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Anything that can happen will happen, and because the manual is finite, eventually the will be a situation that the company is unprepared for.

Take responsibility, yes, but don't act beyond your authority. Tell the person that you'll find out, and ask the appropriate person.

If there is time pressure, don't take on more than you can reliably handle - don't take info and promise to contact the person unless you can do that. It's always better to give the person contact information and ask them to call or come back.

For years companies loved "I can" statements. "I can help you with that", "I can find out for you", etc. But I think that might have fallen out of favor, check with someone younger than me (lol!).

I'm in support of not negotiating with terrorists. If I'm captured, kill me. I'm likely too suffer and then die anyway, and be leverage in the process. Fuck that.

If you decide to START history in 1947 you might miss out on over a thousand years of Muslim aggression towards Jews.

I'm no Quran expert but people seem to talk about numerous passages where Muhammad went on one rant or another about how awful they were.

https://www.answering-islam.org/authors/roark/hate_jews.html

Also the regional conflict goes way farther than the 20th century.

https://www.profolus.com/topics/origin-causes-israeli-palestinian-conflict-explained/

Poe's Law strikes again.

Misread the post.

Costco.

It's not all companies that are trash. It's just most.

Costco is (afaik) not unionized, though the company is union friendly (there may be unionized stores?). They are publicly traded. And workers are paid better than a living wage and have a bunch of benefits.

The company chooses to do this despite their shareholder responsibility, and I will never shut up about it.

Once you're getting a fair shake, if the company establishes trust, you can get rid of the union. And the company can save the money they spend trying to ruin your lives on something else instead. Not all companies are trash.

But most are.

It's absolutely vital for governments to promote workers' ability to unionize and provide employees with rights to protect them from corporate greed.

That's because the manager is incentivized to not help you, while the union is incentivized to help you.

Unions are game-theoretically necessary.

Because clearly she randomly fainted from low blood pressure and slammed her head repeatedly on the pavement.

Lemmy leans significantly harder left than Reddit did, I think. It's hard to have discussions about any of the leftist talking points.

Thankfully lemmy also doesn't have karma so who tf cares, right?

They can't charge their REAL customers, the ad purchasers, as much without the ads being "targeted".

$14 is unrealistic and will never be paid, but it means that it's an option... So I'm guessing that people will be able to "opt in" to a free version with targeted ads.. This whole thing is probably just a workaround.

IIRC Singapore has a very specific and controlling demographic control system? Like regions have to have demographic breakdowns that approximate the national numbers or something?

There are a bunch of social engineering things you can do to reduce crime. But good luck trying to tell Americans where they can and can't move. Probably easier to just tax the super rich.

Reduce wealth and income inequality somehow. There's been no research on UBI reducing crime afaik and honestly I don't know that it would work for that. People need to feel like they are doing valuable work.

Cops on foot patrol in neighborhoods NOT to punish anyone but literally just to get to know the community and make eye contact.

Access to training and education to promote moving into higher income and responsibility jobs.

Mental health support (although people won't want help as long as they are Fighting against the system)

There need to be healthy, organic, non-crime non-drug non-gang groups for people to be part of. I don't know what is are into these days. Basketball? Dancing on Tiktok? Anything social.

Ahh, I see I'm not the only fan of the lockpicking lawyer.

I too want to see the completion of George's masterpiece,

Elden Ring.

I'm a cynic and I find myself pretty perpetually expecting the worse from humanity.

But sometimes we really pull it together and knock it out of the park.

I think it's great to have high hopes, I wish I had the fortitude to stay positive more often.

My mom was complaining about some pyramid scheme get friend fell for and I explained how every business is a pyramid scheme.

You work, you produce way more value than you are paid, that money goes to paying other people and growing the business to make the shareholders rich. You aren't rewarded for your work, generally. Somehow this is normal. The only difference with a real pyramid scheme is that they generally lie about how much you could succeed.

My wife and I are both lucky and we bought our place mortgage free because we were able to save while paying off our old place.

While making the purchase we specifically talked about how if the market crashes by 50%, we're still better off. Because most likely every home will be similarly cheaper. And our earning potential would be similar.

The difference is that it's hard to predict what will happen in an economic contraction like that. There would be a lot of joblessness and a lot of hardship.

If people have more energy and want to do more work for more money, offer them more money for more work or let them do other work. It's simple.

Read the article:

https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

Foley has a degenerative brain disorder. He IS dying. His quality of life will continue to deteriorate until he dies. This might be sad, but it's just the fact. We need to be able to talk about these things.

The hospital cannot fix him. There is no acute care for his condition. It's just a matter of where and when. And this is EXACTLY what assisted dying is for.

The only recourse the hospital has to people refusing discharge is to charge them the price of their hospital stay. It's not coersion, it's just consequence. It's reality.

I'm not saying this ethicist did their job well. But without the full recording it's hard to know what the situation was. I've been in the palliative ward at the local hospital and I can tell you that people fight really hard.

The alternatives, depending on how much care he needs, are long term care or hospice. Both are subsidized but if he has money saved he would have to contribute to his care and a lot of people don't want to do that.