then Rowling.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Hermione was ridiculed for thinking House Elves shouldn’t be slaves. Even by her own friends.
- Comment on Why Big Tech’s Lobbyists Are Targeting Self-Hosted Servers 1 week ago:
I’m safe with TempleOS.
- Comment on Nice Going Buddy 1 week ago:
I’m old enough to remember when kids started taking their new filp phone to public school and secretly recording their teachers berating their muslim or atheist students. The recordings stopped when teachers realized any student could be recording any conversation.
I’m also coded enough that bigots test the waters with me to see what I’ll agree with. I don’t exactly trust quiet christians. They’re very polite when they assume you’re also religious and things can go quickly downhill if they find out you’re not.
- Comment on Alcoholic billionaire says he wants to shove a camera up every workers ass. 1 week ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
*Smart Pipe Inc is a registered Sex Offender.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
I’m making a reference to Starship Troopers, specialty the movie, which was a satire on fascism. “Service guarantees citizenship” was a propaganda line by the fascist government in the movie.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
service guarantees citizenship
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
Diners have disco fries or loaded fries. Fills the same niche.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
Fun fact. Bolt cutters are cheap and you can do quick and dirty stick welding with 2 car batteries and some jumper cables.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Creating a draft would drive voters to increase the pay and benefits of soldiers as well.
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
If you think “it can’t happen here”, with regards to a draft, you’re an idiot who has their head in the sand. Too many “it can’t happen here” things have been happening.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
Remember when everyone said Trump couldn’t win the election*? And since when has not having the money for war stopped the US from going to war? They just borrow against their kids.
Although I will point out that Trump and Elon bragged about rigging the election, that’s besides the point.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment
The 442nd Infantry Regiment is the most decorate unit in U.S. military history. This is because they were all Americans of Japanese decent during WWII and were sent on suicide missions.
- Comment on GOD TAKING DOLLY AND LEAVING TRUMP SHOWS THAT HEAVEN HAS STANDARDS AND HELL HAS A WAITING LIST 1 week ago:
Rip in piss Trump
- Comment on Elons not a gamer. 2 weeks ago:
And he hates chess because royalty can die in it.
- Comment on We all know that Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI are all horrible people. Why do they still have subscribers? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on We all know that Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI are all horrible people. Why do they still have subscribers? 2 weeks ago:
Considering Trump and Musk both bragged about rigging the election, that’s debatable.
- Comment on We all know that Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI are all horrible people. Why do they still have subscribers? 2 weeks ago:
Their fans are dumb children or dumb adults. They simply do not care so long as they are entertained.
I once saw someone defend Chris Brown by saying if you got rid of all the criminals in the entertainment industry, they’re be no entertainment left.
That being said, I know about Beast and Paul, but what did ksi do?
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
This guy was such a bootlicker, I’m surprised he didn’t also exempt Police Unions.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
Poor and stupid or rich and stupid.
Unions are the new solution to an old problem. The previous solution was dragging the boss out of his house in the middle of the night.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
My conservative civics teacher once said that all unions, with the exception of Teacher Unions were obsolete. I wonder how he’s feeling right now.
- Comment on Shhhh! it's sleeping. 3 weeks ago:
They skipped on the foundations and the ground was soft. The rest of the construction was fine or at least good enough to outlive the footings.
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 3 weeks ago:
If I was approached in the NYC street by someone asking me how I felt about politics, I would not take the risk that they have my name and face already and want to put me in a oligarch’s database.
