Bob Robertson IX @ Bob_Robertson_IX @lemmy.world

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The best raise you can get is by changing jobs. Businesses are not going to be loyal to you, there's no benefit to being loyal to them - add either a customer or employee. Embrace and welcome change.

When you get a pay raise immediately increase your 401k (or equivalent retirement fund) by at least 1%.

Enjoy your 20s, they don't last long but the person you are today is who you will feel like you are in 20 years. Don't rush your life. There's plenty of time to get married and have kids. You and your kids will benefit from you having an extra decade of experience before raising another human.

Luckily they're a small and mostly insignificant generation

Fuck you buddy. You're right, but still, fuck you.

trump?

I like the idea on the surface, but no, I don't want to be forced to vote for a few reasons:

• A lack of voter engagement is it's own outcome of a vote.
• Freedom of speech means being able to refuse to speak, and voting is one of the most powerful forms of speech most people have.
• I'm not a fan of the government forcing me to do something I might not believe in.
• There are many people who don't want to vote for trump but refuse to vote for Democrat and if forced might hold their nose and vote trump.

Making election day a Federal holiday and guaranteeing everyone has the option to vote would be more effective and have a better outcome.

Edit: Several replies are basically saying the same thing: you can turn in an empty ballot. But the exact same thing can be accomplished much easier by staying at home. You can't force people to go somewhere, or even mail in a ballot... they have a hard enough time getting people to do the census. Also, a candidate such as trump would refuse the results of any election they lost that didn't have 100% turnout, especially if the margin of loss is less than the percentage that didn't vote.

Again, I do like the spirit of the idea, but in order to make it work it would take more effort than it is worth since staying home accomplishes the same thing as a blank ballot.

Careful, soon there will be Russians having their PTSD triggered by the sound of a drone.

I used to find these with my cousin all the time in central Illinois and 40 years ago (ugh, how is that possible?)... Haven't seen one in a very long time though.

I read this in "The AI's Voice" from Dungeon Crawler Carl.

In other words, those who can afford it pay. Now those who can't afford it don't get punished.

I'm just impressed they were able to milk a bird!

It's possible, but that is the same thing people say about trump, that since he has money he isn't beholdened to anyone. Anyone can be over-leveraged, especially the rich.

Yes, happens quite often and not just with coffee, but also soda cups.

Typically it's lotion and my wife is allergic to Bath & Body Works lotions and has had full blown asthma attacks from a cup being handed into our car.

Good thing water and electricity can't be used to harm kids.

Princess Donut approves

I have a 3 year old MacBook that runs my local LLM and Image Generator. I read this article from the perspective that the new PC chips would be for people who want to run their AI locally, but I suppose you're right, Microsoft is going to push their Copilot as hard as possible.

List of jackets

• Hoodie, a zippered hooded sweatshirt (non zippered can be considered a sweatshirt only)

That clears things up... this jacket is a zippered hooded sweatshirt.

Wait, that resolves nothing!

Businesses really do hire the absolute cheapest they can so it doesn't surprise me that 300 companies had 'thousands' of employees who were actually North Koreans disguised as Americans.

But how sure are we that this isn't just the plot of the next Greg Daniels project?

I thought "lol" was short for "Just wanted to let you know that I'm a millennial so you can better understand where I'm coming from with this comment."

Does it have a different meaning?

I saw once in the wild last week and it was wrapped in silver vinyl. That seems like a necessity for these trucks.

So, being sexist is ok, but being racist isn't. Got it.

Thank you for providing a link to his art. I would like to think that he would prefer to be remembered by the link you provided rather than all the words used in the original story.